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Newspaper
Russiaville Observer
Location
Russiaville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1899
Page
2
A German biologist reports that facial halves rarely match with two sides out of five eyes misaligned, one eye stronger than the other in seven of ten persons, and the right eye usually higher than the left.
The nationwide sale monopoly for alcohol in Russia yielded increased revenue. Fiscal reports show receipts rose from 37,000,000 rubles under the old system to 56,000,000 rubles under the new monopoly, with the government benefiting financially.
The fear of assassination grips the sultan of Turkey as he increases precautions and trains in revolver shooting becoming skilled with both hands.
An elderly man in western Massachusetts, over sixty, has served the Boston and Albany line for more than forty years and could ride free on its cars at will, yet he has never visited Boston.
An Ohio inventor patents a street car floor with double edges and an upper panel supported by brackets. The design raises to create a gap for feet, preventing tread on seated passengers and allowing room for feet to slip wider when needed.
A New York board member proposes tighter rules on selling poisons to curb suicides and reduce cases of poisonings. The action targets preventive measures to limit access to dangerous chemicals.
The article notes nurse stipends with S40 monthly for service in the United States and $25 to $40 monthly in operating rooms of city hospitals. It states hospitals pay $10 and that nurses must supply their own wardrobe, similar to army nurses.
Military critics express astonishment at the ignorance of British officers in Natal about the country’s physical features. They have failed to survey hills and kopjes and know little of the lay of the land from which Boers are now striking at the heart of the British army.
The climate of Egypt is praised for fine air and sunshine with mild temps and wholesome provisions. However sanitary arrangements are poor and most hotels in Cairo are unsanitary and poorly sited, dampening appeal.
Official Danish figures indicate grain output rose after early nineteenth century reforms, with production reaching about 26,000,500 bushels and later averaging around 50,650,000 during the 1850s to 1860s period, reflecting significant growth across years.
Trianete Texas is laid out as an equilateral triangle with twenty three three cornered houses. The three main streets bear punning names Eqquilateral Scaiene and Psesceles. Local government mirrors the shape with a three member council.
The passage contrasts two workers daily laborers and a planned thinker. It notes one is driven by wages and weekly pay while the other finds pleasure in purposeful work and progress, regardless of remuneration.
Maitre Labori won a libel suit against Libre Parole over claims the lawyer’s Dreyfus defense wound was personal safety related. The newspaper must pay a $400 fine and publish the verdict in forty Paris and 200 provincial papers, costing about $4,000.
The text notes Cape Colony shows a 400 percent population rise over thirty years, from 500,000 in 1865 to about 2,000,000 in 1895. Australia follows with 124 percent, the United States 100 percent, Canada 60, Russia 46, Great Britain 37, Italy 36, and Germany 29 percent.
The Egyptian exploration fund has worked in the same Nile district near Denderch, opening and recording about 1,250 prehistoric graves and as many historic ones mainly from the twelfth dynasty. It has secured a government promise to work at Abydos, a key site, and Prof Maspero will return to Egypt to lead the Department of Antiquities anew.
A frontier column notes growing British concern over the South African war. It details reverses against generals White Gatacre Alcuhen and Buller, and ponders Boer gains from Kimberley to Ladysmith. It considers the empire at stake and speculative visions of a United States of South Africa.
Dr. Talmage preacher frames life as a brief tale and urges punctual, purposeful living. He cites biblical parables and worldly decay to stress using the final year of a century for gospel work, urging believers to end the century with prayer, action, and reconciliation.
On a crowded Chestnut and Walnut streets trolley a young man and an older man fight over a vacant seat. The older man offers coin to decide, flips a coin, and wins the seat while a bystander calls it a dead game sport.
A historical letter from the Duke of Portland denounces Der Clark for sympathy with the Dict of the Transvaal and links William Bentinck to Dutch ancestry. It traces Bentinck and Arnald van Weppel as early imports by William II, notes his cavalry command at the Battle of Payne, his roles as Groom of the Stole and British ambassador, and his vast estates and money, while mentioning a contested £100,000 Crown lands grant later canceled due to public pressure.
The Globe Arizona Silver Belt describes a dramatic natural bridge on Pine Creek in northern Gila County. It spans about 200 feet high with 700 to 800 foot canyon walls on each side. The great arch is roughly 400 feet wide and 1,000 feet long, thinning to six feet at the apex. A center hole allows viewing a crystal pool 200 feet below.
The guide states no more than three persons in a household should accept an invitation, with exceptions for special circumstances. It advises daughters may attend where their mother has not been invited, and warns against selective addressing like Mr and Mrs Brown and family while avoiding separate invites for Miss Brown and the brothers.
The Philadelphia North American notes a contrast between a lively figure described as as lively as a cricket and another, solemn and serious, bearing the weight of responsibility, amid a scene of public discourse and observation.
A London Chronicle translation presents a Boers camp song from the Majuba campaign. The verses claim birthright and land rights, vowing liberty and defiance, with lines about reclaiming soil and sacrifice for fatherland and freedom.
A postwar summary notes Majuba hill defeat on February 27 1881 where Gen Sir George Colley led 660 British troops to a six hour assault by 250 Boers. The British suffered over 300 killed and the Boers five wounded with Colley dying by suicide. The battle ended the 1881 conflict and preceded Gladstone's peace treaty recognizing Transvaal independence.
In Herr John Booth's Memoirs of the Iron Chancellor an anecdote describes Otto von Bismarck's remarkable appetite. He reportedly ate 175 oysters in a single sitting after a sequence of orders and decided to eat nothing else. The note adds that he was 26 and just back from England. It also mentions his later diminished cigar smoking.
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