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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1883
Page
1
A misty scene unfolds with rain arriving swiftly as love. A misses thrush sings softly in a golden storm while a robin waits under a laurel bush for tomorrow morning.
Mrs Jones hosts a social coup to meet an imagined Chinese ambassador. Uncle Jones arrives as a salve salesman and destroys the gala with comic ineptitude. Mrs Heatherly and guests watch the fiasco unfold in Cherry Hill. Mrs Jones laments the humiliation and vows to avoid China mentions forever.
A traveler observes Mongols show rare compassion to animals and even insects while cities issue stark cruelty such as public starvation for criminals. The piece contrasts Mongol mercy with Chinese harshness and shares an anecdote from Thurlow Weed about General Worth at Chippewa in 1814.
A berry called puneria from Withania coagulans, common in the Punjab and Trans-Indus regions, curdles milk effectively. Trials on a Bombay governor’s farm produced perfect curd and good cheese. a plantation will be set up at Saharanpore. Two ounces of berries simmered in water for twelve hours can curdle fifty five gallons of milk.
A survey of whistling beliefs from Captain Burton's Arabs to Tonga Polynesia and Iceland. It notes the fear and taboo around whistling, linking ancient customs to modern anecdotes such as a dog obedience scene and a North German belief that evening whistles make angels weep.
A baseball scene ends with a foul out as the umpire calls it. A charming high school girl wonders how a foul can be featherless, while her attendant explains the ball belongs to the picked nine, provoking amusement at the grounds.
A yearly Hindoo children’s page depicts Dasse rah customs as young girls dress in bright colors and march to a water tank to destroy and replace handmade dolls. It notes the contrast with English dolls and mentions mission school gifts at Christmas.
A restored sighting of Muhlenberg turtles in a ditch near Cambridge shows how rarity may stem from unseen habitats. Observational effort and patient watching reveal hidden animals and lessons in careful study for all ages.
The Sanpoel tribe of about 400 Indians, followers of a dreamers sect, anticipate another earth flood. They have prepared ark materials including 50,000 feet of lumber and plan a fifty by fifty or sixty foot vessel to sail to safety, believing whites will drown and only they survive. The movement has followers among Palouse, Snake River, Warm Springs, Umatilla and other tribes.
The piece notes Japan’s many holiday names and the government’s role in creating them. It ranks the new year festival as the greatest day, contrasting its lively, spontaneous joy with the mournful, formal celebrations of Paris and New York.
The article describes Pele's Hair a vitreous filament from Hawaii described by Miss Gordon Cumming as olive green to yellow brown and glossy like byssus. It is said to form from volcanic spray or escaping vapors and a fake version is made in iron-works by steam through molten slag. The main production is at Kilauea and birds use it for nest-building.
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