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Newspaper
Branford Gleaner
Location
Branford, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1878
Page
1
A dawn scene shows snow clothed woods and illuminated towers as boys play in the snow beside a doorway. The narrator notes an old man watching from a window, his warmth contrasting with his frost in the hair, as a childlike battle unfolds with caps flying and cheers.
Isabel Skelton enjoys a Guernsey holiday while Clara and Amy Chadwick plot and gossip on Lionel Grant. A moonlit cliff walk ends in Isabel's fall and a dramatic rescue by Grant, who confesses his love as he helps her home with a hopeful future.
The Mohammedan defendant was sworn with an original Koran supplied by Prof Herschfelder of Toronto and Trinity. Prosecutor Jacobson took the oath by holding the Koran in his right hand and pressing his left hand to his heart before declaring Sworn.
Washing pigs increases flesh gain by about a fifth compared with unwashed pigs, suggesting cleanliness improves digestion and nutrient use.
An obituary recounts Bayard Taylor of New York as a tireless journalist and poet who died amid mounting work and health strain. It highlights his vast learning, linguistic skill, and philanthropy, noting his leadership in New York letters and his enduring/searching influence despite noted egoism.
The London Court Journal outlines rubies as red sapphires from corundum, detailing color, hardness, and electrical traits. It traces sources from Ava to Burma, India, Brazil, and Russia, notes royal monopolies, and lists price ranges per carat, highlighting pigeon's blood as the prized hue and rare large stones fetching vast sums.
A Hutchinson correspondent reports a three inch fish with legs and a frilled neck found in a forty foot well. It resembles Siredon lichnoides described by Prof. Marsh in 1868 as the amphibian shedding larval form. The creature may metamorphose into a salamander species, with true form and features developing later, according to local notes in the Atchison Herald.
Prince Bismarck complains that his cabinet is burdensome to brief as he must discuss plans with five or six people who often know little about the subject, highlighting frustration with the parliamentary process.
The article notes a weak wartime population in Prussia with 34 and a total of 25 794 inhabitants listed. It presents a brief demographic snapshot amid wartime context.
The figures show Berlin's municipal vote increasing from 1867 to 1878 with 1867 69 1871 1961 1874 11971 1877 31522 1878 56836. In Moore County North Carolina there are twenty eight gold mines six silver mines eight copper mines nine or ten iron mines and other mineral finds.
The National Penny bank operates in London for just over three years with seventy five branches. It reports deposits exceeding a million dollars, 127000 account openings, and about two million dollars currently in bank hands.
In the forties Congress there were nine negroes in the forty-second, seven in the forty-third, four in the forty-fourth, three in the forty-fifth. none in the forty-sixth unless O'Hara of North Carolina obtains a certificate, which is doubtful.
Hunters in the Indian Territory southwest of Joplin trap pigeons nightly. They sleep in the woods and kill with shotguns and clubs, loading wagons to sell the birds at ten to twenty five cents a dozen. Scores of wagonloads are sold while pigeons continue to return to their roosts.
An alligator in Chandhally India seized a sleeping native from a boat and was tracked and slain by a police inspector. In its stomach were twenty six pairs of brass ornaments two sets of gold earrings and several toe rings. The size of the loot suggests at least four women and five children were devoured.
The heliograph marks its first wartime use by British forces against the Afridis on the Peshawar frontier. A circular mirror on a tripod reflects sunbeams to relay messages up to twenty five miles. The device eliminates wire tapping risks and has been adopted by Spanish military authorities after testing.
The St Bernard Coal company in Earlington Kentucky used nitroglycerine with blasting powder. An old colored man retrieved a can from the magazine and left it by the car track. A mule kicked the can causing an explosion that killed the mules and driver and wrecked cars, followed by a second blast from adjoining powder storage.
The author describes the fifty to sixty age as prime for strength and judgment, then outlines a turn into old age. A fragile bridge of life may bend or break under stress such as gout or apoplexy, unless one uses restraint and proper supports to survive into old age with vigor.
Two Spaniards recently secured a Spain patent for incombustible writing paper. Tests show paper will not burn under intense heat. A flame may carbonize surface edges but the interior remains intact and legible. The preparation promises utility across uses needing fire resistance.
A lyric meditation on the calendar months personified as mourners and healers of the old year. January and February bear grief, March roars, and April weeps, while May promises renewal as the cycle turns with the arrival of spring.
A compilation-like fragment mentions Germany's population of 75 million, 208 bones in the human body, a ketchup drinking remedy for pedestrians behind, a distance-measuring machine, and various odds and ends including camel symbolism, sewing thread usage, and ancient horses. It then recounts Judge Wendell's near-drowning after a dam break, followed by an Irish anecdote of a man facing eagles and rope peril, ending with hair turning from auburn to gray.
A writer with experience says exterior paint applied in autumn or winter lasts twice as long as in early summer due to slow drying and a glazed surface that resists weather. Hot weather causes oil in the paint to soak in, drying the lead and risking crumbling, though guards exist at higher cost.
On a recent night the steamer Santa Cruz picked up Ah Sing dead and his wife Pat after a capsizing voyage. Pat clung to the wrecked junk, lashed Ah Sing to the vessel, and held on for day and night until rescue.
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