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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1881
Page
8
A Cleveland scene unfolds with Miss Wheezer and La Rubble discussing Endymion and Vivian Grey as a young Lena recounts family tragedy. The dialogue covers ambition, gender influence, and a household illness as the pair drift through social observations and a tense parting note. A Smithsonian report then explains a method for making stone arrow heads via pressure flaking, suggesting prehistoric right-handedness and capability without iron or bronze.
A scrambled report notes that wild horses in Australia have surged in numbers, prompting calls for shooting them as kangaroos are hunted. An escaped Arab stallion from years past influenced a lineage of chestnut wild horses. Some distant ranges still harbor horses believed to be very old. The piece mentions a government outlay of $25,000,000 and public buildings in Rome.
An inventor from St. Petersburg has produced a material from coal tar oils that mimics India rubber with added advantages. The process combines equal parts wood oil and coal tar oil heated seven hours, then mixed with thickened linseed oil and a small amount of spermaceti. Sulphur is added to reach a firmer elastic compound, which remains weather resistant and durable under pressure, with potential use in telegraph wire insulation.
The New York Herald notes a girl famed for past feats now raising and selling 350 bushels of wheat, drawing suitors as her achievements circulate. The piece contrasts women who marry for support with men who want wives to work and supply bread and butter, cigars, and drinks, while some would fund debts and move to New York on harvest profits.
Judge Dory Odell of Portsmouth NH measured the Great Boulder near Pine Hill south of Shattigee village Conway. He estimates 70 feet long 25 feet wide 30 feet high at base to summit about 45 000 cubic feet and about 3600 tons in weight. He notes a tank of water would verify contents and compares to the Nottingham boulders. Daniel Webster once viewed the stone saying a great rock.
A young groom brings his wife to live with his mother in Methuen. The two women quarrel frequently, drawing church attention. The pastor's wife counsels the daughter-in-law to seek harmony. The daughter-in-law replies that she will be changed in heaven.
The text outlines a simple distinction between tragedy and comedy. A tragedy centers on a murder, a comedy on a marriage. The first act establishes will be a marriage or murder, the second reveals no marriage or murder, the third introduces a new incident, the fourth presents an obstacle, and the fifth concludes with the marriage or murder as the ending.
The article claims Hindoo girls develop erect posture by carrying water on their heads from childhood and suggests this exercise strengthens back muscles and chest. It notes Neapolitan peasants share a similar carriage, comparing cross cultural physical practices and recommending adoption in schools and homes.
Solorado Independent notes Watkins of the Tuscan Journal called Hughes inexperienced and fresh, prompting the Virginia City Chronicle to mock Watkins. It adds that Nevada journalism would laugh at his growing reputation and mock his supposed cowardice and misconduct, while he seeks support from others.
The Dewiston Journal notes growing humane interest in animals as Prof Packard writes in American Naturalism on studying the locusts mind to gauge migratory and reproductive habits and compare insect intelligence. Packard, son of Bowdoin College's famed Greek professor, is described as a leading naturalist around forty.
A Hartford jewelry shop features a golden elephant valued as the most expensive toy in Connecticut. Eyes are diamonds at 3000 dollars each, ears adorned with solitaires, feet with diamond bangles, and a velvet cloth over its back. The piece is bordered by a circle of two carat diamonds and a crescent of gems. A single large stone on the forehead is worth 5000 dollars. Estimated total value around 335000 dollars.
The article recalls 19th century events in Tunis and Algiers, noting France’s claim that its Tunisian policy is temporary while warning of a repeat of the 1829 Algiers capture. It cites a French envoy incident and the subsequent bombardment that led to occupation, suggesting a similar risk of annexation if provoked.
A verse fragment depicts a tall strong guard at the czar’s gate who repeats I am on guard as a drowning youth and an unpaid tax debtor cry for help. An old man pleads, the guard remains unmoved, and the narrator leaves in sorrow recalling a Georgian proverb that soldiers hearts must be stone.
Captain Philip Page of the English army will relocate to Pelham Massachusetts in September resuming his commission. With over thirty years of service he has fought in forty four battles including Balaklava Inkerman and the Punjaub and survived two severe wounds. He sold an estate at Woolpit Suffolk where his brother Rev Henry Page is rector. Page has two sons at Amherst college and one at the local high school.
A remarkable sea feature eighteen miles south of St Augustine near Matanzas Inlet spouts fresh water from the deep. The large turbulent fountain covers about half an acre and is visible to nearby fishermen and boaters. Commodore Hitchcock of the Coast Survey investigated, finding six fathoms of water around and a sea-surface upheaval that once diverted a ship.
A Boston Post account recalls a confrontation between a strict schoolmaster and a belligerent father over discipline. The father defends his son as the teacher battles the boy’s aggressive behavior, ending with the father promising a harsher correction at home. The exchange underscores a clash of authority and paternal pride in a rough era.
Obituary notice for James Keith of Richmond Virginia a representative for Richmond and Sydney Point branches at the Congress of our Union held in Boston last October. It notes his death in the prime of life and a wish that his loss becomes his gain with heavenly recompense beyond earthly troubles.
A Great Enterprise. The Hop Bitters Manufacturing Company is one of Rochester's greatest business enterprises. Their Hop Bitters have reached a sale beyond all precedent, entering almost every household in the country.
The Parisian ladies reject black in favor of bottle green, shorten riding hab its skirts, drop cravats, wear plain collars with brooches, and switch to round felt hats. A New England Senator once joked about Senator Edmunds shifting the Lord's Prayer to suit amendments.
Hartford trustees of the David Watkinson bequest wait twenty four years and have grown the fund to over one hundred thousand dollars as they prepare to start a training school for young lads in the city to learn practical farming. Painter Cropsey once studied architecture in New York and later helped design depots for the Metropolitan Elevated Railway.
The New York Independent reports a claim that Hop Hittera patients do not require hospital care or lavish treatments. It asserts that cures are possible at home and that those promoting expensive options are narrating their own stories rather than presenting verified outcomes.
The Parisian contrasts involuntary and social beauty while noting editorials mirror their office encyclopedia. A Coburg deathbed trunk held about $4000 from guests, intended for church and an employer’s eldest daughter. An eccentric woman in Pomerania leaves 60000 to Stettin to fund an asylum for 40 single women over 50 and ten aged bachelors.
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