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Newspaper
Millbrook Reporter
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
Feb 16, 1893
Page
6
The week’s items include Woodstock’s new opera house opening and a steamer Michigan wreck near Vancouver Island with all crew saved. Quebec debates gun removal, heavy prairie snow, and a Kingston inmate’s 107th birthday.
A list extols systematic safeguards in business urging foresight for emergencies and energy balance. It claims confidence, reduced friction, obedience, and expanded brains through a disciplined, transparent approach.
An excerpt presents two village children speaking in a dialect. The first boy references Old Mrs Muggins facing the poorhouse and questions local care. The second boy recalls a childhood memory of ashes on a hill.
A Peary relief expedition narrator describes walrus hunts, dangers of tusked charges, and a dramatic encounter where a mother walrus retrieves her calves. The tale contrasts hunting risk with a later note on sobriety affecting railroad hiring practices and business prudence.
Aunt Jane asks if the water is soft or hard. A Wee Niece replies it is pretty hard and splashed on a lamp chimney causing it to break. Scales are now made to weigh the flame of a candle or a single eyebrow hair.
A long census of odd items notes inventions and curiosities from around the world. It mentions mucilage holders, a combined lead pencil, a train hauler for twelve horses, and an automatic regulator incubator with fuel savings. It cites penny postage, a living pear tree planted by Governor Endicott, insect mask-making in Italy, a wide one yard pear in the Philippines, and a Brussels clock sun-wound. It also records Queen Victoria’s heavy harnesses, bears climbing telegraph poles in Norway, and governesses in Spain earning four thousand dollars each. Additional entries include an African king gifting an ostrich to Queen Victoria, gold washing by Chinamen on the Columbia river, Panama Canal politics, a portrait of the Empress of Germany hung in barrack-rooms, Jay Gould’s estate taxed at seven hundred fifty thousand yearly, London County Council street railway plans, a penny fare goal, Lord Rosebery as benevolent landlord, and Columbus’s birthplace near Genoa with a travel-inscribed message about two worlds.
A Hamburg despatch reports three seamen from the Norwegian ship Thekla landed by the Herman were driven insane by ordeal at sea. The vessel suffered heavy weather from December 2 in Philadelphia, deck and rigging damage, boats destroyed, nine men stranded aloft. Five died by exposure, and on January 7 rescue occurred. On December 13 the four survivors drew lots to kill one for food. the Dutch sailor was chosen twice and eaten raw. Water came only as dew on ropes.
A compilation of curiosities and facts: paper mills in Europe, the first Sunday paper in London in 1788, stem winding watches by Noel in 1851, Laplanders skating 150 miles daily, glass cutting diamonds lasting about three months, London Museum housing the first envelope, ivory billiard balls price doubling in 15 years, eleven wooden vessels in US Navy, platinum in Urals in grains, medicines use round bottles and external drugs in hexagonal bottles per German law.
A humorous dialogue where a boy explains being late to school because a new girl shut the kitchen door, preventing him from smelling breakfast. The teacher questions the delay and the boy cites the missed buckwheat cake aroma as the cause.
An elusive vent of a conversation unfolds with shift in mood and memory. A narrator recalls a cryptic scene and a companion prompts a search for meaning amid confusion and inner tension.
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