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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1911
Page
3
Lawrence Hodges explains that humans perceive only four tastes sweet sour bitter and salty and that flavor largely comes from the sense of smell. He notes that taste buds and saliva influence perception with dry substances offering no taste until dissolved.
Lonely Joe washes ashore and meets the ship Shamrock’s castoff Hibernian crew. He begs for food but meets the cook who quips he is the man who cooks the mate. He panics and escapes, muttering that this death is better than the alternative.
A legendary bell at a Canton monastery stands eighteen feet tall with a forty five foot circumference. One of eight bells cast by order of Emperors around 1400, it allegedly cost eight lives to cast. The bell is inscribed inside and out with eighty four thousand embossed Chinese characters telling a single classical tale.
A compact history of the Bastille from its 1756 start by Charles V to its storming on July 14 1789 and its demolition. It notes its early purpose as defense then state prison the enlargement under Charles VI and the 1798 assault that freed the seven prisoners and toppled the building.
Harper's Weekly notes an ancient Chinese encyclopedia begun by an early emperor in 1403 and finished in 1410 with 100 volumes printed on wood blocks. The project was abandoned after arduous printing, leaving manuscript copies. The set measured one foot eight inches long and half an inch thick, bound in yellow silk and stored in Peking, later burned in 1900 during a siege.
The Humorous item narrates a string of misfortunes befalling a man. His horse dies his mule goes lame six cows vanish in a poker game a hurricane destroys his house an earthquake swallows the land and a tax collector charges him for the hole left behind.
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