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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Times Post
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1895
Page
3
A narrator recalls intense early love for Augustine, then neglect that eroded her affection. After a gunfight, he recovers and vows devotion, only to learn Augustine’s love faded to death. She explains her heart died from his coldness. he faces a loveless, haunted life.
Emil Winegartner a German jeweler in Turin shows a unique novelty a boat carved in 1883 by a worker in his shop. The model resembles a tug with a solid gold sail diamonds studded, a ruby binnacle light an emerald rudder and an ivory stand. Weighing under half an ounce the miniature is valued at 5000 dollars.
A new policeman at a Broadway up-town crossing in New York forestalls a woman rushing toward a thrice‑harnessed heavy dray. He quips about preventing both horses and ladies from danger, then steps in firmly to halt the rush.
An Irish corporal, prone to a naggin of erathur, is reproved by his captain who asks why his nose is red. The corporal replies with a joking mix of Irish phrasing and bluster, maintaining his modesty amid the exchange.
Memphis writer profiles a floating community of house boat residents anchored near Memphis. About 150 boats house men from twenty states who fish for food, barter for goods, and earn rare days’ work as longshoremen or laborers. The population drifts with the river, some moving to New Orleans or other river cities.
An old Pompeii jar of figs revealed that ancient residents preserved fruit by sealing waxed lids after heating and steam escape. The discovery inspired American canning, leading to the establishment of canning factories across the United States in the following years.
The inhabitants of St Lucia report a remarkable plant in a caverned brackish basin. Each pebble hosts one to five “animal flowers” that resemble a flower bed. They close instantly when touched and trap prey with four filaments armed with pinchers. They feed on fish spawn and marine insects.
The passage cites Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr style reflections and The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table in Over the Teacups arguing that diet shapes body and mind. A vegetarian aesthetic and bristly beards are linked to a pork-heavy diet, with humorous village portraits and a claim that mind and character follow from nourishment.
A famous Uglich bell banished to Tobolsk in 1563 by order of Boris Godunov is brought back to European Russia amid ceremonies. Kennan notes the bell has been consecrated and now calls Tobolsk prayers, while Uglich seeks its return after three centuries of exile.
A Russian legal clash over an Uglich bell argues three centuries of Tobolsk possession have erased Uglich rights while Russia’s courts are depicted as slow and inaccessible to Siberian grievances. The Tobolsk decision reportedly favors Uglich, prompting wider critique of justice in the region.
Mrs. James Howlett of Somerset Kentucky watched as two rats demonstrated surprising teamwork to raid a Sunday cake stash. One rat signaled while the other pushed against the tureen, lifting the lid and yielding an opening at both ends for the theft.
In British Guiana a conscription ordinance passes despite strong local protest. The governor notes the volunteer force proves unable to defend against Venezuelan raids, forcing all males aged 18 to 45 to drill and join the colony’s defenses. A separate item covers a stolen watch recovered by its owner on a New York street, with the suspect Denis Carey denying details of how he obtained it.
A wealthy man named John Johnson, seeking literary prestige, bought an old dictionary. When the binders returned it with the imprint Johns son s Dictionary on the back, he lashed out in fury asking why the full name wasn t used. The tale mocks vanity and nomenclature in a humorous anecdote.
In a New York Times chat, Mr. Depew recalls a Londoner who pulled funds from New York Central and Lake Shore stocks to reinvest in a promising American railway. The prospectus pointed to a line linking New York, Boston, and Montreal, later named the New York and Northern, still未 reaching Boston or Montreal.
A small station on the old colony road in Massachusetts bears the queer name Kenberma. Three children of summer residents born there are named Kenilworth Bertha and Mary, and the first syllable of each name formed the station’s name. A French physician treated eleven patients with injections of the gray substance of the brain of the sheep and concludes such injections are a nerve tonic of value.
Report of the Bombay government chemical analyzer notes arsenic poisoning as common in India. Cases include a son conspiring with a cook in Kambekar street where five died. a girl in Oodeypore and a nurse in Poonah using arsenic. a Mahar charm killing a husband and his dog. Arsenic widely obtainable in Bombay.
A movement in Eastern Europe seeks to cut a canal between the Black and Caspian seas and to reconnect the Dead Sea with the Mediterranean. The Dead Sea has evaporated far more than the Caspian, deepening to 1,202 feet below the Mediterranean. A Mediterranean-Dead Sea link could alter the Jordan Valley and biblical geography, changing regional scriptural geography.
A vessel’s crew inhaled petroleum fumes while washing tank chambers. Four men were sent below to rinse tanks before loading oil, then a lively dispute over each man’s parents sparked a spontaneous jig that echoed in the tank. Officers managed to bring all hands to deck as fresh air restored memory.
An observer notes intense rivalry between a hummingbird and a bumblebee amid white blossoms in a Portland tree. The bird pursues the bee through branches in a rapid, darting chase as both strive for the honey. The bee escapes. the bird ends the chase on a twig, likely to seize all the honey alone.
The boys suspect Professor Spire climbs stairs nightly in stocking feet to listen at doors. They lay a trap with carpet tacks to deter him. He howls in pain as tacks surface, then explains the wind and a new tack. The professor scolds the blue-eyed lad for not contributing.
A Portland street scene sparked panic when a man with a revolver chased a cigar store patron and shot him in the back over a last cigar claim. The wounded man later admitted he faked critical injury after bribing a doctor to declare a fatal wound, and news papers published the cigar brand.
An analysis argues that thirty years of forest destruction in Russia has driven Europe toward wood abundance but caused river and water shortages, soil desertification risk, and temperature swings. Prof Bogdanov warns the black earth may become a desert within a century if deforestation continues. Also notes Sweden to connect state telephone with telegraph, using numbers instead of addresses for faster routing.
Pickwick's sales soar with over 673750 copies sold by Dickens publishers since first issue. Not a single copy paid for in Pickwickian cents. Nickel Plate excursion to Niagara Falls on August 19, details indicate August 10 19 3826.
W H Harvey's Coin's Financial School is praised as an accessible 150 page primer with 64 illustrations, priced 50 cents for paper and 1.00 cloth. A follow up, Coin's Financial Scaoe ContinuED, describes a 200 page history of Coin with 50 illustrations, urging readers to study both works and noting prices from 25 to 1.00, with a combined cloth edition for 1.09 offered by Times-Post Fort Wayne.
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