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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1887
Page
7
In a BMEs Moines segment, Breeden advocates shifting breeding toward leaner beef pork and mutton to meet rising taste for marbleized meat. Consumers demand less fat. butchers and swine producers must favor hogs and stock with meatier, leaner profiles, affecting tallow value and breeding goals.
A Boulogne 1881 exhibition showcased a tiny Eastern dressed necromancer automaton. Three inch figure on a marblelike tin pedestal manipulated goblets and balls, produced eggs with bellbirds, and bowed theatrically. Historical notes cite early automata from 1729 and 1746 shows by Bointrou and Bergom of Zoom, reflecting long fascination with mechanical puppets and clockwork tricks.
A Harper’s Magazine提age argues diary keeping is both beneficial for self observation and historical record, but warns diaries distort truth, are partisan and unreliable. A Crawfordsville New Yorker cornet describes insecticide dangers including Paris green causing horse, cattle, and human harm, urging safer substitutes and caution.
The Pall Mall Gazette reports an interview with Count Leo Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana. Tolstoy rejects force even to protect a daughter in Siberian prisoner brutality, urging peaceful persuasion as the way to establish a reign of peace on earth.
The piece surveys current dress and accessory trends with emphasis on the Marinerite reticule pocket, high necklines, wave blue shades, French cheviot suitings, seal and alligator pocketbooks, steamer wear, India lawn outfits, embroidered muslin sacques, and revived pin bead dotted muslins. It notes new white silk dotted net hats, a white albatross tennis skirt with pale yellow sash, and a Philadelphia Press item about a mudstone at Union Point, Ga priced at 25 000 dollars claimed to cure ailments.
A collage of domestic tips and recipes from periodical pages includes soothing eye care with warm salt water, a cream batter cake recipe, admonitions about a shepherd’s temper, external remedies for scalds and ivy poison, Juvelle stain remover, dairy farming insight on calf value, layered fish with crumbs, potato souffle method, chocolate pudding with york details, and a method to clean small screws using oil, sawdust, and shaking.
An Iowa Agricultural College study compares cob meal and Indian meal in hog feeding. Six mixed-breed hogs around 230 pounds were split into two groups, with cob meal and with pure corn meal, then weighed weekly. Clear meal produced faster gains, but cob meal offered better cost efficiency. calculations show pounds of pork per bushel and cost per bushel at three dollars, illustrating tradeoffs between feed type and profit.
Ito the Prime Minister of Japan urges Empress to adopt European dress to spur women toward Western civilization. He notes the present costume is picturesque healthy and economical but argues Western attire brings ideas and domestic habits, while observations suggest dress reflects wearer’s temperament and social life through fashion.
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