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Newspaper
Millbrook Reporter
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 07, 1893
Page
3
Fragmentary piece surveys Icelandic women and education, noting the Dowager Viscountess and Emily Cath among others. It discusses knitting, gloves, and school life, with reflections on women’s adaptability, religious cases, and evolving social duties amid travel and tradition.
A long overview details aluminum’s rise from novelty to practical metal. It notes its lightness strength and malleability, early and future uses in kitchenware roofing aircraft and military gear, growing global production and key milestones including its role in the Washington Monument cap and industrial research.
A British surgeon recalls cases where fear killed. An Indian drummer believed a cobra bite killed him after a lizard crawled across his legs. Frederick I and his wife, and Dutch painter Pentman, died from terror triggered by imagined threats.
The excerpt traces phrases linked to pawnbrokers and slang origins. It explains uncus as a hook and the pun gone to the uncle or tante forms, noting French and Latin connections and historical uses such as usurer terms in the seventh century.
The piece notes about eighty days yearly when the Channel is calm with minor ground swells yet can be fierce with strong northeast or southwest winds. Tides mix with shallow water to create a peculiar, abominable ocean dance off Dover, making crossings previously long, now shortened by steam packets like the Rob Roy in 1822 bringing six aboard on May 22.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions Shem and You See with unclear context. No coherent event or entities can be confirmed for a concise summary.
A catalog of curios and displays lists items with astonishing values from glass bricks to a 42-foot clock and a 159-year-old tea plant. It notes wonders like a 75,000-dollar diamond, a turkey of copper, and a skycycle, pairing treasure with a closing admonition that prudent conduct sustains knowledge and avoids folly.
A Baltimore special reports Prof Asger Hamerik of the Peabody Conservatory has studied chicken communication, noting chickens respond to colors, differentiate people, and exhibit varied crowing patterns. He claims to imitate their movements and voices after extensive experiments.
Brown expresses extreme distress saying he feels like taking poison and ending his life. James urges him to refrain and offers another cigarette as a distraction.
A peculiar straight rainbow was seen at Aboyne on May 26 1893 stretching along the falls of Merven and Culblean. The sun lit from the east and rain fell in Morven creating colors though no arch appeared. Previous white rainbow noted in Edinburgh January 1875 and Whymper described a fog bow on the Matterhorn after a 1865 ascent.
A proverb style piece urges youths to learn work and skill, arguing that effort yields better outcomes than idleness even when work is not required. It notes wealth can vanish quickly, emphasizing practical industry for better fortunes.
A historical portrayal of Russian frontier garrisons on the Prussian border describing their meager pay, losses to alcohol, and petty theft. It notes officers patrolling, beacons along the line, and the priority of preventing smuggling and Nihilist literature.
An essay extols Florida ants as far more numerous and industrious than in other lands, detailing their sizes from half an inch to tiny workers. It recounts damage to crops and food, and the author’s drastic measures of boiling-water control, observing the ants’ orderly care for corpses, emergency responders, and structured colony life.
A Carson City writer recounts an Indian killing a rattlesnake in a peculiar way. The snake aligned with the rifle as the shooter circled, then the Indian, eyes bandaged, fired with the ball entering the snake’s mouth. The hunter claimed a rattlesnake will always range directly in me with four or stick pointed at it.
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