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Newspaper
Millicent Times
Location
Millicent, South Australia, Australia
Date
Dec 16, 1899
Page
7
The passage details two recipes: a puff pastry savory item with lemon essence and nut, and a boiled head with brains dish. It describes lining patty pans, filling with batter, baking, and then preparing the head and brains with parsley butter for serving hot.
Cut mutton into rounds, pound thin, salt and pepper. Sear in butter eight minutes, brown. Glaze mushrooms, fry a crouton, drain and plate. Arrange fillets on toast, top with mushrooms, tomatoes, and green butter. Serve with brown sauce.
A historical recipe describes blanching carrots turnips and leeks into dice then frying with butter before adding half a pint of clear soup and sugar to glaze. Add two quarts of clear stock, simmer fifteen minutes, skim butter, boil potatoes and French beans separately, then combine and finish with blanched tarragon chervil or parsley and fried bread croutons.
Brown saves, wash and scrape carrot beef and half a turnip. Fry vegetables in butter until pale brown. Stir in flour and cook lightly. Add stock or water and meat extract, simmer gently. Add sherry and red currant jelly, adjust color with brown sugar if needed.
The piece contrasts French politeness with genuine kindness, noting some locals’ craft and others’ deceitful charm. It argues that true courtesy toward strangers stems from sincerity, not performative gestures, and warns that some people use a winning smile to steal.
A Sunday school scene exposes errors from memory and analogy as a teacher probes spelling and biblical facts. A boy misreads window as widow, another answers buckles for sea shore, and a pupil explains innpay day revealing local schooling humor and misremembered lessons.
Reflects on why middle aged people drink more despite health concerns. Argues modern life, responsibilities, and social pressures fuel depression and reduced vitality, prompting alcohol use. Seeks causes in civilization and work methods to lessen worry and strain and prevent mood decline.
The piece details traditional Burman divorce rituals. It describes steps: separation, division of property by the husband and wife, ritual burning of mats, and the spouses and relatives observing, with outcomes depending on which party’s possession ends the ceremony.
A hotel guest bursts in during the night claiming a terrible smell in his room. Clerks suspect gas may be leaking, while the man insists he blew it out an hour earlier, sparking a tense exchange.
A Natal obituary tradition honored deceased friends with a grave side smoking ceremony to record virtues and deeds. In one case a man deemed lacking virtues prompted a somber pause until a Dutch mourner declared in solemn tones that “Him was a berry good smoker.”
The clock in St Paul’s Cathedral tower is described as the largest in the British Isles. The three flats are each 1 ft in diameter with figures 2 ft 9 in long. The pendulum is 15 ft long with a 700% weighted lower ball. A 54 ton Phelps bell is struck by a 200 lb hammer. Weights and hands are copper. minute marker measures 5 ft 6 in.
In a dinner honoring Sir Walter Scott, Mr J L Macadam proposed the health of the "great Sir Walter Scott, the colossus of literature." Scott rose at once and toasted "the great Mr Macadam, the colossus of roads," delivering a witty clash of titans.
Parle electrician M Trouve and Rostoff unveil a tiny telephone device used in a blindfolded clairvoyant act with wires hidden under a wig and a transmitter behind a screen. Dr Samuel Hopper notes a cat that holds firecrackers in its teeth for nightly demonstrations, claiming patient training and Bohemian habits.
A dialogue on romance contrasts sunshine with moonshine. A statistical note observes rising lifespans, noting Americans of foreign parentage reach 33 percent of the population, with Germans Irish English prominent. In New York and Chicago about four-fifths trace to foreign descent, prompting reflections on national identity.
The article notes a rise in the number of students in Great Britain, from a small group to nearly two and a half million, and discusses government spending on instruction and arts and sciences as a gauge of cultural progress.
A fragmented note describes dainty panwipers made of suede kid with decorative upper parts and unusual fastening methods. It mentions attaching finpeele or parmé violets and uneven astrrow rib as scent accents, with a focus on fronting ties and kid substitutes.
The excerpt outlines a step by step process for deep house cleaning across rooms. It covers laundering curtains and textiles, removing and storing items, dusting frames and pictures, cleaning furniture, treating woodwork, and using turpentine mixtures. It notes careful handling to reduce pests, protect fabrics, and prepare rooms for seasonal changes.
The article warns that impurities in water spread disease and highlights lead as the first common poison. It notes lead drinking water can cause dharra and lead paralysis with wrist drop as a sign, stating even minute lead quantities in water trigger poisonous symptoms.
A Parisian lawyer counsels a young woman to frame a lover using sworn witnesses. The girl, eager to wed a man she loves, follows the scheme, storing up staged meetings and false impressions to pressure a marriage, while the lawyer guides and probes for the lover's identity and name.
A fragmentary excerpt notes a magistrate who adores his young wife and praises her housekeeping. The garbled text references a peculiar personal detail amid stray phrases and a quotation mark origin from a periodical comment.
A grand proposed hoax in Paris asserts Queen Victoria has been dead for eighteen years and hidden from most, with a female impersonator to play the sovereign in retirement. The elaborate scheme involves a will and key royal buildings, traveling from Paris to London, aiming to fool the public with a lifelike impersonation.
Captain Symonds reports 3633 fires last year with brigades called and 206 people endangered. Two firemen died and 106 were wounded. Lamps caused twenty two fatal fires killing twenty three. Many deaths from matches, clothing catching fire, gas, and candles. Compared to earlier years, totals show increases of 464 and 1016 over prior periods.
A Washington Post dialogue portrays Figurin boasting of a stock win after resisting selling at 116, while a broker challenges his claim. The amateur speculator insists he still holds the stock, arguing his decision keeps him ahead and avoids ruin if he had sold.
An eccentric Paris opera anecdote recounts that tenor Duprez wore a spring loaded false arm in the right, capable of rising with a body motion, aided by a touch from behind. During a finale in Tragliata, Violette’s farewell caused the arm to spring upward and dislocate, until the mechanism was finally subdued.
A garbled historical excerpt shows Mrs Wreakhard facing a boarder regarding an after dinner audience. The fragment hints at dialogue about etiquette and expected conduct during a formal gathering, but the full context and participants remain unclear from the OCR snippet.
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