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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1879
Page
2
A poem recounts a girl's memories of a shy lover who shared gifts and tender kisses. He calls a purple pansy his heartsease and dearest treasure, yet life brings loss and blight. The speaker preserves grim nostalgia as the flower remains a symbol of bittersweet affection.
A dramatic episode recounts Major Henry Lee selecting John Champe to feign desertion and capture Arnold’s alleged co-conspirators. Champe, a 24 year old sergeant-major from London county, endures pursuit, a staged misdirection, and a perilous midnight escape toward New York as the plan unfolds.
The escape of Champe from Arnold’s guards unfolds with pursuit by galleys and dragoons. He is captured then aided by a British galley, meets Sir Henry Clinton, and is promised reinsertion into his former legion before a cipher letter reveals a betrayed plan. Despite setbacks, Champe evades capture, returns to Washington, receives an honorable discharge, and fades into history with Goodrich’s account.
A boy explains he takes 25 cents for impounding dogs, preferring money to dogs, and even questions why he would impound his own dog. In another tale, Mrs Agassiz, dressing, notices a snake emerging from her boot, prompting the professor to quip that there should have been three.
A Goan tale describes a peculiar tree near Bombay that blooms after sunset. No flowers appear at sunset, but within half an hour blossoms fill the tree, emitting a sweet scent. The tree reportedly continues flowering throughout the year with flowers appearing and falling in a continuous cycle.
A Saturday Review summary details three poppy varieties in Bondreg Behar Malwa and Bohar climate suitability yield differences. It explains sowing, irrigation, harvesting, and processing from leaf collection to capsules and the final drug sent to Patna Ghazipur central agencies. It notes orderly weighing payments and Behar peasants entering contracts for profitable cultivation inclusive of crop rotation.
A biographical sketch of Marie E Patrice Maurice de MacMahon born 1808, tracing the MacMahon family from Ireland to Burgund y involvement with French nobility. The marquis rose from St Cyr, fought in Algiers, Antwerp siege, and amid shifting regimes, stayed loyal to monarchy, earning honor and esteem from Napoleon who praised his character and trustworthiness.
English authority Mr Mechi explains in the Mark Lane Express that sheep require water and suffer without it. He notes sheep drink heavily when given access, especially milk producing ewes and those eating cake or meal, and attributes his small losses to decades of providing water via an iron drinking watercart.
The San Francisco Chronicle’s 1878 murder tally shows that at least nine tenths of the recorded killings were committed by foreigners, predominantly natives of China Ireland and Italy, highlighting immigrant overrepresentation in crime reports.
A teacher asks what wisdom is, and a small girl responds with a clever definition. The child declares wisdom as the formation of the brain, delivering a succinct, witty reply in class.
The article details papier-mache use in practical and ornamental arts, noting its application by cabinet makers in enriched bookcase moldings, paneling, center ornaments, and clock brackets. It explains fixing methods, shaping with saws and heat, and finishing with painting and gilding for gold and silver accents.
An amusing Cape May scene shows a tattling politician pestering a seaside public figure until a sealed envelope reveals a death caricature. The incident ends with the intruder fleeing, pursued by the distressed student and noted by Progress.
The article surveys varying estimates of Native American population over time from 1820 to 1876. It cites figures by Sherman, Coronal Meacham, the Commissioner on Indian Affairs, and multiple censuses, noting averages around 303,894 and anticipating efforts in the next census to refine accuracy.
An official report to the Prussian Government notes gaslight eye effects when improperly shaded. Milk-glass globes diffuse light and protect eyes, while dark tin shades cause injury. The piece also remarks on sleep’s power, noting its dominance over will and pain, and that sleep needs vary by individual and activity level.
A paraphrase of Polonius from Hamlet warns that borrowing can harm both borrower and lender and that staying true to oneself avoids loss of honor and trust. The quote emphasizes prudent handling of money and relationships while advising self-restraint.
A column of home tips covers frying fish with salt pork, curing felons with soap and lime paste, not washing vegetables until cooking, a raised corn bread method, and a salt gargle for throats. It also extolls salt as dentifrice and hair tonic, plus an ice cream cake recipe with a sugar syrup icing and layered assembly.
French surgeon and statistics show mining is laborious but not highly unhealthy. Bronchitis and vesicular emphysema from coal dust are common among miners, while pulmonary phthisis is rare. In six years Dr Fabre reports only two deaths from this cause among 1,800 miners.
The text argues itinerant people avoid the South due to lack of plunderable work and food, noting about 80 wanderers in the region. It recalls a transfis influx into Louisiana during sugar season, posing as workers but preferring idleness. Planters closed doors. the New Orleans Democrat urges letting cotton rot if locals cannot pick it.
A dietary study shows among many food items only wheat and milk supply all body elements in proper balance. Butter sugar and syrup if eaten alone provide carbon but not essential nutrients, and a person could not survive two months on such a diet.
Archaeologists report a discovery in Santa Maria la Nuova Rome once tied to Franciscan monks. A hidden trap doorway reveals three underground cells with a faint light then darkness. Walls bear inscriptions and many torture instruments and human bones were found.
Far from Mexico City two wheat rich valleys ship wheat at wholesale 1.60 to 2.40 per bushel while flour retails at 1 per 25 pounds. Mexican tariff on foreign wheat about 1.15 per bushel and on flour 8 per barrel. A New York flour barrel costing 6 arrives in City of Mexico worth 29 after duty freight and charges.
A reflective note advocates peaceable living by avoiding interferers who harm you. It urges quitting dealings with cheaters, abandoning abusive company, and living so others will not credit slander. The advice centers on restraint and cool, nonconfrontational responses to wrongdoing.
Seven years after a prior policy gap, New York prisons now allow limited Catholic Mass once a month in penitentiaries and offer sacramental access to local priests, with exceptions for reformatories that emphasize broad Christian principles.
A compact note in old text references Worth as a modiste and mentions guidance, an onc and a printer in a brief, fragmentary context.
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