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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1899
Page
2
Pekin dispatch reports Liou Koua Yi, viceroy of Nanking, memorialized the throne urging training of military officials and adoption of modern methods over ancient drills. The throne issued an edict severely criticizing the memorial and censuring the viceroy's presumption.
The psaltery of Spain is supposed to have been introduced into that country by the Moors. It is still in common use among the peasants.
A British Army piece details life in barracks including tea bread and butter rationing, limited meals, and the strict conditions for marriage. It notes wives’ roles as washers, the care of large families, and the social ties linking soldiers and regimental life.
A 17th century line from An Anatomy of Melancholy extols tobacco as a noble medicinal herb when well used, yet warns it becomes a plague, ruinous to body and soul when abused like ale by tinkers. The quotation frames tobacco as both sovereign remedy and dangerous vice.
Milwaukee reader J J Doran recalls fifteen years of diabetes and failing treatments, claiming Dodds Kidney Pills cured him. The ad touts the pills as a universal remedy for kidney related diseases and offers a $4 watch incentive for readers who share the publication, with ordering details and a New York mailing address.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat notes that acoustic phenomena elude science. Small changes in architecture alter sound propagation and fog signals can be heard far away or not at all. A central city bell varies in audibility with weather, being clearest in turbulent air and audible only within blocks.
A map guide pins Denver to Stockton and outlines a vast belt of gold camps across Colorado Utah Nevada and California. The article lists Cripple Creek Telluride Osceola Bodie and many others, noting immense riches yet slow development and urging recognition of western wealth. Also reports Minnesota usury ruling in the Missouri Kansas Texas Trust Co. v Krumseig case with the Supreme Court upholding the Minnesota law.
Health minded ad urges Hood's Sarsaparilla to purify blood and expel germs, claiming illness prevention and better health. Promotes Hood's Pills as the only companion for Hood's Sarsaparilla with a price of 25 7 cents.
The Louisville Post reports a remarkable black lake of ink near the Colorado River in southern California. Surrounded by volcanoes and desolate wastes, the acre sized pool sits half a mile from a volcano, its surface crusted with six inches of ash, masking its true nature.
The Fortnightly Review describes the Poletti family cottage as semidetached with two rooms, a ground floor kitchen and an upper sleeping area for parents and two daughters. Walnut furniture, heirloom linens, and woven flax plots illustrate their pride, thrift, and crafts, comparing favorably with English cottage standards.
The Italian republic of San Marino allows purchase of noble titles on application for a fee that funds the national foundling asylum. The honors carry local prestige but little value outside San Marino and only modest value within.
In the mountains between Anam and Loas a rare pheasant is described whose long plume was valued by mandarins for head gear. A single skin fetches $400, while the living bird would be priceless but dies quickly in captivity, the New York Journal notes.
The Cleveland Leader quotes a reader disputing a news report on Captain Biddleby’s death. One man asserts the obituary lacks the phrase that the news came to friends with a shock, prompting a brief exchange about the coverage.
The report enumerates substances detected as adulterants in beer including cocculus indicus capsicum ginger quassia wormwood calamus root caraway and coriander seeds copperas sulphuric acid cream of tartar alum carbonate of potash ground oyster shells nux vomica pierotum and strychnine.
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