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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1908
Page
6
The article argues dogs vary in character by breed and individual, much as humans do. It compares instincts and intelligence to humans, notes the aristocracy of pointers and setters, and recounts a tale of a trained pointer’s prudent behavior with a covey, illustrating dignity and virtue in dogs.
Excerpt attributes to Helen Keller and Century Magazine praising the sense of touch over sight. The prose invites readers to feel sunbeams, blossoms, wind, and water, celebrating tactile connection as rich and faithful to human experience.
A London crowd on a bus reacts to a witty jester who jokes about the conductor dropping a letter. The conductor replies with a playful quip about reattaching the missing H when they reach Tanger, causing light laughter aboard and beyond.
A Newark Press piece explains how to distinguish rough diamonds from impostors using tactile clues and explains that alum can imitate a diamond by feel. It notes diamonds are laminated and plate glass types can appear white and clear, often brittle and fragile when mined and handled.
A clergyman recalls his Airedale terrier in a church study chasing a moth. The dog first fails to reach the insect through a window, then whines and paws for release, bolts outside, and circles the building to pursue the moth from the exterior. The anecdote asks whether the dog demonstrated reasoning.
The article satirically portrays the Pithe canthropus confessing to Noah as a rising Euphrates river signals flood. Noah chastises the character for delaying action while the liquidation impacts most people, leaving insiders unaffected.
A historical overview traces Eden’s possible sites from the Nile to the Indus, spanning Egypt Arabia Persia Asia Minor and India. Genesis places the garden in Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in what is now Turkey in Asia Minor.
The excerpt traces early gas lighting experiments from 1691 where Rev John Ge tor describes distilling gas and storing it for use, through 1787 Lord Dunlap lighting Culross Hall, to 1792 1797 1798 works by Murdoch and Boulton & Watt in Birmingham demonstrating coal gas as a lighting source.
A stranger disrupts a church service by entering late and whispering to an elderly congregant about how long the preacher has been preaching. The old man evasively replies that he does not know exactly, prompting the stranger to settle in and wait for the sermon to end.
A student wrote on the Glasgow university blackboard that Day the assistant and Lord Kelvin as professor were contrasted in an epigram. The line warned to work while it is Day since the knight cometh when no man can work.
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