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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1900
Page
7
Fragmentary poem lines recall a distant place and fading lights as birds depart and winds rise. The speaker laments unfulfilled dreams while night deepens and time seems to have shortened. John L. Shroy is cited from Saturday Evening Star.
Arthur Mason struggles to confess his love to Vera Fray. At a dinner party in Mrs. Fairburn's Sussex home they drift into a moonlit garden for a private talk, but Mason hesitates as Vera's passive nature complicates the moment.
A cool diplomatist propels a mock proposal to Vera as they argue whether love justifies marriage. He claims they are sane without love, while Vera tests his truth by asking him to admit real feelings. He concedes when she asks him to look at her and speak the truth.
The night described by a narrator recalls a moonlit arbor where a bird moves among ivy and a nightingale seeks its mate. The moon travels on its journey and sinks, witnessing events the observer has seen before but never shared.
In Paris Camille Saint-Saens, nearsighted and unaware guests had left, persisted at the piano until two a.m. He refused fatigue, improvising with renewed ardor. At dawn he bowed to the furniture and departed, unaware the chairs and tables had been his audience all night.
A former sultan of Turkey visited England and was entertained by the prince of Wales in fitting style. During a drive the prince pointed out the home of the Duke of Neptenster, highlighting royal manners and the occasion reflected in the carriage tour.
A collage of humorous lines and mock dialogue from early papers includes quips about hospitals patients and dreamlike mortality notes. It features jokes on doctors debts postmasters and misread letters with witty exchanges and oblique social commentary.
The article notes Virginia founded the first insane asylum in 1769 at Williamsburg and the first colored insane asylum in 1870. It cites Dr. Drewry on current state population about 1.7 million, with 3,100 deemed insane, hospital populations rising from 1,605 to 2,820, and warns that jail or home confinement for the insane is unacceptable.
A fourth specimen of the takahe Notornis hochstetteri, a flightless New Zealand bird, was captured nearly two years ago with details reaching England. The bird, goose sized with blue breast and a large pink horn beak, is valued at 1500 dollars and is described as the finest of all.
Fragmentary OCR reads as a brief note on Scotch plows and ancient Scotia di invry times with sparse context and unclear details.
A history of a 30 by 30 foot poultry house designed for muandred fowls and bach flock with three pens and yards. Includes a central hallway, wire netting partitions, and sunlit interiors. Exterior shingles with heavy building paper and optional interior finish.
Practical rules for apiary management from Farmers Advocate advise strong colonies. Frightened bees gorge on honey, tobacco smoke calms hybrids, queen fertility drives prosperity, predators like toads skunks and mice must be kept out, and early division requires ample stores. Drones are needful but costly. manage by comb substitution and early division.
A veterinary digest explains blackleg in cattle, its cause by a bacillus, and how infection occurs through skin wounds. It notes the disease is not communicable animal to animal, but carcass contamination can spread via soil spores. Prevention includes immediate burning or burial. vaccines from affected animals offer the only practical current defense.
Guidance from Farm and Fireside describes a method to bleed poultry by cutting the roof of the beak to sever the vertebra, causing quick death, followed by hanging. It claims whitened flesh, longer preservation, and absence of visible marks compared to neck breaking, with vinegar rinsing and stuffing to retain shape after drawing entrails. It warns against pre-killing stuffing as it promotes fermentation and greenish meat in markets.
Bulletin 64 from the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station reports fattening tests showing higher gains and lower costs with partial liberty for chickens. It contrasts cramped coop confinement with small flocks and restricted runs, notes age at fattening onset, and cites that 20 week olds gained 10 pounds in three weeks versus less gain for 25 week olds. It also records grain requirements per pound of live weight gain, higher for older birds.
The red mites are hard to destroy but can be overcome. If they plague nests, steps include inspecting nests and treating them to remove pests. Ensure nests are clean and dry, and manage hen housing to reduce mite habitat. Regular monitoring helps keep infestations from spreading.
J E Brethour in Farmer's Advocate advises on pig weaning age and sow feeding. He notes pigs thrive with dam until eight weeks, cites diarrhea from dam milk, and recommends exercise and fresh air. After ten days, feed sow bran oats ground peas or corn while limiting grain for ten days post farrowing.
A homemade seed sowing marker built from 114 by 3 inch stock four feet long. A wooden pole serves as handle with a 1 4 inch hole drilled through the center. Ends are sharpened and wedged, braced with lath, and 1 foot long lath pieces attached to mark drills one foot apart on one side and 16 inches on the other.
A remedy for hog mange suggests a tobacco decoction wash diluted with glyc erine and an alternative liniment of linseed oil, tar oil and sulphur. Apply for two days, leave three to four days, then wash with soft soap and tepid water. Disinfect pigpen with carbolic acid.
A poem trains the eye on a roaming vendor in Sleepland selling dreams to children for a penny. The Dream Man touts a vast array of fantasies from dolls that cry to guns and kites, with elves brewing fresh dreams nightly and a busy market of eager customers awaiting selection.
A St Nicholas note explains the Indian pipe hosts a tiny fungus living in its roots. The plant appears leafless but bears small pointed scales that act as leaves, connected to the fungal threads that grow into the root system.
The text explains that green leaves enable plants to make starch from air gas using sunlight, while Indian pipe lacks leaf green and relies on fungal partners in its roots to obtain starch from decaying leaf matter. Some orchids and oaks also use fungi for starch, whereas other plants like pine sap and coral root orchids have lost leaf green yet still interact with or bypass fungi.
Dialogue excerpt shows Chappie and Sharpleigh debating visiting a hostess and paying debts. Ally Sloper style tone hints consequences of starting such duties and avoiding the “wedge” of repayment.
Stanley adores Billy Buster a bold brown white goat with a twinkle in his eyes. The goat follows Stanley to school and invades the parlor, wrecking great grandmother chairs and feasting on straw before being sent to the stable.
Naturalists describe fish that hunt by projecting water. The toxas jaculator in Indian rivers draws in drops, contracts its mouth, and ejects water with force to strike insects on aquatic plants. Similar behavior is noted in Java by a fish that baits curiosity.
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