May 2, 1889
La Monde de la Science describes a factory which is said to be flourishing at St. Denis, France. Within its walls skeletons are “made” in the following manner: The largest room in the building is filled with enormous kettles, in which the bones of the corpses are boiled till the flesh is separated from them. The skulls are prepared separately and in the most careful manner. One way of preparing children and young people is to fill the hollow where the brains were situated with peas and then let the latter swell in water, which causes the most delicately jointed bones to separate without being injured. After all the bones have been carefully washed they are bleached either by choral or by exposure to the sun, and are joined in another department of the factory and made flexible by means of brass wires. Most of the corpses whose bones are utilized are said to be brought from hospitals, prisons and dissecting-rooms.
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May 1, 1889
Be sure to pay your first month’s rent in advance. It will put you on good terms with the landlord, and after that you need be in hurry to settle.
It is well to engage your truckman about ten weeks in advance, and if necessary guarantee the payment of your bill by giving a lien on you furniture.
If your landlord says that the house has all the modern improvements, you must not look for a phonograph in each room. The landlord didn’t mean that.
Examine your gas meter in moving in a new house. The previous occupant may have left his score unsettled, and the gas man will add it on your first month’s bill.
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April 24, 1889
Pueblo, Colo., April 23.—A very interesting discovery of cliff dwellings has just been mad near the line between New Mexico and Colorado, at the lower end of San Luis valley. The place is on Santa Clara creek, ten miles from Espanola. All other cliff dwellers’ houses are situated forty miles or more from the railroad, and are difficult to access. The buildings, or village just discovered, were in a circle of six hundred yards in circumference. The bricks are as light as pumice stone, but very hard. A short distance away was an open mound fifty feet in diameter, containing many skeletons, which turned to dust on exposure. There was also some excellent pottery found still in good condition.
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April 15, 1889
The city of Trenton presents very few old buildings that are relics of the Revolution, still a few exists. While walking down Greene street the other day out attention was called to an old building, just below Taylor Opera House, that suggested to us from its appearance, that it might be an ancient relic of those historic days when the illustrious Washington rode through our city, nearly a century ago now, on this way to New York city to assume the responsible post of the first president of the United States. On investigation we found that this old building was occupied by three different parties as business places.
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April 13, 1889
Barnum and Bailey.
Madison Square Garden.
Third Week—Only one more after this.
Positively Exhibition in Brooklyn Easter Monday.
140,000 tickets sold in two weeks.
50,000 Delighted Children in 12 days.
Crowded houses at the night entertainments. So great in the demand for seats, especially to the NIGHT EXHIBITIONS, that there is no certainty of obtaining them unless secured in advance. Reserved seats and boxes may be secured up to the last night, which is Saturday April 20. Thousands of persons will miss seeing these unparalleled exhibitions at all unless they attend the Matinees which, except Saturdays, are not overcrowded. The afternoon performances are precisely the same as those of the evening.
Barnum and Bailey’s the Best Show on Earth.
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April 12, 1889
Joy was unconfined at the Hotel Bradley Last Night- A Gay Time.
The Hotel Bradley was the scene last night of one of the gayest social events in the history of Xenia. For several weeks the young men have been scheming and working on what culminated last night in an outpouring of Xenia’s youth and beauty to that magnificent hotel, where the pleasures of the dance transported them from the world of cares, for the time being.
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