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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1898
Page
5
Hananuma Masakichi of Tokyo creates a wooden figure so exact to his own body that observers cannot tell him from his sculpture. The 2000-piece carved likeness features glass eyes, hair, and pores, posed beside mirrors to achieve near indistinguishability and a mask and carving tool held in hand.
The opinion of Chinese society toward the opium habit is strongly anti opium. Across working classes merchants literati officials and the general public the sentiment is consistently negative with broad opposition observed during travels in the interior and among diverse groups.
The Opium Commission Report records a Cantonese proverb listing ten prohibitions on opium use. It notes the saying captures popular attitudes toward the Chinese and opium, highlighting rules on habits sleep sharing pipes early rising illness relationships wealth planning credence and travel.
The New York Sun recalls a famous base running play by catcher Jimmy Galvin against Johnny Ward. Galvin drew two on with four balls, Ward reached first, and Galvin nailed him stealing, while Beckley blocked. Crooks hails Gavie as the league’s premier catcher of runners.
An old handbill from Lancaster area presents James Williams, parish clerk and town crier, offering varied trades from haberdashery to groceries. He notes an evening school, amateur music, dental and farrier services, and children's dancing lessons. The notice mentions buying old iron and clothing repairs and schedules a ball on Wednesdays and Tuesdays.
Poisons in food arise from decomposition in animal products forming poisonous alkaloids and illness from canned goods. Salts formed by can contents add danger. Improved canning reduces risk, yet precautions in buying and using canned goods remain necessary.
A fragment recalling how snobbery skews judgment by judging people by occupation or status rather than character. The narrator, citing examples from church ushers to a funeral lot, argues the resemblance between external roles and inner worth is illusory.
The article notes Copenhagen the Waterloo horse ridden by the Duke of Wellington and Marengo Napoleon’s charger. It recalls Marengo’s origin in Egypt, capture, and final peaceful years in English care, with their tombs and skeletal display at royal institutions.
A description of sea snakes or Hydrophide in tropical seas near the Philippines and Sumatra. The article details their deadly venom, paddle tails, surface sightings, hunting of fish with spines, behavior when alarmed, and rare accidents due to shyness. It notes researchers from Princeton and the American Museum of Natural History and mentions their deaths in captivity and danger during volcanic eruptions.
A Honduran planter secures the right to register himself and 650 laborers under a system exempting them from military service, creating a notable labor and defense exception in the country.
A Detroit veteran recalls the hard lesson of obedience in military life. He describes how personal freedom is surrendered for necessity, sharing a drill experience that forged discipline. The piece contrasts this with a Chicago tale of a gilded youth facing algebra using AD BC counting.
The Paris bill poster is described as a picturesque figure who rides through bleak suburban rain on a bicycle. He hangs posters in waterproof cases on his back, fixes a paste pot, and punctures the weather with an umbrella covered in ads. He advertises as he travels, becoming a moving billboard.
In Ely place Holborn the old custom of crying the hours of the night by Charley remains. Charley, now called the night watchman, calls the hours from 11 p m to 5 a m regardless of weather. London Globe reports the duty endures.
A small Wisconsin town, Little Chute, is noted for Dutch heritage and its main industry of wooden shoes. It sits on land where Pere Marquette once wintered and where Dutch priests taught Native Americans.
An exchange quoted by the Philadelphia North American shows an interested party asking a father about his baby. The father replies the child’s mother carries the code book and cannot interpret the infant’s speech.
As a boy preacher Charles Spurgeon faced a fierce tirade from a virago at her gate. He calmly joked that the wind might rain, while she raved, and his steady wit led to her tirade ending, with no further attempts.
The Detroit Journal records a witty exchange about self knowledge and perception. A Boston woman contests external proof of beauty, arguing from mental impressions to epistemology while the other persists she is pretty.
In the Indianapolis Journal excerpt a woman notes nothing is new under the sun while a man seeks a mustache and pleads, as the Copplethwaite millions seem to slip away for a moment. The scene mixes surprise with sly humor about timing and fortune.
A London Saturday Review column declares the opera dead, praising relief from the perceived waste of time and the soul’s corrosion under the old system. The piece frames the change as a purge of unnecessary spectacle and stalls.
A bullet from the Trafalgar battle that killed Admiral Nelson remains preserved in a crystal locket. It rests in a crimson bag with gold tassels, showcasing its historical significance and royal fascination.
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