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Newspaper
Heppner Weekly Gazette
Location
Heppner, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1888
Page
4
A collage of quips, anecdotes, and curiosities spans from a Saar-like mix of wordplay to local color. Notes include small-town humor, curious inventions, unusual births, and brief cultural jabs, with references to Topeka maps, Kansas City figures, and Berlin concerts, all in a breezy, miscellany voice.
The piece profiles Eugenie Bazaine, a 19-year-old daughter of Mexican and French heritage, described as among the loveliest girls in Mexico. It details Marshal Bazaine’s past in Mexico, his exile, and the fate of his wife and children, noting Juarez confiscations and the family’s quiet life on the north side of the Alameda.
In Demorest's Monthly Jennie June recalls a traveler’s early strike glimpse of Great Salt Lake City. He compares the silver lake to a mirror and finds Salt Lake City disappointing compared with eastern modern life, noting crowds of arrivals and hackmen at the station and a sense that the city is plain and undistinct amid vast marshy lands.
Senators Dorsey and Bookwalter report European impressions noting admired whites such as educated Russians and Hungarians. They praise Pesth for its fine instruments and discuss Greek financiers. A medical expert debunks the flaxseed eye remedy. At Opera Comique, M. Carvalho and staff mourn fallen performers after a battlelike roll call in Paris.
In remarks from the New York Tribune a New Mexico rancher notes roadsters and horses can regularly cover fifty to seventy-five miles in a day. He attributes the stamina to air conditions and explains his ranch lies about thirty miles from Senator Dorsey, with a three hour drive often sufficient.
The excerpt contends that without Earth's atmosphere we would see only fire and total darkness. It speculates that extending air to 700 miles would stop moonlight from penetrating, leaving dark seas, and notes light extinction occurs at seven feet of pure water in the ocean.
A Sacramento Record item from the Japan Car describes a home bath scene where a family of five enters to watch and compliment the narrator. The narrator endures a long bowing and steam before escaping, later comparing the courtesy to Fox's Book of Martyrs in blinding steam. The Philadelphia North American comments on aging fashionably as a boarding house dalioncy after fifty years.
A survey of misidentifications and photo ploys in early press practice notes incidents from The Graphic including misattributed portraits of Sitting Bull and Lady Londsdale, the Palmer–Witwer mix up, and a tale of Kaiser William at a casino where he provokes the bank by declaring the croupier and the portrait hunt.
A study by Drs Guttman and Merke favours a 1 to 1000 bichloride of mercury wash and spray for disinfecting inhabited rooms, citing safety and cost. A Chicago Herald account reports magician Hermann’s vanished silk robe prank failing to trap a stage volunteer, prompting laughter but no harm.
In nitric and sulphuric acids iron generates a current when placed in separate compartments separated by a porous partition. One electrode dissolves while the other thickens, showing active galvanic action without needing different petals.
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