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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1900
Page
8
A poetic vignette describes a rose tree blooming amid a noisy world. A porter curses the thorned plant while a rough woman and an officious man reflect on beauty and profit. The poem contrasts material gain with the life-affirming value of love and wonder, urging readers to see blessings beyond earnings.
Fifteen years pass as No 23, freed for his crime, travels toward his mountain home only to find ruin and abandonment. The wounded man, disoriented by time, discovers his wife and children gone, the village dark, and ends at the prison doorway pleading for reentry as Tam Number Twenty-three.
A bishop of Oxford, alighting at Wheatley on the way to Cuddleston palace, encounters an officious porter who searches the train for articles. The porter reports seven articles remaining, provoking the bishop to remark on dissenters and question the porter’s conduct.
Lord Rosebery, an ardent admirer of Napoleon, has spent a year composing a study of the great conqueror. He envisions Napoleon at St Helena, hands behind him, gazing at the stars and the sea, making the man profoundly interesting.
Dr Rudolph Andree summarizes late nineteenth century geography work in a German review. He notes many parts of Asia Africa and the Americas remain unknown despite extensive exploration and surveys. Areas north of Kwantung and routes of Prechewalski and Hedin show large deserts and unexplored lands. Much work lies ahead in Tibet the Congo region Madagascar and North America including Alaska due to gold discoveries.
The article surveys vast gaps in geographic knowledge, outlining North polar regions from Wrangel Land to Spitzenbergen, Greenland coasts, Ellesmere and Grinnell Lands, and Baffin's Land. It notes several large-scale expeditions imminent and highlights scant knowledge of the south polar area. It also covers Africa, South America, Australia, and the general limits of cartographic detail, with a mention of a new lunar photograph from Paris.
A London cable reports an English nobleman blinded since childhood regains sight as he leads his bride to the altar. The bride, in maidenly blushes and wedding gown, amazes him, and he loves her more deeply upon seeing her for the first time. The tale echoes a nursery game, yet critics question its realism.
From a ferryboat deck a dramatic pursuit unfolded as a sea eagle chased a carrier pigeon. The Duke of Richmond pigeon dove toward Piedmont deck and escaped into the cabin, while the eagle hovered near the stern before returning to Goat Island. The frightened bird sought protection with a passenger and was returned to its cage.
Edward Bok in October Ladies' Home Journal criticizes Pullman interior decorations as a riot of bad taste. He argues the Pullman Company, a rich corporation, should fund harmonious, artistic drapery that could educate the public and reflect progressive decoration instead of presenting garish colour clashes.
An Augusta correspondent to the Atlanta Constitution reports Robert Gardenheir a middle aged Black laborer living on Jones Street above Cumming as a living example of mathematicians born with the gift of quick accurate figures He can multiply large numbers instantly and works in his head using no known rules He recalls having the gift since boyhood with no clear origin of the method.
Slate pencils were once cut from earth slate and found gritty. Col Mc Steward devised a process grinding slate to powder, filtering, and making a dough pressed into long pencils three feet, cut to length, dried, tempered, then baked. Antwerp organized a rat hunt with a penny bounty per rat killed.
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