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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1884
Page
3
The Defiance County Express published in Defiance Ohio under editor Frank C Culley provides local reporting and community notes from Defiance County. This brief item recognises the publication and editor without additional details.
A reflective poem envisions frost-work as fairies at night, Aladdin like towers in ice, and delicate leafwork on a window pane. The speaker wonders at frost making the world divine and yearns to learn the secret of snow while pondering fears and faith. The piece blends nature’s miracles with spiritual trust in a higher power.
A once prosperous financier Eugene F- succumbs to oil market risks and warns of riches before a collapse. He shuns death rituals, debates fate with a writer, and loses fortune amid wildcatting and market swings. In a sleety morning, his life ends by rat poison.
Harper's Bazar describes muslin robes in solid colors with tlounce and multicolor cross stitch embroidery. It highlights white dresses with French nainsocks, Hamburg lace-like insertions, nets, and damask motifs, plus Milan Moscow and Fayal open work patterns for trims on summer styles.
A collection of humorous snippets and quips from various sources recounts a playful view of burglars, spittoons, church stitches, a Rutland milk quarrel, a five foot two man, a match request, and a king’s pun. A Detroit Post exchange on sun set red humor contrasts with a long anecdote about grand opera and audience reaction. The piece pokes fun at opera critics, composers, and audience pretensions with light irony.
The watch ordered at New Haven Connecticut for King Kalakaua of the Sandwich Islands has been completed and sent. It is described as of finest quality with a gold case bearing an elaborately chased royal arms engraving and forwarding to His Highness.
A collage of brief society and literary items notes Mrs. Tennyson signs her husband's letters, the Smith family in the London Directory, Holmes denying a London lecture, Judge Tourgee on 34 000 papers and 350 000 reporters, California congressmen not born there, Melville’s envoy to Irkutsk, a Hartford book prize copy, manager J M Hill’s luck, Horatio King’s lifelong service, Joseph Hay’s 94th birthday in Boston, and N J Morton of the Boston Globe who died in the City of Columbus disaster.
A tale of Colonel Sigalus the forty niner millionaire building a castle near Tarrytown. He helps with construction then pays a contractor by delivering twenty thousand dollars in a Government bonds package and bank notes of all denominations from one to a thousand. The famous scene ends as the bill is settled.
The Philadelphia Call notes health as a key to success, citing Stephens and Stevens as examples of illness spurring achievement. It urges pure air and outdoor play for children, balanced by work, ventilation, and moderate room temperatures to ensure sound sleep and sturdy development.
A moral tale of self control from a youth who wins conscience over vanity in a math contest, followed by a vivid reminiscence of early English noblewoman riding gear. The piece blends a personal victory with historical notes on period dress and horse equipment and ends with a reference to St. Nicholas.
A group plays a guessing game where seven players choose famous characters whose names start with successive letters forming the word Century. The banished player returns to answer questions with yes no or I don’t know to reveal initials, with Carlyle identified as the first letter C.
A Philadelphia Call excerpt describes a man arrested for being drunk and discreetly greeted by a judge. The exchange ends with the judge noting a ten dollar fine before the man is booked for the Black Maria as court business continues.
The Cape Cod Ship Canal, once finished, will eliminate navigation around Devil's Bridge, the location where the City of Columbus met wreckage, as noted by the Boston Post.
Robert Harris held the post of president of the Northern Pacific Road with an annual salary of $20000. The Chicago Tribune notes the figure as the chief executive compensation.
A reader recalls the familiar nursery rhyme and notes that few know the meaning attached to the final lines. The article hints the verse was created with a historical context that readers can explore further.
A recounting from Youth's Companion details the 1830s French royal treachery. It describes Count de Chambord's birth after his father’s assassination, his mother's bold plots, and a government betrayal by Deutz who sold her hiding place. Secretary Didier pays the traitor with two bags of twenty five thousand francs.
A hawk pursued a partridge from Skene Mountain near Whitehall New York and toppled through a drug store window, both birds ending up bruised and bleeding in the storefront.
Crops in Ireland suffer as emigration reduces available farm labor. Officials warn persistent outflow of workers impacts harvesting and yields, prompting appeals for new labor and policy reviews.
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