01 Oct 1885
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Newspaper
Kane Leader
Location
Kane, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1885
Page
1
A jumble of names and places from Kane and Ridgway Pennsylvania shows court business, office relocations, and hotel notices. Mentions A Y Jones, Pishell & Arnold, Magowan's pew building, and a Pittsburgh & Western railroad surgeon. Poem fragment follows about a sunset and river voyage with a bride.
A detective recounts pursuing Joe Belden, a noted counterfeiter, to a mile of taverns on the Erie Canal border town. After a sudden capture and a violent escape attempt by locals, Long Jim Grattan intervenes, saving the detectives. Years later Belden reappears on a streetcar, is recognized, restrained, and eventually pleads guilty to the old indictment, receiving a penitentiary sentence.
A wall discovered near the Temple of Minerva Medica in Rothe is built from statues and marble fragments. The stratified debris shows statues at the bottom, capitals and pedestals in the middle, and parts of the building at the top, indicating successive plundering during construction.
A story from Hurvord Courant recounts Mr Sumner noting a distinguished American statesman’s swearing habits and recalling a breakfast with Lord Brougham. Brougham’s furious curses at a newspaper attack contrasted with his mother’s unmoved composure as the breeze blew away the tension.
A compact moral piece argues that diligent single men may fail against wasteful wives and urges mothers to teach daughters thrift. It laments conformity and asserts minorities rule thinkers, detailing limited independent thought across fields.
A portrait of Abraham Lincoln as a persevering trial lawyer born in poverty, noting his modest Springfield office, vast memory, and knack for clear reasoning. The piece contrasts him with Evarts and Carpenter, praising his human insight, simple surroundings, and impact on lifting the humble.
The article notes Major Walter Wingfield originated lawn tennis in 1874 with a rules book and the term Sphairistiké. The first game was at Denbighshire's Colonel Naylor Leyland, 1874, and the first public match at Prince's ground in 1875 featuring Wingfield, Clement Scott, Alfred Thompson, and Albany Erskine, amid ridicule.
The article describes calculations of combustion heat and detonation pressures for gas air mixtures at 0 C, then shifts to methods to extract essential oils from flowers, and to using hydrogen peroxide iodine solutions to scent rooms. It discusses hay values in England, cider preservation, Madagascar geology, and Obeah in the West Indies with vivid colonial-era cautionary notes on superstition and crime.
The piece weighs the annual loss of gold by attrition shipwreck fires and coin wear at under two tons about £280,000 and examines Jevons McCulloch jeweler loss and jewelry consumption. It cites an 1803 Edinburgh Review note that precious metals serve both coin and manufacture and a response to possible coin deficiency.
A German technical journal reports a method to render wool fabrics shrink resistant and colorfast. Soak in warm moderately concentrated soda with ammonia, wash, then rinse in fresh water. An alternative uses alcohol in water with a small amount of water, soak for half an hour, and rinse in pure water.
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