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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1891
Page
9
A sermon extols the Queen of Sheba’s gifts to Solomon as a metaphor for vibrant faith. It urges replacing dour worship with lively, practical Christianity, rich in warmth, music, service, and spiritual spice to uplift homes, churches, and the poor, ending with a call that the spices endure in devotion.
May 3 report from MrLwatKEE states John XunKin's sister died at noon from trichinosis, adding to a family toll of seven members who perished after eating diseased pork.
The piece traces silk production from silkworm life to reeling spinning and weaving. It covers moths, eggs, fungus effects, reeling processes, silk grades, and global roles of India China Japan France Italy and America. It notes Lyon Paris Genoa Damascus and Barcelona centers, damask Jacquard loom and pattern making, printing, dyeing, and rising silk demand.
A traveller returns from the Pacific and shares curious Patagonian tales. In Magellan's Straits natives appear unclothed amid snow, a mother discards a baby into the sea, then the infant sleeps. Missionaries fail to clothe or hut dwellers, Patagonians endure only rocks or windward logs, despise clothes, and civilization is framed as rising wants.
A. H. Waters claims long lived butterflies such as tortoiseshells and peacocks can be tamed. He recalls keeping a butterfly alive through winter in a vivarium, feeding it sugared water from his finger, and notes success with tame ground beetles in confinement over years. His account appears in a pamphlet on The Mental Endowments of the Lower Animals.
A London Tid Bits item describes the great white shark as the ocean’s most dreaded predator. It attains up to 35 feet in length and about 2000 pounds, with a long flat head and a protruding snout. Its six teeth resemble lancets and a single bite can sever a man. Tales tell of a bullock swallowed whole near Calcutta and a bull’s hide recovered from a stomach.
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