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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1892
Page
6
The speaker recalls the Wind begging to roam the world and threaten to break doors and shake rooms as night deepens. The Wind and Sea loom, and the Wind vows to return, urging the narrator to join the dead in a vast roaming after nightfall.
Florence Craven loses faith in men and sets out to win a husband at a seaside resort. Jarvis Murray, her aunt’s nephew, uses patient, steadfast tactics to win her hand while masking true intentions. He finally proposes after a playful deception and she accepts, ending with Mrs. Chasby Soden’s matchmaking success.
The article offers kitchen tips for thin sliced sandwiches with veal chicken or lamb and sweet spreads using raspberry or currant jelly. It then provides a kidney stew method advising slow simmering for hours, onion addition, Madeira, and serving ideas. It also describes baking bluefish with butter lard crust and optional mushrooms and sauces.
The cocoanut palm in Ceylon yields leaves for mats and fuel, stems for fences and utensils, sap for toddy vinegar and sugar, nut milk and meat, oil for soap and light, shell for cups and handles, fibre for cordage and nets, and trunk for wood. A tree can sustain a family, with many villagers living off it. Singhalese superstition says the palm dies if a village is deserted.
A Cincinnati firm completes an electric light bath device for households. The cabinet resembles a vapor bath, fully enclosing the body with only the head exposed. About sixty sixteen-candle power lamps surround the patient, grouped in fourteen lamp sections with separate switches, backed by polished nickel for reflection. The strong light purportedly bronzes the skin like sun exposure and, with vapor bath combines, avoids usual gloom and leaves the patient buoyant and lively.
An article argues that bodies and ships sink to the sea bottom rather than suspending above it. It notes natural processes that bury or disperse remains, citing bones along the Gulf and Caribbean, and describes decomposition and marine recycling of the dead.
The Rochelle French prefecture reports ants that feast on woodwork causing hollow shells and widespread ruin. Originating in New Rochelle last century, the infestation spread through the city destroying archives and threatening structures. Wood supports have been replaced to avert collapse, but containment remains uncertain.
A BIEL. presents before Congress a plan for settlers to receive land grants adjacent to forfeited railroad lands. The proposal seeks extra per acre compensation tied to proximity to railroad grants, noting government action has reduced previous amounts. The land is claimed to be fair and promptly conceded to deserving settlers.
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