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Newspaper
Kane Leader
Location
Kane, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1888
Page
1
The notice lists the Kane Pennsylvania Justice of the Peace office located in Griffith's Block Kane with Mus C W King as proprietor in Warren Penna.
The Globe Democrat dispatch explores Dango-zaka gardens in Tokyo where chrysanthemum shows unfold as living landscape tableaux. Florists craft life size figures from blossoms, with wax figures in flowered gowns and scenes from history, theatre, and legends. A towering chrysanthemum ship and a giant Alaska figure captivate crowds while intricate pieces blend art and horticulture in a festive season.
The New York bazar announced it will reopen after a Thursday closure on January 26 to reveal a bold sale. Every item is marked down forty percent in plain red figures as part of a store wide price cut.
Such luck for the buyer never heard of before as M Jackson and Brother announce a twenty day sale of men's youths and boys suits hats caps trunks valises and gents furnishings at and below cost. The Kane and North Clarendon stores promise prices that prove they are giving goods well below cost during the event.
A lyrical fragment by Philip Bourke Marston describes wind scented gardens between earth and sky. The verse envisions secret bowers filled with flowers and songs, with distant fairies and springtime imagery evoking lilies violets and roses.
The practice rapidly spreads in Europe and the United States with many new crematories built or planned. Italy, France, Spain and Germany show strong adoption, while London, Paris, Copenhagen and others boast crematories. In the United States about twenty societies operate crematories with Fresh Pond facilities handling thousands of cases since opening.
Albert H. Campbell recalls a plan during wartime to produce maps by photography when tracing was too slow. He describes making copies from sun prints of inked negatives, assembling sections into a complete map kept only at top command levels to avoid capture.
Bertha F. Herrick describes Kanaka voters trooping to polls on election day, riding with garlands and jangling spurs as brass bands march. Citizens must read or have no prison term to vote, parties toast supporters on gin or coffee and doughnuts, and a grand luau ends the victory celebration. Their warm, childlike nature is noted.
Professor Philip Schaff describes the Roman catacombs as long narrow earth burials outside Rome with multi story galleries tiled loculi and cubicula for families or martyrs. Wealthier dead rested in sarcophagi while few and small oratories allowed private devotion rather than public worship.
Lace curtains adorn parlors of Robert Garrett's mansion valued at about 1 million dollars with fabric priced at 22000 yards, reflecting extravagant decor in the Baltimore home.
Miss Madge recounts a brutal murder by a wife in a Hot Creek community who strangled a doctor, allegedly urged by her dying husband to avenge failed cures. The wife described the act in vivid pantomime, dragging the squaw victim as she tightened the noose. The tale ends with the husband satisfied by the death.
The Boston Transcript explains that sealskin is hidden by overhair, requiring removal in a long process. Most skins are dressed in London before export, with a few taken from Pribylov Islands. Age weights differ, three skins make a lady's sack costing 75 to 500 dollars, and rotting carcasses near St Paul Island raise no evident harm.
In a Christmas issue La Revue Illustre recalls M. Alexander Dumas living thirty years ago in a tiny Rue de Boulogne house later renamed Rue Ballu. He describes a minuscule dining room and garden, a bandbox bedroom, and several cramped chambers, finding happiness in health, work, and freedom during six years of constant writing.
Dieppe is a sunny seaside town famed for ivory and terra cotta carvings. Narrow crooked streets host modest shops with beautiful designs, where carving is the main trade and even street urchins model clay trinkets for a song.
In Bitti Sardinia a formal oath to pardon offenses and live in harmony was taken by 670 members from two feuding families in the presence of high officials including the prefect archbishop and a provincial deputation. A large parish church crowd attended the ceremony and a following banquet consumed ten oxen fourteen pigs sixty suckling pigs two hundred kilos of macaroni three hundred kilos of bread five hundred kilos of fruit and ten hectoliters of wine.
The 1861 to 1883 law required manufacturers of specified goods to obtain patents and pay 4 percent of receipts into the treasury. With about 5,000 items on the list, the policy generated substantial revenue, totaling 36 million dollars over twenty-two years. The tax was ended in 1888 per the New York Commercial Advertiser.
A crowded car witnesses a feeble elderly lady struggle to sit. A burly Irishman nearby offers to share his seat and proclaims he would be a gentleman by giving up his seat if not. The moment highlights courtesy and humor in a public transport setting.
Regent's Park, London, demonstrates a new wintering method for plants using a shallow water layer to pass light and heat. The water layer stabilizes temperature, shielding plants from frost in winter and from excessive heat in summer, with an optional three inch deep sliding water light over garden frames to replace glass.
A New York Commercial Advertiser report exposes how men in Bowling Green watch for strangers and offer help to steer them toward steamship agents to earn commissions. Runners pursue cheaper fares, often squeezing tickets down from $8 to $3-5, with competition fierce and success tied to language, appearance, and geographic reach.
Edward Holden advises selecting least disturbed localities for homes in quake prone regions. Favor hills, valleys, or plains with solid foundations on hard rock, dig around foundations, and align walls parallel to predominant quake direction. Use standalone brick chimneys and small spherical nest supports to reduce shaking.
The Globe-Democrat dealer notes a surge in rubber boot sales surpassing heavy overshoes. Consumers favor light rubbers for warmth and water protection, with styles tailored by age: elderly prefer large full rubbers, middle aged seek light full rubbers, while youth favor half rubbers exposing most of the shoe.
James A. Trotter, a Massachusetts gentleman of color and recorder for the District of Columbia, is said to be making a small fortune in Washington. He receives about $1.50 for every deed he records and has sometimes earned as much as 125 dollars in a single day, according to the New York World.
A Salt Lake mother woke at her daughter's request and rubbed fifty cents' worth of cough medicine on the girl's rheumatic limbs. The cure was immediate but the pains returned when the error was discovered.
The discovery that infectious diseases are parasitic in nature holds vast practical value. It may not yet greatly affect direct treatments, but future germicide experiments on living bacteria could yield a scientific method to cure infections. The theory underpins preventive medicine as doctors and scientists adopt it.
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