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Newspaper
Columbia Spy
Location
Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1856
Page
1
A Boston Post Paris correspondent details Paris gambling houses hidden in hotels and streets. Tourists are lured by welcoming hosts and cheap wine then entangled in discreet rooms with dining fare, wine and social chatter, leading to intimate questioning and further games.
A Parisian gambling scene unfolds with heated rounds of bouilloite. Hosts seal doors as they join the play and begin with a bold start. The Pole dominates with superior knowledge of shuffles and stockings, outpacing all players including even famed tricksters.
The article lauds American sculptors and painters in Rome, noting Miss Hosmer’s notable reclining Beatrice statue and praising Crawford, Ives, Mozier, Rogers, Bartholomew, Akers, Page, Terry, Thompson, and Brown. It highlights works like Otis, Innocence and Fidelity, Silence, Pocahontas, Adams, Venus on a Dolphin, and several genre and landscape pieces, emphasizing skill, finish, and influence.
A Victorian note highlights Mr. Brown’s elaborate studies for pictures praised for profit and pleasure. Mr. Til ton’s landscapes impress with atmospheric effects and refined relief and perspective, reflecting Titian and Claude. Mr. Chapman the Harper’s Bible illustrator reproduces Roman peasant groups with vivid Campagno scenes showing his talent in painting.
A Waterville couple, aged about 21 and 18, wed at Stoddard House Warmington. The father of the bride arrived seeking custody, a habeas corpus suggestion arose, but townspeople formed a crowd demanding the wife be given to her husband. In the end the wife was delivered to him amid cheers, the father leaving satisfied.
A Le Nord correspondent visits the sleeping study of Emperor Nicholas I in St. Petersburg. The room, modest yet symbolic, contains a leather bed, worn desk, old cloak, slippers, and a bronze Napoleon statuette. The guide notes the desk where he sat for decades and the throne’s humble trappings echoing a long reign.
The article records Dr Forbes Winslow arguing incubus arises from disrupted circulation and paralysis of voluntary muscles. A case from Archust details a sleeper awakened by a thief at his door, unable to resist, while dreams imply intrusions and misdirected sleep state.
A rustic call to farmers and gardeners to prevent weed seeds from spreading. The piece urges immediate hoeing and burning of mature weeds, criticizing lazy habits of throwing weeds to the highway and letting them reseed. It argues weeds reduce yields and that burning is a necessary, costless action to protect fields and gardens.
George W. Kendsll writes from New Braesrees in 1856 of a last week’s trek to Post Oak Texas. He describes hunting fifty pound saddles of venison, frosty nights under blankets of sheep skins, deer counts, trout in a creek, and plans to hunt larger bucks. He notes counting forty seven deer near his wagon and hopes to secure more bucks in time.
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