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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1889
Page
1
President Hitchcock of Union Theological Seminary notes 142 theological seminaries in the United States now. He states that in the eighteenth century only three existed, and within fifty years 111 more were founded at an average of over two per year.
A Kansas City man possesses a lemon described as the rarest in the world. Thought to resemble a large Irish potato, it weighs six pounds twelve and a quarter ounces. The Chicago Times quips the proprietor might lend it for picnics and church festivals if it lasts until next summer.
The United States has 2,26 breweries producing about 46 832.40 gallons annually or over seven gallons per person. Germany reports 23 940 breweries with about 900 000 000 gallons yearly or over twenty gallons per person. Great Britain lists 26 214 breweries yielding 1 059 000 000 gallons annually or over thirty gallons per capita.
The American Grower reports the tomato pack at 2,368,760 cases for the year, with New Jersey supplying nearly one third, followed by Delaware and New York. Michigan adds 33,165 cases. The industry notes old packed goods are gone and demand remains for fresh, seasonal stock.
The Butte Anaconda district in Montana is hailed as the newest and greatest mining camp in the West. Eighteen companies operate there. population about 22,090. four daily papers, five brass bands, three theatres, an opera house, and numerous gambling and drinking venues. Mines produced nearly $24,000,000 in 1885. the area boasts dense mills, smelters, and producing mines per acre. A foreign dispatch notes a tragedy in Isth Hungary where an officer shot a nine year old songstress Rosa Taciano and then killed himself, his name Schnee weiss, age twenty eight, a popular figure, both dead.
Long running conflict in northern Sumatra pits Dutch forces against Acheen rulers. Despite treaties, piracy and faith violations inflamed tensions. An 1873 Dutch expedition failed, war continues with sieges at Segli and Dutch casualties from disease amid mounting costs.
The speaker recalls freeing a bird and pleas for its return fail. A disparaging word wounds a friend and severs bonds, leaving a heart yearning for reconciliation. Virginia Ro Harrican is noted in Independent.
A downtown bank cashier recounts a March night when a mysterious slouch hat figure watched him. After a late dinner, he wakes to a masked intruder who forces him to the bank to open the vault, but police intervene and arrest the robber, while a teller reports a nightmare linking bathroom threats to the crime.
England reports a caoutchouc substitute named woodite that is elastic like india rubber yet nonflammable and seawater resistant. It self seals after puncture, allowing projectiles to pass with minimal damage, as tested at Dartford on solid shots through thirty six tubes mounted on iron plate.
A Fortieth New York infantryman dies after a stray shot strikes the wheel hub of a gun, during a dice game behind earthworks. The narrator describes the fatal moment, the boy’s vivid humor, and the burial of the fallen with two other dead soldiers that night.
A San Francisco Chronicle observation argues a man cannot eat a quail daily for thirty days without a tough constitution. It suggests the eater should toil physically to prove endurance, noting miners accustomed to bacon and beans might handle the gaggle of quail better.
Anna Pallard visits an elevated Ceylon tea plantation, viewing tea pluckers, bark stripping of cinchona and coffee stumps, and the intricate two stage rolling and fermenting process. The piece notes disciplined handwashing, dietary detail, and precise curing by charcoal-fired sieves.
A Washington letter notes afternoon tea remains wildly popular among social circles with six teas in one afternoon drawing crowds. Doctors warn of overheated rooms and cold air currents, casting tea in a dangerous, fashionable light as women with health issues are urged to skip these gatherings.
Advice from Hall's Journal of Health argues health depends on diet and personal tolerances. It warns against overindulgence, favors salt meat or fish with fruit and vegetables, and urges early lessons for children to avoid heavy condiments.
The Burmese ruby mines near Mandalay remain tightly guarded, with most work centralized in the capital. The gem beds vary in depth from inches to several feet, yielding mainly small rubies but some flaw free large stones. Smuggling is common as stones reach the capital. London News notes Britain has 25,810 doctors, one per 1,550 people, with wide European and US variations.
A lyric lament on death as sanctifier and revealer. The speaker reflects on death’s power to end blame, quiet rivalries, and loneliness, while love itself endures in quiet, painful form, ending with the attribution Carl Spencer.
A collage of humorous tidbits and quips from newspapers and periodicals. Jokes about fashion parasols, party ties, chair rockers, weight on coins, champagne trade, and a playful Harvard professor pun.
Historical notes describe bone grafting to restore lost bone segments. Cases include a Worcester patient reattaching a three quarter inch finger segment and a New York surgeon saving multiple severed fingers from a boy after an axe accident.
A French surgeon, Sr. Dubousquet-Labordiere, grafted frog skin and human flesh to heal a severely burned foot. Four frog skin strips and four from a thigh were applied, wounds closed in days, frog skin giving a soft elastic scar while human skin proved stiffer and Irritating. The patient returned to work, suggesting frog skin may aid burns where human tissue is scarce.
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