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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1892
Page
13
The narrative recalls two stylish, well-off individuals whose good looks and social polish mask a slipping income. Their cultivated life, servants, and country routines are depicted with longing detail, as shrinking finances force them to seek pocket money while their peers hesitate to support them.
A narrator plans models for an upcoming deluxe edition of novels. He weighs amateurs against paid professionals and tests two couples, Major and Mrs Monarch and Miss Charm, as potential living illustrations. Miss Charm’s wet umbrella and flexible versatility foreshadow how readers, editors, and artists shape the visuals for fashionable fiction.
A Buddhist legend from Jizo-klo-kosai tells of a Kama kura wife of Ronin Soga Sadayoshi who makes a warm cap for the Jizo statue at Kencho-ji. She dies at fifty, returns from the underworld after judgment, is spared by Jizo, and is pardoned for her charity. The tale notes Buddhist law forbidding silk for priests, yet many priests still wear silk.
Bob Burdette jokes about illness and doctors in a satirical quatrain about sickness as a polite burden. The piece reflects on health, the humor of being sick, and the idea that too many doctors can hasten recovery, mixing lively anecdotes with wry observations on temper and fatigue.
A diaristic scene follows a feverish morning and a bedridden day as a sick person resists illness, debates seeking a doctor, and endures the comic miseries of exposure and dread. The doctor arrives, orders bed rest, and the narrator muses on gender expectations and self punishment, ending with a drifting memory of yard birds and the garden.
A wounded soldier recounts days in a hospital ward as fatigue and isolation mount. He describes restless nights, a ticking clock that seems to barb wire his mind, the lure of reading, and the longing for a window and fresh air amid the surreal quiet of confinement. Rosent J. Budette
England introduces value named material vullite as a liquid fire extinguisher and skin protector. It freezes at very low temperatures and harms fabrics and timber less. A small charge halted a large fire with highly flammable materials almost instantly, and it remains nonflammable after exposure to prior combustibles.
A Berlin lecture on electric appliances for safe security describes how modern burglars carry compact crowbars with interchangeable tools to breach safes. Advances include welded one piece safes, brittle steel plates, and a melting lamp, but electricity offers the strongest defense via a self contained alarm that triggers when the safe is disturbed, revealing the thief.
Doctors report successful use of hypodermic strychnia and hot therapy after a death adder bite in Queensland. A child lost a finger but recovered consciousness within minutes and regained health the next day. The case underscores strychnia as a valuable snake venom antidote, now adopted in many similar incidents.
Henry Wilde argues the earth comprises a liquid inner mass and a rotating outer shell, producing magnetic declination shifts as the crust tilts since infancy. He ties the inner core to electro dynamic behavior while the shell behaves electromagnetically, contrasting with Sir William Thomson's solid globe view and rigid core.
The Lauffen Frankfort plant success boosts long distance power transmission. Interest grows in using Niagara Falls for NYC power, with hopeful forecasts and cautious commentary. Two new ideas on electrical transmission merit attention, including insights from Prof. Elihu Thomson.
The excerpt contrasts Halting Heedle’s plan to push underground power using cotton and cheap oil with proposals for central stations powered by oil instead of coal. It also records Tesla’s view that future electricity transmission will not require long distances as cheap power could be accessed anywhere in the universe.
The article analyzes steamship operation costs, noting six ships earned 800000 gross last year while expenses totaled 815000, leaving only about one tenth for owners. It discusses crew wages, port charges, insurance, docking, stores, and management as major outlays, with coal costs fluctuating but not enough to offset high operating costs. It urges owners to focus on reducing expenses, especially in fuel and dock charges, to keep freights low.
The article argues memory improves through steady effort and practical practice. Focused daily effort, attention, and deliberate note taking strengthen recall. Training the mind involves recording small daily details like money, dates, addresses, and orchard counts to build vigor and avoid mental laziness.
The piece argues farm birds like meadow larks and sparrows cause minimal harm, feeding mainly on insects, while crows and sparrows are the most destructive. It notes roosting birds can reduce crop damage, and that a few birds may eat many pests in 100 days, challenging negative views of these species. It also discusses the electric motor transforming industry in Rochester.
Paris engineer M Bonneau argues for electric traction on trunk lines with stations along routes feeding current to locomotives through rails. He predicts Paris to Marseilles in about nine hours and notes American experiments may yield rapid developments within a year.
Agitation in England over handshakes noted as Queen Marguerite of Italy plans to send a lace exhibit to the World’s Fair. The display highlights Venetian point in relief and the Burano revival sparked by two noblewomen. The collection may include Pope Clement XIII’s Sacca and a Louis XIV collar, underscoring lace’s rich history and value.
The writer, noted for a sharp epigrammatic style, has published hundreds of articles over two decades and produced several novels before age thirty. She still writes about five hours daily, with a recent paper on "Wild Women" arguing that unsexed women please unsexed men.
A historical sketch outlines Venetian lace origins with a sailor bringing sea plant inspired lace. It follows Burano revival, late seventeenth century perfection, decline, and a 30 year resurgence amid famine era and Countess Adriano Marcello Burano influence, noting workers strained to meet demand.
A bankrupt West of England storekeeper kept ledgers using symbolic names for associates and customers. Circles with marks stood for goods like cheese and grind stones, but the notable record list named people such as the Woman on the Key, the Coal Woman, Fat Coal Woman, Market Woman, A Man, Old Irish Woman, Mrs. Feather Bonnet, Blue Bonnet, Green Coat, and The Woman That Told Me of the Man.
The piece profiles Mrs E Lynn Linton a 76 year old English writer known for sharp critiques of women s issues. Once dependent on investments she has since built a career as a working writer. She is separated from her husband reformer W J Linton and writes with vigor about divorce and social norms including modesty and attire.
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