30 Mar 1878
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1878
Page
1
A sprawling 1878-article fantasy envisions public phonograph galleries preserving speeches and songs for a thousand years. It forecasts street-hemisphere street organs recreating famous voices, natural sounds, and reverse plays for musical novelty, with a wry note on then-current tech and culture.
The report notes a Virginia legislature pay reduction from £900 to $350 per session. It mentions Great Lakes navigation being practically open a month or six weeks earlier than usual due to unusually light ice, and briefly cites a quarrel where a woman held back a man who feared dying, followed by his remark about losing memory of having lungs and a casual confession of not hitting as hard as possible.
A fragment of a 19th century vignette depicts Jenks reflecting on marriage, a widowed era, and a joke about a bachelor courting a widow. It includes dialogue about waiting for a bride, a rumored rival, and social foibles, framed as a row of short anecdotes and rural quips.
A small farmer named Mr Perkins from WN H is drafted to serve his country. His wife, though poor in knowledge, frets at separation and a rough stranger offers to substitute for him, prompting her sharp rebuke and the would be substitution fleeing in fear. The item blends with other moral vignettes and anecdotes on habit and war correspondence.
A London Free Press dispatch reports Somerville, in Throne Pontiac, driven toward Long Point asylum after a prank left him insane. He fled into the woods with a friend protecting him, after being told he shot a magistrate. fourteen days later he was found a raving maniac from fear hunger and exposure. Also noted is a suspicious powder mix and a drowning death of a young woman.
The article notes Paris horsemeat consumption rose to 10,169 animals including horses, asses and mules last year, with over sixty horsemeat shops in the capital and more in provincial cities. A 1877 figure of 10,179 compared to 2,192 in 1267 shows steady hippophagy growth. Russia seen as strong, England as prudent, and winter Newport honeymoons rising in tone.
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