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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1883
Page
2
A cold winter day brings a tiny visitor to the narrator's home. The family welcomes the child as kin, shares warmth, and notes the shy guest showing quiet joy as he is clothed and cared for, his identity revealed with a gentle, proud smile.
Maurice confesses a broken engagement with Miss Cuthbert after a prior deception and rejection by her. His father Mr. Calthorpe reveals her father supports marriage, sparking Maurice to declare he will not marry without genuine reconciliation. They confront fate as dawn lightens the overcast resolve.
Rosetti wed Elizabeth Siddall in 1840. she died two years later from laudanum for neuralgia. He reportedly buried a volume of his poems with her, then later opened the grave to recover the book after friends achieved poetic distinction. He faced self reproach yet समय persisted in his fragile, impulsive character.
Pittsburgh inventor unveils a potato digger claimed to replace twenty workers. Other notes cover Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company expansion to 2 million capital and 30 million cans yearly, Pocahontas coal reserves for two centuries, sewer ventilation by rooftop pipes, new horse car braking via window straps, a pearl boat jewel, a Salamanca embroidery venture with tax exemptions, and tea-planting trials in Mississippi boosted by vintage processes.
Two ocean steamers, the Istrian and the Kansas, left England together and raced to Boston, staying within sight of each other for eleven days and arriving at nearly the same hour. Officers and passengers were excited throughout the voyage.
A verse narrative recalls Mr. and Mrs. Chipping Bird near Crab Apple Row. Their spring task, a torn house rebuilt in an instant, shows resilience as the wife halves the old cottage and they promptly begin anew. The scene appears in St Nicholas.
A town tale recalls Susan who hid thirteen quarters for sixty years in a tin box. Rebecca and others urged spending or giving, while Benny the stingy neighbor hoarded his pennies. Charlie, visiting from out of town, learns the box’s fate as the money finally meets its long yearned for purpose.
The sixth John Spicer course lecture in Barn Hall centers on money. The speaker extols money as power to obtain goods, notes how hard it is to earn, and shares anecdotes of pennypinching, selling odd items, and thrift, including tales of bones, hens, kittens, and charitable acts by Michigan fire victims.
A sobering Humane Journal excerpt recalls a string of cruel pranks by idle boys. A rope across a sidewalk maims a girl named Alice, leaving her confined to a lifetime of pain. Other cruel acts include dressing a boy in sheets and pouring brandy on a friend, and a dog torched by youths chasing a “jolly time.” The ensuing disasters destroy homes and livelihoods, leaving families in ruin.
The Mecca sanctuary El Haram forms a 200 by 250 yard quadrangle enclosed by walls and cloisters. Inside stands the Kaaba a 38 by 40 foot square edifice draped in silk with gold embroidery. Pilgrims cut down the annual hangings as relics, while Zem Zem well and a marble “foot of Abraham” lie within. The site ties to Adam and ends with the black stone said to be the head of the angel guarding Eden’s fruit from judgment day.
The Chicago Herald reports 129 tons of ivory sold in London averaging £750 per ton. Ivory tusks show elephants killed in youth. From 1873 to 1881 Britain imported 5,286 tons of ivory, about 296,016 pairs of tusks. Trade in real ivory declines while celluloid grows.
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