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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1883
Page
9
A collage of doggerel, witticisms, and verse notes from various newspapers and journals. It blends jokes about brains, mirrors, leather from banana skins, and social foibles with anecdotes of pedestrians, lawyers, and suitors. The piece ends with a playful verse on men, whistles, and propriety.
A digest of scientific notes covers Florida wild oranges used for therapy, solidifying petroleum with plant juice, ether spray curing facial neuralgia, nickel plating chemistry, Long Island sand industry growth with 2 million capital and 4500 tons daily shipped to New York, Arkansas Valley sheep farming expansion, sunflower evaporation surface findings, mountain cork in Germany for molasses purification, and Loomis Yale rainfall map noting wide bands of low and high rainfall across continents with one fifth of land under ten inches.
A string of brief items reports on Turkish sacred soil lore Paris green hair trends Gladstone and wife behavior at public events a painful sting tree tale a Rajputana widow burning case in Jeypore and punishment Gerard the sculptor’s sudden madness a Naples earrings theft chase involving a father lover and two male rivals resulting in arrests
The article traces the Archbishops of Canterbury from Augustine onward, noting their metropolitan and diocesan powers, Lambeth degrees, royal ceremonial roles, and influence. It highlights historic figures like Lanfranc, Anselm, Becket, Cranmer, and Simon Islip, and discusses the enthronement ceremony and the primate’s authority over vacant sees and clergy. It mentions potential successors and contemporary debates about church leadership.
London Cor western Christian Advocate notes moderate High-churchman Be Ritualists seeks to reform Cornwall diocese by supporting Wesleyan ministry. He licenses lay preachers in unsanctioned buildings and aims to balance church work with broader English religious life.
In 1856 Madame Gambetta helps her son Leon escape to Paris to study law, funding travel with savings and arranging a bold business decision with Emile Menier. She hides the plan from a wary husband while steering her son toward education, promising support if he pursues a legal faculty career in a provincial city.
Hungarian grass is increasingly favored by dairymen and stock growers as a valuable winter feed and a supplement to fodder corn. It thrives in sandy loam, outperforms meadow on the same land, and yields four tons when cured. Seeding varies to a half bushel per acre, sown June to mid July, with hot weather growth and careful soil preparation.
In Reading Michigan on September 1, 1881 Col H Walters U S District Attorney Kansas City authorizes a statement that Samaritan Nervine cured the niece of spasms and urges readers to obtain it from druggists for $1.50. J D Kellogg testifies he suffered eighteen years from kidney complaint and found relief after using Columbian Oil, noting personal and spousal cures and sales at Colly & Scott.
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