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Newspaper
Sisseton Weekly Standard
Location
Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1913
Page
3
Digest describes how Ceylonese cinnamon bark is harvested dried and packed for export with attention to aroma and packing methods on ships. It then explains Norway's easy pathway to divorce requiring a year of separation and magistrate conciliation before final grant by the ministry of justice.
A girl pours boiling water into a thin glass tumbler and breaks it. The wise caller advises placing a spoon in first before pouring hot liquids to prevent such accidents and protect delicate vessels.
A writer describes the dog fish off Iceland as a long cruel looking predator, the sea greyhound without legs. Its two eyes gleam like emeralds, a sharp bony protuberance sits on its back, and its mouth lies beneath its body like the shark.
Rev E J Hardy notes a curate in England who, at his wedding, received a handsome gift from parishioners. The clergyman began his thanks by saying he would not call them ladies and gentlemen since he knows them too well for that.
Arnold Bennett argues that true self knowledge is rare and hard to attain. Many mistake self awareness for easy is to be found by observation of others, yet honest self critique demands detachment, fearless confession, and the willingness to face one's actual nature. The pursuit is arduous but endlessly compelling.
An aspiring writer waits for the postman and learns the magazine returned three poems after he sent two. The exchange leaves him frustrated as he sits in disappointment and mutters that he has been rubbed. The humorous missive underscores a mix up in literary submissions and rejection by a publication.
Rossini carried a remarkable musical repeater watch presented by the king. A café challenged him with a 10 000 franc wager claiming the watch hid his portrait and another of his pieces. The maker Michel Plivee revealed the portrait and the piece Di Tanti Palpiti. Nearby Lombardy bands of firlinfoens play pan pipe tunes learned by heart from a gramophone.
A brief note on music finds the composition curious at first but not displeasing. The piece is described as having an odd yet agreeable quality in the Wide World Magazine review.
On Ascension day at Whitby a revived old British penance is observed. Lords of manors once hunted a hermit’s chapel and slew the hermit after he barred them. In penance they now carry wood to the water and drive in stakes each anniversary of his death, with lands at stake if the erection fails to survive three tides. Representatives of the manor continue the ceremony.
The piece notes children fear the sea and urges caution at the shore. John Muirim recalls being forced into waves by a strong servant, leaving him miserable and hiding in the house until the bathing moment passed.
Sir Spencer Walpole earned fame from his History of England From 1815 after a noble lord left him £10,000 in his will. Lord Egmont’s death soon after funded Walpole’s shift from journalism to literary achievement.
A Glasgow Scotsman quotation depicts a minister praising Mrs. Robinson for attending church regularly on a Sabbath. She replies cheerfully that the seat is comfortable and she has little to think about, highlighting humble everyday church life.
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