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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 01, 1907
Page
6
A party drawing game where each child draws a head on a folded sheet passed around the circle, then adds a body and legs in three sections, creating humorous composite figures like a bird head with a fish body and man legs once opened.
A humming bird angrily pursues a bumblebee through white blossoms. The bee flees jumps branch to branch while the bird follows closely. The chase ends with the bee escaping and the bird resting on a twig, no food motive implied in the strange pursuit.
A medical expert notes that idleness breeds wear on the brain and body while activity supports health. He warns that older adults need not imitate youth but should exercise both body and mind, seek mental work, fresh air, moderate meals, and avoid excess to slow aging.
The London Chronicle reports the Channel Tunnel bill deposited in Parliament to authorize a new company to build two 30 mile undersea tunnels from Dover to Sandgate and connect with a French section. Estimated cost 16 million pounds with 8 million from France. first year traffic 1.3 million passengers and 1.54 million pounds gross. Trains use mixed British and continental rolling stock. Greece link shortens India mail by 26 hours. Balfour Browne KC leads counsel. Sherwood & Co. act as parliamentary agents.
The fourth Earl Stanhope was robbed by a courteous highwayman who demanded money or life. He avoided surrendering his watch and instead deposited a hundred guineas in a tree. Years later the same man, now a city magnate, sent back a loan and met Stanhope at a banquet revealing they were one and the same.
A prudish relative asks if the husband saves for emergencies while Mrs. Torkins notes Lim mentioned horses that perform well on a muddy track. The exchange hints at finances and bets amid a rainy day mood.
A witty young man weighs life choices in a humorous exchange about work and risk. He answers with practicality, embracing financial payoff first and then considering future challenges.
James G. McCurdy explains in Outing Magazine that the schooner adapts to current conditions with lower crating costs and wind power efficiency. Its fore and aft rigging, deck loading capability, and lighter ballast allow easier handling and closer sailing to the wind than square riggers. This design, rooted in old clipper models, enables high deck loads and safe cargo landings despite occasional blows at sea.
Whitening hands with lemon juice and salt removes red facial spots, while glycerin and benzoin keep fingers supple. A neck and arm emollient combines cocoa butter and lanolin, and lanolin with wax and spermaceti forms a tissue builder. If skin is rough, adjust bath softening agents or soap.
The piece discusses chocolate wall tones as calm and pleasing in sunny rooms, but urges mustard shades for dark or north facing spaces. It notes a felt design with dark brown fleur-de-lis on mustard, paired with walnut or dark oak furniture and dull blue velour hangings for a pretty overall look.
A short description of a card game variant called The happy pair using two card packs with four removed cards. Players exchange cards until one acquires both red cards and the other both black ones, deciding marriage and romance outcomes. The piece also lists various royal deaths and suspicious poisonings attributed to monarchs and nobles in history.
Justice Jeremiah Black of Pennsylvania retried a case from his friend Judge Moses Hampton remarking that Moses wandered in the wilderness when he made his decision. Hampton, on a second trial, said he must accept higher authority but believed he was right despite Jeremiah’s lamentations.
The sphinx name derives from Greek meaning strangler and refers to a legendary Egyptian creature with a lion body and human head or animal features with wings. In hieroglyphs the sphinx signified wisdom and power, while the Nile flood and sun in Leo Virgo are not proven to explain its form. Egyptian rulers were commonly depicted as sphinxes.
A Hungarian burglar once famed as a painter ransacked a residence and began completing an unfinished portrait of a beautiful young woman. The owner found him at work, called the police, and the crime was thwarted by swift intervention.
A playful brag unfolds as a boy recalls Cicero and Willie racing a simple skates challenge. The dialogue hints at a friendly contest with modest distances and competitive banter.
Tests at Alexandra Palace under the Aero Club and Daily Mail prize scheme showcased model aircraft progress. A. W. Roe achieved a 90 foot flight into a net, while W. F. Howard scored 75 feet before a final uncontrollable crash. F. W. Thomas showcased a rocket-towed design that failed, highlighting pilotless propulsion limits.
A Norfolk village innkeeper left a will demanding his sharp-tongued wife walk barefoot each death anniversary, stand in the market with a lit candle, and read a confession of her cruelty. She refused, receiving only $100 a year to keep her off the parish.
The British Treasury will receive about 1.5 million dollars from the death duty on the late Lord Allendale's estate. His fortune totals 16.3 million dollars excluding real estate, with coal and lead mines in northern England. He was the first baron of the title and a former member of Parliament. He inherited the fortune from his father at nineteen and the estate is the largest proved in twenty years.
A tip suggests cutting doughnut dough an hour before frying to allow slight rising. Cut them at night and fry in the morning for a lighter texture.
Thomas E. Watson notes Andrew Jackson received schooling at a field school run by Mr Branch and a select school taught by Rev Der David Huptreys in Waxhaw. He later attended Queen College or seminary at Charlotte for a few terms and by age ten was a strong reader who read the newspaper aloud and even the Declaration of Independence to neighbors.
A weary mother with a small baby sits beside two men engaged in talk. The infant's cry disrupts the ride and one man suggests moving seats. The mother retorts with pointed wit that the baby will be seen no matter where they sit.
The Museum of Art in Dresden, Germany houses a large Dutch drinking cup from the early eighteenth century kept under a heavy glass cover. A Berlin paper notes it is unique for “consumption” that can spread to other glass objects, prompting isolation to observe its progressive wasting disease.
A historical note estimates Earth oceans cover 145 million square miles with an average depth of 12 000 feet containing at least 270.6 trillion tons of water. Rivers daily flow could fill 36 cubic miles of that area, and at current rates it would take about 8 500 years to refill if oceans dried and evaporation halted.
A Ruskin quote extols books as an eternal court open to all readers regardless of status. It invites readers to mingle with kings and queens through literature, gaining fellowship and rank, with exclusion only by personal fault.
The County Council reports that about one in two thousand London residents are homeless. Homelessness includes those who sleep in lodging houses shelters and casual wards and some wander the streets or sleep on park benches. The Public Health Committee fears disease risk and nuisance and seeks powers to force wanderers to use a single casual ward for shelter washing and care.
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