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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1879
Page
7
A collage of brief items from science humor and daily life. Anecdotes on overheard remarks, petty miscommunications, and year 1877 8 notes. Mentions of Garibaldi volunteers, Poe, Princeton gifts, and a mix of science trivia, weathered opinions, and small fortunes.
A Victorian recipe describes how to make grated ham sandwiches with puff pastry and nutmeg, baked to a golden brown and buttered. The piece then recounts a London theater anecdote where staff used a fishing net to steal pheasants from a manager’s window and arranged a complimentary stage box via a messenger.
A correspondent for the Indiana Farmer argues that over feeding young hogs with mush and milk leads to weakened constitutions compared with grass and dry corn raised hogs. He explains that this mismanagement can cause widespread disease after weather shocks and even cites a comparison to horse breeding, warning that sheltered, overfed animals lose hardiness and resilience.
Prof. R. T. Brown advises caring for brood animals with shelter and dry lots as parturition approaches, noting winter as critical. The piece discusses separating mothers, feeding quality fodder, and that fattening hogs by hogging down cornfields minimizes waste and can enrich soil, recommending portable fencing and acre-sized plots for groups of ten hogs.
A reflective piece contrasts an aging elm tree with the steadfast German settlers along the San Antonio and Houston Railroad. It depicts their thriving farms, disciplined families, and thrift as the source of Texas prosperity, noting diligent work, well-kept fences and homes, and careful child education.
The tale blends a ribbon cake recipe using eggs butter milk flour and spices with a nautical anecdote about the English admiralty sending twenty cats to Tristan da Cunha to curb mice. The mice harmed the island’s vegetation while cats and mice coexist, leading to many cats being trapped and destroyed. Peter Grant heads the colony and notes mixed reactions to the gift.
The text extols how love of purity grows from witness of a good woman and the quiet influence of modest, unassuming people. It argues that embodied goodness moves others to be better, and that ordinary individuals often illuminate others more than formal preaching.
In Dorsetshire a Thorncombe physician treated malignant diphtheria outbreaks at a large dairy with iron preparations then added a liquid sulphur glycerine regimen after an American report. He ordered several spoonsful daily and nasal application with a sponge. The method reportedly stopped fatalities and never lost a case thereafter.
The Scientific American notes a novel nosebleed remedy involving vigorous jaw movement and chewing, even a wad of paper for children, with claims of universal effectiveness. Hartford Library survey shows youths read heavily with 162 books by one boy and 112 by one girl in six months, detailing fiction and non fiction proportions.
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