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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1872
Page
6
John Hay writes of Sir Ernst of Edelsheim who loves a sleeping maid in a moonlit glade. A serpent half the day haunts the tale as the Ritter’s true love proves to be a shifting, perilous bond. The verse contrasts sacred vows with a perilous passion.
In Paris at a Twelfth Night fete Countess de Charny grants a ragged Savoyard, Carlo, a turn as king. The boy discovers the Countess is his mother, Victor, separated years earlier. The violin he plays is bought as a memorial while he enters a military school.
A survey of varied topics from cloud recording, Gibraltar tunnels, and chalk fuel, to crane flight patterns and telegraph line trends. It notes a British clinometer invention, a Tingkawang tree in Java, Mount Washington heights, Maelstrom myths, and social essays on American girls and propriety influenced by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
A column of playful questions and humorous quips on courtship aging ships and everyday follies. It ponders why saints and sinners speak softly while noting odd comments from readers and a dash of local curiosities and quotes.
Mrs Florida White, famed in fashion forty years ago, daughter of Gen Adair and wife of Joseph M White, second Florida delegate to Congress. A highly educated society leader in Washington and New Orleans, she impressed with wit and graciousness. Her Rome meeting with the Pope ended with a graceful exchange about sovereignty and blessing.
The New York Metropolitan Record argues the Jesuit expulsion from Germany will not harm the order long term. It predicts exiled Jesuits will settle across Europe and America and may found institutions in the West or Pacific shores, with property losses temporary but offset by expansion.
A lyrical verse titled Song Of A Lover To His Sweetheart invites readers to trace lines read left to right or downward and in multiple orientations. The playful text praises the beloved’s face tongue wit and charm while noting the eye ear heart respond in kind.
A prince laments Western ideas and foreign influence sweeping across Japan. He warns the Mikado that modern reforms and foreign presence threaten traditional life and values, urging a return to bygone customs to avoid subjugation.
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