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Newspaper
The Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1886
Page
3
Practical notes on starting and managing a sheep flock including capital, breed selection, care, feeding, and selling. Also tips on irrigation, pig rearing, pest control, wool, and diversified farming with household recipes for food preservation and kitchen use. Emphasizes prudence, restraint during price dips, and attention to animal welfare and preparation.
Proctor asserts life support periods for celestial bodies while advocating pure air exercise. Arran’s mild climate allows palms to thrive outdoors in winter. Tasmania plans breeders to naturalize European fishes. similar trials succeed in New Zealand and Australia. Britain’s weather service shows 120 unforeseen storms over ten years. A St Petersburg paper rail plant promises durable compressed paper rails at one-third the cost of steel. Kedzie finds salt as the key extinguishing agent in many devices. salt water outperforms fresh water for fire suppression. Flying fish lack true flight muscles. propulsion likely in water. Wood decay prevention via gutta percha in pores, mixed with parasine, hardening pores on cooling.
Health seekers should seek daily sun baths to counter winter light loss. The writer cites the American Meteorological Magazine and Dr Bell's climatology linking sunlight to nutrition development and beauty, noting light benefits in angina chlorosis and anemia as supported by Dr Hammond.
The indefatigable engineer M. De Lesseps led efforts for a sea to sea canal across the isthmus. Since 1881 progress has lagged due to funds and high white labor mortality, with 20,000,000 cubic yards excavated by May 1885 and 70,000,000 francs spent. he still claims completion by 1888 if capital is secured.
Report notes natives of the Caroline islands hold witchcraft beliefs and propitiate bruxas with gifts of cocoa and honey during storms and droughts. Observers describe women reputed for sorcery and describe village practices amid a foggy, uncertain scene with scattered names.
Professor Riley notes silk culture in the United States yields low returns in tests at Philadelphia and New Orleans. Across the specimens evaluated, reeled silk sold below production cost after labor, with costs around $6.07 per pound and revenue $4.50. Rising silk prices may change the outlook, but the expert remains discouraged after three years of study.
A column discusses parenting discipline, urging calm firmness and avoidance of anger to guide moral growth. It cites Socrates on cooling passion before punishment and highlights the impact of praise versus discouragement on a child's ambition. The piece also reviews a French textile Berandine and U.S. policy proposals on gl oumar garine, with various local anecdotes and medical remedies.
The article notes Luke Diaz near DeLeon Springs in Volusia County Florida is fed by a large spring visible from the lake when the surface is calm, boiling over about five acres. It mentions anchoring a buoy over the center to obtain cool water anytime and cites a health ad for Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery for lung and throat issues. Besancon Switzerland employs over 15,000 in witchmaking with a government horological school and annual product around 600,000 watches.
Frightful Waste details how consumption kills thousands yearly while early treatment can cure. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is touted as a permanent cure if used promptly, with claims of proven efficacy in many cases. The piece also praises Dr. Pierce's Purgative Pellets and notes regional railroad ownership and a Sonoma County rifle-hunting tally.
An advertisement pages promote Asthmaline and Dr Jones Red Clover Tonic as cures and tonics. It cites Caswell Hazard Co New York and claims wide efficacy for asthma dyspepsia fever and general debility. A Cincinnati physician endorses Dr Walts Balsam for lung coughs and colds.
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