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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1877
Page
2
Short memoranda on playing Whist focusing on leading strategy and cooperation with a partner. Emphasizes leading from the longest suit, signaling via plays, prudent trump handling, and when to discard or force opponents. Notes for second hand play and avoiding weak signals while preserving strong cards.
A tale set in a hotel where Laura Steele falls for a pale, blue-blooded stranger, Stuyvesant. John Waters, a trusted clerk and celebrated rescuer from a seaside incident, saves Stuyvesant from drowning. Laura admires John, while Archibald Steele probes the past and contemplates a future with John as the hero. California later becomes the man of arms turned private businessman.
A sequence of playful stanzas from John Adams verses printed in St Nicholas for November. The poem traces stages of a girl’s childhood from infancy to graduation and adolescence showing toys, clothes, schooling, and growing independence across verses titled II through VI and VII.
A Land and Water correspondent reports a Russian remedy for hydrophobia from Saraton. In spring, locals collect rose beetle larvae from wood ant nests, watch metamorphosis, kill beetles, and dry them. Powdered beetles are dosed after a bite: three for adults, one for children, five for advanced cases. The remedy aims to induce a long sleep. bite treatment includes surgery. Some Russians give dogs half a beetle as prevention.
Daniel Webster hosted western lawyers after Tyler became president. Among guests were Stanberry, former Attorney General, and a bashful Leonard who toppled a gilt satin chair. Webster hoisted him, quipped that no cabinet work will hold together here, prompting laughter and a lesson on satin chairs.
A discussion on elevators notes the effort of stair climbing. A 160 pound man ascending sixteen steps with eight inch rise in twenty seconds lifts 1,020 pounds a foot high. Climbing fifty-two feet to the fourth floor in ninety seconds equates to 8,300 pounds per foot high. In minute terms this is 6,633 pounds per foot high per minute, about one sixth horsepower.
A rheumatic old gentleman scolds his son for leaving the front door ajar. The son replies with a pun and a question about how often to leave it open. The father is unable to respond, overwhelmed by the exchange.
Richard Hanks, a coal miner living near Galesburg Illinois, is said to have dug out a petrified mastodon carcass from fifty feet below the surface. The find measures sixteen feet in length and nine feet in height and is described as nearly complete.
A review contrasts Grant’s White House access with President Hayes, noting few senators or representatives visit now. Cabinet members defend Hayes, urging GOP unity, civil service reform, and restraint from old spoils practices to preserve the party. The piece portrays Hayes as calm and optimistic, while some Republicans blame him for party weakness.
A timid man visits a young woman who offers marriage but cites poverty and duties. He fears being late for a friend, exits in a hurry through a cupboard door. She clarifies she only wanted him to accompany her to Main Street, prompting his relieved agreement.
Two fish workers claim ownership of a donkey and sue for eviction in Weatmin county court. After a lunch adjournment the defendant concedes the donkey is theirs, but a bizarre exchange leads to a comic turn as the judge’s appearance changes. The quarrel ends with a yard tie and the donkey emerging as the unlikely victor.
A correspondent shares a quirky cure for sleeplessness: compose yourself on the bed after saying the Le Prayer, close your eyes, watch a flock of sheep pass a via fence, and the bleating and frisking will ease you into slumber naturally. The writer notes a thirty year family origin.
During a city strike in Albany Coroner Fitzhenry stood guard at the western end of an upper railroad bridge. An intruder attempted to pass the guard and was halted after a tense exchange. The coroner warned he would shoot and declared his duty to protect the bridge, while the man pressed political taunts about past votes. The constituent withdrew.
Secretary Thompson recalls jokes about his Navy appointment as his wife once laughed at the idea she would have a Secretary of the Navy. She said swimming is his strength and joked she could swim better, reflecting on public reaction to the nomination.
A London case shows a clever Scotland Yard inquiry ends with the detective resigning. He had sought a young girl said to inherit a quarter million. After six weeks he claims to have found her in a dressmaker's shop and reveals he married her yesterday, drawing on the fortune from today.
The passage questions when a child should form opinions and be allowed discretion. It contrasts a gardener showing a garden and calling it real yet weeded, arguing prejudice the soil toward ripe strawberries due to lack of discretion and choice.
A visitor recounts a coarse scene in Northampton where a judge replies to a prisoner asking about his fate with a blank, revealing a harsh, improvised system. The exchange underscores alleged deficiencies in local legal procedure during the period.
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