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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1904
Page
2
A garbled Parade of jokes and notes surveys scandalous bits and curiosities from the era. It mentions Balimore kissing bans in parks, a Japanese magazine start, opera singers insured, and a New York tally strike among other gleeful bits. It also covers misprints about twins and Russia’s naval permissions, with humorous barbs on public life and politics.
A reflective poem recalling a vanished childhood home, the little old log cabin. The speaker evokes memories of hills, valley, streams, and wildlife surrounding the cabin, and laments its loss while longing to return in spirit to the peaceful summers of youth.
A Chicago Tribune piece notes a nickel found in a mail pouch during sorting prompts a tongue in cheek look at postal red tape. The clerk completes a detailed form, tracing pouch, train, date, and coin orientation, sending the item into the postoffice fund rather than returning it to the finder.
Divers recover relics from the Florencia, a Florentine galleon of the Armada era, blown up in Tobermory bay after a mutiny. Sir Lauchlane MacLean's feud with neighboring clans and Spanish hostages led to a deadly plotted mutiny by Donald Glas MacLean. The ship exploded, killing three to four crew members aboard.
In early California under Mexican rule a trap for black bears used a two limb oak with meat on the lower limb and a suspended rock above. A bear would reach the meat, the rock would swing and strike, provoking a counter strike until the bear fell and was disabled in a hidden pit for capture by locals.
An American girl at a Brevoort House function amused the Russian Consul General M de Lotygonniy with a sharp reply about outdoor sports. The diplomat recalled the moment as noteworthy, noting the girl’s athletic appearance and sly humor in a social exchange reported by the New York Times.
Major Gibbona, in Barotseland western dominions between Zambes and Kafukive rivers, traveled 13 000 miles to uncover a tribe unlike any other known. Bushmen, slight, light skin, nude except cat skin, armed with bows and arrows, feed on snakes, sleep on ground, friendly only after persuasion to face the camera.
Travelers describe caravans toward Lhasa with tea and supplies, thousands of pilgrims and priests from Thibet Mongolia China and India. Yaks carry loads in bands of three hundred, move slowly yet endure high altitudes and harsh footing. They are bred for milk and butter and kept to supply the Dalai Lama household. The sacred status inspires a reverent greeting as people pass.
The German schoolboy Jousph Schuppers, aged sixteen, stands seven feet four inches tall and continues to grow. A photograph shows him nearly as tall seated as an ordinary man standing.
A parasol once used by Queen Marie Antoinette has been sent to a London house for modernization. The ivory stick is richly adorned with gold, turquoises, pearls, and diamonds. The handle forms a tiny gold kennel with a microscopic dog, and the top bears a carved gold ball. The parasol is covered in gobelin blue silk with pink edging and a pinked ribbon bow.
A fragment recounts Gov. Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Colony bringing an apple tree to America in 1629. It claims this single tree sparked a rise in apple cultivation making the nation the leading producer, with yearly output over 100 million barrels and Maine sending 500,000 barrels abroad last year per Col. Matthews.
The deepest hole ever dug sits in the coal fields of Paruschowitz Upper Silesia and reaches a depth of 6570 feet about a mile and a quarter.
A British scientist observed a half inch spider catch a two inch fish in a poolside struggle. The spider weighed 14 grains and dragged the lifeless fish away after ten minutes of silent effort. The account highlights remarkable spider strength with dramatic details from the field note.
A. H. Varney, cashier of a Poultney Vermont bank, secured a note for 1 dollar issued by the Poultney bank dated September 4, 181. The note came with a letter from George C. Russell asking its value. Russell received it as a 1862 soldier’s pay, discounted, set aside, and found in a boot. The note is single sided with pen signatures and bears the words Saint Paul in large letters across one end, puzzling bankers.
The item described is the title page of perhaps the oldest Martin Luther Bible in America, dated 1682. Despite edge wear and a broken binding, the print remains clear and legible.
A chateau named Maison de VAmiral, three quarters hour from Paris, is offered for 40 009 francs. It includes gardens and a park and is noted for historical interest. A special agreement promises a share if the treasure of James II of Scotland is found, adding a risky prospect to the historic purchase. Paris Correspondence.
Laysan Island in the North Pacific, about 800 miles northwest of Honolulu, is praised as a remarkable bird island. Dr. A K Fisher, aboard the U S Fish Commission steamer Albatross in 1902, found it home to countless sea birds including albatross, terns, gannets, shearwaters and petrels, and noted the island’s isolation helps birds avoid man.
A basalet atole found by Fr. Schell in Constantinople museum bears an Assyrian inscription of King Nabonod, a sixth century B C ruler, describing Nineveh's destruction, a detail previously unknown on monuments. A fisherman from Biddeford, Maine laments buying three angleworms for a dollar from a Sebago guide.
A fragment from a book description of Daniel Boone notes his physique as neither tall nor thin, with a solid frame, firm muscles, and a weight near nine stone. Audubon recalls a gigantic stance, broad chest, and clear courage, while others place him just under five eight, a build valued for strength, activity, and endurance.
Wide Interest from Breed Wisconsin reports Justice of the Peace Charles Y. Peterson of Oconto Co issues a judgment promoting Dodd's Kidney Pills. A long miscellany covers testimonials about back pain kidney disease cures and other assorted items related to health plagues and curiosities.
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