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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1913
Page
6
An exploration of why glass is transparent and how light travels through windows. It discusses crystal structure, air bubbles, and the effect of different materials like oil on paper, noting how transparency varies with composition and density.
In Potsdam a beautiful embroidered tablecloth, resented to the Empress, features Teutonic moral maxims stitched across its entire surface. The piece, meticulously worked, reflects countless hours of care and skill.
The Kansas Industrialist notes that breathing exercises benefit sedentary people but should not be done at daybreak. After six to eight hours of sleep circulation is slow and it takes hours for the body to smooth into action. Ten minutes of breathing work adds startup effort, so exercise is better after the body has had running or steady activity for several hours.
A seven year old girl at tea with a friend is asked if she has sisters. She replies she has two brothers and, with quiet insight, that she is the sister they have. The note appears in Harper's Bazaar.
Health notes compare chicken breast and other bird meats in digestibility and nutrition. It discusses tenderness, albumen content, and suitability for convalescents, advising grain feeding for nitrogen and rating turkey pheasant duck and partridge for taste and digestion. Duck is harder to digest though still nutritious. wild birds vary in cleanliness and safety.
The Barking Parish Magazine invites six young churchmen to join the St. Margaret's Society of Change Ringers. Required are earnestness enthusiasm and energy. Preference to those dedicating most spare time to campanology a brainy study more engaging than billiards cricket football or pictures. Remuneration promises more kicks than ha pence.
A Life magazine quote jokes that a large portion of the population would be better off staying in bed longer. It suggests that sleep costs nothing but time and could reduce demand for lunatic asylums if legislatures mandated one third of time in bed.
A robber bursts into a train car as travelers prepare for night. He orders payment from the passengers, looming over an eastern clergyman who ends a devout prayer. The minister responds by quipping that energetic givers would enable more offerings.
A humorous exchange questions whether a dog is man’s best friend. The speaker claims to own a dog but not out of affection, noting their brood’s nuisance as the dog howls whenever his wife sings. The Judge weighs in with a wry remark on loyalty and companionship.
The article recounts a seal hunt as described by V. Steffansson in Har '3 Magazin. Hunters lie camouflaged as seals, crawl across ice to within range, and strike swiftly when the seal is asleep or alert, noting the seals’ slow, sleepy cycles and the need for patient, stealthy approach.
The piece of black pyrite misled Frobisher into a second voyage to Greenland. He returned with 200 tons of rubbish that tarnished his later days, as his shipmates and London goldsmiths doubted the gold claim while an Italian quack swayed his judgment.
A benevolent man asks a boy to surrender his seat to a tired old lady. The lady retorts that she will mind her own business and mocks the man's baldness visible under his hat. The exchange captures social manners aboard a Chicago Record voyage.
A fragment from Fliegende Blatter presents a beggar's quip about exploiting two women in an apartment building. The joke hinges on both doors being rung simultaneously to provoke competition between the two occupants.
A Chinese proverb notes that when tools wear down and leaders neglect duties the empire is poorly governed. When teachers and doctors abandon status symbols for common work the people prosper. It emphasizes frugality, practical roles, and governance by merit.
An excerpt recounts Britain ending transportation in 1868 with the cabinet ship Success sunk then raised and used again. The exhibition shows cells irons ball chains flogging whips anklets and other devices. Descriptions detail leg irons weighing up to fifty six pounds and life aboard the lower deck with dark damp cells few daylight hours and the black hole where prisoners lingered in misery.
The future emperor Louis Napoleon briefly visited the United States after his quarrel with Louis Philippe in 1836. He stayed only a few months before returning to his mother in Switzerland, reaching her bedside around October 1, 1837, and never returning to the United States afterward.
A historical description notes the tower of Pisa stands 197 feet high with a forty foot diameter and eight stories. The summit is reached by 390 steps and the structure sits about thirty feet from perpendicular. Countermeasures include upper galleries shaped to counteract tilt and seven bells at the top weighing up to 12,000 pounds to balance the lean.
A Louisville Times note recounts a teacher asking students to identify the error in "The toast was drank in silence." After a pause a pupil corrected it to "The toast was ate in silence."
Granite weighs 2.663 times water with a specific gravity. Strength varies by grade from 18 000 psi for poor material to 30 000 psi for good close grained granite, with Wisconsin samples reaching 43 973 psi under a tiny cube test.
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