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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1889
Page
1
Louisiana Mississippi Arkansas Missouri and Tennessee have spent 64.375 million dollars on levee work for low lands along the Mississippi River. The project covers 23.762 million acres and serves a population of 1.925 million. Annual agricultural output is valued at 78.725 million dollars.
A Hungarian conjurer reveals a dimly lit stage and performs illusions that produce a spirit hand and a wife in flesh and blood. He conjures flowers from a hand made cornucopia and vanishes a bird cage and its occupant. He then vanishes his wife with dramatic speed and skill.
Commander IT C Taylor, a noted naval affairs authority, argues New York harbor needs a careful survey before any policy to improve the entrance, channels, and depth can be decided. He notes current bars and sand banks obstruct navigation for heavy ocean steamers and cites high costs and uncertain benefits of proposed remedies.
The Pension Office outlines who qualifies for Mexican War pensions. Only soldiers with sixty days service and age sixty two or disabled or dependent may receive pensions. Widows must meet age or dependency rules. Surviving officers are treated the same as soldiers. Monthly pension cannot exceed eight dollars.
The Cheshire and Lancashire farms create a co operative society and open a Warrington base to bypass middlemen, improve returns on stock feeding, and house a corn exchange and retail stores. A farmers club will offer refreshments, newspapers, and social space.
A quoted verse from Youth's Companion urges careful aim and swift action. It warns haste can fail and true intent guides success, praising well meant victory and careful targeting of the mark.
In an opera box I glimpse a famed beauty with a discreet admirer. The youth, a leader of cotillions, displays meticulous dress and flowers, while the woman discusses rivals and rumored engagements. She confirms loyalties to Starry and Jack, intent on swimming and social standing, fearing gossip yet denying romance with others.
A ballroom love triangle erupts as Jack and Harry vie for Marion. After a dramatic cotillion misstep, Marion collides emotionally and physically, leading to a hasty separation and eventual reconciliation at Marion's wedding, with the narrator reflecting on the strange turn of events.
An account from a Chicago Herald report describes a crew off Devil's Neck near the West Indies facing a colossal blue squid or devil fish. A long-armed creature enveloped and crushed two sailors and damaged a craft, forcing the party to avoid the islands thereafter.
Senator Joe Blackburn tells an unreleased story of Abraham Lincoln aiding a teenager in a U S Court in Chicago. Arnold led the opposition while McLean and Drummond presided. Lincoln rose to boost the young lawyer, saving the case and leaving without recognition.
An traveler on a ten mile ride left his horse with a native while resting in a village garden. Upon return the horse appeared lame but the shoes revealed the thief had forced old nails into new shoes, revealing a miraculous swap. Detroit ree Prez.
Clara Pelle reports on Mrs William Waldorf Astor host a three-couple dinner with hand-painted caricature menus and corsage bouquets. The course sequence follows oysters to coffee with strict table etiquette and varied wines per course, reflecting swell New York tastes.
Chamers's Journal reports a breakthrough in saccharine from coal tar. The substance is a white crystalline powder highly soluble in warm water with twenty times the sweetness of cane sugar. A solution of 1 part saccharine in 10 000 parts water tastes distinctly sweet. A dstro saccharine form blends with glucose to mimic sugar at lower cost, and even bitter quinine drinks become sweet with a small amount of saccharine.
In certain districts of England horticulturists must cover gooseberry and currant bushes with fishnets to guard against sparrows that peck fruit buds. Some also protect cherry and plum trees.
A collection of short scientific notes covers blackened streams near Lake Superior, alcohol from sweet potatoes, Japanese plant illustrations, night photography of phosphorescence, language experiments with isolation, plastering platforms, and the physics of river flow and pollution. It notes rapid streams’ higher carrying power and the reduced cleanliness of faster waters.
A Saturday Review piece warns that caged birds fall prey to ailments from winter lethargy and overindulgence in hempseed and milk, noting apoplexy hepatitis and obesity. It argues birds need careful diet choices and more research into avian nutrition to prevent suffering. The tongue slays more persons than the sword.
Poem from the Current feature describing a tranquil river scene with a couple drifting on a boat amid pines and clouds. It evokes sacred love words and a dreamlike mood as night descends and stars gleam.
A collage of quips and jokes about fashion, politics, travel, and daily life. It mentions parlor scenes, garden parties, a sheriff chase, fur shop banter, toboggans, natural remedies, and a minister's discouraged mood reflecting lighthearted editorials and captions from several papers.
A Youth's Companion summary notes Dr. Crothers of Hartford reports cases showing inherited or early acquired nervous degeneration from alcohol. Some individuals are intoxicated from birth or early life, while others trigger attacks from excitement. outcomes range from idiocy to insanity, with various life events provoking symptoms.
A fragment reflects on fancy as keen perception. Observations turn to sharp sight in daily details such as prism like colors in fabric, leaves in a fire, and the motion of threads resembling currents.
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