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Newspaper
Millicent Times
Location
Millicent, South Australia, Australia
Date
Mar 04, 1899
Page
7
Dr Gordon Stables warns that fixation on single subjects leads to insanity as minds drift into borderland ideas. The piece cites examples from collecting odd facts to narcotics, urging multiple certainties and balanced thinking to avoid mental breakdown and self destructive behavior.
The museum of the Val-de-Grace hospital adds a celebrated relic a sword once owned by Baron Larrey surgeon to Napoleon I. It was bequeathed by Mile Dodu and blessed in the Chapel before being placed on display. The blade bears the inscription A M le Baron Larrey l Empereur Napoleon.
American cycling record details from December events in New Orleans show Pete Berle pacing to a mile in 1 minute 40 3 5 seconds and other marks for three to five miles. Green and Brawell clocked 1 minute 17 1 5 seconds for a mile unpaced on a Cheyenne straightaway. John Green rode a flying start unpaced mile in 1 minute (note: unclear last figure)
An 19th century medical anecdote features Dr A claiming expertise in disenosis while opining on dyspepsia and nervous spasms. He argues pure air and sunshine sustain facial nerves that prevent wrinkles, urging ventilation over confinement as the cure.
A humorous frontier anecdote recounts Erie Wenty marrying Dick after a comic misunderstanding about moving a former husband’s grave. Erie explains she planned to rebury him in the Soldiers’ Cemetery but feared legal trouble if she failed, noting cemetery workers and flags as the scene. The tale ends with the couple meeting often, leading to their marriage.
The passage traces facial decoration from ancient Mesopotamia to Rome and Tartary. It notes Chaldean, Greek, and Roman practices, including vermilion cheeks, lead whitening, blue veins, and false brows. It mentions Esk and Arab methods using balms, burnt sugar, and walnut shells.
A reader explains a simple craft to imitate ebony inlaid ivory on a small white wood table. Start with sanding smooth, sketch an ivory pattern, paint the table black, leave the design clear, then apply several varnish layers and ivory enamel to create a convincing faux inlay.
A fragmented column blends social musings with a quirky inventory of royal curios and oddities. The speaker observes gossip about neighbors the Gumpersons and relays a dream of a kitchen window theft, while a digression lists a crown plate with jewels valued at £255,000 from India, a tiger head and a gold shield.
FARA at Lucemule claims a burglar proof safe and offers £1000 to prove it. He locks himself inside and vows a £10,000 reward to anyone who frees him. Authorities fear the contraption may be melted down. Also a Little Folks anecdote describes clever animal thieves hoisting loot on a shelving-backed piggyback, a fleet-footed tale of mischief and wit.
The piece notes Rev Henry Whitehead’s three hour after-dinner address on Twenty Years as a London Curate, given after cholera deaths near St Luke's Berwick Street in 1853, and mentions his sermons on Saints' Days. It also references a 1887 Kensington dinner speech by Sir Joseph and Lady Pease.
A Boer wounded thrice by a Lee-Metford at Dorn kop returns to Pretoria hospital claiming he wandered off to church. The piece questions rifle lethality, noting small calibre bullets are condemned by many with warfare experience, yet allow 0 percent more ammunition.
Report notes a vast warm cavern near Allegash Lake Me with six large chambers and many more, compass disturbances observed. Also mentions General Eugene de Pogojet in Paris, deep Belgian coal mines, Pimlico tailors supplying uniforms, and frequent minor earthquakes. Norway’s death rate lower than England, Austria highest in Europe.
Poach eggs and chill them. Dip in a rich batter with a strip of raw bacon around each egg, fry to a golden brown. Cook spinach pressed through a sieve with butter pepper salt and lemon juice. Heap the spinach on a long dish, place the eggs in a row, and serve with a brown gravy poured around.
Two pounds veal cut into chops fried brown. Simmer in a stew pan with a pint of gravy for an hour. Add sliced carrot turnip and mushrooms. Simmer twenty minutes until vegetables cook. Arrange meat with vegetables in a dish, mince and season gravy, pour over. Scatter chopped parsley on top.
A house recipe suggests using a well hung mutton leg with the muscle removed to form a large boilable joint. Cut a one inch thick slice across the leg, brush with olive oil, broil over clear flame, then serve on a hot dish with pepper salt butter and gravy plus boiled vegetables.
Prepare savory fritters by mixing one and a half ounces of corn four with cold milk and nearly a pint of boli milk. Boil while stirring for five minutes. Beat the yolk of an egg, fold in cooled corn four with three ounces of grated cheese, salt, cayenne, and a little mustard. Pour on a greased dish, cool, cut into rounds, dip in egg and brepil crumbs, fry in fat, drain, sprinkle cheese, and serve hot.
Cut the veal end of the mut ton into small pieces remove fat and simmer in two quarts of cold water for two hours then add two leeks sliced a turnip celery pepper and salt. Skim fat then finish with parsley and optional rice or barley. Salads grow in popularity and aid digestion and mineral intake for blood and health.
A breakfast sausage is made by mincing equal parts beef steak fat bacon and breadcrumbs, seasoning with parsley thyme pepper salt and allspice. Mix with beaten egg, shape into a roll, wrap in a floured cloth, boil for two and a half hours, drain, garnish with parsley and breadcrumbs, and serve very thin when cold.
A scattered review of curios includes knives with musical notes for grace before and after meals, once kept in stamped leather cases before singers. It notes small exporter shares in seed trade, travertine shipments to San Francisco, a mono county quarry supply, and a village of retired organ grinders in Italy. It cites British incomes over £5000, a Queen glove fund, and differential wages between English and French workers. It mentions Canadian support for restoring the 100th Royal Canadians and a Parisian trend of female burglars targeting nurses.
A Victorian style recipe describes simmering apples in syrup, dissolving gelatine, and setting in a mould with a bread crumb and spice base. It notes optional vanilla or wine flavors and serving suggestions with ice cream, plus a separate mock bicycle tax joke from the Pittsburg Telegraph.
A capital tale recounts Danley OConnell aiding an Irishman during his Irish circuit. He secured the liberation of a young Erin charged with an offence, and on a second tour saved another prisoner from punitive oversight. The grateful inmate saluted the advocate, declaring continued protection by Mr. OCon a.
Household hints advise soaking the bunion in hot water with salt starch and ammonia, drying with a linen towel, then applying iodine with a camel hair brush. Wear loose shoes and avoid pressure, replace worn leather where the bunion rubs, or have a shoe cut to relief pressure when out.
Crystallising grasses uses alum dissolved in soft spring water heated gently in a closed vessel. Suspend the grass with a cross-stick, keep 24 hours, then shade dry. Temperature around a seventh part of a degree is noted. test strength by a drop on grape slip for crystallisation. Various grains and garden flowers yield beautiful crystals.
A surreal scene unfolds as Mr Newleigh endures a chaotic moment with his child and bystanders reacting across the street. The baby imitates noises, prompting Mr Newleigh to lament fatherhood while recalling a railway station train criers.
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