31 Mar 1880
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1880
Page
1
A reflective verse describing a morning scene with nature’s beauty and a wait for Brindle Spottie and Bess. The speaker battles a melancholy mood, longs for freedom yet accepts humble things as the day breaks with roses bees and birds. The poem closes on a quiet resolve.
The life of the Countess de Montijo unfolds from a Scottish merchant family to Spanish grandeur. Eugenie, her daughter, becomes Empress of the French after a pivotal Parisian salon rise and a decisive marriage to Louis Napoleon. The Countess, famed for beauty, navigates exile and triumph, shaping her family’s ascent through Madrid and Paris society.
A Saturday Review portrait of Berlin’s Rathskeller underground venues. King William once toasted the crowd from a silver flagon as vaulted cellars host over a thousand drinkers daily. Nested halls and arches funnel to a circular main room with aisles for beer, food, and artful frescoes.
Lime in agriculture improves crops on various soils, aiding potatoes on deep clays, preserving stored tubers, and increasing fertility when applied to cut stems. It reduces weed growth, neutralizes soil acids, and enhances nutrient availability. It also harms certain pests while boosting grasses and aiding decomposition of organic matter.
A New England Farmer correspondent urges liberal feeding of old orchards with substantial manure, ashes, phosphate, and compost. He argues exhausted soils starve apple trees as surely as crops, and proper fertilization plus pruning can rejuvenate orchards and yield larger crops year after year.
The Troy Times recalls a deacon with a parrot raised on prayer language nicknamed Pious Poll. On a rainy night the man struck his corn on a stone and swore softly. At a gathering Poll led the prayer with a croaked warning, "that stone," highlighting the bird's surprising memory.
John Adams records a Sunday 1763 tale from Dr Putnam with Colonel Putnam and others. An Indian visits a tavern for a dram, pays two coppers, later three, arguing prices of rum and hay. Landlord quips prices reflect costs. Adams calls it wit satire and humor aboard a leaky ship.
Gideon Condy a laborer on the coast line discussed taking a second wife with his legal spouse. The wife threatened self harm with a hatchet before agreeing to remain. The tale ends with the husband fearing the heavenly polygamy notion and a furious wife.
The long awaited trial of the Italian ironclad Duilio ends with a success. Costing over $4,000,000 with a companion ship, the vessel is praised for achieving fourteen knots at partial power, signaling potential for fifteen knots. Armament includes 400 ton guns and a dozen smaller pieces, though maintenance costs are very high due to coal usage and powder weight.
English papers report a ruling on contracts made by postal communication. Mr Grant applied for shares in 1874. acceptance letter posted but never received. In 1877 calls for shares were issued and paid resisted, yet court upheld the contract as concluded on posting. Court of Appeal affirmed, treating the Post Office as agent for both parties.
In France there are 1,700 women engaged in literary pursuits and 2,150 who live by the fine arts. Two thirds of the writers come from provinces, mainly the south, while most artists hail from Paris. Among the writers 1,000 pen novels or stories for youth, 200 are poets, 150 focus on education and science, with others as compilers and translators. Artists include 107 sculptors, 602 oil painters, 193 miniaturists, 754 porcelain painters, and 494 who draw, engrave, or work with watercolors and related crafts.
An analysis by Stephen D. Peet contrasts Europe and America in the order of prehistoric periods. In Europe the sequence moves from cave dwellers to fishermen, earth builders, palatial inhabitants, and finally Etruscans, while in America the sequence reverses with early civilizations giving way to later, more rudimentary peoples. The piece notes Esquimaux and other groups as successors or predecessors in shifting cultural hierarchies.
A Danbury man plans to travel the state kicking trees and aiming to kick over his own height to earn money. He hopes for considerable earnings from performing across towns and entertaining local crowds.
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