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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1876
Page
10
A rustic poem by B Burton depicts Jennie at the pasture rail and Ned in a Wheat bound tale. The verse mixes farm life with budding love as scythe, grain, and milking pails frame a courtship. The farmer’s beard and the bread of love are woven into the harvest imagery.
A roving tale centers on Harry Brown a young lawyer who fancies Zaide Buckley a plain but striking schoolteacher. Zaide the Sweet Brown Zaide inspires a determined romance that ends in marriage and a wealth twist from an old will, leaving Brown and Zaide to navigate love money and fate.
The Pandora returns to Portsmouth after a long Arctic voyage. It reached Disco and Upernavik, crossed Melville Bay, explored Onsrey and Lancaster Sound, and faced dense fog and heavy ice in Barrow Strait. Stores were damaged by polar bears at Becky Island. They found Franklin graves intact. The ship halted at Roquette Island and Bellot’s Strait was blocked by pack ice. The crew chose to return, reaching Carey Islands with Nares dispatches, hoping for renewed efforts next year.
A Lewiston Missouri woman named Hoyt says after fifteen years of labor she has completed a perpetual motion device. The apparatus features a large wheel with four iron tubes arranged to guide cannon balls in a back and forth path as the wheel turns. An ingenious layering design keeps weights at the circumference to counter gravity and supposedly keep the wheel moving.
In a 19th century critique, Prof Jenney asserts the Black Hills hold scant value beyond exploration costs. He contrasts Indian demands of 70 million with a 6 million government offer, arguing the exchange was overpriced and the hills are worth no more than 500 thousand for outright control by a buyer.
A fragment from the Chicago Tribune notes an inducement proposed to Native Americans to relocate farther into a country deemed better suited to their purposes. The passage reflects historical pressures for relocation.
A contemporary critic ridicules the Prince of Wales for lacking the ostentation of Indian rulers. He cites Jehan Gheer’s gifts of gold adorned swords, ivory, elephants, and silk carriages, lavish banquets, and enormous wealth under Akbar.
The Tahoe and Carson Narrow Gauge route climbs a mountain via a zigzag to reach the summit seven and a half miles from Flenchrook. Engineer Anderson surmounts a 45 degree grade with a cross-ganger zigzag then continues past Spooner's Station and a 480 foot tunnel to the flume station on the old Placerville line.
A digest cites age life expectancy figures from historic Europe and Geneva, noting 30 to 50 year spans for Roman and modern upper classes, with Geneva life data from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. It also recounts a Bloomington Illinois inheritance case where a daughter’s share passed to a half-brother despite a 18 day gap before birth, and a Tennessee domestic anecdote ending with a crude warning about a swing incident.
A farmer speaks in calm assurance that the kingly role of husband and steward holds in their green fields and barnyard. Cattle graze the hill as he and his wife, near a knitting chair, note that prosperity rides with crops and weather, despite shifts in markets and stock prices.
A collection of household tips and recipes for savory mains and desserts. Instructions cover onion water for NY stocks, potato croquettes, ant deterrents, stain removal, cheese pudding, pork or beef dishes, poring cream use, and meat reuse with spices. The page blends cooking guidance, food preparation methods, and simple preservation hints.
A recipe fragment describes soaking ingredients in milk and adding one egg. The mixture is baked in a form and is presented as an admirable tea or breakfast dish. The line reflects a simple, homey preparation from a historical, likely domestic context.
The Washington correspondent reports brisk progress for the Monument Society as subscriptions accumulate from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Minnesota, and 40,000 U S societies. Illinois Masonry adds 1000 with a pledge to urge lodges nationwide, while the goal remains 500000 to complete the obelisk and terrace, with Congress to hear a memorial petition.
A tragic workplace accident on Widow Kettles’s farm in Junius near Rochester claims Theodore Bodine. A coil of fence wire fed into a threshing machine wraps around his neck, drawing his head into the cog and tearing him apart. He leaves a wife and two children.
The piece notes China readiness for war, coastal earthworks, a modernizing navy with ten torpedo vessels, and Armstrong guns supplied to China. It suggests American officers would influence future battle outcomes, while English arms may be used to China’s disadvantage. It warns the next Chinese war will differ from the last.
A Rural New Yorker piece argues bees rarely travel far from home, estimating most forage within three miles. Anecdotes about a flour dusting experiment are discounted due to pollen confusion with flour. Instances of up to four miles are noted only in exceptional cases, with Italian hybrids cited as a potential factor.
A collage of quips and jokes from the Detroit Free Press with puns about influenza maligna epizootics and a parade of humorous misreadings. It includes tired gags about school tables and a farmer misnavigating a Merrill Block with four doors, ending with a wry line about occupying the whole block.
An aged Revolutionary era participant recounts how General Washington, facing ammunition shortages in Massachusetts, sought aid from Connecticut Governor Jonathan Trumbull. He reportedly said we must consult Brother Jonathan, a phrase that evolved from a wartime byword to designate the nation, akin to John Bull for England.
A Newfoundland dog swam far from shore in a canal and failed to climb a high wall. Smyth's shepherd dog alerted for help, but none came. The Scotch collie grabbed the dog by the neck and pulled him out to safety, much to the joy of both dogs. In New Orleans last week a married woman assaulted a presumptuous lover on the street, bringing her husband to witness the whipping.
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