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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1900
Page
9
Eugene Weekly Guard notes satirical observations on fashion and behavior including Americans adopting shirt waists and revolvers, contrasts with English youth, and moral reflections on an anarchist editor praising King Humbert’s death while denouncing his own cronies. It cites a Honolulu plague control anecdote and a Montclair fossil find for local interest.
A Washington police justice dismissed a profanity complaint against a man who swore at a street car conductor, ruling provocation was great but noting profanity is never excusable. The opinion argues language reveals character and warns against moral laxity, quoting literary lines and discussing habit, passion, and propriety.
A Rochester woman sued Franklin Mills and Rochester Folding Box Co for using her portrait without consent to advertise flour. Justice Davy ruled the plaintiff’s right of privacy was invaded and that her image is a property right, potentially protecting her from public use without approval.
Each House member may appoint one candidate to represent the district until departure from office. The President may appoint one at large. Admissions occur twice yearly in May and September. Cadets must be 15 to 18 years old, physically sound, and pass exams in English grammar, U.S. history, geography, arithmetic, and algebra up to quadratic equations. Pay is $500 annually from admission.
The Quarterly Review notes varied animal responses to music. Tarantulas and snakes react differently to instruments while polar bears ostriches and wolves show interest. Some creatures like the cobra and elephants favor wind or string sounds, others show little emotion.
For fifty years Grenoble France runs a municipal restaurant and kitchen serving meals at cost. The food is fine, cooks skilled, and service excellent. A bread and soup meal costs 8 cents, a full course dinner 12 cents, satisfying hunger.
The Johns Hopkins University site known as I'ref uses Rowland's thermometer valued at 10000 dollars. It is described as an absolutely perfect instrument with glass graduations so fine a microscope is needed to read them. Salt served as money in Abyssinia not long ago, used as the principal medium of exchange.
In London there are at least 10 000 professional musicians of various grades with more than half being women.
Fragmentary lines mention a Welsh village and a telegraph one word count, a comic song line about teeth and fear in a game, with odd phrases about cold hands and a fish tail. It reads like garbled OCR with no clear event or person.
The Maria Teresa gun at Lincoln Park Chicago draws crowds as a link to the 1808 Santiago naval battle and Civil War memories. Veterans share tales while children watch in awe and curious onlookers debate peace and war amid nearby mortars and a large gathering of citizens.
A mixed read covers Egypt’s vegetation impact on the Nile and fresh experiments in insect sleep, rubber substitutes from Mexican shrub bark, distant stars and nebulae photography, wireless torpedo steering tests, and a berry-picking bear incident where a man named Lemon was mauled but survived with injuries. Nelson aided him as the bear vanished.
A discussion on the Dowager Empress of China praising her beauty from a Chinese viewpoint, contrasting Anglo-Saxon standards, and noting Chinese dynastic power. The article also surveys long pedestrian journeys across continents, listing several cross continental routes and maximum overland distances between major geographic points.
An old tale recounts a gold coin passing between hands 2,000,000,000 times before its imprint wears away and a silver coin failing after 3,250,000,009 exchanges. A married couple debate selling a farm after the man receives a million-dollar oil offer that grows to thousands more. The wife urges caution. the man presses to accept, concluding with a $1,000,0000 offer and choosing to keep the farm.
The Princess of Wales and two daughters enjoyed a discreet country outing in a pony cart. They stopped at a village inn for lunch and, to humor the landlord, signed the visitors’ book as Mrs. Wales and two daughters. The tale, shared as a lighthearted royal anecdote, offers a glimpse into informal royal travel.
A curious bird the kiwi is rare and wingless making it look comical. It is mostly nocturnal and relies on its unique eyes and behavior. Like the northern owl, sunset signals activity and they hop about like rabbits, earning the title clowns of the fowl world.
Two stairway designs for New York City Manhattan Elevated stations will be tested soon. One uses an endless rubber belt over drums as a ramp, the other replaces the incline with regular steps so passengers stand on a flat surface.
A 211 mile straight rail run from Buenos Ayres to the Andes foot along the Argentine Pacific Railway highlights the line's engineering. A curious proverb suggests a woman acting on her husband’s trem ino stops should dress prettily when she notices it, and warns that fears fade with a soiled wrapper.
A morning paper crew attempts an interview with a Chinese shopkeeper about Chinese voting. The educated proprietor declines politely, noting no immediate need to express an opinion, while the novice reporter collapses from the experience, illustrating media tricks and cross cultural exchange.
Bilah Nelson of Cross Forks Pennsylvania spent ten minutes in Kettle Creek lumber country picking berries beside a bear without realizing it. The bear and the picker were less than eight feet apart before the animal wandered off.
The State Capitol at Albany is cited as the costliest building of modern times, having already required an immense sum of 20,008,000 dollars. A yawn is described as a gape in conversation.
A seasoned detective describes a jailbreak ruse aboard a freight car. He recounts letting Jim Lake, a suspected rail robber, ride unhandcuffed to Kansas City under false calm. Lake, a frail man, regaled the car with mechanical talk and a spray of improvised tricks, including a ball valve air pump.
Optimistic reports note Siberia's development through the Siberian railway and British commercial views. The piece argues settlement barriers fade as exploration and mining open profits, drawing parallels with other imperial efforts and earlier colonial histories.
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