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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1891
Page
11
A poor shepherd interweaves a tale of Bianca and Raymond. The Serpent Queen offers wealth for a crown guarded by danger. Raymond retrieves the crown after a perilous test, helps heal the Countess with a plant, and the family gains wealth while Bianca becomes the fashion’s prize.
Communications for the department should be directed to E. KR. Chadbourns of Lewiston Maine. Include department name and exact mail or office address for official correspondence and inquiries.
A miscellany of poems and verses reflecting social manners and playful puzzles. The pieces explore youth and aging, weathering time, and witty wordplay through brief humorous stanzas and light odes. The collection juxtaposes light satire with gentle moral reflections.
Prize winners include Lottie Hughes of Apollo Pennsylvania Rebecca Nicholls of Sharon Pennsylvania and A M Power of Rochester Pennsylvania The roll of honor lists Olive A Kein C C Murch Austin Bancroft Mary M Hallrady and other names with scattered fragments of notes on conduct and discipline.
An ex president recounts meeting in Willard's Hotel lobby where the White House sent for him. The two talk four hours in a private room, sharing stories and whisky, with no mention of appointments or politics as the president seeks a relaxed evening away from interruptions.
A historical summary explores animals living without brains hearts or abdomens. It cites experiments showing headless beetles dragonflies and newts surviving days to months. It also discusses brain size relation to suffering and explains how snow hail and steam are formed and observed.
In the Ivan Tower Moscow the article notes 34 bells including a main bell over 60 tons swinging freely. It mentions two other bells of world silver with very soft pure tones and references a chapel area on the first story above.
Professor Ray Lankester explains schizomycetes or splitting molds. The rod shaped bacillus divides across into two, each half grows to full size and repeats. One old hay species divides every half hour, yielding over 300 trillion offspring in 24 hours from a single rod.
The text describes bacterial forms including rods micrococci leptothrix spirillum vibrio and comma bacillus with notes on growth and segmentation. It links shapes to species such as fowl cholera and tuberculosis and mentions spores and jelly envelopes in illustrated examples.
A naturalist observes a vast army of small black ants moving along a dry gutter. They abandon their mossy hillside home without load or provisions. The line includes workers soldiers and a swarm of reproductive castes as they march in orderly formation.
The article argues readers should roll their own cigarettes to save money and improve quality. It explains that loose rolling creates a lighter burn, avoids overheating lips and throat, and allows control over tobacco and paper quality for a healthier, cheaper smoke.
A preacher argues that drinking is not a sin but excess harms duties and families. He cites biblical quotes and calls for personal responsibility, warning that temperance requires Christian virtue, self control, and consideration for others rather than mere laws.
In a St. Louis Globe-Democrat piece the author argues a cholera reemergence in southern Europe next spring warrants an embargo on Italian and Spanish hair. The column notes much cheap U.S. hair is Italian sourced and claims some is cut from deceased hospital patients.
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