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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1889
Page
1
The article notes rapid chemist progress in explosives with a new compound called ielin te claimed to be ten times as powerful as nitro glycerine, raising fears of destruction of fleets or armies by bombs or grenades.
Dr William H Gray of West Falls Maryland claims to have built a perpetual motion wheel. The device uses gravity to keep a heavy descending side in motion with a 26 inch diameter wheel 8 inches thick mounted on a wooden frame. The wheel is on a steel axle with brass bearings and has run steadily at his home for over three months after twenty years of effort.
A devotional poem urging the grieving to find relief through serving others and offering compassion. It counsels directing sorrow into good deeds, cheering others, and listening with empathy to ease pain. The speaker envisions grief softened when faith and hope rise with acts of kindness.
A brutal New Hampshire snowstorm strands Edgar Everly on Silver Peak. He seeks shelter in the Old House kept by Farmer Eastwood, where calves share warmth and two cheerful girls sit by a fire, as Everly awakes to coffee and toast in an improbable, dreamlike rescue.
The region undergoes sweeping modernization with new factories in Shechem and Ramoth Gilead, rebuilt Bethlehem and Caesarea, olive oil speculation in Nazareth, and Jerusalem outfitted with clocks, street cleaners, fashion journals, bicycles, and telephones. The author laments loss of individuality and pictorial distinctiveness amid rapid cosmopolitan progress.
Remarkable salt formation on Teule Anse Island 125 miles west of New Orleans discovered in 1862 during a well sinking. The Avery family owns the mine with a New York firm operating it for a 3000 dollar monthly royalty. The deposit lies 10 to 23 feet underground across 150 acres, reaching 140 feet depth. Pure salt at 99.88 percent with gypsum and chloride of lime as the minor impurities.
The Springfield Union lauds top professions as examples of worth but the Boston Courier cautions that praise can hide faults. It argues that judging character by general traits is risky and a precise definition is hard.
Two San Francisco police raids on lodging houses in the Chinese quarter resulted in forty seven arrests for a housing law demanding 500 cubic feet of air per occupant. An officer marked suspects with an analine pencil for identification. one man was convicted, while 46 others were identified by finger marks. Several defendants were discharged or postponed after missing marks.
Rhoda Eastwood and her companion Nannie shelter Edgar Everly, a Harvard student, during a mountain snowstorm. They pass the night with coffee and stories as Valentine musings rise, and Everly reveals he is the farmer’s son. The trio descends at dawn with a playful pledge of mutual affection that may last a year.
Colonel Jacob Child reports from Sism on a public execution in Siam where three prisoners were tied to bamboo crosses and beheaded by sword. The crowd, led by officials and guards, watched as heads were removed and displayed on poles, with the bodies left for scavengers. the scene was orderly and somber with about a thousand in attendance.
An account from Bassett's Persia details brutal Methods used to punish bandits and rebels. Suspects are restrained in plaster-filled tanks or holes to suffocate. A Loree chief is executed by iron collar and chained furnace burial, amid palace entertainments.
The passage describes annual Dakota snowballs formed as large as apples or peck measures covering prairies. Winds roll these rolling masses by wind and thousands of them appear across the landscape.
Samuel P. Leland describes oil well shooting in Pennsylvania by lowering nitro glycerine filled tubes with go-devils to the bottom or to targeted strata. The blast can awaken dead wells and yield rapid oil flows, while warning about great danger and structural destruction if misused. It also surveys theories on oil origin, arguing for animal origin and detailing Pennsylvania gas and oil belt geology and the Evanism system.
Augusta physician Dr Steiner amputated General Loring's shattered arm after Chapultepec. Carmicle quotes Steiner: Loring remained self possessed, enduring the operation without anesthesia though chloroform or ether were not available. He smoked a cigar and showed no sign of pain.
A fragment notes Toughnut Street as a principal thoroughfare in Tombstone, Arizona, highlighting its prominence in local mention.
Instructions for various old fashioned dishes including Soverton Hominy Merrixs with milk eggs flour sugar and leavening, Boren Rick With Creest rice with cheese, Mutton Brora soup with rice and parsley, and Stewep Beer beef stew with vegetables cooked slowly until tender.
Skim milk and water with a touch of glue will restore black crepe when heated and dried. A method to remove mould from fruit jellies uses palastine, which forms a solid cake for easy removal. Stone raisins are cleaned by boiling water and rubbing seeds out, then dried and coated with flour to prevent sinking. A furniture polish combines shellac, alcohol, linseed oil, turpentine, ether, and aqua ammonia for a bright surface. A test for oleomargarine compares fat crystals via a lard film between glass panes, revealing false imitation butter by white specks when held to light.
A European paper notes that combined reigning families include 403 princes with potential rise to about 806 if women counted. Holstein leads with 53 princes spanning Russia Denmark Greece and Oldenburg. Stettin houses crowns of Saxony Britain Portugal and Belgium plus others. Bourbon line has 47 princes. Habsburg-Lorraine 33 archdukes. Wittelsbach 23 princes. Mediatized houses total 724 princes since 1815, with ongoing intermarriage among Hapsburgs and Wittelsbachs, including Empress Elisabeth of Austria and her Bavarian duchy links.
A newspaper note in England reports a shift away from professional beauty standards, noting changing tastes and social attitudes influencing public perception of beauty in recent times.
A reader cites a short lyric about a maiden with golden ringlets and modest grace. The speaker praises her beauty from crown to feet and notes her sweetest smiles are reserved for him. The verse references Boston Courter as its source.
A collage of jokes and witticisms from multiple papers includes quips about passing the hat, hand picking pockets, a stove named The Infant to be painted yellow, firemen, publicity, fashion hats, opals, ice on sidewalks, Patti’s tour earnings, a kaldar of humor, a cat like a kangaroo, a bear tale, creditors settling up, ash barrel jokes, and a tramp exchange about making money from tackling anything.
The piece notes that Hindostan natives long used a two to three string bow played instrument called the ravana stron, seen as the origin of the violin. Hindoo tradition credits King Ravana of Ceylon with its invention.
A London and New York dog biscuit business has grown from a small Holborn shop to large factories near London Bridge and in New York with daily output of thirty to forty tons. The biscuits mix wheaten flour oats dates beetroot and prairie meat with beetroot as a heat stable vegetable and prairie meat supplying high nutrition without fat or water.
A humorous vignette from Austin features Old Mr. Jones visiting a neighbor's family and playfully dancing a child named Tommy on his knee. Tommy asks why Mr. Jones laughs, and the man replies he laughs because Tommy laughs. Tommy then admonishes him that he must not laugh since it reveals the teeth Mr. Jones no longer has.
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