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Newspaper
The Warner Sun
Location
Warner, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1886
Page
5
The writer describes progress at Pompeii with Italian diggers uncovering mosaics frescoes and fragile casts of victims. He recalls a vivid ascent of Vesuvius noting lava fields ash flows and a seismograph that records earthquakes aiming toward a future earthquake science.
The June American Agriculturist highlights Osmanthus fragrans the fragrant olive, an evergreen shrub with tiny nearly constant blooms. Readers note its exquisite odor rivals other perfumed flowers, and its use in Chinese teas to perfume beverages is mentioned as a sign of refined taste.
A Detroit youth, jailed in Pennsylvania for swindling, feigned honor to stay in the county jail. He escaped by prying bars and climbing to the window sill, but a wary prisoner warned him to return inside or face harm. The plot was foiled as authorities recaptured him for court.
Washington correspondence describes 15 000 government clerks in the capital, half of them women, earning 720 to 1800 dollars yearly with a month of vacation. The piece profiles varied ages and classes, notes the dead letter office, salary gaps with men, and praises the civil service as a respectable, manageable field for women.
The New York Sun editorially urges Governor Hill to marry promptly, noting his political skill and suggesting that marriage would boost public esteem and self-perception. It compares him to the President and quips that waiting could cost him a desirable match.
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