08 Jun 1855
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Newspaper
Delaware State Reporter
Location
Dover, Delaware, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1855
Page
1
A verse celebrates a gifted soul who rises among the crowd like a comet. The speaker contrasts dull hearts with a high grand strain that awakens emotion and longs for global freedom, likening music to a spring inside a rock and a fire in opal.
A transcriptioned essay discusses deathbeds of Swedes who regain speech in final moments and a case in Germany where a young woman spoke Latin Greek and Hebrew during fever. A physician traced her life to prove latent mental relics can persist, reading from an old Protestant pastor’s books to match bedside ravings.
Boston Transcript correspondent visits the Fortress Church in St. Petersburg within the citadel to detail tombs of Peter the Great and all Czars since him. The article notes gilded spire, sarcophagi with initials, iron railings, relics, and scenes of reverent crowds and a single officer bowing in prayer.
Dr Caldwell and Dr Franklin debate American superiority in physique in Paris with Abbe St Pierre observing. The exchange claims Caucasian natives in the United States exceed European ancestors, and African-born blacks raised here surpass their African progenitors, noting male descendants of English and Irish in America grow taller.
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