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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1879
Page
6
A collage of brief items details varied topics from mills and cotton to tax stats, trade, and crime. Reports include regional beer captures in North Carolina, European income tax counts, and shipping of tobacco to Spain. Also noted are wildlife prices, wine quips, and a Algeria duel with editors.
The Royal Institute Friday discourse showcased W Crookes weighing a ray of light. His apparatus used a suspended glass thread, a cross-piece with a mirror, and a vacuum to measure torsion from light’s radiation. A candle at six inches yielded 0.00172 grains for comparison with a standard candle.
A compendium of historic notes on the Thames Tunnel, its 1825 to 1841 construction, Brunel’s shield method, and the huge cost and effort. Also included are observations on sheep farming profits, and a vivid report of heavy pre-Christmas snow across Switzerland with rail and river disruptions and the Helvetia steamer sunk by snow weight.
The Philadelphia Press notes fifteen American girls in Washington's diplomatic corps, marrying ministers from France, Italy, Guatemala, and Turkey, with others such as Alma Yang Wine of the Chinese Legation formerly Miss Bartlett of Connecticut. It traces American women’s appeal in diplomacy and their ties to old European noble lines.
A xenophobic sketch notes that Chinese habits and crowding foster disease and ineffective remedies. It cites a 19th century Amoy cholera epidemic where a “pincher” earned high wages pinching affected areas, contrasting cheap coolie work with lucrative odd jobs.
St Pierre and Magnien conclude grapes ripen through carbonic acid evolution in darkness and light, with excess oxygen release over uptake. Grapes absorb or release water depending on moisture, acids decrease while sugars rise as sap carries acids and glucose to the fruit, acids later consumed as sugar concentration grows and finally sugar is consumed.
The piece endorses the Jersey Alderney as the best cow for small farms, noting its docility high milk richness and butter quality. It compares costs to scrubs and mentions local names Perry Worden Scriba and Hubbard. The item includes a humorous anecdote about a sleepily devout Hubbard and a playful exchange at a party with misquoted authors.
Two six year old children in Norwich ingested aconite while making snow ice cream. A local druggist faced prosecution for selling brandy under strict prohibition. after persuasion he provided a small amount to save their lives. Doctors treated the children and revived them as paralysis subsided. one pharmacist may be prosecuted.
A fragment from a 19th century paper reflects on Franklin at Versailles in plain dress turning to a velvet coat in portraits, plus anecdotes about a grand dinner, family pragmatism, two friends, a Welch preacher, and iron rail production trends showing Bessemer steel rise since 1867 and rails’ shift from iron to steel through 1877.
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