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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1900
Page
2
In a collage of 19th century opinion and anecdotes, the piece critiques poetry and publishing schemes, notes a Brown University president’s view on character over pedigree, and recounts Alaska’s quake and Udal wave impacts. It highlights war-era soldiers’ hunger for reading material and a New Orleans view on rule changes and vice.
An old curiosity describes jumping beans from Mexican mountains that move when warmed, containing a larva. A schemer used gilded and silvered iron beans as clock dials with hidden magnets to mislead shoppers, yielding a pretend timepiece in store windows.
A Boston slang club forms to cultivate artistic slang and has quickly grown into a sizable society. Members are called slingers with divisions naming men canaries or furies for women, and weekly yellups feature drinking and slang exchanges as elites push a new linguistic culture amid alarm from more sedate residents.
A Washington Post tale recounts a bishop traveling to perform a Connecticut wedding who, mistaken for the groom, faced amused porters as a ribbon reading Married in the morning appeared on his bag. The error became a late night joke among railway staff.
A comical exchange between Mrs. Henpecker and Mr. Blunt about marrying into the family ends with a quirky note on a Boston patent. The device uses upright arms to grip a wall hook for hanging or removing pictures. A cord engages arms attach to a pole while a hook arm pivots on the base.
A surgeon describes modern nerve grafting using animal nerves or a rib graft to bridge damaged human nerves. In twenty reported cases, including sciatic nerves from a dog and kangaroo tendon, results improved with partial to near normal sensation after months, though no full recoveries yet. Timing from injury to operation ranged from 48 hours to 15 months, with twelve successes and ongoing hopes for broader success.
A survey of patent ideas includes a combined top head and wringer on a mop, a patching yoke for leaks, a ground fastened fence post with folding wings, a novel wagon wheel with nested circular rollers, an ironing board cover that stays flat, a laceable ironing cover, and a belt attached umbrella carrier with a tip support hook. The compilation presents practical innovations without detailed testing results.
A broad rural column discusses the California peach crop performance and home orchard pests, focusing on the maple slug worm and the value of entomology collections for schools. It also reports on cottage cheese starter methods from Highland Society talks, detailing pure cultures, whey starters, and practical steps to prepare a home starter with two enameled pails and carefully heated milk and whey.
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