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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1880
Page
6
A collage of short items covers social humor, science, travel, and politics. Immigrant arrivals in York rise sharply. the Bey of Tunis funds city utilities but not gas. Skates ordered in St. Louis, a Langtry performance at Brighton, and a Berlin emigration sentence highlight era-wide currents.
A mix of home cookery notes including Bran Bread and French Bread plus desserts like Chocolate Blanc-Mange and Holiday Pudding followed by a vivid reminiscence of Napoleon at the play in Erfurt 1807. The piece contrasts kitchen lore with a dramatic backstage memory of kings, emperors, drummers, and an asleep Napoleon.
The Earle of Dunmore's reunions entertain London with an orchestra of 33 from Her Majesty's theatre. Prince of Wales and upper circles attend while audience smoke. concerts run late, often ending around 2. A public concert series may follow and an opera is reportedly in progress for production next season at Her Majesty's theatre. Mme Trebli performs a scene from the opera with principal part written for her at a Liverpool Philharmonic Society event.
An English officer in Zulu recounts how a missionary near Lobengula’s town faced rejection from his congregation during a service. They challenged his message in Matabele, then the king rebuked him for falsehoods and for seeking to visit southern towns for new teeth.
A Deutsche Presse correspondent reports a method to tame troublesome swarms using electric shocks. Trials on small groups and single bees stunned them for minutes to hours, then recovered. Freiwirth adapts the approach to hives with a compact device and portable leads to shock and control蜂.
A message-boy in New York counts money at a bank when a bystander says he dropped a bill. He inadvertently steps on the money and continues counting before reclaiming the bill, joking that the bystander must have dropped it. He ends by keeping the bill as a memory.
In a short family quip a wife declares she will not marry a fool if she remarries. The husband, the lord and master, concedes with a wilted stance as the exchange ends.
A reflection on home as source of happiness beyond wealth. True hearts, a temperate industrious man, and a loving wife with affectionate children bring real joy, even amid poverty. Home offers welcome, hope, and the cheerful rhythm of family life.
Adolph Real of the Martinez stock ranch near Converse reports his 9 year old son Emil searched for cotton tail rabbits with a small dog. The boy stuck his finger into a hollow tree and was bitten by a rattlesnake. He sucked venom with a jack knife. The next day Real cut the tree and found a full grown rattlesnake with five rattles guarding the hollow. The rabbit lay nearby in shock from the encounter.
Alaskan explorers describe the Yukon as one of the world’s largest rivers, navigable for steamers about 2500 miles with a large tributary entering about 500 miles from the mouth. The basin at the confluence spans 24 miles and the river is nearly as large as the Mississippi.
The German Government praised the United States by requesting details on how the Signal Service Bureau compiles and publishes rapid meteorological reports. It notes maps are printed three hours after readings at distant stations, prepared by Chief Signal Officer General Myer with War Department approval.
A tale recalls a boy trained to swear by one master who was punished by cold water and heat beside the fire. A rain-soaked basket of chickens was laced near his bench, and he muttered quietly that the birds were “little tools” after, and a wedding party joke followed as the groom stumbled over the bride’s train.
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