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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1879
Page
3
The fragment appears as a poetic monologue urging labor and intellect while challenging vanity among builders farmers and workers. It references working classes teachers guides friends and inner mind in a dramatic shift from shadow to sun.
A rustic ballad of two rural youths, a farmer's girl torn between love for John and the Squire's social expectations. The girl favors simple, faithful life with John over becoming the Squire's wife, despite John's bashful reluctance and social pressure.
The speaker addresses a maiden with braided hair and azure eyes, noting her quiet grace while bees circle her. He speaks of love and a charmed word that now haunts him as he walks a single, sorrowful path of loneliness and ongoing vigil.
A nine o'clock police round-up in Hamilton, Ontario, ends with a 19 year old mother crying over her infant. The child, rescued from the cell, clings to life as the mother pleads for mercy and the officer orders the baby returned home. The scene draws a hush as the mother laments her fate and the child’s innocence amid the ordeal.
An account from the London Times discusses Mr. Webber’s Himalayan experiments, noting pulse and respiration changes at elevations around 15,000 to 20,000 feet. He reports slowed heartbeat at normal heights, doubled respirations, and difficulty breathing and walking. The piece argues human physiology limits dwelling at extreme altitudes.
A Biddeford man out camping dropped a memorandum on the pavement which a passer-by picked up. The note lists items including hard tack, a keg of lager, gin, rum, tobacco, matches, and a small et.
A Irish county feud between the Maddens and Cartys in Tipperary has sparked days of violent clashes, with many injured and a large but exhausted crowd. The piece also recounts a humorous Cincinnati Breakfast Table vignette of a fat barber assaulting a sleeping customer during a soap lather mishap.
A long profile describes George Albert Page, nearly 14, living near Oneida Lake with a massive head and inverted eyes. He cannot read or write yet learns by listening, stands 5 ft 1 in and weighs about 80 pounds, and after meals smokes. The piece also covers westward land sales and a letter about Juan Fernandez Island noting its climate and resources.
A London correspondent tours the Times offices noting the dining room, printing presses, clerical rooms, and type making shops. He describes 12,500 daily output per machine, a 100000 hourly total, vast paper stores, and fast wartime style telegraph links. The piece contrasts efficiency with a moral tale on craft and diligence in work.
Leather spans history from prehistoric hides to modern tanning. Early use linked to tools and clothing, with sixteenth century England regulating tanning to ensure attested hides. The craft faced guild limits until 1830 reforms by George IV ushered free trade, boosting chemical tanning discoveries by Seguin and Davy.
A man who endures much privately cannot hide his emotion when a fly lands on his nose during a barber shave. Such tiny moments reveal the difficulty of measuring those who silently fall from virtue.
The article contrasts traditional Greenland marriage customs with missionary mediation and records an unusual British Museum addition a complete Chinese Encyclopedia of 5020 volumes. It notes Kang He’s drive to compile a Chinese dictionary, the centuries of work, and the six classification headings, with a low price of 1502 pounds. It then shifts to a Madrid bargaining sketch about a scarf exchange and a mercantile mood.
A crowd gathered as a preacher warned of a world consuming fire. An Omaroe brother’s quick walkout to check for danger interrupted the sermon. A harsh denial from the back of the room echoed with a loud false alarm, leaving the audience to laugh at the interruption.
An American visitor notes differences in luncheon etiquette between England and Balmoral. The Duchess states napkins are not a midday custom, while the guest recalls Queen Victoria’s use of napkins at Balmoral. The exchange hints at national habits and the risk of altering traditions. The piece closes with a quip on Philistinism.
In 1850 amid heated politics Ismarck faced a provocateur in a Berlin tavern who threatened violence over a beer. He warned him and, when ignored, struck with a beer pot then calmly paid for the glass and departed. He was known as a conservative leader who preferred offensive confrontation yet urged restraint and reflection on life and hate.
In reflective prose the piece describes inner heart secrets kept from view. It contrasts unseen spectres and buried idols with public indifference, noting how pain and longing remain unshared while life goes on among crowds.
Parliamentary returns from the Registrar General show 887 hydrophobia deaths in England and Wales over the eleven years ending 1876, averaging 32.2 annually. Deaths cluster in Lancashire 118, West Riding of Yorkshire 75, London 41, Durham 26, with the disease rare in the Southwest and Wales.
An excited clothing merchant asks a general to hurry as U S troops pursue Bannocks near Siatka. He reports his boy Shacob killed and new pants stolen, urging the soldiers to shoot high when they confront the Indians with the pants.
A New Orleans observer recalls a curious scene on Natchitoches road where a frog and a tarantula fought while a spectator watched. After the tarantula stung the frog repeatedly and the frog nibbled plantain pieces, the onlooker cut away the plantain and the frog finally collapsed and died.
The excerpt offers a home method to induce sleep by relaxing muscles and tilting the head forward, claiming it produces a restful sleep if undisturbed. It cites a narrator’s long experience, notes others having relief, and includes a separate anecdote about an emaciated horse and a London Society of Arts paper on coal and sulphuric acid consumption, illustrating varied topics within a single text.
An elderly Indian juggler performs a remarkable coin trick using a rupee loaned from a Parsee merchant. The coin changes form across France, Turkey, and Mexico before returning to its original pieces, impressing witnesses and perplexing the onlookers with a non reversible sequence. The item is praised as rivaled by no other conjurer in India or Europe.
A collage of jokes and anecdotes on professions, love, luck, and daily life. Notes on shoemakers, fishermen, and almanacs mix with quips about dentists, bar-room philosophers, and a Kansas style frontier figure. A travel of eccentricities ends with a Wild West showman boasting of feats.
Dr J B Simpsons Specific Medicine advertised as a cure for Spermatorrhea Impotency nervous debility mental anxiety and other conditions from self abuse. Claims restoration of function with a short course and happiness. Pamphlets free. Price 1.00 per package or six for 5.00. Address Buffalo New York and Cleveland wholesale agents.
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