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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1894
Page
5
Mr DH Patterson of Webster Mills argues for a future with public high schools in every township and free community libraries with lectures. He envisions faster transport, post office telephone links, and post offices handling trades, promising less drudgery and more leisure, education, and civic life on the farm.
A report notes a larger U.S. acreage of potatoes this year, driven by low prices for other crops and farming shifts. Perishability and marketing hurdles complicate large-scale production, with storage costs high and consignments often needing distant commission dealers. A milking experiment contrasted two milkers, yielding 267 pounds more under the aware of the experiment condition.
A writer describes curing locked jaw by hot water, vinegar and salt bath, repeated for the first day. He shares personal experience treating his own horse, notes the method may save horses, and warns some strains require culling while advocating careful stock care and timely use of effective implements to stay profitable amid low prices and competition.
A collection of old practical notes covers preserving fruit with sassafras bark and unslacked lime for cleaning small metal articles, hair color tips, using tea to darken hair, glass polishing with Novitena, drying moist newspaper to refresh fabrics, and cleaning scorched cotton. It also mentions varnish caution, piano key cleaning with nitric acid, bottle cleansing with ashes, soap suds for rinse, a nursery veiled sheet invention, and peppermint jet for dry throat in singers.
The Pantheon in Paris, once the Church of St Genevieve, holds Carnot and other figures. Notable interments include Soulliet, Lagrange, Launes, Mirabeau, Voltaire, and Napoleon era names. A 1885 decree restored it to national use, guiding transport of remains.
New York Times reports comedian William F. Ivey encounters a witty Evelishtan on the Lucania. The Britisher jokes about meals then buys an excursion ticket to San Francisco stopping in Chicago, pays a high fare, and calls the distance amazing as he is escorted back by a companion amid laughter.
An illustrated Harper's Weekly description tours outer docks where great ocean steamers unload coal. Steam shovels lift coal from barge holds to iron chutes, with stoking to maintain proper trim. Coal from Pennsylvania to New York fuels ships, a path from mine to sea, unseen by most passengers.
In Peter the Great's era Russia valued dwarfs at court though learning counted little outside clergy. Princes kept dwarfs as symbols of status and service, often dressed in costly livery. A 1700s gift pair included two dwarfs. one was noted for chatter, the other for obedience. One dwarf lived into the late 1700s, described as babyish yet lively with a childlike voice and a lingering memory of court dress.
Danville readers discuss waltzing and its evolving sensations in Ad vocate notes. A dancer can feel twenty distinct thrills across twenty dances, with varied partners, creating soft passes and vigorous rhythms that lift the soul.
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