23 Feb 1900
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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1900
Page
1
A collection of quoted maxims and opinions on society patience and character, followed by a note on Sir Alfred Milner's published letters about the Transvaal's armaments and the Boer republics as modern history's notable conflict. The piece ends with a projection on how future historians will view the Transvaal war.
Henry D. Clayton of Alabama introduces a congress resolution to turn Cuba over to the Cubans on the coming Fourth of July. The treaty of Spain requires U S control through April to allow Spanish residents to depart. At that time Cuba should be turned over to the Cubans in fulfillment of the pledge made during the Spanish-American War.
The text notes that beliefs gain strength as they take root over time. It argues most people need time for convictions to mature, with early opinions growing into controlling beliefs through daily life. It encourages parents to trust gradual character formation in children.
The excerpt argues that true greatness lies in maintaining personal independence within the crowd. It stresses that power is earned and enduring when it sustains itself without reliance on others or external props, and that a great person preserves gentle, solitary integrity amid public opinion.
Dealers report a slight rise in interest for long tailed carriage horses though docked tails remain dominant in Fifth Avenue. Most horses come from Ohio with tails cut to fashionable length. while some embrace less docking, English practice of banging tails is debated as similar to docking.
A man returning from a rope adventure recounts travel misdirections at stations in Naples Florence Brussels and Brussels with misread place names. He recalls a Scottish palace sentinel who directs visitors to keep to the right to avoid painted floors, a rule still enforced after a century.
A Pall Mall Gazette correspondent reports an octopus plague near Rivage de Questidhon on the Cherbourg promontory. Boats idle as sea creatures devastate shellfish. one octopus swallowed eighteen oysters in a single tide, with sightings of sixty eight along high-water mark and tentacles measuring up to five feet seven inches. If winter does not curb them, no bathing next summer along this coast.
In 1890 Japan had four life insurance companies with capital of 1,434,000 dollars. By 1898 registrations rose to seventy three with capital 30,900,800 dollars. In the same span thirty six firms issued 10, or 510,000 policies valued at 106,800,000 dollars.
The island of Ceylon, a British colony, reports 405000 acres of tea under cultivation out of just over two million acres under the plow.
Rob hides from the gang in a tobacco cavern and discovers an arsenal of weapons and powder. Starne, Elvin, and Captain Torreyo loom over his fate as he awaits a chance to escape and prays for rescue. The desperate boy endures hunger and fear while torches burn and the cave darkens around him.
Rob awakens in a rock cavern to find the entrance blocked by a stone. He is trapped for weeks or months and fears death. He recalls his mother and dreams of a better future, then discovers matches in Captain Torreyo’s jacket and lights a torch to search the caverns for an exit and food. He notes vast contraband stores but no usable escape.
At a New York Microscopical Society meeting the president showed the honeybee wing and its hooklets that join the two wings for flight. The upper wing is about half an inch, the lower slightly shorter, with nineteen or twenty hooks along a reinforced rib. When leaving the hive the bee folds and aligns the wings, and the hooks engage a flange on the upper wing edge to form one wing.
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