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Wilson Mirror

Location

Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America

Date

Dec 18, 1889

Page

7

Dorcas of Joppa Famed for Needle Charity and Resurrection

A Talmage sermon recounts Dorcas of Joppa who sewed garments for the poor, aided orphans, and inspired urban charity. When she dies the town mourns. Peter raises her, symbolizing enduring Christian service and the reward of faithful benevolence.

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Rat Catcher Traps Rats with Ferret in Brooklyn Cellar

In a dark downtown restaurant cellar at 11 30 p m three men plus a rat catcher William Penney and a reporter watched his dog Kit scent and flush rats. The ferret aided by the dog tracked and killed a brown monster rat weighing about eighteen ounces as seventy traps were laid in the runways. The party moved to a nearby room near the Brooklyn Bridge where Penney and assistants bagged twenty rats alive and continued the hunt with Kit and the ferret pursuing stragglers.

William Penney Wiliam Kit Penney Nsanson Wasas Isaacsen Brooklyn Bridge Isasesen Ats Penny Atrack Sacken New York Sun

Horned rattlesnakes exhibited at San Francisco academy

At the Academy of Sciences in San Francisco two horned rattlesnakes from the Mojave Desert are shown. The venomous reptiles have a horn like a single eye and move with a sinuous side motion making their strike direction hard to predict. A horned viper in Palestine and the Sahara shares some traits. The purpose of the horns remains unknown.

Academy of Sciences San Francisco Mojave Desert Palestine Sahara Desert Mojave

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