22 Oct 1885
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Newspaper
Kane Leader
Location
Kane, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1885
Page
1
A jumble of local notices and ephemeral ads from Kane and Kedduway PA and nearby areas. It mentions a barber shop in Kane PA offering first class haircuts and ladies services, medical and legal ads, and lines of poetry or song fragments alongside random names and addresses.
Vaughn Dare, a restless social figure at the Ocean House Newport, falls for Miss Sterne. Their bond worsens after a near accident, but Miss Sterne drowns while bathing. Dare confronts guilt and heartbreak as he discovers she wore a smile at the moment of fate, and both lives drift into a sorrowful reckoning.
A reader recalls a career driven by constant rail travel and unrelenting work. He describes a man who collapsed from nervous strain after years of demanding schedules and responsibility, paralyzed in his lower limbs and bound to a chair. The piece reflects on the toll of overwork and the difficulty of stepping back for rest or holidays.
In Pete Dala'n Point near Calais Maine a tribe of Indians chose a chief but needed a wife to satisfy the custom against an unmarried head. A two-man committee sought a wife. they braided straw and shook a horn to call squaws together. Eventually both men selected the same maiden who received the straw.
Hieré the prony cat in Yarmouth Maine disrupts family prayers by supplying a half caught mouse or a captured rodent then sits in the keeper’s lap with a service like attention. After the Amen the cat goes to business, the family head drowns kittens, and the cat refuses to attend service suggesting devotion to cat duties over human pieties.
Scientific notes discuss Schiesing Munts Gilbert Warrington and others linking soil changes to microbial activity. Barley nitrogen levels vary by origin with Russia Baden leading, then Sweden North Germany Alsace Hungary France English Austrian lowest. Lawes notes soil as primary nitrogen source, atmosphere as carbon source. drainage may wash nitrogen away. Blavier speculates thunderstorms affect underground wires via induction.
An assortment of reports covers coal dust explosions experiments at Saarbrucken, Mosely on littoral fauna, European trade routes shifting via Swiss and Italian lines, and price competition among Germany France Switzerland Italy. Other items note mercury traces in acids, a Cashmere earthquake report, varnish making for ferrotypes, Quercus ilex discussion, and gas pipe installation guidance.
The piece describes summer and autumn social life at Irish country houses including morning parties, extended invitations, lawn games, luncheons, five o'clock tea, and dusky suppers. It notes winter dinners and hunts, magistrates dinners, and praises the near-perfect master servant relationship and devotion of old Irish family staff.
An observer describes a cruel method used in Scandinavia to lure wolves by sewing a small pig in a sack with only the snout exposed, attaching a straw bundle on a rope to simulate a pig, and driving at night to attract wolves for shooting. The pig squeals as it’s pinched, illustrating a grim hunting tactic.
A collage of curiosities reports on Pompeii, a Bridgeport wedding breakdown, a glass bedstead made in Birmingham for a Cal cutts millionaire, and a natural bridge north of the Arizona New Mexico line. It notes horned toads shipped to China for medicine, vast Canadian farm holdings, oak spreading across western prairies, cholera resistance in Italian borax factories, and visiting dog cards in London. Other items include shark worship on Africa’s coast, Mexico’s revolutions since 1800, coffin sizing quirks in Drogheda, Indian wildlife deaths, prolonged flower freshness, Formosian fetishes, a blue bog boat in Sweden, Kellogg's jeweled pin from the Duke of Newcastle, and reflections on world population and standing room.
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