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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1921
Page
6
A London Answers writer explains how age can be gauged in animals by teeth horns and antlers. It notes deer and other horned animals age by horn rings while birds by spur development and trees by growth rings after felled. Mistletoe years are counted from root to tips.
The sixteenth century Scotsman John Scot used the hunger strike as protest after a legal defeat. He fasted 30 to 40 days in Holyrood Abbey, then in Edinburgh Castle, was released after 32 days, and later fasted in Rome Venice and England while opposing Henry VIII’s divorce. He preached against the divorce and endured a 50 day hunger strike in prison.
The grasshopper produces its shrill note without using the throat. Sound comes from the wings. A rib on each wing acts as a file while another part is stretched like a drum. When one file is drawn over the other the drum vibrates to create the tone.
A late night misdirection leads a man to break into the wrong house. The frightened resident begs him to leave and offers valuables, revealing his self proclaimed vocation as a “bang up burglar.” The narration, from the New York Evening Post, frames a surprising career origin.
The article notes amber’s early use in Greece and Mycenae anciently. It traces amber’s medical history from Hippocrates onward, citing powdered amber in eggs, distillation oil, vola tile salt, and applications for hiccough, typhoid fever, pain from spasms, delirium tremens, and whooping cough embrocation.
A Detroit Free Press item notes a New York woman attempted to auction her husband but the bid failed. The anecdote is cited as poking fun at beliefs about auctions and consumer behavior.
The saying arose in England among marines assigned to battleships in earlier times. Lacking seamanship, they believed outrageous sea stories told to them. Hearers then urged storytellers to tell it to the marines.
A brief remark notes that there are people who view virtue as exclusive to their own side, labeling those with opposing views as excessively stupid and uncharitable.
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