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Newspaper
Kane Leader
Location
Kane, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1888
Page
1
A poetic excerpt discusses love choosing between a broad sweet path and a narrow thorny walk. It notes both paths attract enterers, some bearing roses, others thorns, and all are crowned by experience as Love remains sweet. The verse frames Love as a universal, varied journey with contrasting flavors and outcomes.
Arkansaw Traveler describes hundreds of slender stone pinnacles along the South River in the Wahsatch range. Height ranges from 40 to 400 feet, each topped by large stone caps formed as softer rock erodes away. Surviving pillars mark miles of once solid rock washed away to depths of about 400 feet, with a natural bridge once carved where a rock wall was penetrated.
Professor Chandler in the New York Post argues there is no genuine proprietary medicine worth its price. He says the buyer pays mainly for advertising, while a drug clerk can offer genuine remedies. He notes honest physicians do not patent discoveries due to professional ethics.
The editor battles muscular rheumatism cited as John Ju. Sullivan type, kept down by storm signals while spring awaits. Yet the ailment gifts a dignified carriage and a coquettish head tilt that friends find irresistibly piquant.
Professor Rogers of Washington calculates that one pound of steam coal equals a day of a man's work. Three tons equals twenty years of labor. A square mile of four foot coal seam equals work of one million men for twenty years. The figures remind of waste in burning fuel despite engineering gains.
The Chicago Times notes Boston's Manuscript club as the most exclusive group with fifty amateur musicians who meet at members' homes. They perform only rare musical manuscripts and host top professional artists in private gatherings, rejecting anything common or printed.
Florida and Georgia shell mounds hold relics from prehistoric races with many implements bones and skulls. Teeth analysis reported to the English odontological society by Charles White shows traces of vegetable fruit feathers wool cartilage. Brinton questions calling these people men labels them anthropoids rather than humans.
A French metallurgist reports experiments showing steel loses weight about twice as slowly as cast iron when exposed to moist air. Acidulated water dissolves cast iron faster than steel, suggesting steel bridges resist locomotive smoke acids better than iron bridges.
An instrument called the autographometer has been devised to graphically record ground plans as it is dragged along. It can be carried on a light vehicle and while in use shows the topography and differences of level of all places it passes.
A St. Louis mining company composed entirely of women emerges with a flagship mine in Colorado. Reports say the operation is rich in ore and promises strong early returns, signaling a notable shift in industry roles and regional mining prospects.
A terse statement notes Volapuk will offer one benefit by adding chestnuts with a new linguistic sound. The remark hints at a language project or reform aiming to diversify phonetics in naming or describing the mine chestnut production.
Reporters overhear two Black men debating a rural pie supper scheme with repeated demeaning language. The dialogue features the n word and stereotypes as one man warns the other about using such lines. The scene ends with a cryptic string of fragmented words.
A Kansas City tobacco dealer says wrapper color from claro to oscuro does not determine strength. Fillers are the same across colors and packers mislead buyers by sorting cigars by wrapper shade. Examples show two Colorado boxes with different cigars of similar strength, debunking color as a guide.
Edgar L. Wakeman's Cuba Letter contrasts Havana retail life with America, noting one-story cool shops arranged by specialty. Merchants in Havana specialize, from silks to velvets, linens, cottons, and laces, with clerks delivering goods to carriages.
Assistant Treasurer in Globe-Democrat describes postmasters sending government remittances in unusual packets. Some seal pennies in cloth, tobacco bags or on mucilage covered paper, others use cigar boxes or mixed denominations to prevent larger coins from swallowing smaller ones. Penny totals of $3 to $4 from a single postmaster are common, pennies circulate locally, and mutilated coins are occasionally sent back.
A newly married couple with a large age gap faces social reproach as passengers grow weary of their display. A sharp backseat comment from a behind passenger prompts the bride to lower the window and her spirits drop. The anecdote from the New York Press captures a sharp social moment.
The article explains blizzards originate beyond Manitoba, using a Laurentian shield as a wall against storms. It describes a treeless plateau from northeastern Minnesota to the Rockies that funnels ice storms southward into the plains and toward the Gulf, with the blizzard sweeping along a 1000 mile wide doorway to Texas and beyond.
A Berlin ethnography summary notes Gomero islanders use articulate whistling as speech, a drift from terrain forces. Drumming language on Cameroons vary by village, with horseshoe seas of signals enabling rapid messages. Finger speech by oriental traders in east Africa uses concealed hand signs under sleeves for long bargaining sessions. A Siberian exile tale illustrates brutal Russian policy and arbitrary punishment. A Paris hygienic council report warns perfumes and cosmetics hide toxic ingredients.
Grace Greenwood defends republican ideals after foreign travel and questions about American women. The article cites William J. Bok praising her stance in New York Graphic. It notes that in the last sixteen years five sailors on British ships have been lost at sea.
Frank G. Carpenter reports in the New York World on Dr D W Bliss Garfield’s physician. Once vigorous, his health declined after attending the president, with gray hair bent posture and dark eye rings. yet his mind and medical judgment remain sharp. He quit smoking due to nerve strain and now avoids tobacco and most stimulants, drinking only occasional champagne.
George Alfred Townsend argues in the Boston Globe that pioneers often chose costly sites for cities. He cites Rome Paris Edinburgh Constantinople New York Brooklyn Newark and Westchester noting water access ports and terrain shaped growth and expense. He laments New York on a rock island and praises later enterprise to ease comfort and intercourse.
Engineers in the era failed to keep sewers clean and many smaller systems lacked proper footing. Baris severa were built in masonry or with cut stone, with plans to switch to the porous menliere. A trench, wooden frame, then desa cement create a solid, moisture proof wall before removing the frame.
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