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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1877
Page
4
A lyrical reminiscence told in verse of parting at sea and emotional sorrow. The speaker recalls a past farewell, the brave smile masking a tender heart, and the river and night becoming symbols of enduring longing and patience. The narrator reflects on love, loss, and eventual resignation to sorrow.
At a New York Goethe Club reception, poet William Cullen Bryant offered a humorous theory of humanity. He argued that true man is the animal who delights in antiquities, as only humans preserve relics, excavate ruins, and guard historical artifacts for study and wonder.
The speaker urges awe for stone age artifacts and their place in mankind’s story, comparing ancient stone axes to modern usefulness and urging listeners to become lasting antiquities like stars and suns. The article then details a commission’s discovery about Sitting Bull and a former U.S. Cavalry corporal, Martin Ryan, now known as the White Chief, and notes Ryan’s capture at the Little Bighorn. It also briefly mentions Dudley the lawyer and a Marin Lane bride’s shock leading to insanity.
The Scientific American outlines a future where the phonograph records speech on indented paper and replays it via a second machine, possibly linking to telephone networks. It envisions hearing speakers in distant places, tomorrow or a century hence, and even rendering music and literature as enduring, repeatable records.
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