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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1904
Page
2
A collage of quirky news items from across the globe and locally. Tales range from a bride’s aversion to church weddings to the Mad Mullah’s wavering lines before English troops, to a Tacoma citizen dying after seventeen beers. Slender notes touch on Alfred Austin’s literary plans and a Jersey City teapot gimmick.
Venice plans to rebuild the collapsed Campanile and repair surrounding palaces after the disaster. The effort reveals hidden strengths in many towers and churches, including Sansovino’s Loggetta and Tintoretto’s Paradise, with civic support urged to fund the vast restoration in a city famed for art and beauty.
A fable from New York Times where a curious cricket at a mantel clock admires the clock’s loud bang. The cricket tries to imitate the mechanism, mistakes the clock’s inner workings for its own body, and is crushed when the clock is wound. The moral urges contentment with one’s own voice.
A nervous-disease specialist argues that Theodore Mommsen’s three hours sleep for twenty years, yet living to 86, stems from extraordinary intellectual development. He says intellect governs body limits, with habit strengthening routine, and that a life centered in intellect reduces bodily wear and tear.
A London Telegraph piece cites a noted authority on dyspepsia who urges no meal after seven, recommends a simple pace, and insists on clearing every course between servings. Digestion takes hours, so meals should end four hours before bed. A small nightcap may aid sleep, and resting before meals is advised for fatigue.
A vivid scene unfolds as a setting sun bathes the sea in molten colors while a belated fishing boat nears harbor. Steamers whistle, a distant city glows, and a man on the beach feels uplifted by beauty, amid a moment of reflection on heaven and earth and a bride of a month beside him.
A rural-era note on wooden shoes and sandals from antiquity to the fifteenth century. It traces footwear forms from clogs and leather brogans to Egyptian and Grecian styles, noting wooden heels, toe shapes, and thong designs. The Munich National Museum features carved wooden shoes with red gilded heels.
China is a reading nation with circulating libraries found across the Middle Kingdom. Books are cheap, with a Chinese dictionary set and the thirteen classics costing about $5.50. Scholarly libraries are famous nationwide, and Chinese prints are noted for their thick, white illustrations.
A man journeys into Africa to hunt big game and survives perilous travels across deserts jungles seas and mountains only to return home and die from injuries after a fall the night he arrives a bystander jokes it may have been fate or a drink too many reflecting on improbable luck.
In the Aosta valley near St Marcel Italy springs show waters in several colors. Prof Vaccari of the Tivoli institute found the water is pure but minerals on the spring bottoms tint the water. Copper carbonate yields blue, iron hydrate yields yellow, and a mix creates green.
A vast salt bed near Cote Blanche island in St Marys parish Louisiana is found at 100 feet below the surface with 99 percent purity and thickness of 2000 to 2500 feet across most of the island. Previous discoveries at Patel Anse island and Bole Isle are believed to be part of the same bed.
The picture shows lined motor gloves for car use, tightly strapped at the wrists to curb cold exposure that causes roughness of the cuticle. The article notes the design targets warmth and practical protection for drivers in chilly conditions.
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