10 Oct 1885
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1885
Page
1
Poem speaks of longing for a faithful visitor in death to ease the sorrow of parting. The speaker imagines secrecy and comfort from a beloved presence in life’s dark hours, then laments the lonelier fate of departing from all loved ones and sleeping in a pale white shroud.
Major Anthony Hartlerop, wealthy and romantic, woos Miss Angerona Dilworth in Sugar Maple village. He eyes her dimples and wealth, while Avis, Angerona’s ward, longs for better clothes and a chance at happiness. Angerona contemplates marriage despite flaws, hoping to outshine a rival widow and secure a lavish future.
Miss Angerona Dilworth schemes to marry Major Startletop but learns too late that her manipulations have caused both her niece Avis and the groom to choose other partners. A forged letter blunders, a remarriage follows, and the Major finds happiness with Canda ce Flukes while Angerona faces loneliness and fault.
Burdette counsels his son that the poor take chances freely while the rich are kept on top by curbing the poor. He cites famous figures from poverty to prominence to argue the need to give the rich a chance and slow the poor’s rise. He warns the son not to envy princes and to accept that the poor monopolizes chances.
The text argues that mental labor depletes vitality more than physical work and that the brain, while constantly active, rests best in deep sleep without dreams. It warns that insufficient sleep leads to insanity or death from brain starvation, urging early bedtimes and rising with consciousness to ensure each person gets the needed amount of sleep.
A late 19th century reminiscence by Fx-Minister S. W. Benjamin details Persian marriage norms with arranged matches, strict betrothal age, and easy divorces. It describes unique time-limited unions, remarriage norms, and a light anecdote about grooms in parsonages losing composure, including cigar and hat mishaps during ceremony.
The Cleveland Leader notes that antique furniture remains highly valued among fashion-conscious buyers. Washington, Georgetown, and Alexandria host dedicated shops with fine colonial pieces, including items linked to Washington, Jefferson, and Thaddeus Stevens. A 250-year-old chair, once owned by Generals, sits in a prominent family collection, while Father Bassett preserves a 19th century Senate lamp from Van Buren's era.
An epitaph for a boatman and a wag’s quips about marriage money and faith unfold as a string of humorous maxims. The miscellany teases age, spectacles, India’s costs, and a Virginian farmer’s missing wife alongside playful lines about ginger ale and the dude.
Brest chemist M. Kergovatz proposes an antiseptic postmortem method using galvanoplastic processes to coat the body with copper, possibly gilding later. After plumbago or nitrate silver treatment, sunlight decomposes silver to yield a copper shell that halts decay, tested on eleven humans and many animals, though the idea is repulsive to many.
A Washington dispatch reports the President spent over five hours in the office hearing congressmen and politicians before a midday East Room reception with nearly a hundred visitors. A New York matron told him she would return in six months to meet Mrs Cleveland, prompting light banter. The President smiled and remained unbothered.
Weather observers relying on terrestrial signs predict a severe, early cold winter. They cite three indicators: unusually thick hulls on hickory nuts and walnuts, thick corn husks, and the early migration of black birds to southern latitudes, all suggesting harsh conditions ahead.
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