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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1879
Page
3
A parody style ballad describes a sailor's affair with a woman nicknamed lass, with animal puns and grotesque asides. The narrator laments rival suitors and social mockery as a wreck ends his romance. The verses mix humorous creature allusions with tragic undercurrents.
W. W. WALKEY writes on Orangeman's Day and the Ontario political mood. He criticizes annexation hopes, notes Canadian debt and emigration, and recounts a 4th of July visit among British hosts, ending with a toast to the American eagle and republican ideals.
The government fortifies the Sub-Treasury Building in New York with steel bar gratings, bullet proof shutters, quarter inch steel plates, rifle loopholes, and three rooftop turrets to guard millions in treasure. Construction aims for completion by mid September as rioters loom a threat. In an unrelated note a Massachusetts normal school misdefines Eucharist as Euchreist in a spelling incident reported by the Boston Transcript.
The Wisconsin Republican State Convention held in Madison on the 23rd adopted a platform endorsing a strong national government, fair and peaceful elections, opposition to military interference at polls, strict fiscal policy, and continued support for Hayes and Republican governance. The document also condemns Democratic efforts to repeal protective laws and praises resumed specie payments and a stable currency.
A survey of several inventors and devices for arithmetic calculation including Staffel and Colmar automata, Wertheimer money sums adders, Baranowski Ready Reckoner, and Schott Lallanne Reget Maurel Roth Slovinski Schentz, with Schentz praised by Babbage for sixteen-place tables and metal stamping at twenty five figures per minute.
The shaft is slender and curiously described as a curtissa of loginea wood. The blade-shaped head has a central raised edge and is heated red hot to bite into wood, bound with wet rawhide to form a secure grip. Zulus throw these darts with accuracy and use oval rawhide shields for protection, while soldiers also carry stabbing assegais for close combat.
The piece argues thinking is manufacturing and effort, not idle dream, contrasting a well dressed boy with a wood cart boy. A farmer’s daughter voices desire for culture, and a Hartford Courant note mocks a lazy Arbor Hill man as incurably idle.
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