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Newspaper
Daily Star
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1878
Page
3
A playful verse tracks flowers through the year from April to December. It asks what apples, primroses, roses, daisies, sunflowers, and other blooms do as seasons turn, ending with God’s children blossoming all year and returning with spring.
Four boys under a tree examine a bad counterfeit coin. They debate passing it around, spending it, or returning it. One boy refuses, while another suggests using it to buy chestnuts. The coin is finally discarded by being pitched into a mill-pond, where it remains buried and harmless.
A moral admonition urges listeners to investigate strange noises or objects rather than flee. It critiques cowardice that creates ghost stories and recounts a humorous anecdote of a man who reacted with panic instead of inquiry.
A man wandering into a field with a scythe snath fears a monstrous black snake. He runs in terror through the oats until a glance reveals the shadow of his own tool. One careful look would have saved him from fright.
In Jefferson Market Court Edward Chiardi of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children described the Marie case. He claimed smallpox cannot explain the nine year old girl’s blindness and cited heat branding of infants with iron as a common method of causing blindness. He noted Marie’s intelligence and ability to feign distress to evoke sympathy.
A collection of excerpts reflects on social civility and deception. It notes a shopman’s patience masking theft, a Deaf critic reading crowds, a method to win a woman’s heart via feigned hopelessness, and satire on civilization’s hypocrisy. A little girl cites an offending breath as motive for punishment.
The passage extols snow as a beautiful, unaltered marvel of nature that resists disillusionment from microscope study. It notes each snow particle shows regular, distinct figures whose patterns vary with the level of frost, highlighting nature’s crafted precision in winter.
A Boston Journal correspondent recounts Stanley and his men facing a hostile crowd of Bumrich islanders as their boat nears shore. After tense negotiations and arrows at close range, they escape by shock and swift action, sinking rival canoes and firing to deter pursuit before rejoining the expedition.
A terse aphorism notes that genuine affection is proven by visible care. It emphasizes deeds over words and suggests affection is demonstrated through action rather than mere sentiment.
A youth asks an eminent philologist the meaning of the phrase Modus operandi. The scholar explains it is Latin for how the operation is conducted, reflecting classical learning.
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