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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Times Post
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1895
Page
3
A speaker reflects on love’s progression from ardor to possession and indifference, noting Fate’s design in a beloved’s nature. The speaker accepts the risk and fear inherent in love, valuing the risking bargain despite potential loss. The poem contrasts passion with the calm indifference of marriage and the perilous honesty of choosing love.
Minnie and Maud, two spirited cousins, juggle romance and propriety on a London train. They flirt with a stranger over a beloved pipe and face Aunt Agatha’s scolding, while Minnie counsels bold self assertion to win Charles Bidding’s love despite Aunt’s objections.
Maud learns of a sudden engagement after Mr Bidding has inherited two thousand a year, while Minnie, once mocked, finds happiness. Aunt Agatha confronts Minnie over a late night walk with a mystery man, only to learn the man is the Earl of Northover’s brother, Charles. The trio’s fortunes hinge on a discarded pipe’s odd role.
A compressed chronology from B C 629 to A D 17 traces Greek and Roman medical thought. It cites Pythagoras teaching disease theory, Pythagoreans prescribing, Hippocrates’ treatises and surgical feats, Aristotle’s anatomy, dissection by Ptolemy Lagas, Herophilus surgeries, and Celsus’s cataract and fracture observations, ending with a Caesar decree on citizenship and late Roman medical notes.
Vague lines discuss going out to see a game this afternoon and unsure about the team. The dialogue mentions a food company and a home ink reference, reflecting incomplete OCR from a Washington Star snippet.
This quip jokes about a man who mocks others while trying to seem perceptive. It hints at pride and social showmanship without naming people or events. The line plays on irony and bystander effect in a casual, humorous tone.
Walter Besant relays a tale of a Russian noble who wed a village girl by a drinking day ruse and a registered ceremony. The couple lived in Paris, then faced legal scrutiny when a lawyer erased the rustic groom’s name and wrote over it leaving the record altered but intact.
Detroit Journal recounts a bizarre incident at Windsor Detroit mail office where a Chinese man hid inside a mail bag aboard a maroon freight wagon. William Henry Offal, a Windson post office sweeper, handed out the bag to a thirsty intruder who then slept in the rear office while the man hid. The next day a second escapee emerged from the wagon prompting Canadian officials to seal the wagon with locks to prevent contraband humanity.
A writer describes the American porcupine as a quiet, inoffensive creature, quick to threaten with a bristling coat rather than roll into a ball. It feeds on tree bark and forest detritus, including boot packs and salt pork, especially near logging camps, and when molested, it approaches a tree to escape.
A fragment cites Forest and Stream warning that a thief may steal pack straps or shoes from under the tent walls while campers dream on balsam or hemlock beds. The caution reflects rustic camp security concerns.
The largest bell in America, in Notre Dame Cathedral Montreal, resides in the south tower. It stands six feet tall and 8 feet 7 inches in diameter, weighing 24 780 pounds and decorated with images of the Blessed Virgin and St John the Baptist along with emblems of agriculture, commerce and industry. Cast in London in 1847 it bears Latin inscriptions noting the year and the benefactors. The opposite tower holds a peal of ten bells totaling 21 696 pounds, the smallest 897 pounds and the largest 6011 pounds.
Two hunters near Reading Pennsylvania stole a bear cub. The mother bear pursued them and, after the cub was killed, the man with the cub struck the mother across the nose and forced her to flee.
Brussels waiters organize a syndicate to seek redress for grievances. A leading complaint is the duty to pay proprietors from 1 to 6 francs for the privilege of serving customers.
The Caspian Sea sits eighty five feet below the Black Sea and has varied greatly since classical times. A Russian Geographical Society treatise by N M Phillippf notes a general decline since early Christian era with occasional rises in the eighteenth century and post 1865. Observers like Lieut Sokolof and Lerch record submerged ruins and Persian sayings of sea oscillation roughly every thirty years. Causes include wind driven tides, summer evaporation, winter cooling, rivers, rainfall, and earthquakes.
A New York telegraph operator and Philadelphia counterpart spoke to a Philadelphia reporter. The New York operator claimed daily telegraphic contact with Mr Rapid of Philadelphia allowed him to describe Rapid’s appearance in detail. The description matched the actual man’s build and countenance.
A ministerial decree outlines strict railway etiquette in France when the President travels. Officials from top to bottom must doff caps and stay bareheaded until the President departs. The stationmaster alone may approach the carriage door and must hold it open bareheaded.
A clergyman in a west end church announced banns in a manner likely to trigger a breach of promise case. He forgot the timing, then, before preaching, read the banns aloud and immediately followed with a sermon line, “And the last state of that man is worse than the first.” Tit Bits notes. A girl with no steady beau when she meets a fully satisfactory one becomes the proudest thing.
Ignatius Foster of Newtown Long Island, a famed orchid collector, traversed over a thousand miles along the Brahmaputra in search of a rare specimen. The pursuit mirrors tulip and chrysanthemum furies, with rulers backing or rationalizing the craze as orchids proved highly lucrative along India and in distant ranges.
The nuptial rites in England derive mainly from Roman practice with the bride veiled at the ceremony. The wedding ring tradition was introduced to England by the Normans, shaping early matrimonial customs.
A concise overview of Coin's Financial School by W. H. Harvey, noting 150 pages and 64 illustrations. It claims to simplify finance for students, calling it the textbook of the masses and reliable on facts and figures. Pricing listed: paper 50 cents, popular edition 25 cents, cloth 1.00.
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