07 Jan 1886
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Newspaper
Kane Leader
Location
Kane, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1886
Page
1
A garbled page shows numerous business names and notices listing attorneys and shops in Kane and Wilcox areas with references to millinery goods and services. A long verse poem about dawn and morning light follows, lacking clear reportage or dates.
Polly Preston and Dorman-Charles Dor man meet in the seaboard village as a shy courtship grows amid legends of a hidden pirate treasure. A storm drives them together and a drawing labeled Polly carissima reveals his love. He confesses a fortune of about seventy five to eighty thousand dollars and the couple plans a quiet future.
A digest of curious reports: Goethe kept a live snake in his chimney. A Korean king appoints an American chief farmer to introduce vegetables. A Buffalo citizen proposes chaining a Bible to phones to curb profanity. An Indianapolis confectioner offers candy for 25 cents with doubtful profit. California rats mimic squirrels in Santa Clara county. Boston Indian names are listed by Prof. Horsford. A criminal yields up counterfeit money but keeps one dollar. Santa Barbara’s painted rock shows cave pictures and animal depictions. Madagascar’s extinct birds may have inspired legends. African coast worship of sharks endures with annual sacrifices. A doorway notice mocks canvassers and agents. Cholera-era swallows vanish before outbreaks. Bengal Cavalry notes birds leaving India during epidemics. An electric stud lamp doubles as a tiny pocket light. Mazzotti’s patient cures scrofula with whiskey but drinks himself into opisthoporia, a backward-walking death. Calaveras county boulders loom over invaders yet harmless. Utah pools resist freezing. a stream’s trout replenish itself. salt haze. A warm Salt Lake City spring yields strong sulfur waters. nearby hot springs boast dazzling chemical richness.
The piece traces the rise of the steel pen from a cosmetic novelty to a mass market tool. It notes early attempts around 1810 using bent sheet steel, sold as gifts, and highlights James Perry’s 1824 push to make the steel pen practical. Perry’s advances, patents, and high labor costs marked the pen’s transition into widespread use.
A tramp hungry for three days asked a cottage servant for food. The mistress appears, notices him grazing on the narrow front yard border, and asks what he is doing. The wife urges compassion and tells Jane to take the hungry man to the back yard where the grass is taller.
A clock’s ticking shapes mood in a room as its sudden stop seeds foreboding and gloom. When it resumes, the family’s spirit lifts and the sense of loss fades, restoring cheer and normalcy among the occupants.
American geologists describe Great Salt Lake as a shrink of a vast Lake Bonneville era in the Rocky Mountains. Lake Lahontan followed, both once vast freshwater systems. as rainfall changed, they shrank, leaving terraces on Waheatch Mountains and a briny lake. Salt accumulation rose as water evaporated, yielding a highly saline Lake Great Salt, with mineral ratios differing from marine lakes.
The article surveys diverse topics from culinary uses of vaseline in pastry to light-ning trends in Saxony, forest loss, and bronze statue cleaning. It covers mordants in dyes, glue insolubilization with dichromate, alum waters in purification, and cold-clothing effects on illness, plus cow milk taste and quantity with heated water, and New South Wales asbestos mining in a serpentine lode.
Report claims a new tissue coating, Cocoanut cellulose, can make ships impervious to damage by shells. It allegedly seals the hull instantly on impact, preventing water ingress and reducing the need for plank repairs. If true, Britain might abandon wooden walls and outdated iron ram defenses.
A reflective note on dialogue noting that few people listen before replying. It attributes this to self focus, as most prioritize their own stance over engaging with the other person’s message. The piece emphasizes the challenge of finding agreeable interlocutors.
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