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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1886
Page
1
Reverend J W Drought an English clergyman from Chantilly was compelled by the French government to depart France. He had previously met the Count in parish charity work, and English residents in France express indignation over the affair.
The inquiry analyzes 6 758 827 school children in the German Empire. More than half are mixed types with gray eyes and dark hair. among the rest about two thirds are pure blondes and one third pure brunettes. Jewish children show three times as many brunettes as blondes.
In St Paul a hotel break in an electric light wire prompted Superintendent Brockway to supervise repairs. Despite warnings to be careful he touched live conductors and was electrocuted. The current, he believed, was off, but it surged through his body killing him instantly. The incident drew onlookers who feared a coroner's inquest.
A daily cruelty exhibit at a Philadelphia zoo detail describes the humane procedure to trim a zebra's misshapen hooves. Leather bands restrained the animal while a wooden bar held its mouth and men sat atop to limit movement until the hooves were sawed to remove deformities.
An eminent German physicist recommends a dry mixture of saltpetre potassium nitrate 50 parts sulphur 36 parts charcoal 4 parts brown iron oxide 1 part to extinguish fires where water would cause damage. The mixture, dried and mixed, should be packed in five pound pasteboard boxes with a six inch fuse for lighting.
A breaking metal sheave on the rail rope at Coxlodge colliery near Newcastle caused a runaway tub line of about fifty tubs carrying over a hundred men. Thirteen men suffered grave head and facial injuries while seven or eight more were hurt lightly as the line ran 209 yards past the face of the coal seam.
The Niagara Insurance Company manager says no firms insure earthquakes. Fire may be paid if quake causes a fire. He notes wind storm contracts exist but doubt earthquakes will be covered soon, except in rare cases, unless earthquakes become widespread.
A cottage home shows a young couple building a shared life. They plant a rose over the door, nurture it through hardship, and finally find renewed happiness as poverty tests their resolve. The poem urges couples to invest in home and enduring love before spring ends.
Amabel Dana and her mother rent a second floor room from Mrs. Sparsely in a high rent, rough neighborhood. Amabel befriends Roger Travis after two mistaken entrances and a recovered pocketbook. Travis proposes marriage in the Sparsely parlor, prompting a surprised but approving reaction from Mrs. Sparsely.
A Longman Magazine excerpt outlines the thistle lineage from six petal forms to a unified tube and dense flower heads. It traces diversification into burlocks and the wide array of family members including daisies, sunflowers, and sow thistles, highlighting the thistle as a dominant universally adapted plant.
In a scene from Helen Whitney Clark, Amabel is told that Mr Travis, the landlord who owns many houses, is the man Mrs Sparsely adores, prompting talk of status and influence as the couple rooms with Mrs Sparsely’s lodgers.
A New York Times correspondent portrays Belfast with sharp contrast between Americanized avenues and gritty working class districts. He notes street names reflecting England and a crisis era mood, observes linen fields as rail approaches, and describes pale worn workers and Dublin like mobs with brown tones.
A Dry Goods Chronicle note touts thread from milk-weed blossom as cheaper than flax linen with silk like luster. The weed grows nationwide especially in the South and costs nothing to cultivate while gathering is easy. It claims strong potential for sewing machine use and wide adoption in domestic industries. It also cites cattle population growth in Canada and the United States over a decade.
A physician notes there are few true coffee species despite 600 grades on markets. It explains bean varieties Mocha Java Jamaica Surinam and others, berry and parchment anatomy, roasting effects on weight and aroma, caffeine content, health notes, and methods of brewing for flavor and nutrition.
Pores of water, which ought now to be oling hot, is added to the grounds and strongly boiled for five minutes, after which the two portions of liquid are mixed together, forming a combination of all the good properties of the coffees in the greatest effect.
Deputy United States Mineral Surveyor A Lascy and his son Prank found a massive orange black and white ringed snake in a ruined 16 by 16 cabin near Big Meadows. Both rifles fired. the reptile vanished after a tail fragment was torn free, proving a monstrous size and a dramatic near miss.
Edward K. Taylor writes in the San Francisco Chronicle about witnessing the midnight sun near the Arctic Circle. He describes a hushed, sea level scene with glowing sunsets, orange and saffron clouds, distant mountains, and fishing craft, noting the sun's slow rise and a striking horizon line as the earth’s rotation appears to pause.
The Mexican White House is described as one of the world’s most beautiful palaces. Cassarin, pupil of Messionier, painted the ceiling of the President’s bedroom in ebony and gold with rare marquetry. A grotto bathroom with mosaics opens from the bedchamber, and a tropical garden sits on the first floor. The parlor features satin panels, damask walls, and a blue gold Aubusson border with a richly woven carpet and exotic inlaid floors.
The piece ponders the value of simple blessings such as dew on clover, a wild kiss, and the beauty of earth and sky. It urges reverence for small gifts over material wealth, and asks to learn the worth of single things through pure observation and gratitude. The Virginia verse mood evokes renewal and gentle nature.
A collage of quips and comic snippets: a polish boot black, a mosquito bugbear, a sailor tried for assault, garments without buttons, champagne jokes, summer horseflies, eyes and ballroom gossip, a corpse look alike, and remarks on piano fortunes. Includes dog gold dust tale, a vanished cat found in a ruin, and a lonely man with a parrot.
A letter from Oregon describes Coffin Rock near the Washington shore above Astoria as a burial site of the Yakama. Indians interred their dead with weapons and belongings in clefts, then whites borrowed the canoes and bones, leading to graves desecration and the Yakima massacre and war of 1855.
A reflective monologue urges kindness in human relations. It questions how awareness of mortality and speech could foster tenderness, reduce suspicions, and mend petty quarrels. The piece invites readers to reconsider daily talk and neighborly conduct in times of weariness.
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