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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1892
Page
3
A collage of international cost debates and domestic curiosities. England’s large army costs and alleged waste, a Pennsylvania miner disappearance turning into a haunting mine rescue, and Tennyeon’s youth verse tale. Also notes on Bessemer metal bank notes, dairy schools’ rise, plum black knot disease laws, and Indian Territory land seizures.
A mixture of verses on U.S. presidents from Washington onward, then brief pieces on robins protecting their young and a long anecdote about Tommy the nurse elephant in India. The elephant protects children, gathers fruit, and treats insects gently, reflecting a humane view of animals.
The Ili State bounty law offered two cents per English sparrow head from December to February, paying about $9,000 to county treasurers for roughly 459,000 birds killed. No drop in sparrow numbers occurred, and concerns rose over human danger and overall futility of the effort.
A collection of brief scientific observations discusses automatic dishwashing, bacterial souring of milk, 60 horsepower gas engines, a luminous board crayon for dark lectures, and time sense in birds and mammals. It also covers dew from plant tissues, the muaddfish mud ball instinct, and dogs as a broad category with wolves and coyotes noted as wild ancestors.
In a Charles I era tale from St Nicholas the dwarf Jeffrey Hudson is hidden inside a venison pie at Burleigh. The dish is warmed, then opened to reveal him in armor who leaps about, endears himself with guests, and pleads for service to the Queen as Buckingham and the King observe.
A Pall Mall Gazette note describes two cows visiting a gate on a sultry morning, seeking water. Water was supplied from a large vessel, and soon two more cows joined, receiving water as well. The visitors then left for a nearby field after a friendly, repeated display of hospitality and thanks.
A courtroom moment shows the lawyer asking the witness for gross income and the witness replying that he has none and clarifying that his income is net rather than gross as he identifies as a fisherman.
A collage of late season fashion chatter covers camel hair fabrics and fringe effects, pink color palettes, lucky dresses, and headwear with strings from New York Post and Tribune briefs. The Empress of Germany keeps a diary, with locked pages and a châtelaine key, as described by the Chicago Post.
Red house slippers and elbow sleeves lead summer fashion as gowns swing back to favor. Yellow white gloves illuminate evening wear with peau de soie silk and chiffon. New skirts feature a back width gore forming a triangular shape. Elderly ladies enjoy adaptable new styles with revived Persian silk and silk blouses paired with black skirts. Gowns in corn colored cloth cashmere and camel's hair trim with fur gauze and ribbon.
Isabel Hapgood recounts a Russian bath near a manor as told in Harvest Tide on the Volna. Alexandra the former serf leads the hot bath ritual with boiling water birch lashes and a final plunge. Readers endure heat steam and a merciless massage before retreating to tea and bed.
A collage of odd facts: toll bridges in Kentucky and Maine, a 1759 deed for a 100 acre farm, Druids cultivating vervain and mistletoe, a Texas pony returning a lost watch, a Florida cat defeating a five foot alligator, and a miniature Moscow bell ornament. Notes on a two foot tall midget in Berlin, a sleeping Silesian miner, the Hampton cow horn hat since 1463, a Quijoton Arizona nugget worth $200, Maine coast quirks, a Swedish war vessel concept, and iron currency of the Fans in equatorial Africa. Also discusses silver in Andes volcano ashes, Missouri family savings banks, furnace site selection, fusee impact on watches, and early 16th to 18th century watch sizes.
A new device for indicating wreck positions uses a hollow two half ball buoy fixed to a deck plate. The bottom half is attached to a soluble glass joint. when it dissolves the buoy rises and a cord reels out. Surface stop occurs when the line reaches the reel core. The joint is flange protected and can dissolve in 24 to 48 hours. copper wire can replace cord in salt water.
An electrician in the post and telegraph department devised an electrically operated carrier to move telegrams from the receiving office to the telegraph operating room in the post office. Pneumatic tubes were planned, but delays prompted use of an electric motor, steel wire, pulleys, hooks, and brass carriers for the telegraph flow.
A pea pod is a much sought after boat among Maine lobster fishermen. It is described as a craft in demand at both ends and measuring 14 feet long on top with oak timbers.
Dr Lauder Brunton told stories before the North London Medico Chirurgical Society about a man with a diseased heart and a dilated pupil in a glass eye and a professor who Identified diseases from teeth. A woman anxious to aid offered to hand around her teeth for examination.
C Brown of Denver nears completion of the finest hotel west of the Mississippi at 81,500,000 with 230,000 spent on furniture and 36,000 on silver service. In 1859 he arrived in Colorado penniless, then worked as a carpenter, later taking 160 acres near Capital Hill at 1.25 per acre, a venture now feeding a claimed 5,000,000 value today.
A reflective column on human folly and virtue critiques insecurity and pretension, notes on misplaced blame, ingratitude, and the test of character in doing good. It argues fortune is misread, generosity as duty, and warns against flattering voices while urging self-improvement and prudent restraint.
A survey of hymn authors such as Robert Lowry, B Bennett, Annie Hawkes, Samuel F. Smith, Joseph Gilmore and Fannie Crosby, noting fame and obscurity of those who wrote beloved tunes and lyrics. The piece contrasts public recognition with private anonymity and reflects on how hymns endure beyond their creators.
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