07 Sep 1846
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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1846
Page
1
A fragmentary travel and poetry excerpt extols Western prairies and natural beauty. It juxtaposes God’s creation with sea and mountains as sublime symbols, then includes a Graham’s Magazine poem excerpt titled DUTY by W Ellison urging responsibility and virtue.
The passage recalls Washington bidding farewell at White Hall in 1783 with officers and soldiers moved to tears. It contrasts his selfless retirement with Napoleon at Pont Aibleau, praising Washington for justice, benevolence, and freedom while condemning Napoleon as driven by selfish ambition.
The passage muses on dress as vanity, citing Elizabeth I and Empress Elizabeth of Russia for lush wardrobes and a Saxon Count Bruhl with 800 boots and many wigs. It warns costly fashion can cause unhappiness or poverty and urges neatness and taste within social bounds. It ends with a quip about public punishments and a Springfield Illinois exchange on shaking.
A tale recalls Mozart as Haydn's pupil challenging his teacher to a impossible piece. Mozart allegedly wrote a five minute melody. Haydn tried and failed asMozart’s nose hit the central piano key to prove the point. The anecdote ends with Haydn laughing and praising Mozart’s natural endowment.
A January incident in Louisville Den recounts a milk man and his enslaved handler Bill. Bill cooperates with cow milking, proposes oats for the cows, and names the “dle cow” that yields the most milk. The joke centers on the pump producing milk and a lively dialect ending with a punchline about blue milk.
Readable excerpts recount a fight on the James River between Samp son and Snead, a Sunday school quip about Sampson, a joke from Streeler’s Star, and a tailor of local politics. The item also notes Boston water works ceremonies with John Quincy Adams and Josiah Quincy, plus Tariff objections and moral reflections from the era.
A farmer's daughter elopes with a worthy suitor and marries abroad. They fear the stern father and send a letter. Years later a lawyer offers to secure inheritance for a price. The old man dies, bequeathing his property to the couple and exposing the lawyer's duplicity.
A camel in an oil mill was beaten by its driver. After months the camel plotted revenge in a moonlit night, attacked what it mistook for a sleeping figure, killed itself by ramming its head into a wall. The owner vouched for authenticity.
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