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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1879
Page
3
Poem fragment expounding a connected world via telegraph and telephone. Images of instant global communication linking Katahdin to Caucasus and Arctic ice to the South. Emphasizes art, mind, time, space dissolving as thoughts travel. May Atlantt.
Ten years after clerks in the London post office faced low pay they formed the Civil Service Supp ly Association. Beginning with fifty pounds of tea they expanded to cash purchases at 20 to 40 percent discounts, moving to a large building worth $200000. The venture grew to millions in annual sales and sparked a Parliament petition against government employees’ trades, influencing clergy and small traders as well.
Do it at the first convenient moment when necessity arises and hazards present themselves. Do not use unsafe gear or postpone repairs, whether hay tools or harness, and keep a vigilant eye on premises. Also notes Mrs. Vinnie Ream Hoxie's pink tinted Cupid weighs twelve pounds and Nicaragua canal cost estimates around 53 million dollars with interest.
This reader’s page compiles recipes for Yorkshire Pudding Mock Lemon Pie and chicken cooking tips, plus notes on shade-loving plants and the use of borax in laundry. It also offers guidance on making tea with hard water and suggests borax as a versatile cleaner and cosmetic aid.
The article explains a Belgian artillery method to measure range by sound. Major Le Boulanger uses a two-key instrument to start and stop a clockwork timer, achieving near one twentieth of a second accuracy. This allows rapid, precise distance estimation for coast defense against enemy ships.
A Roman letter to a French journal recounts Pope Leo XIII praying over eggs with salt. An accidental spill by Sterbini on the salt cellar prompts the Pope to fear misfortune if salt had hit the floor, followed by a note of Cardinal Asquini’s death nine days later and a prediction of judgment if the salt had scattered.
In the Journal of the Anthropological Institute H L Barbey reports Sorby’s work isolating hair pigments. Hair is a colorless horn substance tinted by three or four pigments. Sulphuric acid helps separate pigments yielding red, yellow, and black components. Hair color variations reflect relative pigment mix and oxidation potential. A notably dark hair can contain as much red pigment as very red European hair, implying potential for color shifts with pigment balance.
The ancient art formed pictures with colored glass by fitting glass fibers of varied colors and fusing them into a uniform mass. Specimens from the mid 19th century show a mosaic like granular cross section and a duck image with sharp outlines and vivid colors.
The bill for the tenth U S census sets a June 1 1880 deadline and creates a census superintendent under the President. It directs the Interior Secretary to appoint state and territorial supervisors by April 1 1880, with up to 150 supervisors. Enumerators earn 2 cents per inhabitant and per death, 10 cents per farm, 15 cents per establishment. districts cap at 4000 and must not drop below 800 inhabitants per prior census.
A bearded volume argues brain work lengthens life, citing about 500 eminent figures like Pascal Mozart and Keats who died young yet the average age of 800 is over 64. The London Spectator counters, saying excessive mental toil shortens life for many, yet these individuals had robust constitutions and vitality enabling prolonged effort into old age.
The text argues that true happiness comes only to religious people and defines religion as the perfect agreement of the will with conscience, framing belief as harmony between desire and inner moral law.
A period style guide suggesting ideal windowsill plantings for all seasons. It recommends a mix of two nyarandias, dwarf nasturtium, English ivy, German ivy, heliotrope, winter blooming fuchsia, scarlet and white geraniums, mignonette, linaria cymbalaria, coliseum ivy, petunias, yellow myrtle, wandering Jew, ice plant, beefsteak geranium, and other trailing greens to create a sunlit window screen.
An admonition to caution the present generation especially young women and all readers about habitual novel reading. It condemns sensational stories that enthrall the imagination over moralizing lessons and warns that excess harms private life, conscience, and household happiness by replacing principle with sentiment.
A moral on measuring labor with thought warns Americans against haste in work and bankruptcy risk. The piece shares a humorous tale of a colored wedding and a Bay State husband threatening to destroy a gift, while his wife buys coal as a yearly present.
A man forcing his way through travelers at a hotel office demanded a room at once claiming to be the Lieutenant Governor. The clerk replied that no special treatment would be given and all applicants would be treated the same as others, with offices holding to standard procedures for all.
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