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Newspaper
Daily Star
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1878
Page
3
A playful scene follows eight young chickens racing along a walk. They chatter and coax each other to peck at a slow monster worm as it crawls away disappearing from view while they seek guidance from their mother hen.
A New York Tribune summary notes the Sahara was not always a desert, with ancient lakes and rivers now vanished due to climate change. Oases enabled habitation, camels enabled travel and trade, and while ideas of flooding the desert exist, cost may outweigh benefit. camels will likely continue carrying goods across the sands.
The passage describes bells widely used in civilized countries and various settings from churches and weddings to trains and servants. It notes their varied sizes and tones, from dwarf to giant, and outlines bell roles such as calling worshippers, marking joyful events, signaling arrivals, and tolling funerals. It also offers ancient origins from the Book of Exodus and mentions early uses by Romans and Greeks.
The fragment notes bells were once hung in houses to scare away evil spirits before their church use. It mentions that bells may have originated in Hindu temples in Europe, credits Paulinus, Bishop of Nola in Campania with inventing bells around AD 400, and states bells were first used in churches by AD 900.
A New York paper notes the metropolis hosts a vast mix of foreigners and languages, with Irish, German, French, Italian and many other communities totaling around two million people in and around Manhattan. It argues the city is more Celtic than Dublin and shows New York as a polyglot world within one urban region.
Hosiery quality is markedly better while prices drop from the past decade. Cape and mantelet styles replace jackets with square knotted ends. Bonnet ornaments feature green peas in natural vine, leaves and tendrils amid new trims. Neat balmoral travel skirts use striped seersucker with fins plaiting. Dotted and checked white wouslin dresses return for house wear, trimmed with lace and colored ribbons. New soft beige flannel for children's wear shows hair stripes on gray and dark grounds. Fruit bonnets appear, notable strawberry designs signal different growth stages. end- embedded in perfectly natural leaveness aos oats.
A Western paper tested tree growth by measuring specimens planted years ago. Notable finds include two Norway spruces twenty years old with five and a half inch circumference, forty feet tall and twenty six feet spread, and a white pine eighteen years old at four inches around and unknown height. The study notes many species reached significant heights in under two decades and warns active care and protection from cattle are essential for best results.
A historical overview notes common misnomers in everyday terms. It explains that copperas contains sulphate of iron and not copper, kid gloves are lamb skin, black lead is mainly carbon, Turkish baths are hot air rooms, Prussian blue arises from iron salts with prussiate, Brazilian grass is palm leaf strips, whale bone is not bone, and sealing wax lacks wax composition being shellac turpentine and cinnabar.
A reflective piece on human misfortune and the moral task of reattaining pleasure without excess. It argues taste over money in decoration, the value of compliance and generosity, and the danger of overconfidence. The text discusses heredity, dormant traits, and the fragility of earthly hopes as life wanes.
Dr Ephraim Clark recalls Aaron Burr after his duel with Hamilton. Burr fell from grace, faced indictments, fled to the Southwest and Europe, practiced law in obscurity, and died in 1836 at Port Richmond Hotel.
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