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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1884
Page
1
A speaker recalls a spring day by a stream where gaze met a girl across the water. The memory centers on her beauty, the rippling scene, and the vow to buy a little black mare later, as the apple blossoms fade. C. G. Buck, in The Manhattan.
A veteran recalls rebellious pupils and brutal roughhousing in a rural school. He describes thrashings by a severe teacher and his own moments of cowardice and sudden discipline, including a dramatic clash with Bill Trimmins that ended with the boy humbling himself.
An Od Pedagogue recounts a rough classroom confrontation with Bill Trimmins in Detroit, where a staged tussle ends with a stumble, a splash of cold water, and a grudging respect from peers. The narrator notes the neighborhood’s low regard for formal schooling despite the skirmish.
Ben Perley Poore recalls Henry Clay attending the Texas congressman's funeral in February 1851. Clay entered alone, remained wrapped in a blue cloak, and appeared aged and wan, scarcely suited for the senate’s ardent clashes.
A committee questions Mrs. Smith through a servant about her being at home. Mary Ann, trained in formalities, relays that Mrs. Smith said she would come in again as soon as she heard the door shut.
A reader complains about men still wearing overcoats in theaters causing discomfort to women. The writer details blows, bumps, and coat mishaps from surrounding patrons as coats are removed and re hung, calling overcoats a vanity compared with hats.
A La Plata Miner column recounts a humorous exchange on punning between a man and a woman. The woman defends wit, arguing she can craft puns as quickly and well as any man, while the skeptical man persists. The dialogue ends with the man’s death in a grim twist.
New Orleans discusses cremation with a society of several hundred members including most physicians and many lawyers merchants and business men.
In a panicked fragment from Mrs Carlyle, she claims to spend her life writing letters smoking cigarettes and loving a Yorkshire kitten as a husband says his life is spent sleeping and drinking new milk under new forms. The playful contrast offers a glimpse into domestic memoir style and gendered self portrayal.
A narrator describes an incident near Sed mee and a tiger stalking a tonga party for yards. The husband fires a fowling piece to scare the animal, which withdraws into the jungle, leaving the travelers relieved and shaken.
A Bowery man with a 1 inch nose learns the public pays little heed to his feature in a New York letter. He tries a 10 cent show, offering a week platform and a salary if he draws crowds, but the nose proves not a passport to fame. The mass returns to his cigar bench as curiosity fades.
A collection of brief anecdotes and observations mixes names like Theodore Parker Wendell Phillips and Gilpin with notes on hunt breakfasts in England and a Western town lawyer who has never won a suit. It also reports rising unemployment in Paris Germany Holland and Dutch cities Amsterdam and Rotterdam with protests over municipal subsidies to opera amid distress.
Peter Scanlon and Tim Horn nearly plunged over Niagara Falls after a plank cast them into a swift current. They grabbed a large cake of ice near Goat Island bridge and clung to it for about half an hour before rescuers hauled them ashore.
In France the monarch or executive chief wields mercy independently. Grevy treats capital cases as careful appeals, reviewing evidence to spare murderers. Napoleon III sought leniency but avoided direct pardon conflicts with judges, using interviews to influence lawyers seeking remissions.
The dome stands as the revered sign and token of Boston, the true capital city, hub of government society literature art and commerce in America. It is described as a protruding heavenward globed tip marking the axis around which Western civilization revolves. The passage exalts the dome as emblematic of national ideals and progress.
A humorous exchange aboard a Pennsyl road car pits an English traveler against an American drummer. The Briton decries what he calls human monstrosities while the drummer quips that American pride embraces them, framing the United States as a freak country.
The Liverpool Post reports a new electric lighting discovery enabling domestic operation without engines or dynamos. A simple cell using common metals, carbons, and a special acid develops continuous light. Mr. E H Thompson demonstrates a twenty candle power glow, with no accumulators needed and scalable to many lamps at a cost comparable to gas.
A Providence man received a gray squirrel from Underhill Vermont. The creature caused extensive damage indoors by gnawing furniture, tipping bottles, and scattering items. It was eventually captured in a coffee pot as the household cleaned up after the chaotic intruder.
An account from Beaver creek near the Missouri river describes Daniel Filson and his brother-in-law hunting when a large bear attacked. Filson was wounded and buried in a candy bar with his face exposed as the bear loomed. The brother-in-law shot the bear, the animal mauled Filson’s legs, and the hunter later died from injuries after months of precarious recovery.
London Observer cautions that prolonged lack of sunshine harms health by reducing ozone and energy, increases dullness, and may trigger epidemics as filth ferments in the dark. It urges daily outdoor exercise for children to counteract the gloomy period and keep them active.
A collage of jests and observations from several papers includes satirical lines on the sun ethics, a store sign spoof, remarks on widows and skeletons, fashion jokes about neckties, metagnostic as a pun, notes on Whitman verse, a Texas preacher doing saw-mill work, and a Dublin claim about ancient wheat in mummies.
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