12 May 1856
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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1856
Page
1
A romantic verse expresses devotion and longing. The speaker vows to be faithful and beside the beloved through joy and trouble, praising grace and steadfast love. The archaic, ornate style evokes courtly affection and inner yearning.
An excerpt contrasts kind and harsh speech, noting soft words soften hearts while angry or bitter language worsens temper. It warns that many small, imperceptible acts form habits like snow accumulating, and urges deliberate use of kind words to build truth and virtue rather than letting passion erode them.
A reflective piece urging boys to act with generosity toward peers facing hardship and to avoid harsh words. It contrasts future memory with present behavior, noting the sun will shine and birds sing whether one is praised or scorned. The text blends moral exhortation with garbled phrases about daily life and care in clothing and grooming.
A nineteenth century excerpt urges children to sit straight to aid lung function and health. It extols girls learning domestic duties, claiming home management strengthens character, eases burdens on mothers, and trains girls for useful family service through cooking, baking, and chores.
An English missionary notes that New Zealand women entertain themselves by crying theatrically. They prominently display elaborate head coverings of leaves or duck hair, tearful gestures, and sorrowful expressions to evoke sympathy, treating crying as a practiced spectacle rather than genuine distress.
Fragment discusses preserving catflowers with ornamental vessels and stalks in fresh water. Recommends daily water changes, trimming stalk ends, and using camphor in water to revive faded blooms. Mentions using spirits to dissolve camphor and provides cautions about shade and night exposure.
Sir George Beaumont and Harry Aston told of a Mount Street coffee-house episode with an Irish duellist. Aston swore he would force the man to stand bare footed, challenging him amid wagers. The Irishman proved his claim, and the pair shared the purse, Aston keeping twenty guineas and awarding thirty to the Irishman.
A Victorian tale describes a doctor and a woman discussing leeches used in treatment. The husband recovers quickly after the improvised application, while the doctor notes they would have been better applied externally. The scene shifts to a boy who tries to publish bans of matrimony, interrupted by the doctor who asserts the boy’s objection is valid, then the ceremony proceeds.
A Coronelly tain on 15 down ward trp to this city yesterday turned uneventful until a veil masked lady with flowers appeared on the platform. A gallant conductor helped her aboard but she revealed an April Fool joke with a wooden plaque, shocking the crew and sparking laughter among passengers.
An anecdote concerns Charles Lamb and a sea bathing episode during which two attendants repeatedly dipped him as he protested his quoted instruction. Lamb appeals for calm, but, after a comical mishearing, he is plunged into the sea three times before declaring it was to be dipped only once.
A tongue in cheek narrative contrasts nighttime routines of a young woman and a man. The woman’s careful preparations and calm slip into sleep are described with genteel humor, while the man’s room is filled with coarse instinct and rough thoughts. The piece pivots to a crude medical anecdote about reading difficulty and a farcical garden scene involving fruit and a Calcutta army.
A local notice argues birds are misjudged foes of farmers. It cites a Ginghammpton paper example where a farmer learned a canary-like bird feeds on pests, not grain, and shows birds provide vast agricultural benefits. A citizen, hunter, farmer and natural history lover, urges farmers to rethink bird-killing and adopt protective measures.
A letter decries robin deaths during winter leaving survivors with a channel of care. It condemns youths who kill robins in spring as petty cowards and urges public shaming and moral accountability for such acts.
Mr. Gosse in Birds of Jamaica recounts a humorous tale of the mocking bird and its irritation by a pig. The piece notes how a hungry pig settles under an orange tree, lured by windfalls, provoking the mocking bird to peck fiercely. The pig enjoys the display, then flips over for the show, while the distressed bird endures until giving up. The article shifts to notable fires of the period, listing losses in Baltimore Philadelphia Boston and Nashville among others, with totals and insurance implications, and ends with a lofty observation on appetite and industry growth in London and related advertising revenues.
A passage extols kindness as a universal force that subdues power and alters hearts. It describes how kind looks and words disarm envy jealousy and pride, causing even enmity to bow before its influence and prompting reflections on virtue and heaven.
The piece notes that over about 200 years in France no king or governor with lineage from the crown was ever succeeded by his son. It cites Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI, and various dynastic misfortunes including childless rulers, deaths in dungeons, and exiles, highlighting a pattern of non-succession by direct offspring.
Report highlights a Texas ruin found by hunters near San Jacinto in Bird Thicket with a large area and ornate marble columns and steps. It also covers Dalhousie's expansion in India with Punjab Berar Pegu and Qode annexations and mixed financial results, plus assorted moral and social vignettes from then.
A children story tells of a farmer whose crops wilt in drought. Rain drops fall one by one as neighbors cheer his effort, showing that hope grows from small acts. Never be discouraged, children, for doing what you can matters.
A reader letter argues pride drives costly living in prairie farms and Atlantic cities alike. It condemns expensive dress, fancy homes, and showy social spending as the main cause of waste and debt, invoking Proverbs to warn that pride leads to ruin.
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