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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1881
Page
2
A collection of humorous proverbs and aphorisms on money, pride, love, and social mores. The quips mix misread idioms with playful inversions, ending with a garbled line “Loston Transertyt” that hints at a lost or corrupted author.
At Pickel Marble Works a workman William Morgan slipped from the hoist handle and was caught between two cog wheels. A heavy stone hoisted above him pressed on his throat until relief arrived. The throat was gashed nearly ear to ear though the windpipe survived. He was sent to Sisters' Hospital after treatment. Chief Clerk Marr marked his 50th year in the Post-office Department in Washington with full department participation.
A survey of 19th century commerce notes California barley shipped to Chicago for malting, extensive locomotive and car fleets on U S rails, hotel ice price drops, immigrant money inflows, a century-old locust post found in Easton, and large tonnages of oleomargarine exports. It also lists crop totals for buckwheat, barley, oats, wheat, corn, and rye, plus color blindness research and tin corrosion concerns.
A collage of quips and anecdotes notes that half the world lies about the other half and inventors often die poor. It remarks on how children need more wraps, sewing machine sellers flatter young buyers, and sermons may be found in brooks. It also points to quirky hints from Austin and Boston about war memories and wartime feelings.
Deroil Free Press reports Brother Gardner delivering a Detroit citizen’s gift edition of a revised Bible to Lime Kiln Club. He argues no change to the Ten Commandments or moral curses, disputes claims of purgatory changes, and defends the gospel’s unchanged spirit despite the revision.
Mr. KR L Stuart of New York donates 100000 to Princeton Theological Seminary. L L Warren gives 40000 to Broadway Tabernacle Louisville and previously 20 to the church. Francis A Walker becomes MIT president, starting in October. Macalister Memorial Church court rules 17 Presbyterians suffice to receive the 10000 bequest. Bishop Bowman assigned to head Methodist Episcopal Missions in China and Japan, departing June 16 for New Mexico and Yokohama. W C Simpson dies. Weslayan ministers S Coley J Jobson W Morley Punshon and Simpson mourned. Lehigh University offers free tuition, founded 1866 by Jute Ass Packer. 112 students, 16 faculty, President Robert A. Lamberton. Pack er gifts total 2500000. Global school stats: 41,678,000 pupils and 1,000,000 teachers. US leads with 9,873,195 pupils and 271,144 teachers. one-fifth of population in US and France. Prussia third. England and Wales one-sixth. Japan 2,162,962 pupils with total population unknown.
A Spring Field Massachusetts paper describes Sunday cleanup at a traveling menagerie. Elephants are bathed and fed while trainers tend hooves and feet. Giraffes, hippos, and snakes enjoy brief grass time or are moved to cages for care as the crew works through a tiring week.
A farm in Rome area reports a bald eagle swooped from Lavender Mountain and carried off a game cock. After three days the rooster returned home, slightly disfigured but seemingly in fair condition, strutting again in Flatwoods.
Steamed cornbread recipe using buttermilk flour sugar eggs and corn meal. Advice warns against leaving salt where turkeys can access it and suggests proper horse size for farmers. Discusses lime water milk for digestion and a safer tree labeling method. Includes waterproofing canvas with resin soap and alum, grape vines on stakes with pruning tips from the Christian Work column.
The Rural New Yorker corral notes that continuous cropping drains soil fertility and recommends surface farmyard manure as a long lasting meadow top-dress. Proper composting or thorough pulverizing ensures easy spreading, with strong yields on lightly fertilized fields and improved soil health over years.
Indiana physician Dr Dempsey argues for cellar ventilation to remove carbonic acid and damp air. He recommends a large flue to draw in air, stone bed drainage around walls, and large windows with vermin netting to maintain dryness and health.
A dramatic note on early electricity innovation imagining vast uses if electrical force could be stored in small space and shipped to homes. The piece foresees electric lighting, security, schooling tools, and even personal defense powered by compact electricity, predicting wide social and economic impact.
A chronic headache linked to overindulgence and inactivity, with guidance for diet and fresh air. Recommendations include bread and butter with fruit, moderate outdoor exercise, and two tablespoons of powdered charcoal in water for quick relief. A Connecticut correspondent notes periodic headaches signal over alkaline stomach fluids and suggests lemon juice after meals and at bedtime until symptoms pass.
Emerson urges simple hospitality over lavish meals and rooms, valuing intellect, truth, and courtesy at a guest’s arrival. The note then mentions a Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad conductor, Blum, a former Boston & Providence president who retired after financial reverses.
A Providence reader reports rapid relief for neuralgia and systemic weakness using Hep Bittera, claiming restored energy and health after years of ailment. The note extols Kidney-Wort as a universal remedy for kidney and bowel inaction, offered in liquid or dry forms.
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