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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1881
Page
3
A compilation of irregular bird songs and lyric fragments for skylark sparrow linnet night owl thrush raven and nightingale. It presents varied stylized lines on spring love nature dawn and death with archaic spellings and rhapsodic imagery. The text imitates a poetic catalog rather than a cohesive narrative.
Miss Babson the dress maker of Green Harbor marries a rustic suitor amid gossip and vivid portraits of her shop. The piece notes her roles as nurse widow to many husbands and community figure, ending with the wedding and hints of his frail health and her waning spirits.
A Scientific American summary outlines several egg preservation methods. Lime pickle storage uses a cold water and lime salt solution, with precautions to prevent brittle shells and lime taste. A sugar-heat method coats eggs in a sugar solution, then charcoal and dry raw mix storage preserves freshness for six months. Beeswax oil coats with wax and olive oil, Paralline substitutes, and water glass coatings offer long term protection. Packing with bran and quicklime or charcoal and bran aids transport. Cool storage and stable temperatures are essential to avoid spoilage.
Prof Schlager, head of a Vienna asylum, reports three years of blue room trials on sixty mentally deranged subjects. He notes soothing effects from blue light and cautions against any harm, aiming for systematic documentation and wider replication. He also mentions red light treatments for sluggish temperaments and believes observations merit attention.
Dr John 8 Billings of Washington cites US doctors at about 65 000. Monroe County Florida plants 150 000 coconuts this season. New Zealand sheep kings herd 48 000 to 600 000 each. Chicago sees 10 000 bushels of strawberries daily in strawberry month. Petaluma California incubator at Culistown with next near hot spring. Annual loves product value near 8 000 000 at Gloversville and Johnstown. California grows mustard seed but refines poorly so England handles bulk as Durham mustard. Britain controls 16 000 000 tons shipping. 11 000 000 tons sail under other flags. Britain employs 378 151 miners. underground tunneling totals 58 744 miles. Paris sells toads weekly in damp moss in casks. 100 good toads valued 15 to 17 dollars. Pennsylvania State Fair premiums include last half bushel of silk cocoon, wood pulp for paper, 100 pounds beet sugar. An American cheese won a silver medal at the Intervent cattle show in Birmingham. prize cheese weighed three quarters of an ton from Iowa. Bartlett pears from Solano County shipped to Chicago. freight on 20 carloads was 317 000 dollars. fruit nets about 2 500 per car. Sumter South Carolina celebrates near completion of a cotton mill factory. operations to begin in November with 2000 spindles. factory built with home capital.
A collage of quips from many papers on speed in perception and reflex, horse fear of youths in lamps and baseball pants, a pun filled tale of a sleeper and a stew pan joke, plus a wife husband banter about concealing thoughts set against stock market chatter.
A Boston Transcript excerpt advises mothers to discipline children with harsh, deceptive methods to deter misbehavior. It condemns permissive parenting and suggests undermining children’s autonomy, while noting a Canadian swindler Baron J. A. de Longueil who targets French descendants with false inheritance claims.
A long list of kitchen craft and gardening notes covers banana based breads here and marmalade making. It details potato manure use, snow pudding, Siberian crab apple preserves, bark washing for trees, quinces preserve, and building a cold frame for early vegetables with precise construction and care guidance.
The St Louis Republican notes an electric plow shown in Paris, using two machines on opposite field sides to plow like eighteen horses. It imagines broader electric farming, with machines performing planting, threshing and milking tasks, transforming agriculture into a scientific, engine powered industry.
The article describes the history and spread of prayer wheels in Buddhist practice. It explains how rollers containing sacred writings evolved into barrel shaped wheels with cords, spun by hand wind or water power, to accumulate merit for the living and the dead. It notes public and monastery placements, windmill and stream driven setups, and tall prayer flags bearing the dead names at the Lama temple in Darjeeling.
A mosaic of curiosities includes pink water lilies once rare outside Boston, their bloom and price keeping them here. Newport fashion, renewed plant hunts in Barnstable, and a secret near Centreville, with roots selling for $10. A mass of quirky vignettes follows: a masked Amesbury surgery tale, a talking ant eater at the menagerie, a Kentucky election shift with two widows as clerks, and North Carolina emeralds fetching high prices with the British Museum purchasing a two and a half carat gem.
The Louisville Commercial reports Captain Chas N Corrl of Louisville found relief from years of rheumatism after using St Jacobs Oil. A New York player was fined $25 for insulting a reporter. The Philadelphia Huey Hour notes Me J A Walton of 1245 N Twelfth St as an enthusiastic endorser of St Jacobs Oil for horse ailments.
Anecdotal testimonial from William J. Courtlan of Somerville Massachusetts praises Hop Bitters and Dr Hall’s Balsam for lung and chest diseases. The ad promotes Kidney-Wort and other remedies including Rough on Tinta and National Yeast for bread, noting consumer convenience and efficacy.
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