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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1901
Page
6
A compact jumble reports smuggled goods from Windsor Ontario via Detroit and dress shops aiding evasion of authorities, a Berlin inventor’s bailproof pot with a perforated rim, a Moscow magnate’s 26 million ruble bequest for girls schools and worker housing, and a Breaux Bridge French immigrant reaching 113. It closes with reflections on wisdom, understanding, and moral strength.
Advices from Kiel Germany describe a 1908 opening of a state run high school dedicated to shipbuilding and machinery. The city will contribute £3000, Krupp interests pledged £250 yearly for ten years, and courses run one year for shipbuilding with four quarterly parts for machinery plus evening and Sunday sessions.
Nineteenth century floods in western and midland England caused massive property and livestock losses while many poor families were driven from their homes. A humorous note from Alcester Worcestershire recalls a distressed pig snagged in a damson tree as waters fell.
The Montclair New Jersey Improvement League spent under one hundred dollars to clean yards alleys and plant vine covered fences. Prizes encouraged tidiness and care of schools and vacant lots. The effort reduced the death rate and drew praise for inspired common sense. Meanwhile William Curran of St Louis reported his 13 year old son Louis ran away eighteen months ago and is now missing in New York after chasing him from Galveston to Buffalo. The police will search for him.
The Pan American conference in Mexico City plans the first session for October 22. Chile has dropped objections and sent delegates, signaling progress toward closer hemispheric cooperation. The piece notes earlier conferences, the possible federation pace, and cites 1889 Washington efforts led by Blaine to pursue arbitration and peaceful dispute settlement.
John G. Nicolay, longtime Lincoln secretary and co author of the ten volume Life of Abraham Lincoln, died in Washington at 69. He helped shape national policy with Lincoln and later advised John Hay, leaving a legacy as a major biographer and historian. The piece notes Nicolay’s close work with Lincoln, his influence on American history, and calls for thoughtful action on education and public policy.
Prof G W Cunningham argues in the Chicago Tribune that the McKinley assassination exposes a national condition needing radical wise methods to prevent repeats. He contends public officials are not lacking in diligence or caution.
The London Spectator and the London Saturday Review discuss responses to anarchists after President McKinley’s assassination. They argue sharper laws against anarchists and their literature would not prevent killings and may backfire by uniting desperadoes. The editors doubt measures could deter future assassinations already underway.
The speaker recalls how winds and memories alter perceptions of love in a reflection from the Atlanta Constitution. He laments change, the fading of tender eyes, and the loss of eternal fragrance in love, contrasting past hopes with a dim future.
Naturalist M. H. Coupin notes remarkable bird imitators. Bluejays can be taught to speak like parrots and crows with young training. A sparrow learned grasshopper songs after exposure and occasionally sang blends of grasshopper and bird notes for life. Linnets sometimes imitate nightingales and various Thuringian birds borrow notes better than their models.
A New York Sun report quotes a police sergeant describing how women preparing for death by self harm choose their best garments. He notes suicides often involve elegant, well made outfits, with a single good dress worn as the exit attire, regardless of the method.
In central and southern China many rely on restaurants for meals, hot water vendors thrive, and fuel economy drives the use of flour. Dough is stretched and cooked into vermicelli and dumplings, eaten hot, with little bread baked.
A historical note describes Chinese restaurants relying on native flour for interior fillings and dough while using finer white flour for covering. It notes a preference for boiled or steamed foods over baked goods among the Chinese appetite, with limited foreign bread consumption observed.
Washington Star quotes a leading alienist on the dangerous lineage of degenerates tracing to over 1000 descendants, 95 percent of whom become paupers or criminals. He advocates state power to restrain and segregate those with undesirable mental or physical conditions to protect society and future civilization.
A London Sketch recounts an English man nicknamed Tubby Morris who dined at Bignon's with an extravagant meal costing at least twenty five dollars and ten dollar tips. He lived at the Grand Hotel and was famed for making money by betting and generosity to the poor.
The narrator, who rode the Montana Wyoming ranges twenty years ago, explains rattlesnake entry into holes. He notes snakes dive headfirst but turn to keep their heads near the entrance, then slide the body down, a simple maneuver observed in the field.
A compact extract from Everybody's Magazine notes that the earth and mountains continually bend and bow to each other as gravity acts, with London and Petticoat Lane cited as examples where crowd weight makes structures and streets seem to tilt and nod in daily movement.
The fulmar petrel resembles a common gulf at distance but has a graceful flight skimming waves and hovering by cliffs. It nests on grassy ledges of St Kilda and is caught with a rod like a puffin though it is harder to secure on precipices. Historically valued for its oil, each bird yields about half a pint, used as a defense and ejected forcefully. The rise of mineral oils lessens its importance though the oil remains the purest anim al oil and is used medicinally for sprains and bruises.
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