Twilight Bell and Silent Stars Over the Night
The fragment evokes a rural scene as boys wash at a cooling well and a cow’s bell rings faintly in twilight. The verse hints at distant heavenly signs and a tranquil night guiding men toward sleep.
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Newspaper
Mays Landing Record
Location
Mays Landing, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1903
Page
4
The fragment evokes a rural scene as boys wash at a cooling well and a cow’s bell rings faintly in twilight. The verse hints at distant heavenly signs and a tranquil night guiding men toward sleep.
A New York Times reminiscence recalls a housekeeper who guards precious silver, fears burglars, and plans a family luncheon to honor relatives. Humorous exchanges reveal misused pieces and learned anecdotes about silverware, tableware, and the small dramas of a well appointed home.
The piece credits Vilmorin for developing sugar beet varieties with high sugar content by selecting and cross-breeding without destroying the plant. It notes his work on carrot fleshiness, and mentions horseradish, turnip, and potato vine as plants once with dry roots but now used for food.
The article notes the ivory nut nearly exclusively supplies button manufacture, with some factories making poker chips. The United States consumes over half the world’s ivory nut, while nine-tenths of vegetable ivory becomes buttons. Processing steps include cutting, drilling, polishing, dyeing, and pattern stamping.
A New York woman recounts severe stomach pain headaches and fatigue from several months of illness. After using Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she reports rapid improvement and urges others with similar ailments to try it.
An English invention uses powdered carbon between enameled iron plates to heat a surface by an electric current. eight amperes at 200 volts yields a 25 square foot surface at 190 F. A new heat resistant quartz glass is made from Brazilian quartz pebbles welded into glass vessels. used for laboratory apparatus and test tubes that withstand sudden temperature changes.
A historical note explains ivory buttons largely come from the ivory plant grown in Central America and now California. It details how nuts yield a milk used in button production, the shipload trade to the United States, and a claim that California could supply a similar valuable fruit with cultivation. The piece then shifts to a French railway signaling system using telephone networks to improve train communication and safety, designed by a Spanish engineer and demonstrated for French officials.
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