22 Oct 1896
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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1896
Page
1
Hezekiah Butterworth writes of a bird with a broken wing that heals and sings while a second life, wrecked by sin, is saved by pity. The first cannot soar again, but each loss brings a hard earned compensation and healing for pain.
A Chicago to New York train halts near a country station after a terror storm. The engineer recalls a night when a shadowy woman figure seemed to warn against crossing a swollen Rock Creek bridge. A moth in a gilt frame created the illusion, scaring the crew and saving 250 lives, a providential accident.
A New York Press reflection weighs happiness as both quantitative and qualitative, shifting from future youth to past memory in old age. It argues happiness centers on present, lover, motherhood, or manhood promises, and notes the impact of sound discipline on a seven year old, with eight decades of view on how age shapes joy.
Sailors belief tied births at sea to Stepney parish. A 1813 Chester magistrate moved a vagrant to Stepney on ground of birth at sea, a ruling later reversed by Lord Ellenborough. Shipmasters reportedly made returns to Stepney as nearest landing, reflecting long-standing maritime lore.
The Brittany and Vendée sardine industry employs many, with Nantes as the leading center for canning. Thousands of boats 25 to 30 feet long fish sardines from June onward, using small netters called manets. Workers include 150 women and 20 children per factory, with men as tinsmiths. fish are salted, boiled, packed in oil, and sold to merchants or factories.
George W. Vanderbilt is described as master of English French Spanish Latin and eight other languages. He reportedly knows Hebrew and Sanskrit and dialects of the Indian and American continents and can converse with the deaf and dumb. The article notes modern dental science saving 99 of 100 teeth that twenty years ago would have been extracted.
An old New York paper recounts Bismarck and a friend after a day of shooting with a midnight prank involving a barricaded door a gun and plaster shower in the friend's room. The tale segues to banana leaves and their many uses from paper to textiles and cordage produced by workers in Asia and the Americas.
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