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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1887
Page
4
The Rev Dr Talmage uses a Mesopotamian well story to urge gathering all souls to the Gospel. He contrasts worldly thirst with spiritual water, urging pride removal and universal invitation to Christ, promising comfort for aged and distressed alike.
The passage revels in heavenly scenes and biblical figures as a sermon-like meditation. It paints heaven as a spring morning of joy where victors from battle are healed, and the well of eternal rapture unites the bereaved with reunion and abundance.
New York cor respondent details a conversation by two young thieves describing arrests and sentences. They discuss a three and a half year term for a flim flam expert, a faint act robbery at a saloon, and a closed opium joint on Pell Street protected by police.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat notes that crabs are inherently combative from birth, with young crabs hiding near water before encountering the bold fiddler crab. Internecine fights are common, driven by cannibalistic urges, though most clashes are non fatal, occasionally costing limbs.
John Bostwick notes that westerners cultivate the common cactus as an oddity in St Louis. The cactus yields twenty gallons of clean Mississippi water per blade, removes taste, and acts as an antiscorbutic on the plains, though it fails as an ornamental shrub.
The Boston Courter notes Shakespeare’s varied slang in Henry V and King John and Bunyan’s cold day phrase as examples of enduring language. It reflects on Solomon’s “nothing new under the sun” line and cites lines like you are too green and fresh and a rat.
New York Times notes milk cool to 50 55 degrees sours when warmed. Clean utensils washed with cold water scalded rinsed and strained then stored in ice water in cans covered loosely ship twelve to six hours at night in a blanket. Add carbonate or potash dissolved in water to each can.
Select the first day after a heavy rain for transplanting celery when the ground is cool and moist. Plant in rows three feet apart with six inches between plants, pressing soil firmly. Varieties include Golden Dwarf, Boston market, White Plume, and Giant White, each with distinct color, hardiness, and blanching methods.
The article argues chopping grain improves digestion and reduces colic risk in work horses. It cites mastication and insalivation as key, noting young horses grind whole grain adequately but older ones bolt oats, needing chopped feed. Grinding grain supplements nature’s grinders when chewed insufficiently.
A collection of garden and farm notes on feeding quince and tomato plants with liquids and ash preservation. It covers manure, mulching between berry rows, bone and ash fertilizers, bee foundation, red celery, blackberry harvest methods, peach bearing care, cider handling, copperas for pest control, and castor oil for boots.
The article surveys farm practices including pig nutrition and milk for piglets, horse conditioning, and dairy profitability. It discusses peach crop size, swine fever inoculation debates, cat as livestock feed, corn usage in work animals, watermelons pest control, and orchard manuring with pig pasture benefits. It also reports on potato scab prevention with sulphur and ash plaster mixtures.
A self help appeal warns that youthful folly leads to nervous and organic debility and urges writing to Dr. KR V Pierce of Buffalo for home treatment. It claims a mail remedy can cure symptoms and lists diseases from colds to liver affections, urging readers to resist temptation and seek the balm in his Golden Medical Discovery.
An old advertisement promotes a 100 page treatise by Dre Pieren on self care for functional derangements and painful disorders of the female, described with wood cuts and plates. It is offered for recent stamps and directed to the World's Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo, New York.
In Youth's Companion C F Holder notes mackerel in Southern waters hunt prey in packs near Yucatan. He stood knee deep in water surrounded by fish one to two feet long. They ignored him as they chased smaller fish ashore. He tossed them onto the beach, while many leaped from the water and heard their rushes from afar.
Bradstreet's notes in Prussia show 27 051 prisoners liable to hard labor with 17 630 released. Of the remainder 6 182 worked in prisons or nearby institutions. Outside work mainly in manufacturing with little outdoor labor. labor is cheap as contractors feed inmates and pay the government per head per day.
The article lists annual death rates per 1 000 in major cities. Calcutta 29 Bombay 21 Madras 37 Paris 24 Brussels 23 Amsterdam 20 Rotterdam 18 The ague 19 Copenhagen 23 Stockholm 23 Christiania 19 St Petersburg 23 Berlin 20 Hamburg 23 Dresden 17 Breslau 23 Munich 33 Vienna 29 Prague 31 Buda Pesth 28 Trieste 20 Rome 31 Venice 24 Cairo 46 Alexandria 22 New York 25 Brooklyn 21 Philadelphia 22 Baltimore 16.
The monkey wrench derives its name from Charles Monckey who lived in Brooklyn in 1885. He sold the patent for $2,000 and saw millions made from the tool, while he faded into poverty. The spelling shift from Monckey to monkey occurred through ignorance.
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