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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1893
Page
2
Poem depicts nights of guards and dreamlike skies. The speaker tends tents in the firmaments to guard the Milky Way and gathers sunbeams to kindle glow. It celebrates the sun as master and humanity watching horizons while the stars twinkle and a storm passes. It links tears for the fallen to morning dew.
A narrator recalls reading of the City National Bank of Kentucky robbery and teller Harry W. Swope’s disappearance after a $10,000 theft. On a Cincinnati depot stopover, a man closely resembles Swope but fails to capture the culprit. later, the narrator discovers his own valise packed with bank notes and faces a staged escort and ambush on the way home, ending with the thefts and a street assault.
A survey of diverse notes covers German and Swiss farm life, Maryland gold deposits, a cosmopolitan railroad contractor building a Haifa to Damascus line, the vast U S hotel industry, Welsh and Cherokee population notes, boomtown Arkansas City during the Cherokee Strip opening, British naval showings by the Melpomene, Cascade Mountain game abundance, San Francisco tramp intrusion on Pacific towns, European military suicide rates and officer prevalence, and seasonal patterns of personal crisis reports across nations.
A reverent meditation on music as a universal language, tracing its influence from ancient Greece to Ireland. It quotes Thomas Davis praising Irish tunes, notes warlike airs like O By rne and Brian Boru, and highlights jigs and planxties as both dance and marching music that stirred courage, memory, and longing across nations.
A gardener for a prominent iron manufacturer on Fifth Avenue claims to raise chickens faster by burying a box of eggs with fertilizer, then hatching them underground. He explains a drunken hen trick to foster chick care, noting he places hatched chicks under an alcohol-affected hen to trigger maternal clucking.
A Pittsburg Dispatch note reports a farmer’s hen sitting on eggs as an experiment in patience. The author claims repeated trials succeeded, detailing the bird’s steadfast incubation and promising outcomes from this unusual method.
The Gibraltar rock monkeys are the lone non captive European apes. They likely descend from prehistoric African simians that crossed before Europe and Africa separated. As sea levels rose, the Strait of Gibraltar formed, isolating the Gibraltar population whose numbers are dwindling.
The Seattle Times details remarkable state agricultural feats including an apple of 2 pounds 4 ounces, a strawberry 10 inches in circumference, an onion of 4 pounds 1 ounce, a potato with missing weight entry, a radish 94 pounds, a beet 30 pounds, a pumpkin 95 pounds, a watermelon 64 pounds, a 53 pound cabbage, a 120 pound squash, and a 7 feet 8 inch Timothy. It notes clover five feet high, alfalfa yielding 12 tons per acre, corn stalks 14 feet high, a hill of potatoes yielding 43 pounds, 67 pounds of potatoes from 2 pounds planted, hops yielding 9592 per acre, wheat 63 bushels per acre, oats 125 bushels per acre, a blackberry bush 21 feet high, and a prune branch bearing 46 pounds of fruit with a 33 inch branch.
The article describes two north poles: the fixed geographic north pole and the drifting magnetic north pole. It explains the magnetic pole’s gradual travel, potentially circling the geographic pole roughly every 640 years, with observations dating to 1658 from Greenwich. It notes the pole’s long voyage across the Atlantic toward Boothia peninsula near 76°N.
An 19th century note recounts a failed wind powered dynamo test at Pointe de la Heve lighthouse under the Duc de Feltre and M. Vigreux. Max de Nansouty proposes surrounding atmospheric turbines with towers and directing wind onto turbine buckets, likening it to canalising air currents to improve efficiency. The concept attracts windmill experts.
An 1811 incident described by Charles Greville recalls a peer in a state of driveling idiocy being wheeled into the House of Commons to vote against the government. The episode, witnessed by Melbourne’s secretary, was deemed monstrous and indecent, highlighting a rare documented case of a lunatic casting a ballot.
Two sons of Japan sent to represent the Japanese Government at the Columbian Exposition, S Tashikawa of Tokyo and S Minano of Os, have embraced Christianity. Tashikawa, an interpreter at the World's Fair, and Minano, a Commissioner, are noted as very intelligent and have been baptized into the Chinese Church.
A postal thief on the western coast of India is unmasked not by evidence but by a staged trial by ordeal. Rama, the only suspect, confesses after the Brahmin’s ritual wand is scented with sandalwood oil, proving the ritual’s manipulation of superstition and the theft’s concealment by lax seals.
Harper's Magazine narrates a rugged journey along a Persian highway, describing a flat plain, telegraph poles, and frequent dust storms. Riders endure fierce winds and choking dust while traversing wrecked mules, broken ground, and a barren landscape populated only by scavenging birds.
The rubber plant used in homes differs from the rubber commerce plant. Commerce rubber comes from two Brazilian varieties grown for large yield. Domestic rubber plants with glossy leaves are a fig species, not productive for tapping, and India is listed as a habitat. A small yield is possible from many plants that exude milky sap, with about 500 rubber-yielding plants estimated.
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