Notes and comments from Melbourne to London Daily News
A Melbourne correspondent writes of abundance contrasts in Australia, market prices for beef and produce, and the lure of town life. The piece covers English workers adapting to local meals, Pacific migration trends, Mexican coffee exhibitions, Caprera land sale suits, Jay Gorpo's estate plan, a British farmer moving to Fiji, cholera fears driving U.S. reentries, advocacy for the Nicaragua Canal, 1802 prosperity notes, Bathhouses as civilization signs, and Franco Russian industrial ties.
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Melbourne
London Daily News
Lady Hopetoun
England
Jay Gorpo
Vanderbilt
Astors
Leather
Figi
South Seas
India
Australia
Europe
United States
Chicago
Pacific Coast
Sacred Eye of Buddha Relic Display in Horluji Shrine
A traveler describes Horluji’s sacred relic the eye of Buddha a small black pearl-like stone shown at noon with mass and chants. Priests unbundle gold brocade boxes reveal a reliquary cube sphere and pyramid containing the dingy relic then rewrap it for shrine return.
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Orient
Horluji
Buddha
Cemple
Tie
Towns out after partridge near AL pena
A Detroit Free Press fragment recounts a local sportsman riding with a host and a hired man when a partridge spooked. The bird disappeared into brush, a hawk pursued, and after a chase the hunter retrieved the bird from a pocket, taking it home.
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Alpena
Hawk
Dhe
Detroit Free Press
Slowest Railroad in the World in Arizona and New Mexico
Reporter from St Louis notes the Benson to Nogales line spans eighty eight miles and once took eight hours. Fares were eight dollars eighty cents. Describes the railroad as the furre road with cowcatchers to deter cows from entering coaches. Mexican division Nogales to Guaymas is slightly faster but never rivals a streak of lightning.
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Arizona
New Mexico
Turtle
St Louis
Benson
Nogales Tv
Furre
Bill Neve
Nogales
Ginaymas
Indiana Senate and House clash over prison affairs and Senate victory
Indiana legislature opens with sharp debate on prison mismanagement and calls for investigation. Patton’s letter accuses Republicans of political coloring, while a joint committee to probe prisonSouth is formed. Turpie elected U S Senator over Fairbanks. labor relation and telegraph liability bills advance amid lengthy sessions and adjournments.
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Senate
Patton
Pytton
House
Representative Ader of
Putnam
Prison South
David Turpie
United States
Kern
McLean
Griffith
Fairbanks
Loveland
Wishird
Bobeen
Seater
Cullop
Turpie
Hench, Cravens
Johnson
Charles W. Fairbanks
Lindermath
Morens K.shizer
Meredith
Airbanks
Stuummary
Purpie
Anofort
Hugh Judge Eiliott
Intercat
General Assembly
House of Representatives
East
Nye
Caat
Indiana
Tele Gram
Indianapolis
Peeaibert Hayes
Grand Army
Committee On Ageientture
Havas Nnerad
Montreux
Eport
Peter Toaps
Hayey
Senate Committee
Chicago
Paty
Cha Invitarion Extended
Aes
ODL
Shoveland
Bourda
Desry
Labor Committees
Buchanak
Wilson
Transfer of Music Through Beams
A Tyndall described experiment shows music from a piano in a lower room traveling via a wooden rod two floors up to a lecture room. A violin guitar or harp on the rod’s end vibrates in resonance, reproducing the piano’s tune for listeners.
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Prof
Tyndall
White rhinoceros survives in Mashona lands say Selous
A letter from Selous to the field notes that the white rhinoceros has not vanished as some claim. He cites Northern Mashona occupation and westward natives as factors keeping a few specimens alive amid two decades of persecution. Selous doubts more than ten or twenty remain. London News.
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Caprera
Garibaldi
Teresita
Gen. Canzio
Supreme Court of Sardinia
Italy
Selous
Mr. Selous
Mashonaland
Umatati River
Central
Africa
London News
Arab Maters Advice on Married Life From Old Damsel Proverb
An old Arab mother’s guidance to a bride suggests mastering submission to the husband. She counsels becoming his slave, feeding him, guarding his sleep, and keeping his secrets. She warns hunger and sleeplessness provoke anger and harshness, urging cheerfulness in joy and silence in sorrow. Allah shall bless you.
Clover's Subsoil Feeding Boosts Land Health
The article explains how nutritious soil matter moves below plant roots and how different plants access food differently. It notes that clover reaches deep into the subsoil to retrieve plant nutrients, storing them in stalks and leaves, and thus leaves land in better condition when a clover sod is turned under.
Marriage rumor at Gray & Co. affair
A note from Gray & Co. Monthly congratulates Tailor-Mr Overdue on an impending marriage to Miss Bullion. The quirky exchange mentions extending best wishes and hints at a social scene, with playful asides about towns and residents.
Short Sermon Disaster Teaches Humble Lesson
An English clergyman, preparing a sermon, learned his dog had destroyed several pages. When asked by the clerk if the sermon was long enough and suitable, he conceded it was about right, noting the shorter length. The exchange ends with a humorous request to lend the dog to the vicar.
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Cing
Chergyman
Preventing Future Misery By Betters Stomach Bitters Claims
In a prose warning style, the text extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a preventive and curative remedy for rheumatism and a range of ailments. It asserts a natural predisposition to rheumatism, cites physician testimony, and promotes the Bitters for malaria liver trouble constipation indigestion kidney issues nervousness and loss of appetite. It also notes post dampness or cold exposure increases risk, making the Bitters useful to ward off initial rheumatic attacks.
Spectator Ladies Visit Observatory To View New Comet
A group of young ladies tour the observatory to peer through the monster telescope at the new comet. The astronomer guides them, the ladies admire the view, and after a pause he offers to remove the cover and place the instrument in position with permission.
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Laura
World Fair Visit Aid Offered by Boyce Bureau
Subscribers to Tur Saturday Harp and Turk Chicago Lepuer receive free access to the World’s Fair Bureau of Information run by W D Boyce. Certificate holders register at 115 117 Fifth Avenue Chicago and receive lodging help, mail handling, baggage care, and city guidance at no charge.
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Tur
Hraape
Turk Chicago Lepuer
WW. Ph. Boyce
Cicada Lenak
Chicago
Fifth Avenue
BLADE
Separat
Sant Frea
W. JD. Boyce
To the good die young in a bald-headed death note
The fragment notes that death spares few youths and that bald heads are rare among the young, suggesting a reflective, moralistic line about mortality and aging.
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