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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1878
Page
8
An Eastern paper praises the Maurandya as a top climbing plant with rapid growth and evergreen foliage. It describes the flowers foxglove like in three colors, even bloom along the vine, and notes its suitability for baskets, rock-work, and trellises. Gardeners are advised to grow from seed, transplant mid May, and winter over in boxes or pots.
A Scientific American correspondent argues that feeding too much shorts with corn meal harms butter flavor. He cites a Boston dairy example where butter lacked nutty notes until the ratio was corrected, then improving within ten days.
A Boston lawyer recounts a client story in which the man explains he turned all his assets into cash to pay creditors, only to lose a large roll of bills in his hip pocket. The punchline suggests that if Judge Lowell rules the loss real, every bankrupt mate would want to borrow his pants.
A Dayton Sabbath school teacher instructed a class of girls to read Psalm 108 during the week. Most complied. one girl claimed her Bible lacked the Psalm and humorously said she found Samuel but could not find Sam.
A Los Angeles correspondent signing as Printer shares a lamp safety method. Place two large sponges in the lamp to absorb oil, saturate the wick, press the wick between sponges, and fill with oil until fully soaked. The lamp should burn brightly and reportedly allow safe play with it.
Quoted sermon extols the Lamb slain before creation, praising believers who stand in the Sunlight of a Savior's sacrifice and claim broader prayer privileges under alter warrant and promised grace.
A brief on Professor Barrett's cheap telephone using a wooden box and magnet yields about 100 yards of distance. The piece also recounts a series of anecdotes: Pius IX and a witty English girl, a parlor blessing, a beans joke, and a Cambridge street incident with a lame grocer and eggs.
A stove polishing method uses lampblack mixed with water-glass then graphite with gum-water for a durable finish. Dundee has ordered coffin-shaped wheelbarrows to transport intoxicated city residents to station houses, painted red inside and green outside with yellow wheels, a concept suggested for American cities.
A missionary rebuked a South Sea Islander for polygamy and learned the man now has one wife after claiming to be a Christian. The other tale involves a Utica doctor who tried a throat remedy, but the patient sent back a pantaloon button with a note about a wrong trodhe.
A provincial cleric recalls a parish practice where worshippers tried to fund offerings with buttons. The preacher warns against altering coins and emphasizes the reverence due to God and the human soul. Quotations from Bunyan Melanchthon and Rutherford are cited on sin and self.
In a small town a performer named Doricourt lacked black tights for a role yet used burnt cork to simulate legs. The sketch pleased the stage manager who called him a “picture.” Doricourt joked about washing or saving his legs for tomorrow. A second item offers guidance on removing grease spots from wallpaper with benzine, dabbed gently to avoid rubbing.
A father provoked a young boy to eat an abundance of buckwheat cakes and molasses, but the molasses tasted off and the child suspected foul play the moment his father urged him to eat all he wished.
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