08 Feb 1889
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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1889
Page
1
Two visitors, a peasant and king’s servant, ask for a toll for a prince born to the king. The sexton rings in celebration for the royal birth, while the peasant begs him to toll for his dead child as the servant smiles.
In a Mississippi weaving room Becky and Teenie urge humanitarian mercy as locust blossoms symbolize healing. Jason Mills rivals rent and cuts trees but the tree’s collapse exposes a rift with Nate Mills. Nate returns after years away, seeking forgiveness, prompting a reconciliatory end.
A collage of curious facts and quirky notes: Italy grows 4.8 million trees yielding 260 million lemons annually, a Pendleton man drinks a gallon of mineral water for a bet, Carmel Maine boasts an 875 pound hog, and Mexico offers a philologist’s opportunity amid 48 languages. Also: a Reading man helps his mother weigh 300 pounds, a 13 year old in Eric Pennsylvania builds electrical gadgets, and a Caribou Maine woman harvests grain by machine reaper. A new Australian law taxes in laws with mothers in law, Munich drinkers average 30 dollars per person, and a Boston man advertises a cure for drunkenness. Samuel Moss of Essex, a 61 year old man, drinks three quarts daily while puzzling physicians. A Tremont Street sewing machine moves almost humanly, a Cincinnati horse quest drops a cart into the Ohio river, and Eiffel’s tower idea links to a great bridge in Europe. The Moving Stone of Buenos Ayres on Tandil mountain shows a 25 ton rock that oscillates with the wind.
L C Beecher of Woodbridge Connecticut planted a hill of pumpkins last spring. He gathered seventeen pumpkins weighing 666 pounds and sold them all at one cent per pound.
The Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs issues a pamphlet by Dr. Edkins arguing opium did not arrive recently from India. He traces opium use to Arabs in the eighth century and notes medicinal use in the tenth, with native opium production in China from the fifteenth century. Smoking enters with tobacco in the seventeenth century, spreading from Formosa and Amoy, despite early prohibitions.
Salt is essential in milk and vegetables for the sick and well, especially children. It aids circulation by speeding tissue changes and reducing urea and carbonic acid, and it prevents milk coagulation by rennet or gastric juice. Cow’s milk should always contain table salt, and salt should be added to women’s milk when it curdles like cow’s milk and risks indigestion.
A New York Herald inspired note describes a colossal Fresnel lamp in Tompkinsville with a 9 ft 2 in lens frame, 12 ft 44 in height to glass, and a 20 ft framework. The lamp, called a hyper radiants lens, would power bright electric buoy lights and cost $15,000 for lenses.
A humorous vignette shows a thin man attempting to sneeze between two stout passengers railcar seating. He jokes fare should depend on weight while a stout passenger retorts that would prevent the car from stopping for him.
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