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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1895
Page
7
A compact reflection on the mouth as the entry to the body and to expression. It toys with its varied roles from food and speech to emotion, patriotism, love, and social life, noting how absence would dim meals, greetings, songs, and laughter.
A fragmentary columns of curiosities and economic notes recount farm yields low theft shifts to hogs in Missouri, a six foot four inch mission grapevine in California, a giant Mahaska county acorn stock, Jambo the World’s Fair steer slaughtered in Montana, and unusual quotes from Stearns, Lamartine, and Thackeray. It mentions Montpelier Indiana farmer income, Tuscola and Iosco ditch projects, and a burst of literary epigrams.
Stephen J. Elkins was nominated by acclamation to succeed Camden in the United States senate at a Republican caucus in the West Virginia legislature attended by all Republican members. Born September 26, 1841 in Perry County Ohio, he rose from farmer’s son to lawyer, congressman, secretary of war candidate, later a railroad and coal interests magnate with substantial land and railroad stock holdings. The party’s victory in West Virginia was credited to his campaign energy and ability.
Senator James McMillan of Detroit will continue to represent Michigan in the upper house for another six-year term. The senior U.S. senator is noted as popular and democratic in manner, with a background in business leadership and Republican political service, including chairmanships and local civic roles.
A humorous trio of wedding service mishaps where a silent groom balks at the responses, the bride urges him on, and a stubborn couple inspires the cleric's disbelief. A wife notes her father’s past marriages shielded her from questions, adding to the comic chaos.
The piece notes two solar eclipses in 1712 and two in 1889 and states that such a rare sequence will not recur until 2057, highlighting the unusual celestial pattern.
An English pastor born 1517 at Kentmere Hall in the Lake District refused a bishopric, faced plots to burn him as a heretic, and endured arrest after a journey to London. Despite setbacks including a broken leg, he stayed steadfast, asserting that all events are for good, and his liberty returned after Queen Mary’s death.
A bass viol rubbed with damp iodide of nitrogen exploded when the instrument strings traced a vibration of sixty cycles per second. The explosion occurred with the G string but not the E string, confirming a specific resonance risk in dry iodide of nitrogen exposed to musical tones.
A US Navy veteran who settled in Japan recounts an incident in which his child asks, Who is the foreign devil that has come to see papa, revealing lingering anti foreign sentiment in Japan. The nurse explains the child is speaking of a fellow countryman, showing how a native expression still echoes past resentments.
The New York World reports an annual scam by a bogus pet hunter selling stale game as freshly killed. Peddlers in corduroy trousers and hunting gear hawk ducks or rabbits in residential and up town areas, claiming short hunts in New Jersey or Long Island. They buy cheap game from Fulton market dealers and pass it off before a waiting wagon replenishes stock, often with a boss directing several counterfeit hunters.
An account from a Frenchwoman in Senegal describes her audience with King Behanzin of Dahomey aboard the Legend. The deposed ruler, aged about fifty five, is crowded by five wives and four children as he greets the guest in a silk striped mantle and colored wool sandals.
The London Spectator notes hansom cab drivers stay alert to avoid pedestrians despite speed and weaving through traffic. Omnibus drivers are cautious, avoiding collisions with larger carriages. A separate astronomical item recalls February 1866 as a rare month without a full moon, a phenomenon not seen since the era of the Christian world’s creation, unlikely to recur for 2.5 million years.
A judge Buxton in North Carolina presided as a young lawyer, wu 26, appeared at the bar. The solicitor asked him to take charge of a petty misdemeanor case. The jury found the defendant guilty, but one juror confessed the doubt and said they did not want to discourage the new lawyer.
A playwright arriving for a one act comedy booked a country town theater meets a fat trombonist who says the orchestra is at a dance across the river. The playwright asks if he is the musician, the man shrewdly replies he is not worth a cent, staying behind while the others perform.
An old Devon fisherman, famed for keeping his boat spotless, ferried a gentleman and a young lady. He removed footwear to board, washed mud from her boots with sea water, then quipped that salt water won't give her the snuffies. A second note warns solitary confinement drives melancholia and mental decline, with nine months likely to erode reason.
A Maine hunter employed by a slate quarry camp stored meat and fish by keeping a deer sled and trapping game under evergreen brush. He allegedly retrieved trout within minutes after a prompt, and once buried a tethered buck alive under snow for future use, according to a Lewiston Journal account.
A Scientific American writer notes several annual journals north of the polar circle. Esquimau Bulletin edits near Cape Prince of Wales prints news once yearly on thick eight by twelve inch hectographed sheets. Another annual appears at Godthaab Greenland with two hundred eighty names and lithographs.
A Cincinnati Enquirer man recalls surviving a two month blizzard in Minnesota in 1568 near Albert Lea. Four men built a hut, stocked for two to three months, and faced persistent heavy snowfall and subzero cold. They could not exit through the door for days and tunneled out through a window. The drift remained frozen long enough to keep the hut buried for two months.
Frances Power Cobbe’s Life uses amusing Dublin brogue examples from Irish Protestant clergy a half century ago. A sermon on the Fear of Death features a line about the doying Christian leaping into the arrums of death and ringing eternal hallelujahs. A clergyman’s dread of reading Acts includes mispronounced terms like Pertheangs and Mades and Mesopotamia to provoke laughter.
The piece recalls Vice President Calhoun as president of the Senate claiming no power to call to order words in debate, treating each senator as an ambassador of a sovereign state. Virginia’s John Randolph exploited the rule to launch a sharp tirade at Calhoun during a session.
Mrs R R Bullock of Brighton testifies her ten year old daughter Blanche recovered from right arm paralysis and nervous symptoms after three bottles of Dr Miles Nervine. She attended school regularly, gained weight, and regained full use of her arm. Nervine sold with guarantee by Dr Miles Medical Co. Elkhart Indiana.
The Enquirer advocates free coinage of silver at the old 16 to 1 ratio with gold as the sole remedy for troubled trade and industry. It labels the 1873 act as class legislation and treasonous, backed by European interests, and urges readers to subscribe and promote the paper for spreading the truth. It notes sample copies and commissions for club raisers from Exoaimer Company of Cincinnati, Ohio.
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