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Newspaper
Birtle Observer
Location
Birtle, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 10, 1889
Page
3
A Portree scene portrays fishermen at night wrestling the tow rope through a storm. The tale blends toil endurance and religious reflections as dawn nears and a moral message about freedom through Christ emerges.
A fragmented poem by John Imrie reflects on bidding farewell to the Old Year and welcoming the New Year with hopes, prayers, and lessons from the past. The text intertwines seasonal imagery with musings on fate and the unknown ahead. A stray line about a loan and pressure to Prince Bismarck appears, partially garbled.
The text argues that habits formed in youth endure into old age shaping speech manners and action. It notes that rituals like prayer and courtesy become natural and influential, while poor habits remain stubborn echoes. It warns against opening doors to harmful habits, urging mindful formation early in life.
A Boston Herald Paris letter profiles a mother and her three daughters who moved to Paris to educate and advance themselves. One daughter earned honorable mention in the salon as a promising artist, another became the sole woman physician admitted to a leading Paris hospital and married a noted scientist, and the third girl became the only woman employed as an observatory astronomer by the French government. The piece notes the rarity of such female progress in France and underscores their determined, unfeminine drive.
The Michigan Supreme Court issued a decision on the states game law linking possession and compensation when property is lawfully obtained. It holds that game killed in season may be kept indefinitely and that game from another state is not protected by the act, affecting cross state shipments and enforcement in neighboring states Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa and Dakota. The ruling challenges rigid enforcement and has implications for interstate game trade and state law tests.
A wife faced with a complaint about her cod plans a playful ruse. She serves boiled cod and a separate chowder while secretly placing a frog in the dish. When husband Zachariah discovers the frog he relaxes, laughs, and vows never to scold her again.
A tourist recounts a Cuban case where a tailor sued for a $500 debt for mourning clothes. The defendant claimed he was about to complete a valuable property purchase and the seller, fearing nonpayment, refused further negotiations. The judge ruled for the defendant, awarding $200 in damages to him for spoiling the deal.
A Yorkshire incumbent recalls a sick parishioner who harms himself with quack medicines and refuses doctors. During a church visit he learns the man’s wife prays in the Litany for healing, unaware of the self harm in doctoring. The tale highlights gaps in lay understanding of church practice and medical care.
A meditation on divine expectations, urging that God does not require impossibilities and rewards effort. The piece notes even a single talent rightly used earns a reward and likens virtues to a gospel passage about dutiful acts. It also humorously questions location details and references a ribbon society for women in dress.
The piece notes France faces mortality and birth stagnation while proposing schemes like a ten cent chain appeal as a curiosity. It highlights a London baby named William Greta achieving 53 tower climbs and 550 chimney builds, and compares Canadian city growth from 1871 to 1888 with increases in Toronto Montreal Hamilton London and Ottawa. It contrasts Canadian urban expansion with U S border cities per 1870 census figures and cites St John Sun on lakeside Canadian cities outpacing their neighbors.
The article argues imagination is essential to interpreting poetic Bible language while recognizing the realities behind its vivid imagery. It cautions against literalizing divine attributes and notes that adjectives describing God reflect metaphorical speech aligning with moral truths.
The author reflects on whether earthly friendships endure in heaven and how eternal life begins in union with Christ. If gathered with Him, believers will know and be known, and human affections are not denied but fulfilled in the Father’s house of unity and diverse fellowship.
A Church of England Magazine reflection on grief and enduring faith. The speaker urges patience through sorrow and recalls departed loved ones who journey toward a heavenly town. It contrasts earthly loss with spiritual reunion and encourages sustaining song and duty.
A reflective poem recalls meadows of the speaker’s youth with streams and flowers. A grave of a laughing-eyed boy and a remembered father by the river frame longing for the past. The speaker pleads for return to the cherished fields and home.
A Victorian tale recounts Viscount Milton spending thirty to forty thousand dollars in Victoria by buying drinks for a bar crowd and wrecking the bar with a champagne bottle spree. He later returned as a laborer the next spring, coatless, after his riches vanished.
A Washington natural history professor wandered from the Smithsonian to a lawyers office on F Street. After asking a few questions a pompous clerk retorted that the law is beyond the professor. The professor replied that he knows a "pasar natural history" and called the clerk an ass.
The New York Tribune reports three young elephants at the Central Park Arsenal menagerie expanding the outer winter enclosure. Tom Billy and Jennie, about twenty five years old, weigh nearly 5000 pounds each and show remarkable strength and intelligence. Jennie leads and obeys her keeper, while the animals move large structures and wheels, and recall dangers such as fires from Barnum's fire.
An ailing old Scottish laird improves as his tenants await daily medical bulletins. Geordie the laird's factotum returns from the big house with a cheerful report saying the laird took a broth and seemingly revived, sparking hopeful chatter among the nearby crowd.
The account predicts Galena sending Billy the billy goat to Hayti to confront opposition on the steamer Haytian Republic. If resisted, Billy would be sent ashore to confront Legitime and his retinue with a poke called a header, a dramatic gesture to show sympathy with victims and invite a hook on the seat of war.
A St Louis man age 62 describes his bleak view of life and intention to commit suicide. He says he would be 70 in eight years and has “played the world out” and will “cheat the course of nature and jump the time to come.”
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