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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1914
Page
6
A student in Agassiz s class is given a rotting herring and told to study it. Repeated questions prompt the student to realize that similarity is not the key, but differences reveal a method. The lesson shows how observing variation drives scientific inquiry and evolution understanding.
The Rijksmuseum hall housing Rembrandt’s The Night Watch was built to optimize lighting for the painting. The work is always lit while the hall remains dark. In 1715 the canvas was trimmed to fit the new position, destroying its balance.
A Pittsburgh Press item recounts five year old Bessie describing taking medicine. She says emulsion of cod liver oil, while an visitor corrects her, noting she meant emulsion not compulsion. She adds there was a good ideal of compulsion about it.
In a People’s Home Journal vignette a boy named Willie resists giving up his seat to his father on a street car. His auntie whispers the social bid while Willie remains seated, defying the implied duty and awaiting the ride ahead.
A collection of short items including Gladstone’s imagined day in Greece, a tactful manner guide, a joke about rude neighbors, and notes on Constantinople mosques. The pieces blend anecdote, humor, and historical reference from Pearls of newspaper miscellany.
In Basutoland and Bechuanaland a village reserves a field for strangers. The king’s wife oversees storing and distributing food from the field while the stranger rests and eats in the best hut. A temporary stay may lead to full tribal membership, and some natives roam as strangers when missed. Pearson's Weekly notes the curious custom.
Mrs Dan Gelder orders cleaning of a hall closet. William carries a large pile of sheet music mistaken for rubbish. She realizes the music is not to be burned and instructs him to return it. William asks why Mabel has not played it all.
Chambers Journal describes a gray pea sized fungus that forms on sand after rain in Arabia. It tastes sweet and provides nitrogen and carbohydrates enough to sustain life for a long period, though not a perfect food for humans.
Etymologists question the claim that the phrase Green Grow the Rushes O first two words sparked the term gringo A contemptuous label for Americans. They cite 1838 and 1787 Spanish dictionaries defining gringo as unintelligible and as foreigners who speak poor Spanish respectively.
William Brady M D Chicago News explains overweight policyholders face higher early mortality and heart strain after forty. It cites height based weight guidelines, risks of underweight before forty, and stresses checking for underlying disease before dieting, noting diabetes, tuberculosis and anemia as possible causes.
A historical note explains that many chemical names mislead about their composition. Oil of vitriol is not oil, copperas contains no copper, and salts of lemon are oxalic acid. Carbolic acid is an alcohol, cobalt hides arsenic, and sugar of lead contains no sugar.
The text details a harsh Telugu custom where at village deity worship a cart with stakes is used to impale pigs, lambs, and fowls alive. The cart is dragged to the boundary and the animals die en route before being removed at the site.
The excerpt contrasts a lawyer and a madam discussing breaking a will with a refusal to pay the debt and a lawyer later reconsidering. It links to a Boston Transcript remark on tact, sharing an Archbishop Langley anecdote about what tact is not and a clergy example of failing powers.
The standard clock of the United States sits in a glass case in a dark underground vault at the Washington Naval Observatory. Temperature controlled and wound by electricity, it is constantly corrected by solar and stellar observations, and its time is deemed almost perfect within a few ten-thousandths of a second.
A Lancashire physician promised pills to a patient and a hamper of six young hens to a friend. The messenger swapped deliveries, sending the pills to the friend and the hens to the patient. The patient found a note instructing “Two of these to be swallowed every half hour.”
A telepathic woman recounts a moment when she felt her sister under ether during surgery. She describes projecting into a distant chair and sleeping until the sister emerged from anesthesia, claiming a linked mental experience.
The article notes Arcturus as one of the greatest stars and claims its light and heat could render Earth’s distance from the Sun insufficient for planetary survival. It suggests Sirius would pale in comparison if placed at the same distance, highlighting extreme stellar power.
Some sea birds spend weeks at sea and may quench thirst from falling rain. Birds’ eyesight is noted as they flutter toward storm clouds about to burst and drink water as it rains down.
The article notes that sea bathing is not enough for cleanliness among Polynesians. It states that after sea bathing a fresh water bath is necessary to wash off the salt and that insulting someone by claiming salt marks on kin is highly offensive.
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