05 Feb 1879
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1879
Page
1
Whittier mood piece recalls a lost playmate during May. The speaker remembers Ramoth Hill Ramoth Mill birch winds and spring songs as years pass uneventfully. Nostalgia blends with nature as the boy questions memory and the girl’s thoughts across seasons.
A young wife clashes with her domineering mother in law, Mrs Throckwell, during a tense first visit and a hurried return home. The husband’s uneasy loyalty is tested as the household order collapses and the wife asserts independence, ultimately restoring home life with care and cooking.
Mrs Svory her health noted as poor by Brit yet visits frequently and grows fond of her daughter-in-law. She praises the young mother as a model wife and housekeeper, while the bronze statue of her changes as a blue eyed boy arrives and calls her grandma.
A Virginia City Chron Chronicle reporter recalls a miner who believes a death warns before it occurs. He recounts a case where a lantern flame seemed to foretell Bill Hendricks’s fatal fall in Savage shaft and his vow never to light that lantern again, noting a candle flame’s deadly certainty.
The article describes a cigar shaped submarine boat inspired by the Garrett torpedo boat. Weighing about five tons with iron plates, it sinks and rises via water tanks and an air pump. Operated by a crewman through a central tower, it uses a leaden keel, four blade screw propulsion, internal win dows and glove-like hoses to handle torpedoes. Experiments reportedly succeed and Dr Garrett plans larger vessels for greater speed and capacity.
Instructions describe transferring prints to painted surfaces using a light varnish coat. Soak colored prints in salt water, or water alone for noncolored, then remove excess moisture and press face down onto the varnish. After drying, dampen and rub off the paper to reveal the image, repeating varnish for effect on glass or metal.
A breakfast table quip remarks that when women bake bread a curious effect follows with a little dear producing a small amount of dough. The line uses satire to link domestic baking to offspring in a light, humorous tone.
After Franco German War Prussia created an experimental station for army feeding. Gustave Warnecke produced horse biscuits or out comfits with mixed flours and linseed meal. Trials on occupation army horses showed biscuits equal or superior to oats, adopted for cavalry and Cossacks with rations of 25 to 30 biscuits daily carried on saddles.
The article outlines Heller's role as Tom Taylor's agent in bringing Our American Cousin to the United States, Laura Keene's victory in a legal dispute over the play, and Heller's later career. It cites relationships with Dr. E. P. Kingston Artemus Ward and his sister Miss Heller Palmer, noting his famed second sight acts and his belief that supernatural vision rests on mesmeric illusion.
The Columbarium in Gotha Germany is finished. Town authorities cap cremation costs at about $6 and set size limits for the building and urns including a 2.25 metre length, 0.75 metre width, 0.72 metre height for the cremation space and urn heights up to 9.80 metres with 0.40 metre diameter.
A young man asks a woman what she thinks of him and she replies a French clock. He then visits a horologist to learn the trait of a French clock. The expert says it never goes. The man laments his disappointment yet tells no one of his hurt.
The London Times reports on M Rapioff fitting a workshop in Printing-house Square with a seven-light lamp system. Seven lamps run on a single Gramme dynamo, providing a steady brilliant arc with minimal fluctuation. Experiments show independent lamp operation, rapid extinguishing and consistent light, promising cheaper power and practical use across departments.
The narrator details breakfast in Cyprus with improvised dishes and noisy hosts. Spares, spoons, and plates are scarce, meals feature half cooked eggs and curious customs, while English guests regret cooking ignorance. Food remains inexpensive. a Maltese cook and affordable wine allow comfortable living compared with London costs.
Charles Lamb rides in a stagecoach with a fellow passenger who comments on his bad cough. Lamb replies with dry humor, saying he knows it is bad but it is the best he can do. The anecdote showcases Lamb's wit and ironic resignation to discomfort.
A beach experiment tested how lantern colors penetrate darkness. Lanterns of equal quality were observed from a boat at half a league. Green and red lights showed the longest penetration, while blue lights faded earliest. Observers suggest red and green signals, with green paired with white for visibility.
A Cincinnati correspondent recounts a trick by Robert Heller at the Cincinnati Sketch Club. Heller promised to make a glass vanish and reappear in a subject’s rear pocket, with the crowd watching intently. Dr. Samuel Mamage calmly retrieved a dripping beer glass from his own coat pocket, leaving spectators astonished at the apparent misdirection.
Reports from German official journals note Bismark backs forwardism in relief for artisan classes. Aimed at creating workers cities modeled on Mulhouse in Alsace and Hamburg designs by Jean Dolfus. Funds include half a million marks for a second city and a national subscription of two and a half million to Emperor William. The plan features cheap housing, strict cleanliness, unified heating and lighting, large kitchens, and access to libraries reading rooms and baths at minimal cost.
A correspondent from Atlanta reports that Southern farmers have adopted thorough farming, inspired by Northern methods. Morgan County crops lead the state in cultivation as New York, Swiss, German, and Yankee orange growers adapt to free labor and improved planting. A general prosperity follows this shift.
In Nikosia, Cyprus, a Greek priest sentenced for incest endures twenty years of public nakedness as punishment. For seven years he has borne the ordeal, his skin darkened by exposure. The Turkish authorities left church discipline to Greek authorities, who enforce the sentence.
A Idaho farmer operates a rabbit farm along three miles of brush fence catching about 400 rabbits each day. Rabbits leap the fence onto a pivoting board trap, resetting and often catching multiple animals. Seven workers are employed and the ears are saved for a 2 cent bounty per pair to cover trap expenses.
Record notes 23 669 real estate taxpayers in San Francisco with only 32 Chinese, mostly lessees. Chinese pay an average of 1 89 toward city government, about one tenth of the population but only one seventy fifth of their tax share. City funds from Chinese cover police, prosecution, conviction, and maintenance costs.
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