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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1879
Page
4
A reflective poem recalls an old canoe drifted on still waters. The scene shifts from lively paddling to decay as moss, insects, and weathering rust overtake the vessel. The speaker remembers past joys and wonders how faces, boats, and laughter fade into sober memory.
A Chronicle report documents a leper hospital inside Bull Run alley in Chinatown San Francisco describing eighteen residents with leprosy in various stages. The scene is filthy with furnaces smoking as residents suffer painful deformities including scaly and elephantiasis forms.
Professor J W Jude outlined four stages in the Alps formation from a crustal weakness to later sculpturing by water and frost. He contrasted geological history with economic ideas, criticizing overreliance on money as wealth and linking labor affection to societal progress.
Professor Jude concludes by stating that knowledge of facts alone moved the public, and he highlights Sir Charles Lyell's impact on shifting popular opinion on such matters.
A Hebrew Farms movement aims to form a Jewish farming settlement in the south and west. The report urges immigration of Eastern and Southern European Jews as farmers and artisans, with cross border cooperation in Europe and funds for land in trust to enable widespread agricultural settlement.
A court witness was asked if the doctor made visits after the patient was out of danger. The witness replied no, stating the doctor continued visits because he regarded the patient as still in danger.
A raw recruit in a Sunday school stunned listeners by shouting that Elijah “went to heaven like a house a fire.” The shout set off laughter and the crowd then sang a hymn.
The bamboo dominates Burmese life along rivers and creeks in Burma's landscape. It provides house beams and rafters, walls, mats, lashings, and even matthatch. on boats it supports nets, shelters, bedding, and mooring poles. Builders scaffolding labor baskets and toys come from bamboo, while fans and coffin canopies reflect the plant’s versatile cultural role.
The Boston Daily Advertiser discusses the English Bible revision in its tenth year, led by scholars in England and America. It notes joint monthly meetings, unanimous consultation on changes, and the aim to publish only when completed and authorized by Oxford and Cambridge. German scholars revise Luther's Bible in harmony with English efforts. The piece reflects on authority, public acceptance, and conservative resistance to the new text.
In a Paris cremerie the narrator notes how Americans differentiate themselves by salt on butter at breakfast while French butter is kept for cooking. She describes Paris butter stores near La Halle, with snowy caps clerks, a matron, delicate weighing with silver wires, and exact demiquart portions, alongside fresh lettuce in baskets and the habit of buying butter daily.
The narrative recalls a 1606 visit by Christian IV of Denmark to James I's court. It describes lavish carousing with intoxication among ladies and nobles, a failed pageant featuring Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, mishaps with a canopy, and the Queen of Sheba's robe, leading to chaos. Hope Faith and Peace appear in allegorical roles, and the king’s fall and recovery are noted amid disorder compared with Elizabeth I’s era.
An American preacher recounts praying aloud to curb the power of the devil. An elder member in the pew responds with enthusiastic blessing and a colorful line about cutting him tail right smack, smove off.
A playful exchange over sweets ends with a plan for hearty, economical breakfasts. The piece then offers simple recipes: oatmeal with four parts water and salt, simmered an hour, and Rice Panada made from rice, suet, salt, sugar, flour, water and molasses. priced to nourish a family on a tight budget.
The article notes an Abbe Plessis experiment where a large horned beetle lifted a 2.2 pound weight despite its small body weight, illustrating insect strength. It also discusses Earth’s age estimates by Sir William Thomson and Professor Tait, plus ideas on distant stars and new locomotion devices like pedometers in Philadelphia.
A four-year-old pupil who had learned his primer at home was asked by the teacher if he could read. The boy stood surprised and then exclaimed, Hain't you zot cheek.
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