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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1881
Page
2
Uncle Remus recalls Brer Rabbit simpering for greens by the Little Gal and slipping into the white house garden. The boy learns how Rabbit dancers, escapes the master, and is finally caught with a fish line before twisting away and dancing home.
Dr Feliz L Oswald argues clothing should mimic nature to protect infants while allowing movement. He critiques heavy winter wear as stifling, links tight dress to higher infant mortality in northern Christendom, and cites contrasts with naked infants in Spanish America and Indian regions. A Boston Transcript joke ends with a sly aside about a public figure.
A fragment from Scribner's Monthly presents Uncle Remus in dialectal speech about Brer Rabbit and dancing, capturing oral storytelling cadence and rural sensibility.
At the Signal Service Bureau in Washington weather indications are recorded daily at five times. A team reads thermometers barometers and forecasts using a large map as Old Probabilities weighs wind currents humidity and past storm data. Innovations include flood reports and crop time forecasts for cotton and harvest alerts.
A Virginia woman recalls keeping two tame foxes, Romeo and Juliet, from nursing them with her cat, sharing a rocking chair, and living like playful cats for fourteen months. They helped with farm tasks, slept with hounds, and yes fed on eggs until hunters mistook them for wild foxes and killed them.
Profile of Louise Michel former Montmartre schoolmistress and leading figure among the petroleuses. Describes her amnesty return from New Caledonia her weekly editorials and poems for La Revolution Sociale and her philanthropic work with the poor. Notes her stern anti government stance and role in the Paris Commune era.
The Paris Cor. San Francisco Chron tele reports a woman described as ardent Republican yet hostile to Gambetta who sides with Socialists and Nihilists. She supports the Czar’s assassination as a boost to freedom, aims to elevate the masses through education, and distrusts priestly authority.
A California inventor claims a drying and preserving method for potatoes that retains flavor and nutrients. A German machinist introduces a cheaper oil cleaning process saving half, while a stove maker’s new lining prevents clinkers in soft coal burners. Architectural cotton, a fireproof material for buildings, forms stonelike shapes after drying. A French electrician patents an intermittent electric lamp driven by a cam mechanism. A threading machine enables continuous die/tap operation without downtime. A New York scientist reports producing quinine sulfate from coal tar, potentially revolutionizing the Peruvian bark substitute trade due to dwindling chincana cultivation.
Chambers' Journal reports Burmah suffers heavy mosquito attacks. Elephants, buffaloes, and humans all endure bites. Cattle shield themselves with mud and dust, while Europeans at Maocbeng use mosquito rooms after four p.m. Dallah and the Irrawadi River area also see large, venomous mosquitoes prompting netted enclosures and curtains for livestock. A wartime sailor allegedly leaped overboard to escape bites.
The piece celebrates a rare gift of drawing out the best in others through dialogue. It uses George Eliot as an example, noting her brief speech but sharp intuition that leaves people feeling wiser than they thought. It contrasts Puritan and social norms with perceptive quips about gender and conversation.
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