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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1884
Page
3
A reflective poem celebrates snow covering the countryside and silencing birds and streams. It contrasts winter stillness with memories of past years and promises of spring while honoring virgin snow as heavenly purity amid lingering thoughts of sorrow and mercy.
Clara Craven pleads for her family's survival in Westminster poverty as she contemplates the £50 reward for a jewel thief and ultimately turns to Miss Greybrook, her godmother, whose intervention transforms their fortunes. Years later the Cravens prosper in a seaport home, and Clara helps a fellow lodger—revealing the moral of their struggle.
A skater plunged through thin ice under the Girard Avenue bridge on the Schuylkill. Club members formed a human chain to reach and pull the man to safety as others helped, with the rescued skater treated at the skating club boat-house and recovering.
The Duke of Calvino, captured by brigands near Trapani on November 4, was freed after his family paid 150000 francs. He had been held thirty five days and, despite his weight and age, his nervous illness was reportedly cured by the ordeal.
A Boston paper derides Matthew Arnold as the apostle of molasses and moonlight while noting his U S resident status and weight gain since taking office. It cites marriages in the Senate, a Prussian archive discovery, a long list of literary ages, and forgers in Boston fashioning new names.
A collage of humorous snippets and jokes from multiple newspapers. Lines reference a Idaho man’s lament about a bear hug, a Chicago church sociable with a joke about ruffs, a Bartley Campbell poem punchline, a dog admiring a tramp’s trousers, a roller skater’s boast, and witty exchanges about advice, orphans, and angels. Local color, dialect humor, and light satire appear throughout.
A Chicago man meets a bunko steerer in New York who pretends to be a friend from San Francisco. They plot to approach a target and split proceeds from a street game, exploiting mistaken identities to lure the victim into a high stakes scheme.
Paris modistes fuse fur and lace in dress garnitures. Worth crafts robes for the Princess of Wales in cream satin duchesse lace velvet and pomegranate velvet. New fans feature satin with painted lace and pond lilies. Stripes in satin and silk dominate, with three inch wide bands and embossed floral dots. White toilets favor round waists and blouse shapes for young ladies, while Irish poplins rise to fashion. Bridal white satin gives way to white poplin that can be dyed. A new ribbon corsage vest, secured with a silver pin, decorates the neckline and bust.
A London Telegraph report describes Chinese gambling in Siamese towns. It explains a four square cowrie shell game, the role of the croupier, and how bets win or lose. The piece contrasts Chinese thrift and family duties with Siamese wives’ harsher child discipline.
A child recounts preparations for a distinguished guest, the Bishop, who arrives to stay a week. The boy hides and plays while Bridget bakes, finding the visitor gentle and fond of games. The Bishop laughs at the boy’s noise and shares stories, revealing that great men once enjoyed mischief.
The article describes clock mechanisms from spring to weight driven types. It explains main wheels face wheels escape wheel and the striking mechanism with the count wheel and strike wheel. It illustrates how the hammer strikes at the correct hour and stops after each cycle.
The piece explains clock regulation by pendulum length and wheel strength, noting that a stronger spring drives a larger arc and slows apparent time. It emphasizes plumb alignment, using a metronome test, eight hour wind, hourly checks, and half turn adjustments to fine tune rate. It contrasts American and English watch beat counts.
An Indianapolis Journal account recalls a Western railroad accident where the engineer and fireman died. A general manager boasts high pay for executives while praising risky driving and criticizes crews who fear danger. The piece questions who deserves higher pay: the executive or the throttle man who safely runs trains daily.
In a Chicago Journal note Phocion dismisses brass and steel pendulum rods with mercury balls as futile against expansion and contraction. He argues such devices cannot alter clock time, predicting future dreams of the old house clock and its steady tic tac. The piece cites Galileo on equal beat pendulums and claims Phocion’s ideas challenge established science.
A Kentucky reader urges use of sealing wax to protect letters from tampering. Gum sealing is easy to open with dampness, risking exposure of contents. wax seals deter curious intruders and even help identify tampered envelopes.
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