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Newspaper
Daily Star
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1878
Page
2
A cautionary verse from Phebe Cary using animal fables to spell out dangers of rash thinking. A mouse, a turkey, a robin, and a mink illustrate consequences of ignoring warnings. The poem warns children to pause at the brink and not rush ahead.
A narrator recalls a children led chant about Doodle Bugs found in a ruined log schoolhouse in Western Virginia. As the ground seems to stir, dirt colored beetles emerge, sparking reflections on beetle diversity and the strange, musical folklore surrounding bugs.
A rural reminiscence explains how many ground dwellers and tree dwellers become winged insects. The piece details how beetle like “Bill Chaser” beetles roll balls from animal excretions, bury them for winter, and awaken as larvae to emerge as beetles or tumble bugs in spring.
A reflective meditation on honesty, habit, and action. It argues that half truths harm understanding, deeds reveal character, and lasting vitality comes from knowledge, love, and faith. It urges caution in self display and recommends viewing the world from all sides.
A European correspondent recounts two brothers in distant parts of Australia facing animal incursions. One adjacent to his home contends with swarming kangaroos, easy to shoot or club, while the other endures ravenous opossums that terrify servants and force closures. Nightly poison is used in attempts to deter the pests.
A Chicago Times report describes the death of William P Healey a boy of 183 Deering Street from rabies contracted after a playful dog bite last December. Despite bromide chloral and care he suffered spasms fevered agony and finally died after a night of suffocating convulsions and water-related distress.
The article highlights summer fashion trends with mitts in black or white, oat meal linen replacing flax, long French risle threaded gloves, strapped shoes with French heels, and the sacque nas long waistcoat in Louis XIV style. It notes Scotch ginghams for dresses, close hats, and varied trimmings from pleats to ruffles and piping.
The arms of the thirteen states are represented as windows on the front of a building at the Paris show, offering a specimen of American architecture as exhibited.
A vivid, fragmentary portrait describes nine-year-old captives, their two younger siblings, and their keeper. The apes resemble aged men in form while displaying surprising childlike emotions, crying when hurt and seeking comfort in the keeper’s arms. They eat cereals and tea, showing humanlike dependence and gentleness amid a harsh setting.
A undertaker Mr Smiley visits Mr Karat's jewelry store to try spectacles. After trying several pairs and jokingly evaluating his sight, Karat lends him a pair without lenses. Smiley tests them and declares they let him see as well as twenty years ago, deciding to take them.
Fragmentary observations discuss three divisions of native peoples south of the Equator, claiming Aryan roots from migrations via Bering Strait. It notes two principal deities Piliau or Dakine, creator and invisible, and ichu, the evil spirit to whom offerings are made.
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