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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1900
Page
8
A Pall Mall Gazette poem on humble books loved best from the lower shelf. The speaker contrasts grand volumes with cherished, untidy tomes tucked below and worships the unshowy works that reach heaven in simplicity.
The Chicago Times Herald reports a vast driftwood beach between Yakatag and Kyak islands in Alaska. Logs travel from Asia and North America, some eight feet across and 150 feet long, with petrified wood and coal beneath. The shore bears sand rich in gold particles, yet no process fully separates the gold.
In Portugal the legend of King Sebastian endures since his disappearance at Alcazar in July 1578. Reported burial with royal honors did not quell belief that he died in battle and may later return. On stormy nights some Portuguese still watch the skies hoping for a fire cloud appearance.
A playful linguistic riddle defines a sleeper as one who sleeps and as that in which a sleeper sleeps. The text walks through a repetitive sequence showing how a sleeper carries, runs, and jumps the sleeper while the sleeper sleeps, ending with the sleeper waking the sleeper in the sleeper by striking the sleeper under the sleeper.
The article notes that none of the czar’s daughters can succeed the throne, a rule stemming from an edict issued by Emperor Paul, Catherine the Great’s son, to discredit his mother’s memory. The piece discusses the historical rationale and implications of this ban.
France has 450 families able to prove descent from feudal nobles, while up to 45 000 families and 130 000 individuals claim noble titles. The actual number with verifiable lineage remains small.
A relic site near Durban known as the Place of Death is a funnel shaped cleft in the rocks where Zulu chiefs historically condemned victims to die, a grim element of local lore and colonial history.
The nation now packs about three quarters of its sardines at home, with the eastern Maine coast the main production hub and California also contributing. Packing began around 1906, employing thousands in catching, canning, and marketing. Sardines come in oil most often, in varied packages and sizes, including tomato and mustard varieties, with cases holding 100 tins. Annual consumption is about 1.5 to 2 million cases, and American sardines are exported to the West Indies and South America.
J R Anso of Brazil discusses the chocolate industry noting two thirds of imported beans go to one Boston firm and the rest to others. He explains grades such as Caracas and French, how sediment forms, and that cheaper shells are ground as fillers. He contrasts chocolate as a calming, addictive product with sugar laden blends and reports rising U S consumption.
A 300 gram steel sample yielded microscopic diamonds after nitric acid and subsequent treatments. The insoluble graphite residue dissolved partly, leaving transparent octahedrons visible under a microscope, which burned on platinum without ash, identified as diamonds.
A Danes invasion of Scotland is thwarted when a thistle pricks a Danish soldier waking sleeping Scots. The cry alerts them, they defend their encampment and win. The thistle becomes Scotland’s national emblem by gratitude.
Across Japan a child is treated as sacred from one end to the other, each bearing a name and address on a neck ticket. If a child strays, food shelter and kindness await at any doorstep.
A light note from Bits on how in fifty years people undress for bed about 18 350 times and dress again each night with cheerful resignation, a whimsical reflection on daily habits.
A Cincinnati Enquirer tale recalls a wife's effort to get gold for her saved pin money. She tries the mint but is refused, buys four ten dollar gold pieces, trades for two double eagles, then deposits the coins in a savings bank. The teller’s mistake and her triumph fuel the humorous misadventure.
A Freder ick Villiers anecdote from The Saturday Evening Post shows the war artist reacting to a nonwar cue. A cart dumped gravel, the noise mimicked a shell, and Villiers flung himself to the ground in fear, mud and all, amid Strand pedestrians.
An English paper recounts Joseph Whitaker publisher of Whitaker's Almanack and his first issue. He listed civil service salaries as imaginary figures after officials refused to disclose them. The edition provoked corrections from those underpaid and responses from inland revenue for overstatements.
A Bostonian owns a one inch by three fourths inch by three eighths inch miniature Bible from Russia. It contains the first five books of the Old Testament in Hebrew with Latin titles and can be read only with a powerful magnifying glass.
Quote from the Chicago Post features a neighbor noting a husband as a dramatic critic. The reply calls him a household critic, highlighting domestic humor and marital satire in a concise wartime era tone.
In a brief dialogue from the Ohio State Journal an exchange unfolds over a misplaced umbrella. Wiggins asks whose umbrella it is while Higgins insists the one found cannot be theirs, noting he scraped the handle and altered it.
The Annals of Mont Blanc recount the Mont Blanc disaster of July 12 1892 when a glacial lake burst beneath the Tete Rousse glacier. A torrent carried rock timber and mud through Bionnassay and St Gervais, crushing the baths and killing over 150 people. Utter ruin followed as gardens fell to mud and stones.
A Chicago man who wrote a book offers a friend a copy with the author asking the clerk to locate it. The clerk notes the work is not readily found and suggests other titles at the same price. The exchange unfolds with the author flustered by the search.
At a Moody service in Kansas City ushers distributed hymn sheets. Moody, tired and needing quiet, asked those with sheets to raise them and then urged, Now shake them. Twelve thousand sheets rustled loudly, then he commanded, Sit on those hymn sheets, and began the sermon.
Mr Jones tells a house agent his wife will call and that the house they have been eyeing is taken. He asserts he is taking it now since Mrs Jones hesitates, hoping she will rush to agree once she fears losing it. The London Telegraph reports the exchange.
A fragment from Jewelers' Weekly hints at a humorous exchange about affair and loyalty. Tommy and his sister’s boyfriend raise a half eye joke about attention and affection in a domestic vignette.
A former Gordon Highlander recalls a Laingsneck moment during the Anglo Boer War of 1881. Opposed lines remained silent except for one Boer and one Highlander who could not resist firing. After about twenty exchanged shots, the Highlander is hit in the left hand. The sergeant scolds him while the wounded man asks who told him to stay quiet.
A conjurer in Colombo performs a stage trick aboard a ship. He removes sleeves from his presentation, uses earth to plant a mango seed, waters it with a boy helper, and summons a hooded snake while chanting, revealing a tiny green shoot at the end.
A celebrated artist famed for reticence puzzles visitors with his calm studio scene. When his brother Tom greets him and John briefly wanders the room, the quiet exchanges reveal the artist’s guarded nature and a rare warm remark about missing his brother for a month.
A playful note quotes Lewis Carroll on the impracticality of lengthy embraces. The letter suggests that even a minute of hugging Emsie would consume about half a day for a busy uncle, underscoring humorous constraints on affection.
A man with hair growing from his ears tests a top watch in a Chestnut Street jewelry store. He claims the watch never ran down, but the ear hair wedged in the movement, stopping the mechanism and costing the sale.
The practice centers on revenge and hindering detractors rather than melancholy or love loss. Affected individuals die on the premises to haunt or injure the living, inviting official inquiry and social scandal. Common cases include servants or workers taking opium to seal the act and compel a confrontation.
A Chicago Tribune humorous quip about a young reporter teased by a maiden for onion breath as he prepares to say good night, implying he fears the scent betrays his latest scoop.
Chinese artists caricature annuals to paint in caricature while their flower pictures aim for truth in form and color. The flower works reveal a loving study of detail and dedication to representation.
The familiar Castoria label proclaims the product as the same safe old remedy families have trusted for generations. Its enduring likeness and promise to help soothe infants and children remain central to its appeal in traditional healthcare shopping.
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