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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1898
Page
4
A compilation of pithy quotes and humorous anecdotes from The Warren Mail including civic wit, classroom quips, and remarks on manners. It also reports on anticipated telegraph innovations by Professor Henry A Rowland at Johns Hopkins, describing eight-fold message transmission over a single wire using a multiplex device.
A returning volunteer recalls a crowded transport to Porto Rico describing near hellish conditions aboard a ship. He notes seasickness prevalent before deck rests, harsh meals of condensed steam and hardtack, constant cleaning of belowdecks by volunteers, daily hose baths, target practice, sunburn, storms feared, and finally a first square meal after ashore. Horses endured the voyage with no losses.
A collected string of ironical maxims on truth, luck, politics, love, and success. Sharp quips compare outcomes to honesty, marriage, illness, and social judgment, noting how perception shifts with fortune and folly.
An English engineer reports an electrolytic method to produce metallic parabolic reflectors that are cheaper and more durable than glass. A silver-coated mold yields a copper-plated reflector with palladium or platinum coating to prevent tarnish. Tests in Portsmouth showed bullets passing through glass and steam-cleaned salt water left the metal surface largely unaffected.
An elderly narrator recalls hungry enslaved life during the Civil War era. He tells of asking for food and being sent to fetch ashcake and chittlins while a young master refused victuals. The tale blends hunger, flight, and vivid battlefield memories near Manassas and Charlottsville as shells explode.
A collection of wry sayings and curious facts. The notes cover social habits and humor about ceremonies, fatigue from talk, candle snuffing, roosts for men, village knowledge, burying axes, policing consequences, ball games, women’s voices, dusting wings, and broad stats on corn crops and nutmeg yields.
A survey of timekeeping innovations from water and sundials to pendulum clocks. Tales include Cromwell’s pendulum, a six month windless German mechanism, Hampton Court curiosities, atmospheric clocks and wind driven perpetual motion designs.
Cripple Creek financier James F. Burns, president and chief owner of the Portland gold mine, reports an income around $25 000 a month and vast wealth. He jokes about surplus cash while recalling adventures in Colorado and Cuba, including a boa constrictor encounter that changed his hair color.
A stroller recalls signs on the east side reading Two eggs on hash eight cents and Five good cigars seven cents. The bells may not be patriotic but bellboys answer all calls as the exchange of prices prompts local chatter.
A first person travel anecdote recounts heading into Virginia mountains with confidence in self reliance and hunting skills. The narrator meets a mountaineer who offers rustic cautions about snakes and warns of danger near a copper vein, leading to a mishap where the narrator falls into water and then hires the local guide, realizing later there were no snakes after all.
A discussion on physical strength and vitality contrasts mental superiority. The article extols Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a blood purifier and health restorer, claiming it nourishes lungs stomach liver and skin, with a testimonial from Isaac E Downs of Spring Valley Rockland Co NY stating recovery from consumption and weight gain after three years of suffering.
A collection of brief facts and claims on diverse topics including Heidelberg Castle, Britain post office profits, Buffalo employment bureaus, royal guard dress costs, Norwegian temperance concerns, Sudan expedition discipline, London population projections, Boston debt, American navy origins, Liverpool docks length, Andrew Lang’s novelist estimate, and Dr. Nansen’s book profits and lecture income.
A compendium of trivia covers ocean shipping, air volume in breath, Palestine city growth, soap bubble colors, celluloid silvering, London fountains and troughs, burglar proof glass, and skylight uses. It presents diverse tidbits with a period voice.
A compact note of Mexican customs describes bridegrooms supplying the trousseau, customs about night schools and church garb, no public hangings, and restrictions on theater and bullfighting performances. prison terms are in three stages: penal labor, training school labor, and preparatory freedom with privileges.
A collection of wry maxims on virtue debt war marriage and personal fate. The author muses that virtue and success depend on limits self-control or circumstance and notes ironic twists about work, appearance, and lasting impressions. The tone is pithy and observational.
A selection of aphoristic lines about human nature and folly. Statements touch on humanity, power, aging, destiny, ignorance, and gender dynamics in a compact, ironic tone.
A massive sale offers over 500 men’s overcoats in Melton or Kersey in shades blue black brown olive grey and crab. Coats normally priced from 12 to 16 dollars are available at a discounted price for a limited time.
The article extols clover for dual yields two harvests in one season with hay first and pasturage or green manure second. It covers cutting timing curing for dairy cattle hog feed seed harvest, threshing timing, self rake use, and benefits to wheat corn and potatoes, plus family illness hints.
A simple device to ease loading and unloading hay. Build a light ladder hinged at the rear of the hay rack. When not in use the ladder lies forward on the floor. during loading it stands upright and leans back against the rack for secure ascent or descent.
A miscellany of curious facts from different eras and places. It notes savages living longer than civilized people, a missionary eaten on Fiji shores forty years ago, swallows 1000 miles at sea, and birds in Costa Rica treated as delicacies. It mentions a German authority on brain cells, New Zealand orange crops reaching $1000 an acre, and England’s betting turnover. Also noted are Babylonian diamonds, London pigeons near public buildings, and historical color shifts in British military and royal attire.
An agricultural tip explains using a plumb line based level to grade tile drains. The device is 16 1/2 feet long and slides in ditches, letting farmers measure a one inch variation to maintain a uniform fall. Drain lowest depressions first and work steadily to avoid autumn frosts.
The article explains borers harming apple trees including flat headed, round headed, and twig borers. It advises digging out larvae with sharp knives or wires, scrubbing trees, and applying whale oil soap or soapsuds with carbolic acid in June and July. Burn attacked twigs and use soapsuds to deter moths. Borers measure about an inch long and require effective removal from their tubes.
The conch pea is praised as a valuable fertilizer for farmers and as a versatile table pea. Planted with sweet potatoes next spring it promises a bountiful potato harvest. The crop matures late in the fall, regardless of planting time, when vegetables are scarce.
The text notes Alexandria's harbor as the world’s largest artificial harbor. It lists global facts including 230 Alps glaciers exceeding five miles, balloon ascents to 26 160 feet with two aeronauts suffocated, a long standing grape cure, and crime and drug cost observations. Also mentions Newfoundland codfish industry exporting about 1 350 000 hundredweight yearly.
The Montana statue of Ada Rehan once featured at the World's fair is revealed as only lead beneath a silver skin. Once valued at 30 000 dollars, a Chicago firm holding the piece for debt cannot find buyers at 1 000.
Three years ago Paris started disposing of its sewage by converting it into orchards and vegetable plots similar to Berlin. A quarter is already repurposed and the plan aims to complete the process within two more years.
Dunkirk Allegheny Valley Pittsburgh Railroad timetable showing Sun and daily Ex routes from Dunkirk to Titusville with intermediate stops at Fredonia Dale Falconer Junction Woodsville Pittsfield Grand Valley and more. Includes arrival and departure times and station sequence.
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