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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1903
Page
4
The Shoshone village notes complaints about street dust from ongoing excavations for new buildings. A recent fire at the Kraft residence underscored the town's vulnerability on windy days. Development continues with several substantial business blocks planned, risking setback if a major fire destroys property.
Fragments recount a Nubian center where newborns are fed goat milk and sold for high prices, detailing captive Nubian ibex and other species in cruel trade. It notes difficulty capturing and rearing rhinos and antelope, with prices from $1,000 to $3,000 and references to a speculative, regressive industry.
A Walter Besant anecdote describes a park encounter with an old beggar woman who taunts him for giving change. Besant disperses the crowd with coins, then learns the woman dubbed him a rogue, curing him of promiscuous almsgiving. It also notes a spider’s precise, purposeful weaving and planning, likening its intelligence to a geometrician at work.
The renowned pianist Leopold de Meyer was summoned to Constantinople to perform at the palace. He borrowed a grand piano and set it in a reception room, but the sultan reacted with surprise to the instrument’s three legs until the legs were removed and de Meyer played seated on a mat. The sultan rewarded him with over $5,000 as a tip.
The piece, carved on a cherry seed and showing beads of kings, queens, emperors, saints, is claimed by Professor Oliver to distinguish papal and royal heads by their miters and crowns. A buyer paid £5,000 in Tresela. Also noted is parallel-ray optics and eye refraction methods, highlighting single convex lenses as common in optometry.
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