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Newspaper
Daily Star
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1878
Page
3
Poem reflecting on youthful beauty and memory. The speaker encounters a shy maiden on a crowded street, feeling renewed youth and inner childhood sparked by her glance. He muses that youth remains within age like a golden page bound by memory and inspiration.
A New York Herald article profiles a woman who organises and profits from beggars, hiring children and adults to beg at hotels churches and theaters. She stations groups to exploit public sympathy while police increasingly curb the scheme, recalling the ball season’s prior profit.
A spider inhabits the Georgetown California church, curling in the morning before services. When the organist touches the keys, the spider descends a couple of feet to enjoy the choir and instruments. After services, it retreats with hopeful, renewed heart as a faithful audience member for three consecutive years.
July opened with calm weather as the Swedish polar expedition sails north past Karmakula. The crew spots two enormous guillemot mountains covered with birds and a trigger of sea life including hundreds of white dolphins. The party shoots two of four reindeer. birds and seals fill the strange, vivid scene.
The European Mail reports a British Medical Association exhibition showing a patent method to compress loose tea into bars. The tea is pressed to one third its bulk, scored in half ounce divisions, and the process opens leaf cells to yield liquor 40 to 50 percent stronger after infusion than loose tea.
In December 1830 mutineers aboard the brig Vine Yard murdered the captain and mate and scuttled the ship near Long Island. They buried about $4,800 in Mexican and Spanish gold and silver dollars on Barren Island, where a local resident later recovered a sailor's chest washed ashore after a long search.
From Castile New York a somnambulism case ends with Miss Mahala Rose leaping from a second story window in night garments and barefoot. She wanders the yard steps into cold water and awakens only after calling for entry to home causing fear in her father. No serious harm results.
A column of quirky snippets and jokes on language, stage life, curious cases, and odds and ends. It mentions Mary E Booth joining the Philadelphia stage, a Lafayette child with six fingers and toes, a Brooklyn judge sentencing a butter-shop thief, a boy’s listening to birdshot, and musings on noses as character indicators.
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