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Newspaper
Lewiston Daily Teller
Location
Lewiston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1902
Page
6
A study derived from the New York World explains how molten interior meets water to form steam that blows off a volcano top. It reviews debates among volcanists on water's role, cites Shaler and Russell, and describes two explosive mechanisms and Krakatoa as a key example.
Historical notes recount Prime Prentis dropped from the consular service after a Mauritius visit. Details mention Annie Laurie and Maxwelton House, the Glen of the Cairo, and various social figures. Also included are odd family traits from Dresbach Minnesota and a survey of Belgian lace centers.
The article recounts Prentis departing office, McKinley naming him consul in St Pierre effective Oct 10, 1900, after routing Campbell to Mauritiaa and Preatis’s misrouted Batavia posting. Prentis, Civil War Vermont veteran, spent over thirty years in consular service. his family suffered two daughters and a son at St Pierre. Annie Laurie’s grave noted in Boland.
An illustrated biographical sketch traces Marie Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie from her Martinique birthplace in 1733 to her youth amid tropical luxury. It covers her unhappy marriage to Viscount de Beauharnais, her subsequent marriage to Napoleon in 1795, her status at Malmaison, and her death in 1814 with remains in a marble tomb at Rueil. The piece notes her popularity and resilience amid European royal shifts and hints at a telephone anecdote and a humor column snippet.
A reflective piece by J Ster Morton in The Conservative extols rural upbringing for health happiness and virtue. It argues country boys gain practical sense independence and ambition through farm life and school travel shaping future workers and professionals, with nature as a formative teacher.
Article recounts W B Salmon describing Hudson Bay martens showing periodic disappearances every ten years. While others like Lake Superior martens stay, the Hudson Bay group vanish from baited traps then reappear a decade later. Also notes a taste for honey and bee colonies as a shared trait among martens.
The Boston Evening Transcript notes the male parent martens and minks exhibit extreme filial cannibalism. Fathers kill their own offspring, prompting mothers to hide youngsters until they are strong enough to resist the sire’s dangerous appetite, while the mothers protect brood from paternal hunger.
The Merrimac hero Osborne Deignan, who volunteered for Hobson's perilous mission to sink the vessel at Santiago harbor, is now in the Ukiah California Hospital for the Insane after a serious illness. Once named by President McKinley for a Naval Academy cadetship, he later served as a boatswain and warrant officer before mental illness surfaced. Authorities hope the condition will be temporary and his stay brief.
Richard Wagner cherished his dog Peps during his Riga stay and after. The Russian dog followed him everywhere and even bathed in the canal daily, winter or not. Peps supposedly aided in composing Tannhauser and often urged Wagner to pause for a walk, as the grateful animal kept at his feet during piano sessions.
A noted pianist recalls a suburban house party where praise and a joint joke about poisoning the neighbors cat tested restraint. The young host daughter sparked laughter as she urged a Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody, revealing bold humor that tempered vanity.
A collage of short comic snippets from early newspapers. Jokes about bosses and house rules, courting misfires, teething babies, weight comments, future presidents, and club life. Humorous exchanges, small misunderstandings, and light domestic gags populate the page with rapid-fire quips and quibbles.
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