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Newspaper
Daily Liberal
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1881
Page
1
By George Klingle speaks to the shared labor of life’s work and the personal threads each hand spins. The poem reflects on how future hands might continue a design begun by others, the varying lengths of threads, and the ache of wondering if the weave sustains meaning or fades to sand as time wears on.
A narrator recalls Perrine, a farmer’s daughter, and their love under a pear tree. Pierre becomes a lieutenant after accounts of conscription and battle, marching from Wagram to Moscow. Perrine’s faith and hope accompany him through war toward a hoped reunion.
A speaker recalls a bellringer and a fallen pear tree once seen from afar. Perrine, the bride, and Jean marry as Mathieu rings for the wedding. Pierre, a young commander, asks for a guard post, choosing valor over marriage, while a tomb marks a fallen colonel at twenty two.
A description of imperial police in China detailing red robes and pheasant feathers, the yamun and criminal inspectors, and a hierarchy from privates to sergeants. It notes living arrangements, meager pay, bribery as a livelihood, and unequal enforcement favoring the rich. Prisons in towns are simple round-houses, while walled cities house crowded penitentiaries with harsh, meager rations.
An editorial argues pupils in common schools lack practical knowledge. It cites examples like profit calculations and everyday literacy errors to urge teachers to make instruction more businesslike and connected to real life. It calls for reform to produce children who grasp practical usefulness by age 12.
The article argues eight hours of undisturbed sleep supports healing and vitality, detailing sleep's role in digestion, tissue repair, and mental renewal. It notes infants need ample sleep, warns against disturbing breathing in sleep, and cites Dr. C. J. Page on infant diet and fatty degeneration from overfeeding.
The importation of canaries from Germany to the United States reaches about 80 000 birds annually since 1847. Most originate from Andreasberg in Hanover, where miners and their families breed birds for export. Birds pair in February, arrive in June, and travel in small crates with losses under five percent. Prices range from two to three dollars in New York for Andreasberg birds, while bells from Belgium fetch higher prices. American-bred canaries reportedly lack the marital song quality of imported birds, possibly due to influence from nightingales and linnets heard by German breeders.
In fall 1790 Burns wrote the Tale of Tam O'Shanter in a single day. His wife and two children found him by the river, weeping and laughing as he recited the verses in ecstasy. He later read them by the fire, deeming it his finest poem.
A brief kitchen note describes mixing one quart milk with bread crumbs to a thin batter, beating three eggs with salt, adding two tablespoons flour, then baking on a griddle and serving hot.
Coleridge recounts Alexander the Great meeting peaceful Africans who refused gold and offered wisdom. A land dispute over treasure leads to a lesson: inquires about agriculture and the sun and rain, the chief implies governance mirrors benefits to cattle and people, not conquest.
From Scripner July summary on cooperative production in a democratic republic context. Argues co-operative workshops rarely gain clear economic definition, often resemble joint stock setups with capital held by workers or outsiders. Highlights need for concord among many participants and warns against cooperative insurance schemes lacking sound legal and mathematical foundations, foreseeing losses for savers and investors.
A Lucknow fakir known for miraculous feats sits beside a blazing pile of eleven cartloads of combustibles for four hours without harm. Native papers trumpet the miracle drawing widespread offerings and police guarding the site, though details likely embellished by sensational reports.
A board of eminent physicians and chemists announced a new cure all Hop Bitters. Skeptics doubted at first but trials proved its wide healing range. The discoverers are honored as bene factors by the Democrat.
Popular Science Monthly recounts astonishing feats of survival in water. A ship’s second mate swam thirteen miles to reach the English coast after a sail-falling accident during a storm in the German Ocean. Brock and pilots near Yarmouth survived a capsize. most perished, he swam to an anchored vessel. Dogs, mules, and horses have swum long distances to reach their masters or to aid vessels in distress. A Lincolnshire man swam out to ships on horseback to save lives during gales.
The almond is native to Asia and Africa and grown in Europe for flowers and foliage. North Europe yields no fruit. blossoms resemble peach but larger and paler. Bitter and sweet varieties exist. sweet almonds taste pleasant yet indigestible. Bitter oil is poisonous if crude but safe when refined and used in medicine flavoring and soaps. The Bible references almonds as a symbol and gift.
Describes how Esquimaux select snow blocks for igloos by testing drift consistency with a horn cane, digging a pit, and cutting blocks. Explains blocking, cornering, and wall erection, plus the social effect of Arctic humor on European culture through Gothic imagery and Loki.
Fragmentary note discusses Luther and Calvin in relation to reforms and hypothetical success if joined by Rabelais and Ulrich von Hutten, with unnamed brethren. The text hints at historical reform movements and possible collaborations, but remains incomplete and enigmatic.
Lowell Kentucky Cor. Courier Journal describes the Red Brick Kennedy plantation near Cyn Orchad Pike as the scene that inspired Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe to write Uncle Tom's Cabin. It details Gen Kennedy's wealth and cruelty, Lewis Clarke's escape, and Stowe's collaboration with abolitionists leading to the National Era serialization and eventual book fame.
A detailed 19th century description explains turning a horse aged twenty or thirty into chemical products. Hair and hides become cushions, hooves into combs, carcass cooked under steam to separate grease, bones milled into knife handles, and remaining materials made into glue, ammonium carbonate, insecticides, and various chemical compounds. The text notes bones yield phosphate and carbonate by processing, with cyanide and prussic aids cited as dangerous end products.
Fragmentary notice suggests accusations that Kidney-Wort products caused harm and ruined thousands of lives. The text references druggists selling in various forms and mentions medical remedies linked to kidney disorders, with unclear attribution to a specific event or date.
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