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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1873
Page
8
An agriculture note describes trials at a Model Farm with pigsties built on brick pillars and loose earthen floors. It reports testing asphalt floors, then returning to earth floors after good results with a bedding system using straw and ashes. Pigs showed cleaner habits and better care, enhancing bacon quality and market value.
In hot months horses toil and collapse from extreme heat. Symptoms include dullness, dry mouth, lack of perspiration, weakness, cold skin, and shallow breathing. Immediate cooling and stimulants are advised. The piece warns of losses from poor rough feed and late corn harvest impacting farmers.
An account recalls Louis Agassiz and his pupils bowing their heads in a solemn silent prayer at the opening of the Anderséh School of Natural History, framed as a sanctifying moment for the study of nature and a vision of a new era. The piece also reflects on faith and works, plain prayers, and moral exhortations from religious figures.
Prayer is described as more than a request it is a dialogue with God. It expresses desire to purify purpose steady hope and brighten heart like sunshine. It likens prayer to bringing the heart into light so inner life may thrive into outward growth.
The 1869 plan to connect Dover and Calais by a submarine railway surfaces again, now under the French Republic. An international committee led by Lord Grosvenor previously studied feasibility, with a chalk bed 800 feet thick to bore through. A stock company seeks exclusive rights, expects year to perforate and three to four more years to widen, while rejecting subsidies. General Baker orders a grand pension roll covering all acts of Congress from the start to present time, with alphabetic names and service details, to be completed in about two years.
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