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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1888
Page
6
The dictionary is described as a complete compendium of slang and vulgarisms in English and American usage. It aims to be a comprehensive guide to polite conversation and is marketed as among the most thorough in existence.
Reports allege Gry. BouLanGer earns a 12000 franc annual pension. He pays 10000 francs yearly rent for a grand house on Place des Etats Unis and maintains two carriages and a famous black charger. His costly entertainments are also remarked upon.
The New York Tribune repeats the line The rank is but the guinea stamp A man’s a man for a that contrasting with the original The rank is but the guinea’s stamp The man’s the good for a that.
A coroner's jury reports the native Pandu died from a tiger attack. There was no other cause of death. Only some fingers remained, likely from the right or left hand.
A Southern newspaper prints a poem praising rain as it floods valleys and waters cotton slips, calling it music to the farmer and a boon for crops. The verse extols rain’s blessing and longs for similar seasons throughout the year.
Waldeck passes a law forbidding issuance of marriage licenses to individuals with liquor addiction. In Vienna the Reichsrat debates a strong anti drunkenness measure. The move cites deteriorating physical fitness of young men enrolled for military service.
An energetic ninety six year old woman stands out at a recent convention in a striped silk gown and bonnet. She attended crowded sessions and even joined an evening reception where she enjoyed ice cream and refreshments with relish.
A tropical Mimosa plant exhibited in Vienna at the Jubilee Flower Show is claimed by its owner to foretell storms and earthquakes forty eight hours in advance by studying the plant’s most sensitive leaves.
An inventive genius at Pocahontas Indiana grinds cornstalks and prairie grass with water. The mixture is pressed into blocks twelve inches long and four inches thick, dried, and said to burn readily and produce more heat than an equal amount of soft coal.
Dr N A Ranpolin an English physician notes minnows thriving in brook water die quickly in distilled aerated water. He argues a key dietetic benefit of salads and uncooked vegetables is preservation of mineral elements due to lack of processing.
The article notes that luxury fashion adds greatly to summer costs with gold silver jewelry and fine trimmings for gowns horses and carriages boosting expenses while tips keep board high. It contrasts this with cheaper camp or small cottage vacations.
A Faemer in the Corinth area of Missouri is described as troublesome to residents, with neighbors reporting ongoing annoyance and seeking official action to curb disturbances.
A local hunter reports setting a long pole trap tied to a tree to catch birds. The device secured just above the highest branch has captured nine hawks, three owls, and one crow according to latest reports.
The New York paper notes the March snowstorm harmed English sparrows but spurred a comeback of native species. Orioles, woodpeckers, thrushes, and yellow birds are once again seen in districts hit by the storm, bringing renewed song to rural areas.
Commissioners inspect the five boundary markers marking Mason and Dixon's line. One is in good condition, one left, one broken, one dislodged by mining, and the fifth bears both Pennsylvania and Lord Baltimore arms and is badly damaged by relic hunters.
James Eugene Harvey age 14 a office boy faced the Lord Mayor of London on a charge of embezzling 25 dollars. He claimed his theft stemmed from an impulse after seeing Buffalo Bill's Wild West and said he planned to go to America, even if jailed.
Willi e Harlan an Omaha Indian loses a child Sunday and returns Monday with a corn load to buy a coffin. He becomes intoxicated and falls into deep mud. He crawls from the mud and is placed back on the wagon, then falls again two blocks later as another Indian helps wash mud from his eyes and mouth.
In Paris fashionable circles mothers apply facial paint to young children. Public gardens show three year olds with dyed eyebrows and ruddy cheeks. Doctors warn that by sixteen the colorless ruined complexion may result and health may suffer.
The Transcaspian Railway now reaches Samarkand, linking East and West and enabling an London to India journey in eleven days. Samarkand, once Marcanda, is praised for past greatness and Islamic significance, with the Czar aiming to be crowned Lord of Asia amid English opposition.
In a crowded horse car Marshall C at age two recites the alphabet. An old country lady asks where he is going and he replies to see his grandma. She comments on letters and he tells his mother that the lady knows her letters saying U B.
Bertie fears heaven if Mrs Winkle who teased him remains there. The tale recalls a child’s anxious confession after learning of her death and the thought of Marm Winkle in the afterlife provoking tears and a vow never to go to heaven.
Five year old Fred learning a Sunday school verse about peacemakers tells his mother he tried to stop two fighting boys. He says he then ran up and fired stones at them until they stopped and ran away, a comic contrast to the verse's peaceful meaning.
While returning from a summer in the British Provinces, six year old Fred D- asks his father if the customs officer should be paid for a new overcoat and dress suit bought in Halifax. The moment of childlike honesty leads to a $20 bill lost to the father.
The text praises women as reformers who replace vice with virtue through patience and strategy. It highlights organized temperance movements, broad networks, and disciplined methods as a new era in reform, with women emerging as a powerful, educated class shaping public life.
J A Adams argues that female reformers risk only echoing old pagan ideas by adopting masculine power. True influence, he says, comes from loyalty to womanhood while pursuing reform. If women pursue both roles, society will improve beyond past achievements.
A speaker argues against perpetual favoritism to the poor and urges limiting their chances while ensuring the rich have opportunity. He cites historical figures born poor to show potential, then pivots to admonish his son to value the rich man's chance and caution against endorsing blanket poor favoritism.
A catalog of weather proverbs notes that wind predicts storm and fair weather. Signs include animal behavior, cloud shapes, moon color, and barometer trends, with rules such as wind in the west brings best weather and a calm before a storm. The collection ends with the adage wind in the east, good for neither man nor beast.
The text blends a fictional scene on military discipline with a child’s interruption, then shifts to historical notes on Wales being incorporated with England in 1526 granting English liberties, and Ireland becoming a kingdom in 1542. It links military authority to evolving constitutional status in the British Isles.
The Washington Star reports that about forty thousand reptiles at the Smithsonian include five rattlers kept in a box while the rest sit corked in alcohol. Curators test antidotes like pilocarpine from jaborandi but see limited success and caution that no bite victims have occurred among the reptiles.
The New York Tribune recounts Agostino Depretis, the late Italian premier, famed for loud snoring. In Casale a restless ex-official tossed boots and complained, then Depretis lighted a candle to read. The next morning the minister apologized and later offered the official a job, saying the night’s disturbance let him read an interesting book.
In Worth’s establishment a favored model is used to test effects for fashion design. A selected woman, tall and graceful, stands on a stool while corsets and white silk garments are pinned and adjusted. Draped in tulle, gauze, satin, and velvet, the process stages debut gowns for grand figures from royalty to a pork-packer’s wife.
From observations on the Congo, M Dupont of the Brussels Natural History Museum believes the interior waters of Central Africa were once gathered in a vast lake, with Stanley Pool surviving as its last remnant.
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