09 Feb 1887
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Newspaper
Connersville Times
Location
Connersville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1887
Page
1
The article recounts Ugandan Christian martyrs under Mwanga, detailing Fredi who faced execution with faith and Roberto who refused to renounce reading, endured torture, and died in flames. It contrasts their fortitude with the brutal colonial-era oppression and cites missionary perspectives on conversion and endurance.
A Methodist layman in Exeter New Hampshire opened a missionary meeting by citing Matthew four nine and saying followers should seek fishers of men where fish are found. The anecdote was used to illustrate pursuing unseen opportunities. Nearby Mount Pleasant Pennsylvania a sheep was attacked by a bald eagle but escaped as observers watched the dramatic scene.
A Ceylon gentleman sent a mindall mina a small bird to a London maiden with hope of amusement. The ship’s cook cared for it, but seasickness cries and continuous imitations forced the aunt to part with the bird despite its perfect grammar.
The article recalls Irish emigrant teachers who roamed the western and middle United States in the early 1900s. It notes their Latin Greek scholarship, fluent English with “dictionary talk,” skill in mathematics, and use of corporal punishment. It also mentions their social habits, liquor tolerance, and influence on leading statesmen.
A Globe-Democrat music manager proposes a novel system to split a large auditorium into a smaller front room by dropping iron walls from ceiling to floor. The movable barriers would enclose 1,500 to 2,000 seats, letting managers adapt space to expected attendance and keep the audience and performers engaged.
R Wad-el-Ward a prominent visitor from Palestine describes his six week stay in Salt Lake City visiting temples and meeting Mormon leaders. He details temples facing east and west, shoe removal, baptisms for the living and dead, endowments with robes and aprons, anointing ceremonies, paradise and world rooms, and the holy of holies with priesthood signs, noting his distaste for the rites.
The article notes expanding electrical uses with telebarometers telethermometers and telehydrobarometers recording distant air heat steam pressure and water stages. It also mentions a California electrician who claims a process to instantly smelt gold silver and copper by a lightning stroke.
The article discusses relief from crowded tenements in London and Europe due to apartment housing, noting lower death rates and declines in poverty and crime. It cites the Peabody fund guiding non pauperizing aims and reviews Dr Blaine's warnings on disease transmission through milk and beef from tuberculous animals.
In spring 1833 he became postmaster of New Salem for three years. Mails were scanty and he read every arrived newspaper. He later repaid a small debt from a trunk by taking only his own money, saying he never uses another's funds. The tale illustrates his quaint honesty amid poverty.
A New York hunchback stands before a store window as Christmas traps glimmer in the rain. A well dressed man touches the hump with his finger for luck and departs, prompting reflections on gambler superstitions and the difference between luck seekers and enthusiasts.
Professor Roberts extols modern implements and machines as the boy of today can rob the soil of more plant food in a year than his grandfather could in a lifetime. He notes the sulky plow and self binder increase efficiency and yield.
The piece notes gingerbread dates to the fourteenth century in Paris as rye meal dough with ginger and honey or sugar. It spread to England via Treary IV’s court and grew popular, later adapting in the United States with cheaper sweeteners and darker color. It cites Chicago Tribune observations of old country booths still selling gingerbread.
A Home Journal excerpt mocks Dutch social norms, noting a rule that forbids a woman from entering places where men gather. If confronted by male company in a confectionery or library she must retreat abruptly, while the man stays to finish his business, creating awkward social dynamics.
The piece contrasts Germany’s large tramp population with the narrator's country claiming more wanderers in spring who refuse work and live on scraps, while winter brings four-fifths of the population of jails, poor houses and hospitals.
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