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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1899
Page
4
A poem from 1899 recalls a Grecian boy who plays the fiddle and munches prunes and marmalade. Three hungry tigers creep from the woods attracted by his tunes and sit nearby, beguiled by the music. As the day wears on the tigers vanish leaving the fiddler with no tunes to play.
Billy ooh discovers two men at the spring including a colporteur and a stranger named Bradley. The group discusses a $50,000 diamonds theft as the sheriff questions a prisoner and Bradley asserts his innocence while the diamonds vanish.
Billy Boy overhears a plan to steal diamonds stored in a water barrel. He traps the crook Bradley with a lasso during a night confrontation, exposing a broader gang led by Bradley and revealing Amos’s unwitting involvement. The tale ends with Billy hailed as a local hero by his mother.
Applicants face extreme demands including arduous mountain treks at fixed times under heavy penalties, night trips, carrying enormous weights through bandit country, and brutal tests with rock sacks to swing and dodge. Officials oversee a prolonged examination blending endurance training with a strenuous final test.
A man and his two sisters were robbed aboard a German railway car when a veiled woman offered roses and then vanished at Berlin. The thief, a young man, used rose gifts to distract victims and steal money and valuables in similar raids.
A reported demonstration shows ants efficiently skeletonizing small animal bodies. Prof Bernard used the ants in Florida to skeletonize a fox in one day, claiming faster and better results than chemical methods or manual work.
The article surveys the housefly’s history and biology, noting its ancient worship in many cultures and detailing J. E. Rombout’s 1884 ceiling-walking theory based on capillary action. It explains hair-tipped feet, droplet lubrication, wing balance threads, spiracles, and the fly’s remarkable 7000 eyes, rapid growth, and voracious scavenging role.
A Boston woman shopping for a hat asks if the feathers could offend the Audubon Society. The London milliner replies that the feathers are from a howl whose howl is more of a cat than a bird.
The head contains 77 muscles with specific distributions: 8 for eyes and eyelids, 1 for the nose, 8 for lips, 8 for the jaw, 11 for the tongue, 11 for the Marynx, 11 for the ear, 1 for head and neck motion, 1 for the hairy scalp, and 1 for the eyebrows.
Investigations show saliva's starch digestion varies with food form. Boiled potatoes digest poorly unless finely divided, while water gruel, porridge, and milk are readily acted on. Stale bread is digested more by saliva than fresh bread, though total starch conversion is greater with new bread.
The British Museum attracted more than 1,000,000 visitors last year with Sunday attendance around 87,000, supporting the decision to open Sundays.
The Atlantic shows a fairly flat bottom from the African Islands to the American ones, then gradually deepens to about 19 000 feet near the midway. This features a notably deep trench as the ocean shelf recedes toward the West Indies.
A newly invented billiard cue features a hollow butt housing a screw rod with several circular weights. The weights can be slid along the rod to adjust balance, allowing players to tailor the cue to their grip and shooting style.
An argument contrasts signs offering medical advice by a physician with a claim that a woman physician is equally qualified. Dr. Pierce asserts that skilled physicians, regardless of gender, should give medical guidance, and he notes his thirty years of experience treating women. He offers confidential correspondence with Dr. Pierce, chief consulting physician at the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, New York.
The text notes keen olfactory organs in vultures and carrion crows able to scent food up to forty miles away. It also describes bird wings aiding movement on land and water, clawed wings in climbing birds, and that elephants do not smell with their trunks. Hummingbirds are domesticated with sugar water in cages. It explains how spiders produce silk from spinnerets, not by spinning but by ejecting a sticky fluid that hardens in air to form nets.
Mr Hornifex tests a sample of cheese offering taste and praise. The grocer touts its purity and weight claiming two hours for delivery and a small discount on a whole cheese. The exchange ends with a cautious buyer deciding he may buy if he learns to like it.
Central Australia hosts striking facts about Lake Amadeus becoming a salt sheet in dry seasons and Ayers Rock rising from the desert. The diprotodon once thrived there as a wombat-like giant, now few animals remain while fish survive in water holes. Frogs drink, hide in mud, and gatewater dries are noted, as natives gain water from tree roots and observe totemic plant and animal protections. Marital rules restrict men to marry women from a different group.
A Brazilian adapts an ant to seal wounds by pinching with the ant’s head nippers on both sides, then jerking the body to leave the nippers in the flesh. The process repeats until the cut is neatly closed, a claimed repair performed by the insect rather than surgeons.
The piece stresses serious social etiquette for living among Arabs. It warns against thoughtlessness that can offend Mohammedan sensibilities, and recalls a guest approaching a sheik with proper permission. It notes strict familial respect, with sons serving guests before their father may dine.
An exposition on the heart's work detailing blood volume per beat and per minute, yearly and lifetime totals. It cites distances blood travels and the heart’s daily force, concluding that daily effort equals lifting 124 tons one foot.
A Geneva based French watchmaker introduces phonographic clocks and watches that pronounce the hour at a press of a button. Alarms may say the time and urge the sleeper to rise, with customizable emphasis and phrasing. Vox slabs of vulcanized rubber bear grooves for hours and fractions.
The passage compares human invention to a water spider that uses a diving bell like device. It describes the spider anchoring an air filled bell under water and refreshing it by carrying air bubbles from the surface back to its hollow home.
Chinese and Indian fishermen train otters by collaring the cub and denying it food, forcing it to believe only its master can feed it. The otter then returns caught fish to the bank, practiced as a lifelong habit.
An article notes a French theft increase spurring the formation of an assurance society to compensate victims. It jokes a thief school might boost premiums and profits for the new crime insurance venture.
A Portland resident with a wooden leg had a dangerous moment when a newspaper in a wastebasket under a desk caught fire. The flames spread to his prosthetic limb before he noticed. He escaped with his leg still usable after a tense few minutes.
Government table shows Italians among the poorest arrivals to the United States with average July per capita at 9.98 dollars. In contrast, immigrants from Germany and England average 52.96 and 51.56 dollars respectively per person.
Eastward trains from Harrisburg through Philadelphia New York and beyond with Pullman sleepers to Philadelphia New York and Washington. Westward trains to Erie Warren and Kane with through sleepers and coaches. Schedules list arrival times weekday and weekend, transfers at Williamsport and Erie and special Sunday sleeper service. Generals J R Hutchinson and J R Wood sign as managers.
Timetable in effect May 14 1899 for Dunkirk Allegheny Valley Pittsburgh Railroad and New York Central lines. Northbound trains list stops from Dunkirk to Titusville including Falconer Warren Titusville and Girard with Sunday train 5 leaving Dunkirk at 5 03 pm and arriving Titusville at 8 15 pm. Supervisors Bartlett Parry Daniels cited.
Court actions list multiple parcels in Warren and Conewango townships. Properties include 40 acres with house and barn in Pittsfield, 100 acres with improved land and structures in Conewango, 6.16 acres with a bicycle track and park facilities in Warren borough, and additional Spring Creek and Glade township tracts. Sale notices issued at suit of several creditors, with detailed metes and bounds descriptions and reservations.
In Sugar Grove township Warren county the tract boundaries are described as starting at the northeast corner of tract 201 and running along east and north lines for 54.8 and 190.4 rods respectively to delimit a 70 acre parcel. The property includes about 60 acres improved with a frame dwelling, barn, and apple orchard. It was deeded from D. S. Bull to P. W. Nuttall by deed recorded in book 37 page 314 and sold as the property of P. W. Nuttall and Ellen Nuttall at A. D. Carr's suit.
The description covers two parcels in Eldred township Warren County PA. The first parcel contains about one hundred fifty acres with two houses and two barns. It conveys to Jane Brown from Elijah Brady and wife by 1856 deed, with a 1859 recorder’s entry. the second parcel reserves fifty acres with improvements.
A two story frame dwelling erected on lot three in Yeagle and Sailor subdivision Pleasant Township Warren County Pennsylvania, the property of William J. Kline, sold at suit (The Conewango Building Loan Association of Warren) with deed bearing under description of parcel boundaries and road lines.
Document describes multiple Warren County Pennsylvania tracts tied to Charles Parker deceased and Ramah Parker. It lists numerous lots in Warren and Elk Townships, a James Roy farm parcel, a 100 acre Glade Township lot, Farmington township land pieces including the Ramah Parker home farm and John Lyon tract, and related dates and deed references. The land is described as improved with houses, barns, and orchards and sold for Isaac W. Cramer for the John F. Babcock estate.
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