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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1900
Page
5
A middle aged man argues in the New York Sun that people resent being asked if their clock is right. He notes many justify their clocks as accurate and that cheap watches vary in quality. The piece concludes that the question should not be asked casually unless the matter genuinely depends on it.
A column notes a curious link between nine as a number and major mining discoveries. It lists historic finds in years ending with nine, including 1349, 1959, 1809, 1879, 1889, and the Cape Nome discoveries of 1899, arguing 1899 may join notable mining years.
A Washington Star anecdote recalls a Missouri man visiting Whatcom on Bellingham Bay who misreads tides as heavy rain, mistaking a rising tide for a weather event. Also noted are tobacco shortages for soldiers, a Pretoria editor urging restraint, and Lord Charles Deresford on China’s poor roads with a local anecdote. The Red Fir forestry division in Washington reports gathering statistics on red fir growth.
A Minnesota town triggers a debate over mourning flowers when the Isis society honors a deceased young man with red chrysanthemums. A St. Paul florist sent pure white blooms but delivered red ones. members hurried them to the church as the procession entered, the organ played Nearer My God to Thee, and a color dispute arose.
A Philadelphia coachman demonstrates daily exercises for posture and fitness. He describes 200 V raises, 100 chest expands, 500 arm raises, and neck stretches done each morning to maintain straight carriage and graceful bearing for his employer.
Dr Barrata advocates compulsory earthquake insurance in testa ian parliament noting vineyards and others insure against hail. He argues it shifts risk from the exchequer to private purses and could prevent bankruptcy amid a quake epidemic. Regions vary in risk with Ischia and Calabria cited.
The American minister Eden Everett helps arrange a royal audience for Tom Thumb and Barnum. Queen Victoria and Leopold of Belgium attend a sequence of royal visits as Tom Thumb struggles to back along the gallery, prompting laughs and a request for Yankees Doodle.
A Philadelphia Record story quotes a barber, Schneider, noting many customers switch shops during Christmas to avoid buying gifts at their regular parlors. He reveals regulars visit his shop while they would rather be seen elsewhere, then return after the holidays.
Science enables apple juice to ferment into wine, with sherry and madeira qualities arising from grape-origin yeasts imported from Spain. American makers inoculate apple juice with these fungi, then bottle the yeasts for fermentation, noting the challenge is separating yeast varieties and the risk of random results.
Margaret Allston writes on Boston life and the Latin quarter on Pinckney Street. She contrasts American respectability with Parisian bohemian allure, noting Boston hums under Puritan standards and social scrutiny while other cities flaunt freer living.
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