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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1902
Page
8
A historic note explains that rose diamonds may explode under ordinary heat due to volatile liquids trapped in internal cavities. The piece links incomplete crystal formation to movable liquid drops and possible gas tension. It also shares humorous name anecdotes and a Civil War era swearing tale involving a colonel and a loyal John.
Col William G Price Jr of the Third regiment sat in his tent last week attending to official duties when a sudden incident interrupted his work. The report notes his calm handling and swift actions during the event.
Bishop Potter views the Cathedral of St. John the Divine at Morningside Heights as the largest project since the Middle Ages. The choir, planned this fall, will be 120 feet long and 108 feet high, covering 6480 square feet with a $25,000 stone mill on site. Forty stone cutters, using modern machinery, finished 10,000 cubic yards of stone last year, and at that rate it would take ten years to prepare the choir interior.
A decoction of coffee husks used by Dr. Restrepo in Medellin Antioquia Colombia showed efficacy against malaria when quinine failed and also helped with enteric colic and chronic dysentery. The report notes the decoction’s broader medicinal potential based on observed results.
The Tennessee Secretary of State displays a relic gun once owned by Davy Crockett. It is a flintlock rifle, 40 caliber, originally forty six inches, now forty and a half. Presented after Crockett’s 1829 election by Philadelphia Whig friends, funded by small contributions, with sterling silver stock and Liberty and animal motifs.
Tim Sullivan has risen in New York city politics but remains noted as a long time saloon keeper who is said to have never been seen drinking. In Albany he was once ill and advised by a physician to take whisky, but Sullivan suggested he might recover without it.
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