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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1900
Page
5
Finingham Hecht offer their celebrated boots and shoes in Custer County at reasonable prices. The line includes buckskin and durable footwear, advertised as a reliable assortment for local buyers seeking value and quality.
A verse dialogue laments Spring and Summer while blaming Autumn and Winter for their harsh reigns. The speaker pleads for Spring to return and end the endless cycle of seasons, invoking imagery of icy halls, insect courts, and a thunderous chorus against Winter’s cold tricks.
Muriel Kennard witnesses a dramatic confrontation at her father Mr. Kennard's estate desk. The harsh banker accuses his secretary Gerald Hope of inefficiency and arrogance before ordering him to leave. Hope stands his ground but retreats, feeling regret for not challenging the abuse earlier.
In a village near Kelverton Mr Kennard dismisses a servant named Hope for insolence leading to a chance reunion with Muriel Kennard. Hope confesses love, Muriel forgives, and amid autumn dusk they declare affection as they walk away. Kennard later learns Hope is the Castletown heir, not a mere impostor, prompting plans to summon Gerald Castletown.
A historical note recounts the Archbishop of Canterbury attending a week night service at an Elstead church and joining in Moody and Sankey hymns in a back seat. A nearby workingman, hearing the archbishop misfit the tune, finally whispers a blunt rebuke urging him to stop singing.
A Paris scientist told the Academie des Sciences of experiments with 204 blind children. He found nine who could recognize the Roentgen ray and identified varied perceptions among them, including X rays, cathodic and fluorescent rays, or reddish color descriptions.
Aboard ships sailors handle tooth troubles by doctors in captain's care. Captains mix remedies from the ship’s medicine chest, sometimes pulling teeth with strings or using forceps. Experienced captains recount pulling hundreds of teeth and managing medical needs with on board books and limited surgery when needed.
At a Baltimore meeting of the American Folk-Lore Society, Dr. Washington Matthews described Iethyophobia as an antipathy to fish among Navajo and Apache peoples. He noted a water related taboo extending to fish shaped articles and suggested legends and desert-water reverence may underpin this belief.
A British brigade encampment tale from Scarborough describes a sergeant who boasted he could swim to a buoy a mile offshore and return. He swam out, reached the buoy, waved, then sat still as camp time neared. A rescue party found him stuck to a newly tarred buoy, not dead, just unable to move.
A French periodical notes remarkable nests formed from white wool and telegraph paper in Lille, likely from distant trips. Another nest near Besancon used watch springs from local factories, while a Pipally site used hair shed from a large St Bernard dog. Chinese coal for California trade noted.
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