19 Feb 1879
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1879
Page
1
The poem reflects on a woman’s daily labors from dawn to night. It lists dressing a baby combing hair, kitchen work, mending and teaching, covering books, preparing for callers, and caring for two or three children. The speaker praises her constant, unseen toil and calls her “Mother.”
Sara Holmes, a nineteen year old in a rural village, has long imagined Elihu Holmes as her destined husband from stories of his Southland fortune. He returns humbled and penniless to the old homestead, facing cold, resentful kinship while Sara defends him, and a tentative bond forms as Elihu asks Sara to marry him before leaving.
Sara confesses love to Elihu and agrees to marry despite poverty. Ben discloses a fortune, with ten thousand dollars in a bank account and a lavish gift of a diamond watch, changing Sara and Ben's lives. The couple wed, depart to a hotel, and begin a happy married life with Elihu's promised support and blessing from Sara's father.
A German town Telegraph note extols quinces as highly profitable with strong demand. It urges proper cultivation including pruning, mulching, borers control, and planting orange variety trees six to eight feet apart in rich soil. Regular bandaging and spring renewal promised yields of large golden quinces rivaling oranges.
A Nevada city woman of high social standing reports using an electric battery for neuralgic pains with no relief. After months without incident, cold weather brought startling phenomena as she touched wool and combed her hair, observing bright light and shocks, with a cracking sound from the teeth. Her husband doubted the account until her experiment in a dark room. The tale centers on electric stimulation and uncanny light from contact with fabrics and hair.
At MIT Professor Rogers demonstrated microscopic slides showing granite exfoliation under intense heat. The effect, he explained, comes from water-filled cavities in quartz and porphyry grains turning to steam or liquefied carbonic acid, driving pressure that rounds edges and weakens blocks in fires like Boston's.
Instructions for preparing German style sausages with lean beef and pork, saltpeter salt, sugar, and white pepper. Notes on fat bacon, garlic rubbed blocks, careful grinding, air exclusion, two to three weeks drying, smoking, and aging up to a year and a half. Includes optional nuts and fat paste for aroma. Emphasizes keeping properties by ample bacon.
A dubious claim states 200 to 200 men and women in St Louis drink hot blood daily from slaughtered cattle. It asserts September and October see more blood consumption than other months and extols drinking blood from young steers as best. It even suggests consumptives sit in slaughterhouses to inhale steam from fresh blood.
Plans for summer include rail service within thirty miles of Blue Mountain Lake and a season by steamer on Tupper's Lake. Two more steamboats will serve Raquette and Long lakes as carriage roads open along former trails. Notably, the Troan toes will stay in force.
Reportedly after testing his flying machine Darius Green broke every hose in his body and escaped danger by climbing a fire escape. The odd tale centers on misfortune and steadfast belief amid a curious episode.
A California farmer details a tarantula home built of clay and small stones, four inches long and two wide, with a hidden trap door. The nest hides a soft gossamer lining and a drilled appearance, and the tarantula attacks by securing a leg through a barely visible staple. These nests are common in Calaveras Tuolumne and Stanislaus counties along the stage road from Yosemite.
A lump in a horse’s jaw was found to contain a hard two inch long stone with a barley grain at its center. Vet surgery revealed concentric growth rings similar to boiler scales, suggesting barley influenced the stone’s formation as it lodged in the animal’s mouth and saliva deposited material over time.
A fragment discusses English domestic service as a sprawling hierarchy with many servants for even modest homes. It contrasts country and city households, notes strict bonds among staff, and remarks on class attitudes, poverty, and social norms surrounding aid and etiquette.
An iron cylinder device for reviving the dead claims superior effectiveness. A padded diaphragm seals the neck area, with the body placed feet first inside. An air pump creates and then reverses flow, forcing air into the lungs through mouth and nostrils to imitate natural breathing, the chest rising with each cycle, up to eighteen breaths per minute, allowing visual monitoring via a glass plate insert.
A subterranean edible fungus known as Tuckahoe or Indian Head Lycoperdon solidum attaches to tree roots and resembles dried dough inside. It is highly nutritious with nitrogenous matter, minerals, and starch. Historical notes trace its discovery and multiple scientific names across European and American mycologists.
Practical sewing tips cover repairing rips with material scraps, assembling sleeves before collars, matching sleeve gathering to waistband length, and fitting shoulder length. Guidance on buttonholes, gathering, and using waxed thread. fabric preparation with longcloth and linen. soap or boiling water to prep embroidery. stain and grease removal for sewing machines. and regular wardrobe maintenance.
The text notes that insects are essential to flowers, with Lepidoptera including butterflies and nocturnal moths aiding fertilization. Moths with long proboscises visit special flowers, collecting nectar while transferring pollen between blooms, enabling cross fertilization and fruit development.
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