27 Aug 1859
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Newspaper
Columbia Spy
Location
Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1859
Page
2
In a dialogue about tadpoles and tails, two observers discuss how tails can live briefly apart from bodies, the role of development, and the parasitic life around aquatic organisms. They describe Vorticella and other protozoa, noting parasitic relationships and the economy of life as nature’s balance.
The Columbia Spectator notes Esquire Hunter advertising fine melons from Columbia and urges readers to call for a source article. Edward McPherson’s Gettysburg address to the Young Men’s Christian Association praised for its earnest nonsectarian tone. Railroad incident near Elizabethtown damages engine and cars with no fatalities. Bridge fire near Wrightsville narrowly stopped, blamed on careless passenger behavior. Local politics favor A. S. Green’s reelection bid with strong support in Lancaster County. Various notices include deaths, business updates, and insurance reflections.
The article argues life insurance is not a gamble but a structured plan based on life expectancy, with families receiving benefits plus accumulations. It dismisses objections about profit from death and Providence, urging immediate action, favoring the Renn Mategon of Philadelphia with Columbia agency under Thomas Welsh, Esq.
Corusnea August 19 1859 council session with Messrs Feliz Fraley Hershey Hippy Pelan. John Eddy elected tax collector. Road work authorized for Perry street and two months repair costs totaling 104 91. Wight Constable prohibited from using town hall first floor as lodging for paupers. Meeting adjourned.
Review notes the Artaxtic Monray’s growing circulation and merit with extended criticism of new works. Highlights include Charles Mackay on America, Senator Douglas' Popular Sovereignty manifesto, Thackeray’s Virginians, and numerous literary pieces in Blackwood’s and the 1861 Almanac illustrated by Hammett Billings. Gopey and Angur's Howe Magazine praised for feminine novelty.
A Monday incident at the Blue Front involves two German women lodging formal complaints. A magistrate, with Welsh JP references, sentences Johannes Gopher to one night in the borough vaults for intoxication after a comical sequence of drinking and disputes. Two other men, Billy Hantsch and W Wallace Lockard, are paroled under bonds after military parody at Camp Hantseh. Patent and invention notes close the item with a survey of clever devices from the Patent Office.
A parade of odd inventions includes a parlor chair that cannot tip on two legs, a railway chair that tips without legs, a hens nest that cheats the hen with a hidden real eye, and a fare counting omnibus machine that doubles charges for fat passengers. Also listed are self loading gangs, a line that bait adjusts itself, a rat trap that discards the rat, a printing machine that types thoughts like a piano, and US piano production figures with thousands employed.
A striking tale from 1859 recounts Dr John Butler correcting a Prolapsus Uteri misdiagnosis after diagnosing worms. Two doses of Dr AVLune’s Vermifuge by Fleming Bros. produced many large worms, restoring health. the patient later married and thrived.
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