31 Jul 1878
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1878
Page
1
A nostalgic poem about sunny afternoons and rosy gardens. The speaker recalls warm portraits of love and companionship during gentle evenings and winter fires. It emphasizes holding fast to pleasant memories though future harvests may not come, claiming the past remains ours.
A detailed Paris fete on Dauphin Louis XV's majority day features a yellow domino figure who devours relishes and wine, prompting officers and nobles to suspect tricks. The masked trooper reveals the trick: a regimental party used tickets and shared yellow dominos to feed the squad, leaving the royal observers amused and surprised.
Instructions describe making decorative egg shell vases from two eggs, cutting a square edge, wrapping gilt paper around rough edges, adding paper handles, and attaching figures or flowers. A button mold stands as a vase base with a gilt edged stem, with vases partly filled with white sand and dried grasses. Also suggests tiny doll cradles from the same material with pasteboard rockers.
The piece describes Japanese dress as simple and modest avoiding jewelry, with women not piercing ears or noses, and men rarely losing temper. It notes women once shaved eyebrows and blackened teeth, though the empress opposes these rites. It praises politeness, gentleness, humane sports, and extreme cleanliness, decrying cruelty to animals. It concludes Japanese manners differ but are well-bred by European standards.
A House of Commons report notes a prudent soldier can save three shillings weekly in the savings bank, enabling a capital of £50 after six years of service before transfer to the reserve.
An address by Dr. G M Beard for the Kings County Medical Society argues that sea foods like fish and oysters are not intellect-boosting. He notes phosphorus may calm rather than stimulate thought, comparing sea-food effects to bromides and electricity and criticizing Agassiz and Paggioli for overrating diet or electrical stimulation on minds.
The yak, a large native animal of Tibet and Central Asia, resembles a bison in appearance and is valued as a beast of burden for mountaineers. It can cover about twenty miles daily at a moderate pace while carrying salt or rice, or pine planks, with spreading horns, long black hair, and bushy tails. Hair is used for ropes and tent coverings.
A reflective piece argues that people often shape beliefs by desires rather than facts and that practical life is ruled by strong wants rather than divine instruction. It likens grown minds to children who blame papers for weather and insists on aligning conduct with actual facts.
A historical snapshot notes modest Italian living circa 1238 with scarce meat, shared meals, simple dress, and frugal households. It describes food scarcity with pot herbs, communal dining, limited lighting by a torch, and noble towers underpining fortified cities.
A city merchant chides a clerk for lateness and jokes about the mishap revealing the clerk fell asleep early. The text then shifts to a graphic, Biblical style description of torments in hell with vivid torture imagery and demons.
Snodgrass notes that laughter distinguishes humans, and suggests sour-faced grumblers may be less human or regressing toward animal ancestors per Darwinian theory, implying only humans can truly smile.
A historical account describes a man faking paralysis to avoid work, staged from Malmesbury to Devizes. A magistrate and governor doubted the scheme until galvanic battery tests proved it an elaborate hoax. The leg movement began only after doctors advised proceeding.
A correspondent describes San Rossore, a royal farm near Pisa owned by the King of Italy. The estate holds about 800 mares and stallions, mostly thoroughbred or Arab. It houses 200 camels used for draught work, noted to endure colder climates. A coastal royal residence hosts hunts where the king dismissed state etiquette and enjoyed hardy farm life.
The Spe rator notes ages of famed figures from Hippocrates at 109 in Cos to Diogenes and Plato’s late 90s. It lists Solon, Thales, Heraclitus, Democritus, Zeno, Xenophon, Epicharmus, Lycurgus, Sokrates, and others with lifespans ranging from 85 to 109. Also mentions Galileo, Cassini, Newton, Fontenelle, Buffon, Voltaire, and 19th 20th century notables Tallrand Goethe Rogers Niemen Moncey.
The Podalian is an aboriginal cattle descended from wild stock, common in the Austrian province. They are white to silty gray, valued for fattening and meat with tenderness and flavor. Most prized as working oxen, they pace two and a quarter miles per hour with light loads. distribution spans a large part of Galicia.
A Parisian jeweler showcased mechanical devices concealed in fashion items. Moveable figures like a rabbit, grenadier, monkey, and bird are powered by minute galvanic batteries built from zinc and carbon. The article notes the same principle as larger devices and mentions Peru’s first census reporting a population of 2,609,945 with 1,305,000 men and 1,304,945 women.
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