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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1889
Page
3
A杂 wide miscellany from Wenoxeepas notes a New Hampshire widow’s will bequeathing 2000 for a family horse, Missouri lynching threats, a Denver divorce plea over squinting, centenarian Philo Grant seeking a dependent pension, Jeff Davis and Miss Taylor myths clarified, and Frederick Douglass’s Hayti trip with naval kin. Jade fields, czar finances, and colonial Massachusetts coin finds thread through the era’s anecdotes.
Reports claim Chinamen land near Tampico and move toward Terss while Bocca proposes a 125 million canal across Italy linking the Adriatic and Tyrrhenian seas. London faces trade strain from strikes, Lord Tennyson regains health, and Havana forms a company to recruit Spanish workers for Cuba.
A quaint children’s column mixes a small poem about a baby and a reflection with a tale on dining with Duke Humphrey origin. It then features Benedict Maryland’s famed setter dog Bob who acts as a caregiver to infants, greets steamboats, guards passengers, and even retrieves a dropped bone, earning local affection.
An Ohio man reports a curious finding after feeding a chicken flock. He says the birds first cluster about him, then circle to the right and left in a steady path, resisting any attempt to divert them. He views hens as an inexhaustible source of contemplative observation.
A hungry boarder apologizes to the landlady for unkind remarks about the milk, explaining with a humorous line that he fears the milk has soured on him. The landlady questions the odd confession as the joke unfolds.
A collection of aphorisms on honesty credulity sincerity and personal conduct. Notable lines warn that insincerity is dangerous and that true governance begins with self-control. It contrasts good wives with self-made legends and contrasts beauty with inner virtue.
The Picayune details a Chinese laundryman's funeral in a twelve by twelve foot shop. Food packages, candies, incense, and a seaweed punk filled the room as the deceased was buried with belongings. No priest officiated and expenses were paid by friends. Chinese tokens called Kie Tun were burned to guide the deceased to heaven. Dusting at the grave and the Societe Chineaise's former tomb add local context.
A Paris dispatch describes Algeria’s bid to irrigate the Sahara with artesian wells feeding shallow ditches to nourish trees and crops. A 10,000 palm plantation near Sanara proves desert soil can bloom into shaded verdure, promising a global agricultural revolution and parallels western water developments.
A vivid observer describes Billingsgate fish market at dawn. Fishermen and porters bustle as fish arrive and sell rapidly by Dutch auction, with loud cries from buyers and bustling carts, hullabaloo underscoring the busy start to daily sales.
A Brunswick Georgia Times tale recounts an engineer who was eighty minutes late and race speed to a meeting point. A paper note warned of a tie on the river bridge, kept as a talisman by his wife Molly, which the engineer credits for never being late again.
An eminent statistician estimates total human losses in wars of the last thirty four years at 2 254 000. Breakdown includes Crimean 750 000, Italian 43 000, Danish 3 000, American civil war North 280 000 South 520 000, Austro Prussian 45 000, Franco German France 155 000 Germany 60 000, Turko Russian 250 000, South African 30 000, Afghan 25 000, Mexican Cochin Chinese 65 000, Bulgaria Servian 25 000. Mortalities from sickness not included.
A collection of curiosities and statistics from 19th or early 20th century sources detailing social peculiarities in France England and Egypt. Notable items include the number of sightless beggars in France the amount posted in unaddressed letters in England a Mohammedan mosque in Woking and a Buddhist temple in Paris. Also notes on Brompton cemetery London street car ideas Egypt’s great pyramid and German university enrollment.
New York Herald reports an elderly Italian woman known for performing with a silent hand organ on the East Side was jailed for three months as a vagrant. She was sent to Italy with funds, later found to hold substantial wealth abroad, suggesting earnings of about ten dollars daily from street performance.
A New York Herald correspondent reports a Faroe Islands rite where a Faroese clergyman climbs cliff walls by rope to visit sea island parishioners. The perilous aerial calls may last seven to eight weeks during stormy weather, as villagers recall his prolonged pastoral visits.
Mr William G Dilingham while fishing in Gorton Creek found a fossil trout fifteen inches long in a large boulder his find shows fins and scales clearly marked in the rock suggesting trout existed in Oregon streams before high falls and he plans to retrieve the fossil with hammer and chisel for future study.
A garbled set of names and projects appears. Mentions include Leslie in brackeather boots with silver laces, Camxor and Seeman BaF Lop Teawrson at work on a $1000 poem, and Vicroats with New York real estate investments. Reference to Oliver Wendell Holmes biography and a Denmark execution adds further scattered items.
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