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Newspaper
The Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1885
Page
2
A reflective verse-like meditation describes pebbles cast into water creating widening circles and unseen impacts. The speaker likens these ripples to life’s movements and actions shaping unseen futures as one journeys toward light and trust.
In Blazeaway a miner Joe Langdon loves Miss Pembroke who is engaged to Charley Brantley. Langdon protects Brantley from a taloned enemy Whisky Tom while Brantley wounds a rival. Langdon sacrifices himself to save Brantley from an arrow, dying as Pembroke and Brantley mourn the fallout of a love triangle and feud.
An Egyptian eclipse observed near Bohaeg on the Nile drew a mixed crowd of locals and officials. Spectators stored instruments under rush and tent protection as a rare comet appeared during totality, prompting cheers and a brief, astonished pause before returning to routine.
Charles F Holder reports a five hundred pound giant clam with a thirty pound animal and five foot shells used as ornaments or playhouses. He notes crabs sheltering in its folds, and describes a large acellular mollusk guarding crabs in Atlantic waters and a pale rose Pinna marina crab. A 1840 Bombay jellyfish spectacle by Mr Telfair showed tentacles over three hundred feet, a glowing red wire and a body like an enormous incandescent sphere.
Excerpted dialogue shows a bishop greeting Bobby with a hospitable question and Bobby’s polite reply. The humor centers on the line about dinner when the bishop visits and the reference to a man with a toothache in a Life magazine blurb.
In a late meeting the craft described involves wax treated yarn wrapped on a spool and dipped into hot wax. Budding requires earth removal from stock in front of the budders to lift bark. Timely insertion of buds and sap thickening improve adhesion to the stock.
A correspondent from Wicks Magazine outlines lettuce sowing methods broadcast rather than drills, thinning to avoid crowding, and shading for large heads. It covers summer care, forcing varieties, and preserving new heads, plus broad advice on livestock care, stable warmth, and home comfort for rural households.
Practical notes on animal care and feeding including fowl nutrition shell formation and tonic, horse feed mixes with rye oats and corn, pot size for geraniums, fowl moulting tonic with iron and sulfuric acid, feeding scraps to chickens, pig housing to avoid cholera, and evidence from Mr Banfield on swine fattening with sweet foods versus fermented feeds.
Practical domestic hints cover door hinges, bird care, cleaning cloth dusters, turkey wing wash, coffee pot brightening, stovepipe cleaning, fast meal prep, velvet care, matches safety, phosphorous rat lure, and restoring rubber can seals with a ammonia water soak.
The West Tennessee moonshiner runs a small copper still behind sheds using mash from local farms. Liquor sells at fifty cents a gallon to neighbors who keep silent, making detection hard as residents warn and hide evidence. Stores fear uncertain traders while crowds gather on weekends. officers rarely kill, but risk remains high. The Memphis Avalanche notes the cautious, sociable yet shifting moonshining scene.
London hosts 618 railway stations and over 1 506 passenger trains daily at Clapham Junction. Underground networks exceed 1 200 trains daily with 12 million yearly riders. Omnibus stages total about 1 000 with 56 million annual riders. Annual gas lighting costs reach 3 006 000 dollars. The city features more than 400 newspapers and records 2 314 fires last year.
Murphy a amateur playwright faced public scorn as his sad tragedy failed to please the audience. He urged the crowd to try a comedy to turn the laughter against the critics and prove them fools.
Professor Ludwig Meyer contends that light wines and beers are not cutting ardent spirits use and notes a steady rise in both. He cites Holland, where spirits consumption rose thirty percent in seventeen years, Belgium where it doubled in forty years, and France where per capita consumption grew from four to seven liters annually between 1860 and 1880.
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