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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1892
Page
3
The article explains the high profitability of ostrich farming in Cape Colony, detailing incubation, selective breeding, and rising feather values. It covers egg production, artificial hatching in large incubators, and careful raising of chicks, noting strong demand and the risks of disease and death.
Boston Globe reports Nathaniel Morton cites Standish will requesting burial near his daughter and daughter-in-law if he died near Duxbury. Local traditions place the grave in the old churchyard at Hall’s and Bayley’s Corners, with two triangular stones marking it. 1889 discovered stones led to 1891 exhumations of Standish family graves. remains included women, boys, and a man. speaker contends these were Standish and kin buried anew in the same yard.
A reflection on home as the ultimate source of comfort and safety in mortal life. The piece contrasts worldly enjoyments with the longing for home, describing home as a lighthouse of sympathy and a center of blessing, offering hope of an immortal rest beyond earthly attractions.
A traveler reports that white ants have drastically reshaped the landscape. Nest-building clay becomes brick hard when cemented with resin, yielding clay flats impervious to water and blocking traffic. Ant activity clears timber, alters plains, and even deserts hills, leaving scrub to regrow as nests vanish. Iron content in nests is notably high.
Educator notes urge personal neatness among pupils, especially where home care is limited, with private praise, visible checks, and clean slate work as motivators. Suggestions cover classroom routines, waste paper discipline, scrapbooks from clippings, and outlining boards for organized learning.
A School Journal article outlines home made language tablets to teach familiar object names to lower primary pupils. Use cardboard sheets eight by five inches with a picture on the top half and lines below for the object name and several sentences. Students copy the name, practice using the word in idioms, fill in blanks, and underline the word to reinforce learning.
Advice on assembling three scrap books for classrooms to cover geography civics and general information. Use scrap cuts from old reports if funds are tight, select separate volumes for geography civics and general information, and proceed gradually with careful gathering and pasting.
A remark on geography education stresses balancing textbook facts with thoughtful teaching. Dr. Elliott criticizes excess content as burdensome to learners while urging teachers to tailor material to pupils' capacity. The piece advocates geography as a supplement to instruction rather than the sole source.
A man harasses a Chinaman on the Sixth avenue line until a silent bystander, a strong Black man, intervenes. He offers to handle the matter and sits beside the offender, ending the disturbance as the party continues to Harlem.
A correspondent notes Killian Van Rensselaer’s brick house with a gambrel roof opposite Albany is the oldest dwelling in the nation. Two gunports on the front wall hint at frontier conflicts. A rear plate from the Albany Commemorative Society names 1642 as the construction date. Dutch Reformed services were held in the old hall and a well behind the house is linked to the legend of Yankee Doodle’s composition during the French and Indian War.
A satirical exchange shows a settler accusing a wealthy party of failing in business while a debtor asserts he could not marry the daughter without success. The wealthy party concedes the match, prompting a terse exchange on fortune and union.
From Wheeling West Virginia Mrs W New ton Lynch on the World's Fair board reports Ida Hewitt daughter of Charles H Hewitt Cairo Short Line owner has become West Virginia’s lone regularly employed female locomotive engineer at under 24 she learned shop work as a girl and after volunteering when the regular engineer fell ill she kept the job She is to head the state’s display train of forest and mine products at the World’s Fair and is expected to accept the position as engineer on that train.
A humorous exchange recounts Darweesh admiring America and Egypt alike. A lady explains Egyptian crocodiles eat dogs, while Darweesh boasts that Moslem crocodiles in his country eat men, then consoles himself with their superior humor.
An article from the New York Recorder notes royal jokers across history. Princes and emperors such as the Prince of Wales, Emperor William, the Emperor of Russia, Empress Eugenie, and King Alphonso of Spain are cited for practical jokes. It also mentions Crown Prince Rudolph, King Milan of Serbia, and contrasts chivalrous Italian and Austrian rulers who avoid such behavior.
Paris correspondent reports a letter tied to a balloon released from the Eiffel Tower during the 1889 Exhibition resurfaced in Hungary. The owner of a Hungarian estate mailed the balloon letter to its Paris writer, who received it more than a year after it was sent.
A brief note recalls a quip about Doris and fashion, joking that only a small amount of fabric remains for evening wear after trimming for a baby’s needs. The light remark underscores postwar thrift and practical tailoring in daily life.
Joseph Brown observes a domestic cat battle a copperhead on a roadside near Galeton Pennsylvania. The cat outmaneuvers the venomous snake in repeated clashes, killing it and burying the carcass in a garden. The cat had recently given birth to four kittens, two of which disappeared and were later linked to a black snake nearby. The mother cat may be waging war against snakes to protect her remaining offspring.
Tips for a balanced marriage urge couples to respect individuality, avoid molding each other, and rely on admiration and friendship. Promote freedom within the home, guard each other’s honor, bury past faults, and treat private life with the same courtesy as public circles.
A cafe tale from the New York Tribune recalls a gray man who habitually eats raw oysters nightly, often three to four dozen, without other food. The note shifts to Gen Boots of the Salvation Army planning a supper for 600 of London's most notorious thieves, a gesture likened to civic boards attending in some cities.
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