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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1885
Page
6
Poem reflecting on a divine call interrupting worldly cares. The speaker feels a summons that quiets busy life and fleeting pleasures, guiding toward rest beyond the border land. A voice urges patient obedience and to consecrate thoughts and labor to a higher, spiritual purpose.
The passage argues we are entering a critical period for Christian thought, calling for a clear distinction between saving faith and mere assent. It warns that past teaching must be weighed and that personal spiritual transformation, not theory, sustains a believer amid theological and scientific inquiry.
A sermon compares prayer to wind feeding a glowing brand. It warns that a prayerless life starves the soul of light wisdom and love, leaving it cold, hard, and embers beneath self centered pride.
The passage urges chaste speech and cheerful sacred discourse. It recounts John Bunyan’s conversion after overhearing four women discussing a new birth and encountering a godly pastor.
The piece urges boys who love Jesus to act with Christian virtue while remaining true to boyhood. It stresses temperance, nonviolence, kindness, courage to oppose wrong, and to speak up for sacred things without vulgarity or fear, ending with a local anecdote about a cannon ball linked to Pakenham and an old battlefield tale.
Napoleon argues at St Helena that Jesus is not a man, founding an empire on love rather than force. He contrasts his own conquests with Christ’s, saying millions would die for Jesus and declaring the eternal kingdom of Christ extends worldwide. He notes his own death and burial and urges Bertrand to accept Christ’s divinity.
Fragmentary historic note discusses Talleyrand and a remark about handwriting and masculine resolve, reflecting a debate over personality and influence. The passage appears as a stray quotation with unclear sourcing and context.
The piece portrays Japanese women in formal dress with elaborate hairstyles and obis, detailing their attire from kimonos to crapes and the bowed social grace. It notes the graceful children, many with babies strapped on backs, and the varied charm of street scenes observed by a Western reader.
Four boys on a fence tease a new boy moving in on John R street. The newcomer refuses to back down after stones are thrown and taunts escalate. A pedestrian judges the scene as the boy proves he is game and stands his ground.
A dialogue between Mrs Dusenberry and Mr Dusenberry about Thibet and four husbands yields a humorous remark on how a wife might gain a new bonnet. The exchange highlights cultural stereotypes and domestic humor from the era.
A New Hampshire poet chants mourning on the distant pole scene and predicts the last man will be a mugwump unless the world reverses course. The fragment reflects speculative political wit and social observation typical of the era.
A farmyard mishap with a swarm of bees sends Mr. Silas and son on a wild chase through the yard. After a frantic series of slaps and stings the pair are drenched, breeches replaced, and the household resolves to avoid future bee incidents. The tale ends with the farmer grateful, vowing peace on the farm and sending the boys to tend the cows.
A crowd watched a young girl climb onto a grand piano on display at the New Orleans Exposition. She played with bold confidence while parents and thousands observed. The piece contrasts perceived American girlhood with a criticized lack of home training in some youths.
A dog named Nelson shared a close bond with two carriage horses Peer and Andrew and their coachman. When the family left for the city, Nelson stayed behind, grieving deeply. He refused food, grew weak, and lingered in the coachman’s room until he died upon reuniting with the others at dusk.
The story centers on Silas and his family as bees cluster on a peach tree limb. Silas instructs his son George to cut the limb to place a hive on the table beneath. George, recently home from school, hesitantly proceeds while fearing the bees, as small bee clusters fall away.
A railroad engineer recalls a near miss on a Virginia passenger run when a second engine appeared on the track. He slowed, reversed, and hid the incident behind a siding as a Venus the evening star stood bright beyond a cypress bend.
The text highlights Grant's terse Anglo Saxon diction and rare metaphor, noting epigrammatic readiness in his prose. It cites lines like I propose to move immediately upon your works and I shall take no backward step as emblematic of his style.
Little Jennie capsized in a boat and stayed afloat by moving her hands and feet until help arrived. Her mother told her to thank God for saving her from drowning and the girl replied with a humorous mispronunciation of being saved. The tale is recounted in Peck's Sun.
A jeweler asks a new apprentice if he sold anything. The boy reports selling six plain gold rings at the marked price of 18e. The master praises him and foresees a first class career while noting the buyer paid the remaining price.
A quotation contrasts the world and the speaker’s mother to imply that if the world were weighed against the speaker’s mother the world would topple the scale. It also suggests that a person who cannot mind their own business is unreliable with others.
Susan Cookner and H. H. axp jointly authored the Saxe Holm stories. The collaboration produced a linked set of tales credited to both writers, reflecting shared narrative voice and character development within the series.
President Lincoln reviewed the Army of the Potomac in late November 1862. The line stretched four miles with 72 000 men and six teen light batteries and a large artillery force. Foreign officers praised the precision of the review as McClellan led the march for over three hours while other incidents involved liquor sales and a factfinding by an arrest.
Agatha Tunis recounts Schubert in 1815 composing nearly a hundred songs including Erl King and a story of inspiration from Shakespeare. He wrote rapidly never correcting his work and earned his living mainly from songs, with few published.
A comic anecdote from Fifth Avenue shows a man exhausted after a caucus and four speeches. Senator B K Bruce recalls a doctor marveling at his recovery after using Warner's Safe Cure, noting public life’s toll as overwhelming.
Brokers and operators are bears when they sell stock they do not own and contract for delivery. They short the market, gun stocks to push prices down, and cover by buying to meet contracts. The bear may face a corner, groan, and pay up, while pools leak and squeal reveal secrets, offering some relief.
The article catalogs numerous Washington DC statues with price tags from $5,000 to $50,000, noting large sums paid to sculptors like Clark Mills and pieces such as the Washington equestrian statue, Lincoln brass depiction, and Farragut, Green, Scott, and Rawlins works. It highlights taxpayer cost and fundraising origins for a few pieces.
Mrs. Runkle of Mexico Missouri reports a talking crow named Jim Crow seen in a yard chased by a three foot venomous viper. She killed the snake with a door weight as a frog escaped from its mouth. The crow the snake and the frog are displayed at the Runkle residence.
A traveling Indian eye doctor offers sight restoration for one rupee, performs the operation with a penknife in the town square, then instructs the patient to stay in darkness for a fort night and leaves with the fee, claiming near certainty of success.
A New York Sun humor item describes a book canvasser asking for the boy’s mother and sister and learns the family is occupied with various chores, including putting down peaches carpets and beer. The exchange plays on joke timing and domestic roles.
Advertisement from the World's Dispensary Medical Association claims speedy and permanent cures for mental or organic weakness and similar ailments. It offers a large illustrated book of particulars for 10 cents in stamps, and provides the address 663 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. A note remarks on a boy whose hair is cut by his mother rarely removing his hat in the presence of girls, as quoted by the New York Journal.
A Chicago hotel clerk extols Athlophoros cures after recounting a landlady’s rheumatism relief. The landlady and a guest vouch for rapid improvement, with the clerk offering to obtain or mail the remedy, priced at one dollar, from Athlophoros Co. of New York.
An Albany Argus column mocks political corruption and partisan behavior in a classroom scene. It ridicules politicians and demagogues, hints at biased schooling, and ends with a dismissal as students are warned about provoking the opposing side.
An advertisement proclaims early treatment cures consumption, calling scrofulous ulceration of the lungs a blood purification issue. It claims Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery purifies blood, strengthens the system, and prevents future attacks, advising buyers not to take other drugs.
An old advertisement claims Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets ease liver and stomach troubles with no discomfort. The pills are sugar coated, highly concentrated vegetable extracts, and come in glass vials, touted as superior for bilious headaches and related maladies.
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