02 Aug 1890
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Newspaper
Paradise Messenger
Location
Paradise, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1890
Page
3
An Irishman pays 25 cents for a turf strip 9 by 3 feet and 6 to 9 feet deep. Turves dry in heaps, are turned three times, and carted 4–6 miles by donkey or horse to the peasant home. The article details rails and sug ganns rope and a humorous tale of an Irish cart load and a barefoot homeward end.
A St Louis Republic explanation outlines how thread numbering reflects yardage per pound and material weight. It notes early thread used three strands, later six, and how 60 yarn corresponds to 60 thread, with No 60 equal to three No 20 strands twisted together.
At auction in Lisbon Connecticut a portable open-and-shut pulpit once owned by Rev Amos Read was kept by the Read family. The pulpit, carried on horseback during missionary trips, served as pulpit and later a communion table. The Read family also possesses an 1768 tavern sign reading Entertainment for Man and Horse.
In Philadelphia the Evening Bulletin faced a delayed edition after its office cat wandered into the press, leaving thin cat residue on the forms and a bent roller. The incident delayed the postscript edition and left the city with tabby specks on the papers. Nearby, Australian foxes have multiplied in several districts, nearing pest levels comparable to rabbits.
A well-dressed shopper in a busy retail restaurant seeks a light meal and hot milk. An elder companion extols milk for digestion and beauty, warning to sip slowly, and contrasts hot milk with beer and cold drinks as a health aid for weary workers. The piece contrasts fast eating with measured sipping and notes broader social habits.
The article details bank tellers at English counters using a lip to keep coins from rolling, counting with multiple fingers, and sometimes six fingers. It notes a teller can count 450 coins in a minute and £100 in seven minutes when faced with mixed coin types and no decimal system. It contrasts English coin handling with Scotland where £1 notes reduce gold use and praises the Scotch teller’s skill with paper money.
The piece argues that purely literary schooling breeds moral torpor and cites bank embezzlement aldermanic corruption and wage slavery as evidence. It calls for ethical and industrial training to instill justice fraternity self respect sincerity spirituality and heroism in children from early education.
A satirical column in the Ceylon Catholic Messenger imagines mothers selling babies as crocodile bait. It jokes that hunters lure crocodiles with a child’s presence, firing when the animal nears the bank, while the infant is returned to its mother. The piece notes skins and heads for the hunter and other uses for the carcass.
The largest tombstone in the world is said to be Henry Scarlett’s memorial in Upson County Georgia. Scarlett a wealthy recluse reportedly died in spring 1888 after commissioning a 100 by 250 foot granite boulder as a tomb with a cave beneath it. Remains were interred under the rock following ante mortem directions.
Ely Stanton argues that education of sons and daughters toward the sacredness of marriage and parenthood must begin early. He critiques harsh laws and urges broad human culture for genuine moral progress, warning against hypocrisy from prohibitory measures. Darwin and heredity are cited to show risks of ill-considered marriages.
A thrifty German farmer near Jefferson, after a chain of trades with a Connecticut neighbor, insists he will from now on trade only with his own people. The neighbor exchanges sheep for hogs, then disputes payment, exposing a misunderstanding about who owes whom. The German sighs that that’s not a way to do business.
The Florida Times Union urges New England crews to shift to Florida waters, noting 1804 miles of coast from Tampa Bay to Key West teeming with mullet and other fish. It cites 45 000 mullets caught in Tampa Bay last fall turned into 30 000 cans of Spanish mackerel and highlights grouper banks as rich sources for profits.
A needle maker recalls preparing many magnetic needles from one steel plate by the best worker. Despite identical process readings varied from zero to a full degree, puzzling the manufacturer.
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