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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1888
Page
5
A World reporter describes women customs inspectors at a New Jersey dock as they examine travelers trunks. The piece highlights the inspectors’ methods, the embarrassment of passengers, and the inspectors’ resolve. It notes two Boston inspectors, their demeanor, and the roughly fifty dollar duty per woman cited by an appraiser.
Dr Fleming, principal veterinarian to British forces, introduces a shoe with four holes for pyramidal pegs. Army shoes use cast steel round pegs. square pegs also work. The 4th Hussars report ease of use, few losses, and durable wear. Horses travel safely on ice and snow with farriers not needed.
Herbert Lawson of Janatha asks where the safest place is during a cyclone. The response mentions a Mississippi dwelling ground as a suggested safe area.
Practical tips on using common salt for cleaning, stain removal, gardening, and home remedies. Includes guidance on salt water for heartburn, salt for ink stains, salt for weeds, and salt in stockings to ward off chills. Also advises chimney fire safety and preferred methods.
The piece collects varied personal impressions of famous men, noting how appearances mislead and character matters more. It cites De Quincey and others, including Crabbe, Payne, Watts, Renan, and St Paul, to illustrate how stature and looks contrast with brilliance and influence.
A Bath gardener sowed mushroom spawn in a yard under concrete arches. He reaped a fine surface crop and, intriguingly, mushrooms growing head down from the arch roof below. The London World notes the arch was concrete, a rare crop stimulator.
The article notes false hair was introduced to England from France in 1752 and records that the practice moved to France from Italy where it had originated.
A terse maxim urges active living, warning that life becomes muddy when movement is lacking. It emphasizes action as the antidote to stagnation and encourages forward effort.
A letter from Uncle Sam discusses voluntary versus forced idleness, praising employment over charity for able-bodied men. It argues society should help the jobless find work, directing labor to earn rather than handouts, and cites Holland’s charity idea of funding workspaces over cash gifts.
In Scribner's Magazine the author argues that flattering depictions of workers by writers and politicians harms the labor issue. They say adulation breeds dependence and resentment, fosters demagoguery, and undermines genuine inquiry into wages and hours, urging a more balanced, truth seeking approach.
An exchange from Life magazine depicts a humorous debate on office culture. Opulent Avunculus-Edward urges earlier arrival while Uncle asserts the office should seek the right man, not the other way around.
A Youth's Companion account recalls Vitus Behring's grand Russian expedition era. From 1725 to 1742 he led shipbuilders and crews across Kamchatka to seek the northeast passage, proving continents separate and ending with Behring's death aboard the St Peter in Kamchatka.
The Chamounix glaciers in Switzerland are advancing with the Glacier des Bossoms extending lower. Over three years its lower end has moved about fifty yards per year, and a grotto cut in May 1886 has migrated more than sixty yards. Other Alpine glaciers reportedly widen and rise, but it will take many years at current speed to reclaim ground once covered within living memory.
A fragmentary quotation features a tramp in an orchard deriding a barbed wire fence as a symbol of dishonor and critique, with a rustic remark about breeches and observance attributed to Burdette.
The statement notes that Noruine will grow in virtue as practice and experience deepen. It frames the process as inherent to character development and moral growth through repeated effort.
A concise moral remark urges focusing on intellectual growth when physical work is unavailable. It promotes self-improvement through study and reflection rather than idleness.
From William E. Curtis writing in Harper's Magazine the piece describes Patagonia as a vast barren region now largely occupied after the Chilean and Argentine partitions. It recounts frontier conflicts, Roca’s siege, the ditch dug to halt Indian raiding, and the grim trade in guanaco robes and ostrich skins amid depopulation and hardship along the Rio Negro frontier.
A Chicago Mail reader recounts a canvasser story of a sidewalk meeting with a young boy in kilts who asks about an order-book. The boy’s innocent mischief leads to a joke about writing down names of bad boys and ends with a puzzled query about the father.
A brief anecdote from the Baptist Weekly about a young minister addressing a Sunday school who, needing time to collect his thoughts, asks the question What do you know? posed by a front-row girl who can recite several declamations and speaks in a shrill voice.
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