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Newspaper
Emmet County Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1900
Page
3
The piece argues prairie dogs ruin grazing in western Nebraska and eastern Colorado. Government chemists offer a solution to eradicate the species, promising more grass and cattle, with broader notes on frontier life and a faltering, ornate closing comparison to biblical scenes.
Mrs. Lew Wallace describes a ponderous journey through the Holy Land in Ladies' Home Journal. The train glides pastJaffa Gate and a busy multilingual market, amid vivid images of ancient figures, beggars, lepers, and timeless costumes, evoking deep emotion and historic associations.
The Newcastle Chronicle describes the Australian bush as somber and sage colored with no shade and intense silence. Isolated shepherds and bushmen live in solitary exile behind rations, often returning briefly to civilization only to blow their half‑year wages at the local Bush hotel.
Relic hunters in Ohio on a Thomas James farm uncovered a six foot tall petrified Indian buried in a mound. Bones arrowheads and relics are abundant there and three prior skeletons had crumbled to dust when exposed. The statue-like figure shows comely features small shapely hands and bold relief muscles. Removal required aid.
The relic is now at the home of Mr James and arrangements have been made for placing it in a museum, marking a museum relocation plan and ongoing preservation efforts.
In the Revue des Cultures Coloniales Ch. Tiviere of Algiers notes alcohol can be made from carob, asphodel, squill, and alfa. Carob pods yield about 20 liters per 100 kilograms with good sugar content but strong odor. Asphodel root alcohol has repulsive odor and taste. squill offers interesting results with low higher alcohols. alfa leaves provide alcohol with poor odor but practical use due to existing cultivation.
The article describes a Chinese custom where relatives urge leprosy patients to bury themselves alive after a farewell banquet. A victim reportedly agrees, consumes laudanum, and lies in a coffin as a coffin is sealed. Dr. Wittenberg notes leprosy forms vary, with pure nerve form rare and mixed forms common, affecting long term life.
The text argues that naturalists find ugliness not inherent and that even disagreeable duties hold poetic value when viewed in proper proportion. It notes contagious cases like mother-in-law to daughter-in-law and reflects on sunlight of good cheer turning attention to the bright side amidst dread, with tangential observations on city populations and sun in Turkey.
A Russian correspondent notes Vladivostok remains ice free year round due to modern ice-breakers and frequent steamship traffic, negating Port Arthur’s strategic value. He adds Vladivostok is heavily fortified, with rail links and rapid communications, making it hard to seize, though winter climate deters officers. The piece also mentions Nagasaki as a winter option and a Malay/Lascars presence in New York’s sailors’ boarding houses.
A fragmentary New York Post item discusses a house district near the East and North rivers with Malay and Lascars described as variously from Manila Batavia Samarang and Singapore and India. It notes their appearance and conduct and then shifts to antiquated musings on weather instincts of ants and women smokers in fiction and society.
Prof. Conradus de Lange owns a world renowned shell collection as the Smithsonian agents confirm its rarity and global provenance. After almost 60 years of gathering from every sea and land, the 81 year old collector plans to share his three score years of conchology with the world as he nears the end of his career.
A writer in Harper's Bazaar argues that rising cigarette use among women is linked to depictions of heroines smoking. The piece suggests that fiction mirrors social trends and that many authors have portrayed female smoking as attractive or desirable.
In Addison Gardens a board school displays stoves inscribed with German mottoes. The works committee chair Lord Morpeth says the texts were not ordered from this country and may have no educational value. The piece notes potential irony and the lingering value of German marks versus British shillings.
An American in a Paris paper quotes a reformer from the league against tobacco who recalls a Chicago millionaire who died recently after reportedly smoking 3,000 hams a day, declaring it no wonder the man died.
John B. Galore of New York cites a Chinaman with a tea house to contrast Confucianism and Christian mission work. He recalls a parable of villagers seeing the same moonlight to critique religious superiority and monopoly.
The piece notes empress dowager of China and the queen of England commanding vast populations. It cites Queen Wilhelmina of Holland and Queen Regent Christina of Spain as influential leaders. It mentions Margherita’s potential influence and asserts the prevalence of women-led nations. It adds curiosities on Siberian cucumbers and a German-led emigration bureau for young women in South Africa.
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