09 Jul 1885
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Newspaper
Kane Leader
Location
Kane, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1885
Page
1
Poem excerpt extols labor as noble and rewarding. Waldron argues that one who toils in mills and fields brings utility and worth greater than fame. The verse lauds practical contribution over celebrated achievement.
Bill convices Dan Collins in a public boxing trial to win the widow Mrs. Collins, after months of training with Hank Jasper the former boxer. A lively Arkansas crowd witnesses the match, culminating in Bill marrying the widow and becoming a stepfather at last.
In spring 1863 General Stannard's Vermont brigade camp at Union Mills hosted notable officers led by Col. Hooker. Foraging yielded an antique carriage used as an heirloom and repurposed for a brigade excursion. Hooker and staff rode, drawing Stannard’s ire and a comic scene as he retrieved the rig and humorously accepted a token bribe.
A correspondent reports a clever greyhound in the London suburbs that follows a postman on his rounds to steal newspapers. The dog pressures doors the postman has delivered to seize a paper, then darts away with it. The piece notes curiosity about how the dog acquired this habit.
A Cornhill article traces the leech trade from Hamburg to London, noting only two London firms handle foreign leeches, one a dentist and the other a seller of pipes and tobacco. It details sourcing from Turkey and Buda Pesth, travel through Hamburg, storage in Harburg pools, and the high mortality en route. It explains leeches' medical use, limits, and the rise and fall of price and popularity.
Police in St Petersburg faced a puzzling class of thieves who robbed openly and ostentatiously. The Finns, all young men, pleaded guilty and received sentences of one to three months. After serving, they vanished, returning to Finland and resuming their lives since Finnish law bars enlistment in the army of anyone with civil offense imprisonment.
A survey notes square wire as a superior electrical conductor for electricians and outlines other findings. It covers malt as a food, Florida tree diversity, a vegetable leather from gutta percha and chemicals, and a parasitic hair worm. It also discusses cork plantations, Algerian tamarind oak, and Etruscan dental practices. The piece details insect breathing apertures, their protective structures, and limits of injecting a dead insect with spirits using an air pump.
An official for the Pennsylvania Railroad told the Pittsburg Dispatch that there are about ten million iron wheels in use on American railroads, excluding palace and top-class passenger cars. A wheel needs about 525 pounds of pig iron to make, with about 1,250,000 wheels worn out yearly.
The London Figaro notes a new Royal Ratcatcher is appointed for Buckingham Palace to curb the proliferation of royalty rats. The official earns eight pounds per year and may lack a ceremonial livery.
A fragmentary note explains Panama hats are made in Guayaquil Ecuador and named after Panama merchants who controlled trade. Hats are woven from tta fiber from a palm and involve water immersion by local women. production can take two to three weeks per hat, with prices cited as high.
The article outlines how blind education has progressed in Illinois over the past five years. It highlights methods like Braille and New York point, writing with a slate and point, and printing by blind workers. It notes blind students achieving reading, writing, geography, astronomy, and musical literacy, with tools such as maps and raised figures, and praises instructors and philanthropy.
An assay office refiner explains that counting hairs is impractical, but weighing a single hair compared to a larger sample offers a close estimate. He demonstrates with a beard hair, describing a fine graduated balance and aluminum weights to reach an exact ratio for the desired count.
A collage of late 19th century quips and jokes from multiple papers. The items mock lawyers, judges, women, and professions, with wry observations on language, commerce, and social manners. A Vermont note jokes about gold badges. a Boston line jokes about a cashier teaching the mind.
Major Teller of Los Angeles recalls a Civil War episode from New Madrid Missouri where a rebel battery fired at Union guns. He says he fired a shell back after retrieving an unexploded large Union shell, creating a dramatic exchange that drew attention from the opposing lines.
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