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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1891
Page
3
The piece traces shaving from ancient times to modern eras, noting shaving as a mark of servitude, with biblical roots in Exodus and monkish and priestly practices. It discusses how mustaches and tonsures served social codes, from slaves to clergy, and cites Roman and Celtic examples and 19th century commentary.
Frost pictures reveal dazzling natural sculptures from ice and frost. The article praises crystallization in nature over artificial lab crystals, noting diamond-like frost on woods and rocks, and frost landscapes guiding art and poetry. Observations cite frost drawings as potential landscape hints and frost cartoons awaiting color.
A Farm and Fireside essay compares biblical Palestine with the modern landscape noting similar agriculture livestock and flora yet fewer people and reduced cultivation. It lists animals from the jackal to the wild boar and references ancient weather and plant life, concluding with a note on locating eagle nests from elevated ground.
The record cites 18th century Massachusetts crimes and penalties including branding in Boston 1769, burning S on a thief in 1767, chaining a Salem woman in 1687, ears cropped for counterfeiting in 1767 Springfield, pillory for Walpole in 1762, and a Salem court absence fined four bushels of malt to Sir Richard Saltenstale.
The article discusses nightly observations at Greenwich over 150 years and explains star sizes with Algoi’s diameter, the Sun’s vast scale, and its light output. It notes Mars’ plains crossed by straight lines, advances in double-star observation, and three confirmed Earth motions: daily rotation, yearly orbit, and slow polar gyration over 25 868 years.
The piece surveys high society women noting lace values from 20 000 to 500 000 and describes a Greenwich era style portrait of Mrs Rocktrenn at Rockwood Hall. It also reports a Brooklyn Institute geography exhibit plan for next year featuring maps globes and school apparatus from Europe and America.
A catalog of autograph values lists Tynon, Alexander Parr and Sumney, Titian, Burns, Dean Swift, Avrocnatus rulers of Louis XIV and Henry IV, Christopher Columbus, Gambetta, Raphael, Baudelair Carlyle Thackeray Bismarck Wellington, Moliecre Doraraine Bonaparte letters, Victor Hugo Zola Meissonier Patti Nilsson Mary Anderson Walter Scott Dick ens Gladstone Corneille signatures with prices from 8 to 2800, noting rare items and market demand.
The Southern Maryland railroad, once engineless after fires, resumes partially with horse power. From Hughesville in Charles County to Brandywine in Prince George's County nine miles, freight moves by horse rather than steam. George S. Chappelear, a Sidon merchant, is credited as the engineer behind this unusual system.
Advice warns mental worry as a cancer factor and urges air and sunshine. It urges pure air, dry warm sleeping rooms, nose breathing, and no first tap water. It extols Henry as nourishing medicine and suggests flute playing for health and lung expansion.
The extract discusses Asaretina a root based Persian Afghan chewable material unclear as a drug and notes gold purity carat standards eighteen carat gold three quarters pure. It mentions physostigmine a costly calabar bean preparation and trivia on seven nine letter monosyllables and wool fiber behavior.
If you would think well of men don’t watch them only listen to them. After a man is rich he calls them birds not quails. Measure him by deeds not promises. You don’t know a man’s disposition until you share a delayed breakfast. Those who don’t like us don’t know us. Those who don’t like neighbors know them too well. Those who talk too much reveal ignorance and miss wisdom. Men praise undeservedly but few give merited criticism.
Jonnx Lewis Brown 1829 died leaving a record as a Paris painter known for battles and horses. Born Bordeaux he gained acclaim across Europe and his death marks a quiet end to a storied artistic era.
Carleton College observatory secures a chronometer based device from Washington that uses an artificial star and electric timing to measure each observer's personal equation. The instrument records true passage times automatically to detect and standardize differences among observers, providing a constant standard for accurate readings.
The Smithsonian will supply a ten foot model of the Tower of Babel for the Chicago Columbian Exposition. Dr Haupt will supervise the project, which aims to build an iron structure on seven diminishing stories with an interior museum of Babylonian life and artifacts.
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