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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1884
Page
4
The Baltimore Sun interviews a modiste about the daily grind of fashion work. She describes how fit and style provoke constant customer feedback, from inches of wrinkled fabric to calisthenic poses in front of the mirror, and notes the challenge of pleasing angular, stout, and capricious clients alike.
Mrs. Van Rensselaer in May Century argues the Brooklyn bridge fails as art due to mass design, not beauty. She says an architect would keep its simple outline yet make it expressive, noting the cable openings reveal its purpose. This critique links industrial structures like factories to possible architectural merit nationwide.
Maurice Thompson writes in May St Nicholas a lesson on why laws safeguard wild birds and game. Hugh and Uncle Charley debate why meadow larks help crops and why harming harmless birds harms morals, noting laws defend species not eaten or used for food.
In Sheboygan Wisconsin a pair of sparrows built a nest in a hanging plant on Mr. Joseph G End's porch and raised four young. Swallows and street sparrows compete for the premises as new tenants. If a decision is needed End will favor the swallows remaining.
Rhode Island requires naturalized citizens to own real estate above encumbrances valued at 134 dollars. A Montreal worker in a dry goods store was dismissed due to her color.
The Belgravia article extols Norway as ideal for pedestrians noting mountainous scenery, bracing climate, and varied travel by walking, boating, or staged car rides. It introduces a "ride and tie" system where walkers swap to pace, enabling about fifty miles daily with alternating drivers and hikers.
Julian Hawthorne recounts his father Nathaniel Hawthorne's frugal life at Old Manse. The elder hid writing for solitude, using a butterfly pen wiper as a daily cue. The son recalls warnings against publishing and Hawthorne's delayed rise to fame after Concord years.
An 82 year old Brooklyn man John MacGregor claims a claymore in his dining hall, believed to be Rob Roy MacGregor's father sword. The weapon, four feet long with iron basket hilt, resisted extraction from its scabbard as a family legend traces its origin to Colonel Donald MacGregor of Argyle.
The article contrasts Afghan cleanliness with Hindoos noting Afghans avoid water on the body. It describes a Mohammedan practice of ablutions with substitutes, a tribe receiving only three garments a lifetime, and the term Suffaid Posh meaning white dress.
Ex Mayor Powderly reports grim conditions of Hungarian women at coke ovens in Connellsville. He cites workers with scant protection and unsafe practices, plus deep regional hostility toward Magyars. He notes mine foremen fear misread safety lamps and that locals seek to push Hungarians out.
The London Spectator questions claims of a distinct native American civilization, noting Asian influence in ruins at Yucatan and Asia’s possible reach to the Americas. It cites Asiatic workmanship, zodiac signs, and ancient migration legends while warning against overconfidence in indigenous American uniqueness.
A Buffalo Express excerpt recounts Horace Greeley’s domestic troubles. His wife’s ill health left his shirts torn and fabric worn, prompting Greeley to joke that if polygamy became fashionable he would take two wives.
Agricultural notes cover dairy breeds in England, orchard grasses, wheat in India at 36 cents a bushel, gradual changes in calf feed, and manure spreading on pastures. Mines of advice include salt for cattle, tobacco water for aphids, slug and worm controls, millet as pasture substitute, and a method to prevent wart recurrence on livestock. Also note plow settings, ram pedigrees, milking techniques, and playful Colorado shovel slides.
In Worcester Massachusetts carpenters renewing flooring at Union Station uncovered 87 dollars and 51 cents in small change that had fallen through a crack in the cigar stand money drawer. Electric currents are now used to speed leather tanning.
Dr J Kouts and Dr Romuts argue flies walk on smooth surfaces via capillary adhesion rather than hair suction or air pressure. They report microscopic foot cushions with fine hairs and show dust, oil, and moisture disrupt adhesion, while cleaning and whitewashing poultry houses reduces parasites.
A Beaver City man uncovered a cat skull with teeth intact and two neck joints at ninety feet depth, fifty feet below solid rock. No signs of bookjacks or candlesticks or debris typically near a dead cat were detected.
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