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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1888
Page
1
An article touts a worldwide trip achievable in about three months for 750 dollars with plans to cut duration to 85 days within five years at a roughly 500 dollar outlay. It forecasts rapid, affordable world travel expanding soon.
The proposal aims to create a steamship line with Jerusalem and the Far East reaching the coast. Eastern trade would include wool, licorice, and silk, with shipments totaling about 15,090,090 dollars arriving to the United States via Liverpool.
The sponge fisher Bcience is challenged by native divers limited to two minutes underwater. Armored divers are employed to work by the hour. A German professor has developed and is successfully applying a method to plant cuttings from sponges.
The Montezuma irrigating tunnel in southern Colorado near completion is over a mile long and will convey Moloves river water through fifty miles of canal. The project aims to reclaim about 209,900 acres of land in a rich valley.
The New York World identifies Rev. George Schwartz of Jeffersonville as Indiana’s oldest Methodist preacher. Licensed to preach in 1822 at age twenty, he has served continuously in the vineyard since, remaining vigorous in mind and body. He married the year of his ordination, and his wife is still living.
In America there are over 4.9 million farms covering about 20 million acres of improved land with a value near 10 billion dollars. The yearly farm product value is estimated between 2.009 and 3.0 billion dollars, illustrating vastness and importance.
The Zpoc says the new nurses training school at the New York State Homeopathic Asylum in Middletown is a much needed institution. It notes nurses will learn to care for insane patients in hospitals and private homes and condemns cruelty toward the helpless in public institutions.
The London St James's Gatte aims to counter German depictions focusing on Drake as an importer of potatoes. It notes Heine and other writers, plus a statue at Offenburg in Baden that calls Drake "the immortal introducer of the potato into Europe."
The piece notes how Sweden bans American hogs entering its kingdom while England remains open to American pork. It laments European high duties and hints at retaliation using economic leverage tied to naval strength, mentioning France and Germany as trade partners and dynamite cruisers as a threat or symbol of power.
The Chicago Herald notes a potential meeting of Mrs Frances Cleveland Mme Diaz of Mexico and Mme Carnet wife of the French president in Washington. A Paris Figaro item hints Carnet may sail Atlantic routes via South America, raising plans for a grand reception of distinguished ladies.
A poetic reflection on love conquering death as nature blooms and withers. The speaker asserts that a lover’s smile defeats mortality, while beauty in spring and autumn signals time’s passage and decay. Scribner attribution to Maybury Fleming.
A lawyer recalls a case where a sketch titled Sleeping Innocence leads to freeing an innocent highway robber. Miss Alice Evans, daughter of Dr. Evans, created meticulous drawings revealing misidentification. The courtroom success hinges on a matching monogram and a key delay, linking art to justice.
The German Emperor died at 11 a m after a vigil with his family. Dr Persius administered last rites as the empress watched, and mourners filled Berlin. Frederick William Victor Albert was proclaimed the new Kaiser born January 27 1859 in Berlin and educated as a soldier. The funeral was set for Monday at Friedenskirche with limited attendance and a six week mourning period announced.
A collage of comic anecdotes and brief vignettes from newspapers including a Seymour bridge toll joke, a dog under a barn tale, a gas bill quip, baptist hymn humor, a home lecture gag, and a German saloon witticism, all captured in brisk, period prose.
Horses near Monticello Illinois have been struck by a mysterious illness causing sudden collapse, tumbling and death, sometimes while harnessed or in transit. Local authorities and veterinarians seek clues to the illness.
Herrman the prestidigitateur drew five dollar bills from Sage's back in a trick that fooled Uncle Russell Sage. Sage praised the feat and invited more, then Herrman did not return the next day. New York Turn Topics report.
An 1852 English pamphlet recounts wolf nurtured children. One Indian case describes a boy living with a female wolf's cubs in Ist?7, capable of running on all fours, eating raw meat, rejecting cooked food, avoiding humans, and signaling needs. The boy died in 1850.
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