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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1880
Page
4
A lyric speaker declares fame fades after death while loved ones remember only briefly. The poem reflects on a gifted sandalwood box, a lesson, and vows to mourn a beloved across May seas, as grief overwhelms their memory.
A long survey of myths explains belief in the man in the moon and other lunar personifications across Europe Asia and the Americas. Legends from Chaucer Shakespeare and Dante share a common motif of punishment fate and celestial figures while folk tales in Sweden Iceland Germany the Netherlands Ceylon China Australia and the Arctic add diverse explanations of the moon as a human or animal figure. The piece notes healing charms linked to the May moon and local remedies with the moon as guide evidence of widespread lunar lore and ritual practice.
A compilation of traditional lore on celestial signs and weather, noting sailors moon signs for fair weather, tidal proverbs, and planetary omens. It references Shakespeare, Chinese and Turkish beliefs, and Irish Welsh practices during eclipses, including drums, brazen implements, and kettledrums to influence or avert omens.
An English journal notes shifting preferences in Europe with geese and peacocks valued differently by nations. Rome favored peacocks, cranes, swans, and ostrich, while thrushes commanded high prices when bred near Rome for the elite tables.
London correspondent notes Miss Neilson leaves about £40,000 to Rear Admiral Hon. Henry Carr Glyn with £1,000 to Edward Compton. Glyn, once the Prince of Wales’ friend, is linked to the late Liberal whip Lord Wolverton’s brother and banker George Carr Glyn.
A fragment from The Churchman describes hawkers offering refreshments and foods with fanciful praise phrases such as weathered cups for cooling drinks and bread with grape syrup. It notes a charity act where a carrier dispenses cold water to the thirsty as an act of love approved by Muslim church circles.
Middletown youths report a horse tied to a departing freight train and keeping pace along the tracks. Investigators traced hoof prints to a bridge where the animal broke free from the rope around its neck and squeezed between cars to the platform. The horse was recovered unharmed and questions linger about how it rode the moving train.
The Wendell farm below Albany was patented in 1652 by Peter Stuyvesant, Director-General of New Netherland. The Van Rensselaer patent followed in 1696, and a later dispute over rent led to a long lawsuit with the Wendell family.
Benjamin Sechler, a fifty five year old man, was found chained in a brutal dungeon on his brother Joseph Sechler's land in Albany Town, Blue Mountains. After twenty seven years in filth and isolation, he was taken to the Berks County Almshouse where officials begin cleansing and medical care. The case reveals long term cruelty and a possible claim to his father's estate to fund treatment.
An account from Blackwood extols snow-shoeing in Norway as superior to skating. It describes twelve foot Norse skis with side grooves, downhill speed, and Telemarken skiers winning prizes at Christiania, noting the sport’s limited importability due to snow depth and duration.
A Italian professor reports medical research showing certain flowers release ozone in the air and boost its oxidizing qualities. Cherry laurel clover lavender mint juniper fennel bergamot yield high ozone, while nutmeg thyme give less. narcissus hyacinth mignonette heliotrope and lily of the valley release ozone in closed vessels. Flowers with no perfume do not, and faintly scented ones do so minimally. He suggests planting scented blooms in marshy and polluted areas to improve air.
An Ohio wool grower is cited on sheep care including tar-water for catarrh, and wetting salt with turpentine as a folk remedy. The piece also shares recipes and home hints such as waffles, German sweet pickle peaches, hams preservation, Crude petroleum caution, and methods to keep unoccupied rooms dry with dry chloride of lime.
A Nottingham carriage maker Mr Starcy publishes Useful Hints for preserving carriages. Advice covers airy dry coach-houses, separation from stables, distance from manure, cleaning with water or damp sponge, avoiding sun, using leather covered lever ends, and chamois drying. Do not wash with strong brushes, never let water dry on varnish, grease forecarriage joints, check bolts, avoid moving with horses attached, and keep hoods and sheets unfolded to prevent spoilage.
The fragment blends archaic phrases about fasting faith and works with lines urging compassion for the hungry and oppressed. It references a Chicago Advance style, but the source text is garbled and incomplete, hindering precise attribution or full context.
A Prize Essay on the Sabbath extols its rest for body and spirit. It envisions a sanctified Sabbath worldwide, contrasting toil with divine peace and urging devotion, worship, and removal from Mammon’s gates.
The article asserts God alone is trustworthy in times of need, while riches strength and wisdom fail. It cites scripture urging trust in the Lord, living according to His will, and the reminder that sin blocks divine help. A Methodist perspective emphasizes harmony with His will as essential to trust.
Sermon notes recount Moses blessing of Asher in Deuteronomy. The speaker argues the blessing promises fit equipment for the tribe’s rocky coast and olive industry, with strength that grows with age. God provides needed tools for every path, preparing the called for duty.
An article warns that improper stable lighting, glare, high rack feeding, blinkers, ammonia fumes, and harsh whipping injure a horse’s eyes. It advocates skylights, ceiling-adjacent windows, clean floors, and humane handling to prevent blindness and protect these animals.
A wild elephant is entangled by a snake that climbs a tree, lifting the elephant as the tree roots and trunk are uprooted. Villagers later see the elephant suspended in air by the snake, which is crushed when detached. The New York Tribune mocks elite women applicants while lamenting fashion’s sting. Mrs. Tillotson critiques women’s costly fashion in Health Monthly.
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