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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1883
Page
3
Poem fragment advises Jennie to stay on the foot-path through life s perilous moor. It warns against straying into marshes where danger grows and night falls, urging steadfastness toward a distant shore of eternal daylight. Various lines emphasize keeping to the path and moving steadily with hope.
In City Hall Park a frail Teutonic lawyer, Adolphus Heintzlemann, pursues a patent suit long judged lost. His mania imagines the case alive, while court officers treat him with pity. Other courthouse oddities include rent-collecting Mrs Mayfield and a prayerful tramp known as Praying Patsey, all highlighting a world where justice and madness mingle.
A Cincinnati Enquirer interview describes edible bird's nests gathered by divers who descend cliffs to collect nests built by salangan swallows. The nests are cleaned and shipped mainly to China where a pound costs about twenty to thirty dollars. The process is dangerous, conducted from ropes and stages, with a goddess Loro worshiped by nest gatherers.
A humorous sketch contrasts an Arkansaw cow with northern cattle, praising her fleetness and delicate milk bag flavored with pennyroyal and sassafras sprouts. It narrates a deer-hunt anecdote where hunters mistake the cows for elk, and notes the cow’s butter as weak and delicate with gray aging lines. Interleaved are short quirky historied notes on natural history and authors.
The Boston Transcript outlines how volcanoes, once thought dormant, continually surprise nearby communities and reshape landscapes. It explains eruptions, lava behavior, and crater formation with historical examples from Vesuvius Cotopaxi Tomboro Mauna Loa Etna and Mount Hina. The piece notes the role of water in eruption triggers and the fearsome reach of volcanic ash and lava flows.
In a Georgia village journey tale, a group jokes about a mean hotel owner on the way by train. The crowded car predicts purgatory consulting a notorious inn, only to meet the landlord later behind the desk acting as the target of their mock warnings. He later greets them warmly, a gesture they reciprocate with hospitality in kind.
A poem described as a longing for the wonderful land of Nowhere where discontent ends. It imagines a place free from chores, punishment, or effort, inviting readers to drift away on idle dreams toward an unknown land. The piece appears in Harper's Young People and attributes Ella Wheeler as author.
A young boy named Sammy Bones rolls down a steep hill twice while his mother and family chase him. After each incident he recovers, earning blackberry jam once, and learns the meaning of looking on. A later accident with a runaway buggy tests his resolve and his family’s patience as they all rush to catch it.
A narrator invites children to imagine wrinkles on their grandmother as marks of care and hardship. He recalls being taught to respect aged faces, noting each line tells a story of sacrifice for others. While praising grandmother, he reflects on aging and the value of selflessness observed in everyday moments.
A Norristown to Ninth and Green Streets train nearly struck a sleeping man on the rail line. The engineer halted the train just yards away, finding the man unhurt but asleep amid a frightening near-miss. The sleeper argued for a nap in the country air, prompting warnings to avoid such exposures again. The tale is joined by a Ohio case of a woman found with a nearly fatal throat wound, claiming nightmare and sleep as a defense against suicide charges.
Harper's Bazar notes inexpert fashions for autumn offerings with Ottoman and Astrakhan cloths, logle and double breasted fronts, braided trims, and fur edging. Colors include brown gray green navy and black. Long pelisses, paletots, velvet collars, and rope tassel accents appear, with heavy cloths and fur borders for midwinter wear.
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