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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 15, 1906
Page
8
Jenks and Iris endure peril on a reef as they plan to move rifles and supplies. She praises his courage while probing his past as they share camp and craft, building a raft and debating risk versus safety on the island.
The puffer or swell fish can distend itself with air to form a globe. In Hawaii the skin of the big puffer is dried as a lantern with preserved fins and a lifted tail. A circular back opening holds the light and a rim suspends the lantern. The skin is thin and translucent brown above and gray below, the lantern reaching about a foot wide and fifteen inches long.
A clay pipe water mill experiment shows a pipe turning when water jets exit a side hole. The mechanism relies on unbalanced internal pressure, momentum, and a cord attached to the bowl drawing water to spin the pipe away from the jet.
A herd of the world’s smallest sheep, measuring just nineteen inches high at the withers, is now on view at the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, England. The odd flock showcases unusually tiny specimens for public study and curiosity.
Prescott Spofford quotes a stanza from St Nick 8 praising the good fairy as the gentlest giver of light and joy. The verse claims her presence dispels suspicion and envy, fosters laughter, and enhances beauty by softening gloom and making faces fairer.
A dated verse describes a wintry woodland scene. A speaker uses an axe to feed chickadees amid harsh weather and declares a bond with nature. The piece ends with musings on heaven and the fate of the birds.
In a Toronto University course M Benjamin Sulte poetically outlined three centuries of Lower Canadian songs. He and friends Jean Belleau Routillier Trudel showcased chansons highlighting a language of song, Parisian and Persian roots, and Quebec memory with readings of A la Claire Fontaine Allonette and N la bon vent. A Persian origin of For he s a jolly good fellow was noted with a version of the national French anthem sung at the close.
Prof J C Michensen of Tervenie University to lecture across Ontario to educate Canadians on the decimal metric system and its advantages over varied weights and measures. Dr Maclennan will lecture in Stratford and Hamilton with later talks nationwide amid plans to adopt the system in the empire.
A meditation on domestic danger and unintended tragedy in Canadian life. The speaker warns about the Spare Bed as a silent killer amid religious recruitment and social roles, noting how a cough and death can move quickly from a private home to the grave.
A debtor promised to pay on Saturday but the judge urged a firmer commitment. The man avoided settlement until Wednesday, prompting the judge to publish a notice of the debtor's death. The following day the bill was settled.
The article notes the bed of Ware described by Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night. It details the bed as seven feet six inches high and ten feet nine inches square, capable of twelve people, dating to Elizabethan times, and a carved antique specimen attracting visitors. A pair of horns in the same room is mentioned as a historic curiosity.
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