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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1884
Page
4
The Germantown Telegraph urges balanced lawns with tasteful tree choice. It condemns overgrown evergreens and excessive shrubbery while praising double flowering English wild cherry and fruit trees for beauty and practical use. It notes lawns should be kept neat to maintain public view and harmony.
While touring Canada and the United States Browne known as Artemus Ward and his manager John Smith recall a 1865 episode in Detroit. Smith concealed forty yards of silk and Ward thirty yards of Melton cloth under clothing to cross the border but a customs officer uncovered Ward and fined him fifty dollars while Smith’s silk passed free.
A North Carolina witness describes illicit whisky trade methods including hiding jugs in trees and a horn racket to pass drinks to buyers. He also recounts a vivid episode where a pretty distiller’s daughter cleverly repays a dentist with a two dollar bill for four kisses, prompting a moonshiner’s father to settle the debt with a large gunman nearby.
The German guns maker Herr Krupp is described as tall stern and intellectual with a long neck white beard. His son Fritz Krupp, heir to an estate worth 40 million dollars, is an able inventor versed in the family business.
A Victorian guide advises how to prepare a guest chamber including Bible, reading, cleanliness, and practical touches. It covers tidying, packing and labeling uses, storage for guest items, and comfort tweaks to ensure a pleasant stay.
A working man recalls how poetry transformed his life from bleak drudgery to hope and beauty. Reading Burns Byron Scott broadened his view, sharpened empathy, and spurred a wish to ease others' sorrow. He credits poetry with making life worth living and calls poetic sensibility a real gain.
A Boston Post inquiry into clock whereabouts reveals clocks of great age. An eight day brass dial clock at 150 years runs well. A Bristol England timepiece from 1694 serves in a western state. Hon. E. C. Moody of York Maine owns a 1620 English clock with maker and date on the dial. The case features flowers and figures. brought by Moody ancestors in 1623.
An Indianapolis inventor develops an electric headlight claimed to light the track for a full mile, offering a brighter, safer nighttime railway run.
From Cornhill Magazine an essay argues that as men age most pleasures fade and pursuing them becomes pitiable. It condemns aging gallantry and heavy templates of character, mocks money hoarding near death, and asks whether life’s worth is measured by what one has lived rather than left behind. The piece underscores detestation of greed and questions the value of bequests.
A Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette piece recounts a reporter’s chilly dressing ordeal. It details 97 separate actions including 30 garments and 67 accessory manipulations taking about 24 minutes, estimating half an hour to dress per day and a two percent life spent on clothing.
The Wheeing Register notes Chihuahuan women’s grace as they carry heavy loads in baskets. It describes June rain deluging the town, water rushing from mountains and lifting carts, barrels, and even chicken coops. A Mexican girl balances a thirty pound load atop a rolled towel worn as a headband, walking with ease.
Madame de Bourrienne recalls Bonaparte's early career noting a hypocritical smile and savage exultation. She describes Toulon siege moments when he ordered another attack and warned an officer's wife to plea for mercy. The officer died as Bonaparte laughed at the brutal scene.
Mr. Dewitt C. Pease of New York stepped from a Michigan Central train in Chicago to a joyous kiss from a young woman who mistook him for her father. He insisted he was her father and clung to the girl until a policeman arrived, finding his diamond pin in the hand of the supposed daughter. The officer commented on the scene, while Pease joked the trick was old in New York.
B C Sewall of Des Moines has served as a bookkeeper for fifty six years and remains in the trade though over eighty. A Connecticut incident notes six quarts of bread yeast saved an ox that had overindulged at a meal box by a farm.
Wisconsin sheep owners claim dogs would have kept ten sheep alive if not for current losses. The article urges protective tree care, notes bran as a rich fertilizer alternative, praises egg production, and stresses clean barnyards. It discusses yellows in peaches, the value of horticulture, and offers rural reflections on a Swiss cow breed and farming beauty.
The American Cultivator argues farmers should build small houses on their land to attract and retain worthy labor by offering a path to home ownership. Better homes with fruit trees and shrubs increase salability and value, benefiting both workers and farmers who plan gradual sales to desirable families.
Ebenezer in Georgia began with 1734 settlers and Oglethorpe inching in a year earlier. Mulberry trees and silk farming followed until Revolution era when British capture accelerated decay. By 1835 the village lay practically abandoned with lands worn out and ruins all that remain.
The American Journal of Forestry notes Col. Van bought ten acres in Logan Valley Nebraska for 1.25 per acre ten years ago and planted black walnuts. The land now yields a sale price of 3000 dollars for the ten acres as a dense stand of ten year old trees. The piece argues timber will fetch higher prices as native forests decline and demand grows for high quality second growth timber.
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