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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1889
Page
7
A prince seeks the beautiful princess with the aid of a wizard and a magical horse. After the ugly sister robs them, the prince uses an invisibility pill and a witchcraft elixir to rescue the princess from the Enchanted Cavern, returning home as the ugly sister vanishes forever.
A Springfield Union tale mocks two Western State men touring Europe. They snub Louvre paintings and fail to grasp famous sights, while a New Yorker and a Maine general with families become comic foils. The Maine figure ignores St Peter's charm for a Bangor Whig.
A humorous exchange unfolds as Little Carl asks a neighbor about her grapes and is offered fruit. The neighbor replies about family health and ripening grapes, and Carl contemplates accepting if offered. The light local vignette showcases playful neighborliness in a Toledo setting.
An invention to be tried in Pittsburg claims to achieve perfect combustion of fuel so no smoke is emitted. It is pitched to also burn cheap cigars and cigarettes without smoke, a feature that would be widely welcomed.
The article notes a strange physiological fact that handsome men and pretty women are often "summer children" born with flowers and sunshine around them. It claims many of today’s famous beauties share this summer-born trait.
Olive Weston recounts tales of royal women long past, focusing on the Empress of Austria famed as the queen of the arena and her wild youth. The piece surveys royal fads from riding and hunting to private circuses and formal Viennese society, concluding with the Empress’s recent domestic tragedy and altered life.
A Boston journal recounts a woman over dressed with a nurse and a tyrannical boy of about three causing chaos on a Saint Louis express. The child shrieks and attacks the nurse, while the mother encourages indulgence. A wasp incident leads to the nurse and passengers briefly rejoicing before the child harms the nurse again and the mother yields.
A canoe township correspondent asks for a tale formula where the hero falls deeply for the heroine and then suffers a blow or illness. He is carried to her home, regains consciousness after weeks, asks where he is, and is reassured by the heroine, leading to marriage. Variations include accident or illness to advance the plot.
A Punxsutawney gentleman carrying whisky as snake bite antidote was saved when a rattlesnake struck his hip pocket bottle but the cork remained intact. If the bottle had held water the outcome would still have avoided harm, but the whisky spared him.
An obscure note reports on the Earlswood Totter with mention of mashers and bands. It hints at a shift in their style and a concern for morale or mental structure, though details are fragmented and unclear.
An American consul describes revived Swiss rural sports, detailing the Hornet game from Emmental villages and the traditional swinging wrestling of Berner and Emmenthal mountaineers. He notes judges, spectators, and ritual flag swinging by Sennenbruderschaft members as part of the two day festival ending with communal revelry in the Alps.
In Virginia and Pennsylvania mountain villages a people keep cures for weak eyes scrofula consumption cancer and hydrophobia within a single family member who must share no more than one person away. The belief says if money is accepted the remedy loses its virtue. Similar superstition exists among Hungarian peasants for protective amulets. Ancient Irish practice also taught baking a cake for any guest and leaving crumbs for unseen spirits.
The humorist Eugene Field kept a big white rabbit in a dug burrow in the yard to avoid indoor damage. His three sons discovered the rabbits had multiplied, reporting proudly that they had planted one and now ten little rabbits emerged, a simple lesson in natural history.
In a playful exchange, Mr Partridge asks if a seat is taken while Miss Holly Hawke ponders the crowded row and potential bundles nearby, ending with Partridge exiting.
Readers learn how the Teutonic, built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast, represents speed and safety in transatlantic service. The ship’s design balances coal capacity, cargo space, and rapid voyage times between Britain and the United States, with the Majestic as its sister ship awaiting completion.
A discussion tracing historic declines in mortality, urging universal sanitation improvements. It argues that proper waste removal, water supply, and ventilation could cut national deaths from disease dramatically, saving hundreds of thousands yearly and improving overall public welfare through engineered sanitary measures.
M M G Lippmann reports at the Paris Academy of Sciences on a systematic setup using colored glass plates before the objective. Exposures with successive glass colors yield accurate green foliage and red drapes rather than dark tints, suggesting a breakthrough for landscape photography and light investigation.
A analysis draws linkages between railroad stockholders and workers showing how rail operation touches society. It estimates numbers of miles, earnings, and employment in prosperous times and questions the breadth of railroad influence on the working class.
An estimate adds 740 000 workers to a base count for rail related industries, reaching about 1 716 000 employed nationwide or roughly 11 per mile of railroad. Assuming each worker supports a family of five, aggregate population nears 1 580 009 with 98 percent dependent on the railway system for sustenance.
Professor J W Jenks argues Illinois roads carry full loads only three months a year two thirds for three months and half for six months. He notes macadam roads could raise efficiency and lowers costs. If roads were improved farmers could gain 160 million in farm value and save 15 million annually in hauling costs.
A Civil and Mechanical Engineers Society of England report summarizes inquiries to 23 towns that abandoned sea water for road material, sewer flushing or other uses. Ramsgate and Folkestone report damage to road surfaces, some towns find sea water helpful for preventing dust, Berwick-upon-Tweed commends it for road uses, and a test notes sea water resting a leak to two loads of fresh water.
Small machines thirty inches long and six inches wide work on a table like a typewriter. They are powered by a current from an incandescent light wire. The devices claim an average output of twenty five words per minute.
Prof Kedzie warns that leaving old paper and paste in a room can ruin sanitation and invite disease. His guidance is to peel away all old paper before applying new wallpaper.
A Boston Transcript piece describes children proposing shared toys, then redistributing dolls by size. A little girl questions fairness, and the hidden claim to the largest doll reveals self serving behavior despite talk of self denial.
Detroit Free Press reports a patrolman found a man asleep in Randolph Street Park at midnight. The man claimed a good excuse and asked the officer to verify if William Docker was home, leading to a humorous misidentification and a water splash as proof.
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