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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1889
Page
1
In 1886 the United States Fish Commission released over 90 million young shad across the nation at a cost under $20,000. Fewer than 6 million shad are harvested for market per season, with about fifteen juveniles released for every fish taken.
The article estimates the Great Wall could encircle the globe six feet high and two feet thick at a cost rivaling all US railroads. It argues choosing such massive construction over warfare shows a lack of aggressive drive, calling the wall an enduring symbol of Chinese character.
A London Globe piece lauds the United States for high law study and practice, citing Harvard Law School Association reunion remarks. The essay extols frugal, disciplined living and homeownership as virtues for workers, urging prosperity through real estate and prudent debt.
The article recalls the belief that guilt torments a murderer until confession. Lestrange, who killed Walker in New York six weeks earlier, surrendered in Chicago after escaping there. He shot Walker in the back during a quarrel over loot.
A Detroit Free Press poem by George Birdseye describes a graveyard atop a hill, the moonlight on white marbles, and a city below. It reflects workers and residents seeking rest and renewal, with dawn promises and remembered joys guiding feet toward the hill.
Don Gregorio rescues his son Norberto after the kidnapping dubbed el plagio de los encantadores. Bandits demanded ransom, threats escalated, and the father, risking life and treasure, confronted the outlaws in the Zahuan del Inferno. Norberto’s return brings relief and renewed peril to the family.
A compilation notes gas lighting adoption by 1825 and general death trends in cold weather. It covers John Harrison and solar time, the first doctor title to William Gardenia, Asti’s 1329 degree, Samuel Cross in Virginia with a long-lived horse, Boston fire losses, a Mexican flower with shifting colors and perfume, Babylon’s size walls and gardens, the bronze Temple of Janus, and the origins of playing cards with Tarots and Lardsknecht in Germany 1275.
Agricultural Department experiments show diffusion extracts more juice with fewer impurities than crushing. In India diffusion raised yield to about 84 percent and crystal sugar gain to 43 percent. beet sugar refinement reaches 95 percent juice recovery. Louisiana cane shows significant production increases and sorghum growth potential. A new Mexican flower reportedly emits perfume at midday.
An observer outlines crude oil stills used in interior North Carolina to extract sassafras and pennyroyal oil. The method uses a ground trench, a wooden steam box, clay seals, and a tin condensate pipe. Workers harvest roots, distill, and yield oil with simple equipment, claiming daily profits around $3 with startup under $10.
The New York Times outlines vast daily takings of major shops and venues. Hatters, dry goods stores, druggists, newsstands, oyster saloons, cab stands, bars, and jewelry shops are cited with typical and peak daily revenues. It notes high holiday and parade effects on incomes.
The report lists California fruit trees by type with Apple 2,700,000 Peach 1,200,000 Pear 500,000 Plum and prune 600,000 Cherry 400,000 Apricot 400,000 Orange 1,600,000 Lime and lemon 599,000. It also estimates 70,000 acres of grape vines.
A Perlin correspondent describes the Wendish people in north Germany and parts of Lusatia, noting their industrious, frugal life. They farm about twenty acres, spin flax, weave homespun, and keep cattle, with distinctive dress for church and weddings. A bride with a $20,000 thaler dowry is a grand spectacle, while funerals feature white shrouds and river processions. observers fear Germanization will erase their customs.
The New York correspondent notes 10 000 boarding houses in the city with about 5 000 long-term dead beats who avoid payment. Beating is common at clubs and hotels as patrons sponge drinks or dodge dues. Foreign visitors and elegant ladies with claims to imaginary estates pose risks to landlords and guests.
An old Notes and Queries account recalls a Lapp wedding with a bare room and coarse table. The feast features boiled meat, grease bowls, and reindeer dessert, followed by corn brandy. Guests shout sing and dance as some pass out on tables and floors, ending with everyone sleeping on the room’s floor.
In Brooklyn the Talk of New York notes a dinner hosted by Chinese gentlemen on Mott Street. The after dinner orchestra produced a ferocious din with each player to himself. The most vocal drummer struck a tom tom as if a steam hammer. The scene sparked a joke that Wagner supplied the idea for the chaos as the conductor and band shifted to a new piece.
The Milwaukee Sentinel reports donkey parties grow popular with older residents. Hosts host a luncheon and clear rooms for guests to pin tails on a wall donkey after blindfolded spins. The best placement wins a prize while the poorest effort gets a booby prize.
A Oshkosh suitor uses a telephone to recite The Last Rose of Summer to a young woman’s father over audio, provoking her rejection due to incoherent delivery. In Morris, Missouri, farmer William Young finds rats attacking a possum under a corn crib, drives them off, and kills the distressed animal.
A verse on devotion and love as reflected in a maiden's eye. The poem compares the lake's changing hue to the eye's moods, noting love's constant light through sorrow or joy as seen through the beloved's windows.
A collage of brief jokes and witticisms about voting, fashion, hair, marriage, and daily life. It cites lines from the Boston Jourier New Haven News and others, ending with a brief verse about closing the door from the Boston Couriers.
The last decade’s journals report advances in wound healing through sponge grafts skin and bone grafts and finger regrowth. New findings detail rubber tissue organization after drainage tubes and blood clot organization forming new tissue enabling primary union in large joints. Youth’s Companion notes time changes and John Knox sermon sale fetching 2079 dollars.
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