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Newspaper
Fayetteville News
Location
Fayetteville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1908
Page
5
The Romans valued cavalry in war and faced critique of their horsemanship. Prussian officer Warnering calls Caesar an indifferent cavalry general, yet Caesar still conquered. His famed horse, said to have a human fore foot, was linked to victory.
Water boils when the outward steam pressure balances the inward air pressure. Since air pressure varies, boiling occurs at lower temperatures on high mountains and higher pressures raise the boiling point. At sea level water boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit.
A office boy walked into a real estate office and performed a striking lightning breakdown dance. After pulling the hat trick, he asked for work and was hired. The agent says the boy is bright, well behaved, and industrious, and he doubts he ever had a better helper.
Five rare metals form the platinum group rhodium osmium palladium iridium and ruthenium. Rhodium resists acids and is used for crucibles. Osmium is the heaviest metal. Iridium is very hard and used for pen tips. All are byproducts in platinum refining.
An anecdote from an English meeting between Evangelist Moody and Mr. Gladstone recalls a humorous exchange. Gladstone praises Moody’s body, Moody wishes for Gladstone’s head, Gladstone wishes for Moody’s lungs, and Moody counters with a wish for Gladstone’s brains before they part as friends.
In a London Fun exchange Patience questions Peggly’s solitude while Patrice insists hearing Peggly sing proves no one else is present. Patrice argues that a companion would be visible only through conversation, contrasting Patience’s doubt.
The text describes a full grown walrus weighing up to 2000 pounds with two foot ivory tusks. It highlights his muscular blubber armor and how tusks can repel attackers like a guillotine. The passage notes a bear’s slim odds against a confident walrus, referencing St. Nicholas.
A Scotch minister hires a novice plowman and notices crooked furrows. The quick witted helper replies that the famed Tammie shaped the world, saying Tammie didna ken his work. The man claims crooked drills let the sun strike from all sides, yielding early tatties.
Fuller’s earth derives its name from use by cloth bleachers to absorb grease from weaving. It is a hydrated aluminum silicate, usually greenish blue or brown. Occurring in oolitic or Jurassic rocks, deposits can reach up to 400 feet deep.
The Fijian game of tiga, likened to golf, features brown warriors driving a reed from a mound on a road. They balance a javelin in hand and strike a heap of stones to achieve long, straight flights, walking for miles in friendly competition. The description appears in the illustrated London News.
A Chicago Tribune quip describes a customer asking for a discreet alarm clock. The clerk notes they only stock ordinary models that wake the whole family, not just the hired help, highlighting a humorous clash over price and propriety.
A historical note describes the Yezidees, a Turkish sect, treating certain words and letters as cursed. Speaking words like devil or Satan is deadly, and phrases with bans force substitutes. They also expel sounds like shun and forbid the word wallet as divine punishment in their lore.
Mrs Jones frantically shows a newspaper to her husband lamenting rising rates for the poor and water as well as a rising birth rate. John laughs with muffin in mouth, noting the grim humor of a troubled city. The London Standard caption frames a domestic scene amid public concerns.
The piece discusses physical phenomena such as blisters and ulcers as miraculous changes, citing St Francis of Assisi and a tale about Krafft-Ebing in Vienna. A friend is named as having tested the possibility, with a postage stamp allegedly producing a blister under bandages, per Collier's.
A solemn man eyes a clothier's shop as three trousers labeled Admission 10 shillings 12 shillings and 15 shillings hang above the door. The dealer, before delivering tragedy, removes the tickets and jokes about reserved seats, noting life is hard on humorists.
An extract from St James Gazette recounts popular fox superstitions and the clever tricks foxes use. It describes white tipped tails signaling dog foxes, belief in fox hypnotizing pheasants, feigned play to lure rabbits, feigning death, and stunning resurrections after seeming death.
A mythic sketch traces the mulberry as the wisest tree with London ties from Charterhouse and Smithfield to James I’s silk idea. It notes the black mulberry’s early planting by Cardinal Pole at Lambeth in 1555, older trees at Syon House, and a Greek legend that the fruit once white before Pyramus and Thisbe’s blood stained it red.
Aaron Winters and his wife, while prospecting in Death Valley, camped in Ash Valley after their provisions ran out. A green taint in the fire revealed borax, leading them to stake a claim. They later sold the discovery for a substantial sum, making a fortune from a chance encounter.
A New York American note traces the phrase to feudal times. Partisans wore a leader s badge pinned to their sleeves and badges were swapped for aims. Citizens learned to doubt and use the line You wear the badge but I do not intend to pin my faith on your sleeve.
A European remarks that Britain lacks historic sites, while Mr. Comrox praises freedom to travel without lectures. Mr. Chuggins praises cars, the other man argues horses are safer. A quip dialog ends with Miss Sentiment and Eligible Widower banter about loves and marriages.
A fifteenth century Bodleian manuscript defines land measurement terms. It states that one inch equals two fingers, a foot equals sixteen inches, a perch equals sixteen feet, and lists acre and verde and verdys and hides with various archaic acre counts. It explains that forty perches long and broad yield an acre, and that many acres form a hide and knight’s fee in feudal land terms.
The Washington Star quotes a prisoner declaring better days and never facing arrest. The judge retorts that the claim contradicts the first and implies the man has not been involved with a large corporation or owned a motor car.
The practice of taking minute arsenic doses is widespread among peasantry in the Austro Hungarian and French mountain districts. They say the poison helps them ascend heights they could not reach otherwise.
A doctor tells Madam Pneuritch her husband has no organic illness. She jokes that pot is the issue in the neighborhood but notes that their neighbor’s gramophone troubles him nearly to death.
Puck quotes a heated exchange about Treeter's crackdown on alcohol and Daly urging patience as the confrontation remains unresolved. The dialogue hints at ongoing tension and imminent clash in the public dispute over drinking.
A few miles from the Thames mouth, Horne Bay in England is noted for its unusually clear atmosphere, in contrast to the surrounding foggy conditions that strain the river area.
A sheriff sale will occur on the first Tuesday in January 1909 at the Fayette County courthouse by public outcry during legal hours. The property, about one acre including a dwelling, belongs to J R Newborn, levied to satisfy an execution in favor of R W Lester. The description references J H Ellington land, Far Ear road, and Fayers mill road, with the sale noting tax and notice details.
Personal experience touts immediate relief from piles with Tu ManZan Pile Remedy. Claims direct application reduces inflammation swelling and itching. Mentions price 50 cents and sale by Fayetteville Dr 0.
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