01 Jun 1830
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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1830
Page
1
Poem describing tears as expressions of gratitude and pity. The tear from Beatty's eye melts coldness, lends balm to grief, and inspires bliss through a sparkling grateful tear. It contrasts with gentle pity and withering leaves, elevating gratitude as a bright, joyful tear.
The article reviews Professor Olmsted of Yale on Silliman's Journal about hail storms detailing causes and regional variations while noting cold air from northern regions and moist currents as factors. It also includes a moral flourish on true friendship by Blair and Hannah Moore, emphasizing constancy in danger and virtuous conduct.
The observer notes diverse ways people laugh during a performance. A fat man in the front row becomes the focal point as his overwhelming reaction pulls attention from the actors.
A fragmented excerpt notes that no European philosophy could harmonize a fat man’s laughter with that of any other person, deeming it cruel to demand such harmony. The line ends with a reference to Atlas, suggesting a satirical or allegorical framing.
A satirical meditation on how towns form around church and trades, followed by a dramatic rescue of a baby seized by a shipboard monkey. It includes a detailed description of knife and razor making, a curious coin heat experiment, and a note on religious melancholy and cheerful faith.
The passage depicts a clerk driving depositions and evidence while pushing politics, turning a village into a town. It notes the town gains a bank a mechanics institute a circulating library and envisions a future with a corporation a mayor a mace quarter sessions of its own the assizes and the gallows.
The article discusses Earth's population, estimating one billion generations at thirty three years. It calculates yearly deaths around thirty million, daily deaths about eighty two thousand, hourly deaths three thousand four hundred, and minute deaths sixty, suggesting mortality implications. It emphasizes the vast scale of human loss over time.
The text ponders mortality and urges serious contemplation as thousands die hourly. It retells Diderot’s hunger ordeal and vow to aid the needy, then exposes London’s cruelty as four hundred worn horses are slaughtered weekly for cat and dog meat. Four licensed horse-butchers kill about fifty weekly each. Skins, shoes, hair, and bones feed various trades. The flesh is boiled for cat meat sold by the pound.
Lieut Burne reports at the Royal Asiatic Society on a Surat Banian hospital for aged and diseased animals, observed in 1828. Inhabitants were mainly disabled cattle and old poultry, cared for daily. He notes another similar establishment at Ariyan where 5000 rats, taxed, are supplied, with bipeds being the worst and most burdensome.
Two eminent Irish Bar members, Doyle and Yelverton, once quarreled so violently that they fought. Doyle knocked Yelverton down twice while shouting that he would force him to behave like a gentleman. Yelverton rose and defiantly refused, declaring he would never be cowed.
An itinerant preacher defends his scattershot style by noting it catches more birds. A London ivory turner made £13000 by sawing an elephant tooth and finding a diamond at its center. Laurel oil keeps Geneva meat flies away by scent. Lorenzo Dow preaches in Washington City and after a meeting uses a misheard pledge to marry a congregant who becomes his wife and shares her fortune.
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