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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1879
Page
8
Fragmentary chatter and anecdotes recount oddities and humor from readers and public life. Tales range from a Woolwich pensioner and a Persian-like toast to a broken actor in a San Antonio draft fraud, with stray quips about teachers, robbers, mosquitos, and old times.
The December issue of Demorest's Monthly ends its fifteenth volume and features an oil painting titled Christmas and two steel engravings. The magazine costs three dollars per year with a premium for subscribers. Address: W Jennings Demorest, 17 East 14th Street, New York.
The piece reflects on Fanny Fern's view of sensible motherhood as she watches park children. She praises simple dress over gaudy fashion, notes a pretty girl’s innocent kiss, and laments vain vanity in parenting while cherishing genuine affection and modesty in children.
Louise Martel, condemned in 1871 to transportation, endured two years at Auberive and was sent to Noumea. There she opened a school for convicts, teaching new physical and ethical theories and a catechism. She said a Paris and France exist only in her heart, and she will stay among the savages until her hour comes.
The Rural Sun champions ear and green corn as nutritious, economical feeds for young chicks. It suggests growing ear on farm, using green corn chopped with cob and husks, and daily small rations for a month to improve growth and nourishment.
M Roger a noted Paris singer died recently. He was hired for 1600 francs to perform for a merchant’s guests. While singing, guests talked, angering Roger who fled. The next day he sent a 2000 franc check with a note offering to return 1500 francs and add 500 francs as penalty for interrupting the conversation.
A Kentucky girl plans to elope with her lover as her parents refuse entry to the house. She climbs down a ladder at night and rides away on horseback. She jokes about his future kindness before returning for money and ultimately delays leaving, leaving him below as she questions their fate.
A gale uprooted a large button-ball sycamore near Gov. Douglas’s home. A man cutting firewood found a horseshoe embedded fifty nine inches inside the trunk and twenty two inches from the bark, dated over a century ago. The shoe likely nailed to aid hitching horses as the tree grew around it. The house once belonged to the Mather family.
The text urges avarice with time, valuing every hour and day as a chance to grow knowledge and virtue. It frames time as a birthright debt that must be paid with lifelong accrued interest through learning and moral improvement.
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