05 Jun 1895
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Newspaper
Hayward Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1895
Page
1
The article explains vinegar production from apples, cider, and wine, detailing open vats, generators, and barrels. It contrasts farm methods with large factories using red wine and white wine vinegars, notes odor, cost, and the scale of output, and describes steps from fermentation to aging in whisky barrels.
A damp evening in Boston shows a six year old boy selling papers with his brother helping. A generous stranger buys the boy’s remaining papers and gives a dollar, easing the child’s cold hunger as he heads home toward South Boston, illustrating shared sympathy among the poor.
An English intruder, linked with field sports, hires a car and driver to reach a village, boasting about hunting prowess. A local crowd questions his claims, noting scarce game and wary about induced plunder, while spectators mock the notion of plentiful birds after frost.
Fra Bonvesin di Porta provides a playful yet practical set of table manners from the thirteenth century. The verses urge cleanliness, proper seating, moderate wine, neat eating, civility to companions and servants, and self restraint, noting how courtesy reflects kindness of heart rather than mere ritual. The piece blends humor with timeless guidance on decorum at meals.
A Philadelphia Times article recalls a ten year old enslaved boy who memorizes birds, trees, and wildlife across the southern woods. It details his knowledge of species, their habits, and practical uses of plants, plus his cautious approach to snakes and other hazards in plantation life.
This piece discusses pronunciation of the number 17 and related vowel shifts in English. It notes differences among speakers in New York’s linguistic circles and explains stress and vowel changes with examples like diesel. It urges careful articulation and offers practical tips for accurate speech.
A British bark Balsant under Captain Lewis reports fretting near Queenstown to Portland, Isthmus rade at 17 degrees south, longitude 3 degrees west. It passed a large black painted iron ball with white areas, apparently over. The ship’s name appeared in visible letters.
A Chicago Record summary describes Pacific Island belief in kahunas or witch doctors, detailing their roles as medicine men, necromancers, sorcerers, and diviners. It notes use of sandalwood in ceremonies, methods of exorcism through fasting, and tales of white officials disrupting or challenging native practices, including cases where kahunas attempted to kill or be killed by magical means.
Edward Dronin, famed as the eccentric Monte Vriato of Atlantic City, is arrested for disorderly conduct but discharged on promising to leave town. A sayville professor on a trombone wage plays hourly to 1887. London sells ivory dust as jelly, a waste product from ivory carving, mixed with water and boiled into a tastable gel. A balloon-roofed musician may run for mayor. servants of law and oddities mingle in this column of curiosities.
A cartoonish piece notes a boy corrected for mis spelling at a magistrate and cites famous figures who err in spelling. It parodies rhetoric on equal treatment and memory, referencing Sarah Bernhardt, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and John Bright amid light verse on literacy lapses.
A fragment recounts Mina Merlan and other naturalists describing extraordinary light from plants and fungi. It cites ghostly trees of fire, fox fire at forests, and diatoms and rhizomospora in caves, noting pale yellow glows, phosphorescent rocks, and explorers witnessing pillar-like lights and glowing rock.
A fragmented reminiscence recalls Familiar Termant Soper, a rider and a young cat eight months old, speaking with an adopted child about family ties. The scene shows a request to leave a high chair and a whispered warning.
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