10 Mar 1863
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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1863
Page
1
A fragmentary poem laments a fading love and cherishes a mother's tender care, recalling childhood bliss and asking for forgiveness. The second portion presents a lecture by Agassiz arguing that animals possess reasoning power, not mere instinct, asserting shared mental processes across species and the role of training in proving reasoning.
The text argues providence measures success by delay not ruin and that poverty is often mental. It contrasts farmers with crickets to show difference between perceived ruin and steady harvest. It notes wealth neither guarantees happiness nor peace for many rich, while working people can find contentment living within means.
An essay on the awkward rites of entering society and courting. A boy must endure nerves at a door crowded with girls, navigate room dynamics, measure patience, and finally offer to walk a girl home. The piece closes with a satire on manners and a remark about fashionable rings and neat nails.
An account recalls how the Great Captain altered Picton’s plans to blunt Marshal Soult’s assault. Wellington rode a regiment to drum up a fake charge, provoking a roar that misled Soult into delaying, allowing the sixth division to arrive and a French defeat. Also stories of a drunken man at a theatre misreading a sermon, Governor Todd’s draft joke, and a teeth reward for a vanished set.
A newspaper description extols Batavia as a brilliant example of Oriental splendor. White houses set back from the street, streets alive with birds, pinnas and flowers, ornate lamps, and luxurious family accommodations. City lights at night, large garden grounds, high rooms, and varied meals echo first class hotels. Java’s climate, flora, and fauna noted with a population figure and abundant rivers and wildlife.
A curious blend of imperial exaggeration praising Russia's vast reach and ambitions, followed by a string of urban anecdotes and jokes from The Cleveland Herald era. The snippet recalls patriotic bravado, misadventures, law figures, marriage escapes, census mischief, and social quips about neighbors and officials.
A fragment from Nashville describes two Union soldiers from a railway escort who stroll to a house. One wears blue, the other a Seesh coat. a pretty hostess jokes and the Seesh man is fed pies, bread, liquor, and more, then moved on.
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