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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1889
Page
6
A short verse celebrating spring in Vermont with imagery of bees, brown earth, robins, mountain streams, wildflowers, and delayed blooms. The scene moves through sunbeams, willows, watercress, crocus, daffodil, clover, and a promise of lilies and roses to come in Waitsfield Vermont.
A boy recalls a perilous voyage aboard the Eagle from New York to Smyrna and back to find his lost brother Joe. They fend off a Barbary pirate with heavy cannon fire and rescue three Algerine captives, including Joe, from slavery before returning to his mother’s grateful embrace.
A column surveys dream lore linking nocturnal visions to real events and misfortunes with examples from Gesner and others. It also traces idioms like standing Sam mare’s nest shell out to gone to the dogs and pig iron, explaining their historical roots and linguistic shifts.
A Berlin inventor outlines a simple private home elevator using city water as motive power. Each flight has its own chair allowing simultaneous travel up or down. The chair moves with a light push and returns to the bottom step for safe, low cost operation. Water cost is about one-tenth of a cent per trip in Berlin.
A gentleman recounts a rescue at a river crossing where a girl nearly fainted as mules stirred the water. Her father slapped her to prevent a collapse, a drastic but successful act the speaker calls heroic. The episode circulated from the Atlanta Constitution.
John R. Coryell notes in Harper's Magazine that the water-ousel or dipper thrives near mountain streams. The bird swims using powerful wings, nests by water, and even dives through ice to catch fish. Young fledglings instinctively head for water when alarmed, showing remarkable confidence.
The two sons of Charles Dickens, Alfred Tennyson and Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, moved to Australia where they built successful pastoral careers. E B L Dickens now seeks NSW parliament as a protectionist for Wilcannia. A unrelated quote by Boojum about counterfeit money and lunatic asylums ends the note.
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