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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1897
Page
8
Hypnotism shows power over mind but cannot override strong character. A temperate person remains temperate, modest individuals avoid impropriety, and true dignity endures under hypnotic influence. The piece argues character is the core force shaping actions beyond suggestion or willpower. It also notes how this view weakens the Adam and Eve narrative by pointing to personal weakness.
Mentone on the Mediterranean once healthy and prosperous now hosts invalids especially consumptives The climate is mild and equable experts warn the place is infected by tuberculosis germs The scene shows peasant farmers leaving farms to wait on wealthy patients and the land becoming contaminated by disease
A Royal hunting tale compares the Prince of Wales and the German Emperor in faltering praise for their partridge shooting. The prince reportedly bagged thousands of birds in a single day while the emperor concentrates on big game with calculated, staged kills.
A San Francisco club meeting featured nurses discussing infant care. A speaker demonstrated a chamois model of a baby’s stomach and asked where the milk goes, prompting a quiet moment before a spectator quipped that most of it ends up in the caretaker’s lap.
A Europe circulating tale claims at Plevna General Skobeloff owed life to a young Polish man. The Russian commander offered 100 rubles or the Cross of St George. the Pole asked its value and chose the cross plus five rubles, saying he would take the cross and five rubles.
In Germany the star group commonly called the Big Dipper is known as Kari's wagon. The note links a local name to a famous asterism and hints at cultural naming variation across regions.
A Paris robbery linked to a gang led by Petitjean brings the escaped convict Petitjean into custody. The tale notes convicts in Cayenne and a mother’s embrace, with Petitejean claimed as gang chief after police traced stolen goods to four arrested robbers.
A Florida hunting method traps wild turkeys by luring them with corn. A square box of logs grows into a cone shaped cage with a narrow top. Turkeys enter for corn but cannot exit with wings spread, capturing the birds.
A country guest at a London hotel pretends to deposit two £20 notes for a safe, is denied the first by the clerk, and with legal guidance retrieves both notes by staged rounds with a friend. The plan succeeds, pleasing the rural trickster.
Prince Max of Saxony, now living in London as a Catholic priest at the Church of St. Boniface in Whitechapel, renounced his claim to the throne. The 26 year old former German prince left the army years ago to join a monastery, reportedly after a failed attachment to Princess Fedora of Schleswig-Holstein. He has won favor among East End workers by his modest conduct and saying he comes as a priest and a laborer.
During an official tour in France the French president travels without charge on the railways. On the return trip, his secretary calculates the cost at regular rates and hands the amount to be distributed among the railway workers who earn the least.
The piece lauds Sir John Everett Millais as a versatile master of nearly six decades in art. It praises his broad range from history to portraits, notes his supreme draughtsman’s skill and coloristic truth, and cites Watts calling a recent Royal Academy painting as good as ever. It argues his sincerity and vivid personality keep his work vital for posterity.
The Salvation Army plans to tour with a graphophone allowing 400 to 1,000 listeners to hear songs and speeches as if performed live. The device includes 18 records with an address by the commander and a consul, 16 army songs, and a traveling case for 36 records.
A U S cavalryman at Fort Meade reports a three fanged rattlesnake swam into Belle Fourche and drowned. He describes watching the animal die and claims the snake committed suicide after striking him and losing faith in snakes.
A writer argues intermarriage harms European royal houses, listing diseases and deformities cited by London Truth. The piece suggests degeneration due to royal cult and lack of social discipline, claiming mental virility fades in long regal families as wishes are endlessly catered to.
An anecdote relayed by Detroit Free Press recalls a squire court in North Carolina where hog stealing case proceedings ended with a motley jury. After a brief deliberation, the foreman admits they did not know a verdict had been found, prompting disbelief and eventual abandonment of the court.
The Toledo Blade reports a London establishment profitably stunts small dogs by feeding newborn pups a gin and water decoction. The pups are deprived of milk and fed alcohol as their sole diet, halting growth and producing miniature canines after generations of mating.
The Duke of York, vice president of the London Needlework Guild, contributed 107 items to the Imperial Institute exhibition. The duchess of Teck as general president totals 3,633 pieces, the duchess of York 4,134, Princess Edward of Saxe Weimar 342, Lady Vernon Haarcourt 2,088, Mrs Halford 1,225, and Mrs Basilllis 3,002. The guild’s total is 55,050 items, higher than last year.
Beatrice Montgomery from Boston swooned as Harold Bentley, Cleveland aristocrat with a widowed mother and sisters in Europe, spoke of wealth and travel. She recalled Wellesley life and occult interests before learning his father was absent, prompting her dramatic command to remove him.
L. M. Vincent of St. Louis recalls Eugene Sue’s Wandering Jew with fond fascination in youth, then condemns it as “utter rot.” He contrasts it with Walter Scott’s The Antiquary, praising its enduring grace and character depth that appeals to generations and remains widely read today.
Irish naturalist Mr. Kk M Barrington observed wasps swarming around cows and catching flies. Wasps bite off wings and sometimes legs or heads, then carry prey away to feed larvae. On two cows near Barrington, 800 to 400 flies were captured in about two minutes.
An exacting beggar, owning many houses valued at 10000 liras, begs in rags while a charitable governess recalls giving him a piastre twice a week. She follows him to his Taxime house and he theatrically refuses to return the missing coin, claiming one cent remains unpaid. The tale ends with the piastre unsettled.
In a royal gathering at the Nussian palace, several ladies inquire about the empress's child. A guest notes their babies share a birth date, triggering a warm moment as the empress shifts from formality to fond talk of her daughter Grand Duchess Olga.
In a recent English trial a lawyer dismisses opposing counsel's case as air and vanity. The judge is urged to see the argument as nothing and to deem it as falling to the ground by its own weight.
A French naturalist notes that a pair of plant lice can, in six weeks, produce five generations. This rapid breeding could yield about 5,904,900,000,000 descendants for a single pair, illustrating astonishing multiplication in plant colonies.
The secretary of Scotland has appointed a committee to inquire into alleged sheep stealing in certain parts of Scotland.
A American clergyman proposed that Adam and Eve were black, arguing early Earth climates were tropical. As humans migrated to colder regions they wore clothes and built shelter, bleaching skin to whiteness, while Africans in the tropics retained their color.
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