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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1897
Page
3
A reflection on life noting how joy and sorrow alternate and deepen each other. The verse pairs smiles with tears, suggesting love makes daily rations precious and that laughter gains sweetness after care and trouble. Paul Lawrence Dunbar’s lines capture the bittersweet rhythm of existence.
In the Wyoming cattle country Broncho Sam and Jack Reynolds contend with a sudden mountain flood that imperils Simpson’s Ranch. Jack gallops Comanche through a rising torrent to reach Edith Simpson and is aided by Simpson, who returns to reclaim his daughter and reveal restitution from a former partner.
An overview lists 333 million Indian idols with Brahma Vishnu and Siva as supreme. Descriptions cover Vishnu in multiple avatars and Lakshmi, plus Siva and his consort Durga Kali, noting their iconography and symbolic meanings in Hindu worship.
A rare mineral cleveite in Norway near Ryfylke contains helium, previously observed in the sun. The mineral is costly but a new mine promises abundances and a price around five dollars per pound.
A medical item reports a surgical operation on the lungs as a noteworthy announcement. Details are sparse but indicate a procedure performed by physicians, with emphasis on its significance to patient care and potential outcomes.
A tank in Commissioner Blackford's depot holds about a thousand bullfrogs shipped to New York for schools colleges and science demonstrations. Most frogs come from Ontario Canada and the Adirondacks and Maine for sale as saddles at about 75 cents a pound. Frogs are captured with red flannel bait, kept in baskets, then dressed and sold fresh or frozen for markets.
Cassier's Magazine notes wheelbarrow use as passenger transport in Shanghai since cotton mills began. A man can move six women about three miles for 1s. 5d. monthly, with average earnings near id per day. About 4,000 licenses issue monthly in foreign settlements, where up to fifty barrows may line the streets carrying cargo.
A Boston Transcript article explains wax figure making requires anatomy study and life modeling. Costs cited include $10 for hands and feet, $20 for children's heads, and $40 to $45 for heads and shoulders. Finishing touches and wig quality affect price and realism.
A Topeka man seeks help for sleeplessness by a medical student who prescribes a trio of pills. The patient misplaces the open box, takes three pills at bedtime, and sleeps. The student boasts of his success while the box is later found empty.
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