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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1902
Page
6
A scrambled clippings column notes jokes on marriage and divorce, railroads, and political quips. It highlights shifts in world affairs, studies on Russian and Asian armies, humor about lotteries, and a long catalog of corn product innovations from the New York World.
The piece contrasts a western city scene where a well dressed girl brags of a $50 gown from a famed New York house with three playing children. It argues such display teaches vanity, materialism, and selfish ambition, blaming parents for sowing these values in their daughters while praising humble, practical upbringing.
Massachusetts inventors Philip Yon and Louis Laprise propose a pan overflow alarm for refrigerators. A spring motor clamps to the pan side, with a float triggering a gong when water nears capacity. The device sounds until the pan is emptied or the spring unwinds.
Two young American travelers spent six months touring Japan, China, and the Philippines seeking trade. They learned Chinese in San Francisco, enabling direct business with Chinese customers. Encouraged by profits, they plan to return with a larger sample and broader outfit. The method merits attention for manufacturers.
An old English monastery near Twyford beside Southampton preserves a quirksome tradition. A monk at a wicket gate serves travelers a cup of ale a crust of bread and a penny, funded by a historic endowment to ease weary wayfarers for centuries.
A reflective line notes that some individuals now demand knowledge before seeking medical advice, suggesting a shift in how people approach health and guidance. The remark emphasizes proactive inquiry and preparedness among the public.
A confused note from readers questions a planned “I Wish Day” event. Organizers show no fixed date, while supporters urge broader participation and tighter safety measures for the community gathering.
A compact pair of verses and chorus excerpts recount old time songs. Nellie Gray laments the old Kentucky shore and a slave woman’s fate in Georgia, while Lorena reflects on lost youth and enduring love through shifting seasons and memory. The pieces blend historical folk sentiment with plaintive refrain and pastoral imagery.
The piece describes how parrots and toucans lack knives for fruit but use their powerful curved beaks as efficient rind cutters. It details the parrot's inflated beak, muscular action, and dexterous fruit handling, while noting vigilant monkeys and crafty parrots in the forest and the conflict over intruding neighbors.
The Designer explains that a drop of castor oil can remove dust or specks from the eye if used before inflammation worsens. It also notes that a tiny steel particle, like a broken needle point, can often be removed with a magnet, though few consider this quick remedy in an emergency.
A Washington Times snippet recalls Phyllis lampooning Phyllia-Harry as the most conceited man she has met. He proclaims Maud the most adorable and beautiful, then asks for marriage prompting sharp satire about his vanity.
A Washington Star excerpt cites Mr. Erastus Pinkley arguing about paying for a dog tag for social standing. The piece comments that wives are roasted, and aging leads to blaming women less for hysterics. The tone suggests a social satire of gender norms and class signals.
A New York Tribune piece retells George Ade’s fable of two Chicago friends, one choosing wealth and theater over study. Bennett cites Ade’s early slang wit versus self-improvement, noting Ade later earns $100 a week and enjoys the Waldorf lifestyle, while others pursued education.
A water spider nests in a silk bag anchored under water with its opening downward. It carries air bubbles from the surface to fill the nest, reappearing to grab more air until the nest is air filled. The creature uses this airy retreat to escape waterfowl and hide among aquatic plant leaves.
Ozocerite a resinous mineral wax resembles bees wax and is found with rock salt and coal. Deposits exist in Austria Russia Romania Egypt Algeria Canada and Mexico but profitable mining only occurs near Boryslav in Austrian Galicia and on a Caspian Sea island. Mining involves shafts and galleries with danger from sudden wax pressure. ozocerite is used to make ceresin wax candles phonographic cylinders and other products.
Veteran cremation advocate Sir tenry Thompson reports in The Lancet on the rising adoption of cremation as a sanitary and decent disposal method. Data show Woking performing 2,007 cremations since 1885, plus smaller totals in Manchester Liverpool Glasgow Hull Darlington and Leicester. The United States has 26 crematories, with Fresh Pond New York Chicago and San Francisco noted. Paris records 2,209 private cremations from 1809 to 1901.
Jefferson Hope Helps Ferrier and Lucy flee from Utah to Nevada, carrying money and provisions. They evade Mormon guards via night routes across fields and ravines, reach the Eagle Ravine, and survive by disguising as Holy Four travelers. Hope treks for food, shoots a wild horned animal, and sustains his group for the perilous crossing toward Carson City.
Hope and companions push through snow crowned peaks and rocky banks the dawn reveals a vast savage beauty. Thunderous rocks and falling trees threaten their horses as they press on to elude pursuit. They halt at a wild torrent to water and eat a brief breakfast, knowing pursuers close behind.
Frederick Kost recalls Old Man Crawford of South Beach, famed for extreme laziness. A tale unfolds of two dashund pups sent from New York, taught by Crawford to name them Cocoa, with the old man remarking one name suffices for both as they move together.
Abe Hummel entertained a rural relative visiting New York for the first time. They toured Coney Island from Manhattan Beach to the Bowery. At a dime museum a distorted mirror unsettled the guest who exclaimed the experience would be the death of him.
A tale recounts a colored butter in one of New York's chic suburbs who, offered one or more invitations to a social function for delivery, could not resist slipping into each a massage circular of his wife seeking patience. The surprise and consternation of the guests receiving the two documents may be imagined.
A Lancet writer analyzes chloroform use across 42,978 administrations with 33 deaths, plus 37,277 cases with four deaths, and 800 other cases showing one death in 9,315. The figures illustrate varied mortality across different sample groups.
A student named Jones voices a grievance to a TA about his landlady’s demand that he pay a bill. The landlady’s claim threatens his credit, prompting questions about responsibility and fairness. The exchange reflects tensions between tenant obligations and rental arrangements.
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