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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1886
Page
4
A dying Roy counsels his son Robert to seize a lordship by two decisive words and to guard home and love with jealous care. He warns that carelessness invites loss and urges holding fast to family, duty, and blessing amid shifting fortunes.
An American visitor, Mr Budd, intervenes to stop a beating but ends up buying a wife under a local custom. A surprised landlady reveals the custom and the clergyman warns Budd legal peril and danger if he stays. Budd heads for London as locals vow to punish any breach of the bargain.
A collage of Victorian era notes and digressions recounts Eliza beth Woodville’s diary linked to her marriage to John Grey, plus a summary of the Alabama Award at Geneva and anecdotal items about beauty, Colosseum history, and a Nebraska territory tale.
Historical notes claim bees avoid dark colors as a black hat or black chickens draw stings. The report describes bees sting patterns differing by color and mentions a man wearing a black plug hat receiving less attention from bees.
Quoted Coleridge line followed by a fragment about recognizing rank boarding house butter. Reads as a decorative or fragmentary placement rather than a clear news item with named entities or events.
A compact critical note surveys Balzac as pioneer and places Flaubert and Zola as central figures. It contrasts Flaubert’s restraint with Zola’s unflinching realism, citing Salambo and a 1858 Carthage visit as anchors for Flaubert’s historical accuracy, while praising Chesterfield’s aphorism on manners.
A Re v Dr Talmage sermon argues God sits on the circle of the earth, shaping history as a rolling circle. He links natural form and moral order, cites the Giants Causeway and Pompeii, warns sins loop back to individuals, and contends forgiveness breaks the circle through Christ. The talk traces cycles from theocracy to modernity and envisions the eternal return of influence.
The speaker argues heaven is a circle with Christ at its center. He cites St John’s visions of angels, beasts, and a rainbow around the throne to frame heaven as an amphitheater of glory. He urges lifting the imperial sandal to behold the scar and coronet, keeping Christ on the throne for all time.
In 1871 General Osmond sought to attack communists near Bourg la Reine. A young lieutenant was ordered to advance with bayonets only to seize a barricade close to Paris, hoping for the Legion of Honor cross. Colonel Boulanger intervened, took amateur command, and led a risky assault that carried the barricade with one casualty.
The passage traces roses as symbols in various traditions from Nimrod and Abraham to Apollo and Venus. It notes the rose’s ties to silence sub rosa, feasts, and secrets, plus legends linking Rhodes and Salreou festivals with rose beauty and rosiere rites, and a mythic nectar spill perfume origin.
A group of women toured the Arkansas state penitentiary where a young inmate told how he was jailed for selling Bibles. He explained he was arrested after a man claimed ownership of stolen Bibles and the court sentenced him to five years.
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