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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1894
Page
10
A children's page shares light verse and comic snippets about spring, summer, autumn, and winter joys, plus humorous bits from pupils. It includes poems about a boy Harold chasing perpetual seasons, schoolroom repartee, and playful notes on breathing and life.
A group of nine girls at a school devised a clever chain letter plan. Each month a girl wrote about her activities and sent her letter to the next, who added her own reply before passing all on. The cycle continued with each member contributing to the growing correspondence.
Jenny and Ned discuss kittens and creation in a playful exchange about how many are born at once and how the Lord makes them. Blanche Philpott recounts a story about Edith Howard and learns the three sieves of truth kindness and necessity before speaking.
Bobby resists leaving breakfast as his mother insists it is time to go to school. He asks for more griddle cakes but is told he cannot have them.
A mother scolds her tardy son Bobby as he hunts for mushrooms and checks a chameleon’s changing skin. He fears a whop from his father if late, while siblings bustle over a missing plum jam and a new copy-book.
In this brief excerpt from Youth's Companion and Savannah News, the dangers of sleep deprivation are outlined. It explains how missing sleep disrupts the nervous system and all body organs, stressing that opiate self-treatment is harmful and that recovery requires medical guidance. It also recounts a humorous tale of a bullfrog stealing a cow’s milk at High Shoals.
In Allessandria Italy two special rooms use color to calm or stimulate patients. The blue room quiets a violent maniac within a day while the red room aids common dementias and fasting patients. A seven day fast ended with appetite restored after three hours in red.
A Maine landowner investing near Boston built a fence according to his Maine sense of boundary. A surveyor later relocated the line revealing a half inch encroachment, causing a neighbor dispute as intense as disputes over larger parcels back home.
A French engineer M Bazin proposes an Atlantic liner on eight rollers to gain speed. He argues rollers reduce wave resistance so thirty knots per hour may be possible, presenting a novel ocean transportation scheme.
French project outlines a roller type vessel to shuttle Southampton or Liverpool to New York in four days. The design places a rolling platform twenty-four feet above water with engines to drive propulsion. Proponents claim equal or greater stability and lower cost, suggesting a 400 foot long ship with ninety foot beam and huge seventy five foot diameter rollers turning at twenty two rpm.
A Youths Companion tip suggests wrapping a thick flannel drumhead over a deep vessel to hold ice near a patient all night. Place ice on top, cover with another flannel, and the ice will stay cold or freeze to the fabric. A sharp needle or hat pin breaks ice easily.
The 1824 Lafayette visit is recalled with humor as language gaps spark mishaps at Halifax. General Daniel's parade misfires trigger a boom of misused phrases as soldiers and ladies misplay cues, while Lafayette responds with amused quips and warm greetings to General Polk and old friends.
Witnesses describe the Czar of all the Russias seated on a great white throne with scepter in hand, a sight judged by observers as imposing and regal. The scene emphasizes imperial power and ceremonial grandeur.
A portrait of the Russian throne chair in Petersburg describes its imperial symbolism and ornate design. It notes the chair as an object of veneration reflecting the Czar’s religious role and state power, with details of ivory, gold, and bear-claw supports.
A Paris poet jailed for an assault with intent to murder recalls Chapon a mid century thief who died in prison for theft. Chapon, an inveterate criminal, met Welix Pyat, a revolutionary in prison, and corrected him that he was jailed for stealing.
The General Court of Massachusetts orders that Richard Fairbanks in Boston be the notice point for letters from beyond the seas or to be sent thither. He is paid a penny per letter and must deliver or forward correspondence as directed and answer miscarriages due to neglect.
Visitors at the Antwerp Exposition could ride a flying street car for five francs or one dollar, a novel one mile trip between the exposition grounds and the Antwerp bourse. The contraption resembles a small whaleback with a cigar shaped float and a large front propeller. It uses trolley power with an overhead wire and a traveling cable, and can be lowered by a rear windlass and anchor. The high fare may limit its popularity.
A Mississippi attorney recounts a county where holding court was dangerous and unpredictable with gunfire and water from a chimney hole. Judge Clarke later used a pistol to enforce order, describing the venture as an adventure and his exit as an escape. A separate Paris directory error drives suicide after a misgendered listing.
A medical college student is examined on causes of deaths at Herculaneum and Pompeii. The student jokes that they died of no eruption. The passage also describes camphor oil obtained by allowing crude camphor to drain through a wire grate.
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