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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1894
Page
3
Fragmented text mentions a town, ship, and crowd with unclear details. Some phrases reference governance, legality, and potential actions but read as incomplete. No clear names, dates, or concrete outcomes are identifiable from the readable fragments.
Readings and recollections mark the William Cullen Bryant centennial at his rural Cummington homestead in Hampshire County. Notables including Oliver Wendell Holmes and Henry Dawes sent tributes while local families recall Bryant’s kindness to children and the summers he spent at the birthplace estate with his library and writing room preserved for pilgrims.
A survey of riding styles compares Gauchos, Cossacks, Mexicans, cowboys, Irish, Germans, French, and Indians. Gauchos ride with short stirrups, Mexicans extend legs, Indians avoid saddles. American cavalrymen are fit and agile. Indians never fall. The piece cites New York Mail and Express data on U.S. newspapers.
Germany collects ten million dollars annually from salt taxes and thirteen million dollars yearly from sugar taxes as part of its fiscal revenue.
The article compares China’s army and navy, noting 600,000 troops with 200,000 garrisoned at Peking, and a mixed force of provincial soldiers. It highlights reforms under foreign officers, stronger naval training, three naval academies, and a two-squadron fleet, with Foo Chow and Tientsin bases, anticipating further improvement in future conflicts.
The Denver Republican reports a strange native crab found high on Indian tablelands 4000 feet up and far from water. It harvests grass and young rice with sharp pincers, sitting to cut and bind, then scuttling away with its load. Local workers fear the crab could devastate enough harvests to support a laborer for a year if left unchecked.
A Charleston News and Courier item explains shrimp catching by nocturnal casters who use circular nets with weighted edges. In early dawn, boats deliver the catch to sellers who measure by plates or pans and take a commission before sale to city diners.
A Minneapolis observer recounts a southern California find the whistling well a long abandoned farm bore a wind driven whistle that served as a weather barometer The device shrieked before storms and grew silent in fair weather The note ended with a remark on Hindooism in the Ganges region and a separate statistic of 18 million military aged men in the United States.
A childhood verse tells of a Wasp and a Spider planning a ship with a red maple sail. They sail beyond the seas and are never heard from again, leaving the tale unfinished as a playful fable in St. Nicholas.
Birds avoid building nests by laying eggs in others nests or on grounds and rocks, including terns puffins skua and guillemot. Starlings sometimes lay on lawns but may abandon eggs. Nettles cause stinging via hollow hairs whose brittle tips break, delivering poison to the skin.
A Detroit Free Press note explains traveling spiders migrate by wind using a filament bag to catch a breeze and travel miles by abstraction of wind. A Youth's Companion tale follows two city horses, Jerry and Frank, and a bootblack sharing an apple, easing Jerry's stubbornness and lifting their spirits.
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