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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1879
Page
8
A collage of brief notes spans finance, science, travel, and culture. Philadelphia city debt stands at 71 885 101 dollars while various global curiosities include Berlin institutes, Russian orders, and European theatre quips.
The text lists tests for milk purity and recipes for Scotland Neck Cheese Cake and Centennial Brown Bread. It also details asthma remedies including smoke inhalations from plant leaves, onion cures for nerves and kidney issues, a chestnut leaf tea, and a salt-brandy drink to prevent asthma attacks.
A French inventor La Mothe proposes revolutionary railway cars for passengers and freight. Barnum undertakes introduction in the United States. The design uses boiler tubes for sills and transoms, steel rods, and a wood floor, claimed to weigh about 60 percent of a standard car and carry twenty tons without welding or mortise joints.
A Luzerne Leader essay notes that dating wisdom is often reversed by expectations. It claims once a woman favors majestic men or a man seeks a strong-minded partner, reality will produce the opposite. The piece humorously predicts marriages based on conflicting declarations, exposing social biases in courtship.
A dancing girl in simple Indian attire performs an egg dance with a wicker wheel. Eggs are threaded into knots as she spins, forming a horizontal aureola around her head. She retrieves them with a precise move, then breaks the eggs to prove no trickery.
The text urges cultivating a happy home to shape character, especially in youths. It warns parents to study and guard children, curb desires, and foster love, confidence, and harmony. It links home joy to personal virtue, family responsibility, and lasting influence of a mother's tenderness.
A meditation on how fame wanes as men age and wealth dulls their drive. Also a note on Algeria where the French pay rewards for wildlife, detailing lion, panther, hyena, and jackal counts by province and historic payout data.
Report says two boys uncovered four sapphires weighing two pounds in Ceylon, valued at about $50,000, possibly the largest sapphire ever found.Ancients revered sapphires for cooling fire and moral influences and used them in ceremonial rings.
A smoker avoiding a disturbed lady prompts a countryman swap to quieter carriage. The piece then attacks Chinese migrants as a global menace, claiming they flock to colonies, undersell labor, and seize jobs from whites in New Zealand, New South Wales, and beyond.
The Chicago Tribune notes an annual report showing 21,000 Negroes colonized in Siberia, suggesting they will have a chance to hunt walruses there, in a biting, satirical take on immigration policy.
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