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Newspaper
The Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1886
Page
2
The Pall Ma il Gazette and the British Medical Journal discuss whether blue or light colored eyes improve rifle shooting. They note no scientific verification and cite examples like blue eyed Germans who are myopic, casting doubt on light eyes conferring superior aim.
Card games captivate Paris around the clock from Cafes to doorways. The habit extends to rich and poor. Sundays idle moments draw players in Tais and on pavements. Excessive gambling is noted as demoralizing, with 2,500,000 francs in duties last year, surpassing earlier totals and echoing tales of Mme Montespan’s losses.
An 1860s era tale recalls a campus clash at Dickinson College where northern and southern students battled in a prolonged bulldog-style duel over secession. The event ended with both fighters exhausted and convalescing, reflecting sectional tensions then present among northern colleges.
Noon err suggested a modest meal with Ah Chan and Ah Chang in a restaurant. The narrator notes unfamiliar dishes, suspects dubious fare, and recalls a shark’s fin soup likened to glue water. Canton China school property in the Northern States is valued at 000,000.
A string of quick banter features a jealous duelist and a pawnbroker. The speaker bristles at a fiancée’s suitors and bravado, while others trade jests about honesty and luck, ending with a playful misread of intentions and responses.
A landlord declares the property worth 35000 and refuses a lower price while a stranger claiming to be the tax assessor announces he has no interest in buying. The landlord concedes he would consider 17000, ending with a dramatic aside.
A livery stallman touts a horse as a safe and reliable boss. The customer remains doubtful and jokes about feeding the oats, reflecting humorous era dialogue.
A courtroom scene features a judge denying a defense as three witnesses testify to the deed. The exchange questions the impact of three witnesses amid a population of 86,000,000.
The poem argues that greatness does not come from length or bulk but from quality. It contrasts a long lived oak with a brief lily of May and concludes that life is most perfect in small, proportioned measures.
Esther Calvert, a young English housekeeper in Boston, bears a crushed heart after her lover Jennings is hanged for highway robbery. A Yorkshire inn landlady Brunell and a court trial reveal the theft was committed by Brunell using a marked guinea. Esther’s devotion, injustice, and her quiet death follow in sorrow.
The article extols aluminium’s superior qualities over gold, silver, iron, steel, tin, and copper, noting light weight, ductility, corrosion resistance, and high conductivity. It contrasts its historical production costs with Deville’s process and heralds electricity as the solution to cheap aluminium production.
Fragmentary verse lines show dialogue about asking for her hand and a smile in a love scene. The text mentions a poodle named Andraid and a playful demand about boodle. The source is fragmented and lacks clear named events or full context.
Account includes a Fair Haven man finding 163 pearls in an opened oyster, sparrows roosting on elevated New York rail pillars, harvest moon timing, the Papandayang Mountain split in a quake, English bread from sea grass, elephants and elephants in war, Hudson River isolation myth, kerosene oil belt to kill caterpillars, and a giant tropical bird spider with a nest capable of housing 1,500 eggs.
A compact reflection on prudence generosity and self awareness urging aid to the needy and steady action. It praises vigilence steady resolve and natural deliberate effort as paths to success while noting love as powerful and both generous and daunting. It warns perfection is unattainable and champions good friends and simple frank company as life’s best companions.
A teamster visiting Chico with a tame otter from the Columbia River impresses locals. The animal, about thirty inches long and fifty pounds, was taught by Indians to catch fish. It dives for fish and returns them to its master, helping the group reel in over a hundred fish in two hours. The owner values the pet at $100 but plans to sell as he travels.
A legend says Spaniards vowed jewels to the Our Lady of Meixotl veil for safe returns. In Maximilian’s era the veil allegedly reached $200000 in value. Three German adventurers seized the veil but were pursued. two were killed in a narrow pass, the third escaped without the prize, and the veil was restored to the altar under tighter guard.
Poem excerpt describing a morning milking scene with a maid singing, shining pails, and warm creamy tides. Cupid awakens in the speaker, urging wooing as cattle graze. A bird espouses love with a ready word, while the swain is urged to pluck a wild rose and seek a wife to share a home and heart.
A roundup of humorous lines and brief quips from newspapers including references to baseball ice pitch, matrimonial knots, tough army nuts, lawyers, bears, borrowing horses, candle light meals, and a gag about a girl Vaughan and a shotgun. The items are presented as brief press-world snippets with period tone.
Mr. Vanderbilt of New York commissions Messum & Sons to build a private pleasure skiff named the Idle Hour. The 26 by 4 foot craft uses English mahogany, nickel fittings, two pairs of sculls, and a balance lug sail, with shallow draft and no keel. It will join Vanderbilt’s steam yacht Alva in New York for smooth-water use.
The Baltic coast suffers as beech forests vanished two centuries ago leaving dunes to bury villages. A 120 foot sand ridge near Schwarzort grows with sea-born deposits threatening southern valleys. Altnegeln Karwaiten and Pilkuppen faced submersion or relocation as sands advance. Felia L Oswald notes the coast’s fragile ecology and ongoing ruin.
Directorate parish notices list preaching times Sunday school sessions and midweek services across multiple churches. Included are First Baptist Church Methodist Episcopal Church St Johns Episcopal Mission Union Church Beachmont and auxiliary groups with officers and meeting details for the season.
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