14 Nov 1877
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1877
Page
1
The Family Circle celebrates Mr William Ewing on his eighty seventh birthday with a devotional verse recounting gratitude for health, family, and friends. The speaker reflects on aging, honest toil, and the blessing of God in providing strength for labor from driving a barrel hoop to ploughing sod.
Poem recalling a mother’s fatigue and devotion. The voice contrasts worn patience with the joy of motherhood and laments a child lost, urging gratitude for small blessings while acknowledging grief and longing.
In 1874 the narrator records a quiet moment in the schoolhouse dreaming of Dick Colyer who left in 1867. She recalls their first meeting near Thornton Close, his sailor life, a shared romance, and a vow-filled memory of a letter from a ship captain about a voyage and a possible return.
Jenny narrates a long withheld confession and reunion with Dick Colyer after Arthur Colyer dies. Dick returns after seven years, reveals he and Arthur loved Jenny, and she declares she never loved Arthur. Dick and Jenny vow a future together as they visit Arthur’s grave and plan their life beyond the grave.
A Victorian dinner scene unfolds with snappy exchanges between a sergeant, author Warren, and a lawyer over moral duties of physicians and lawyers. Jokes about missteps, angels, and bankers highlight rivalries between professions, ending with a quip about judging a judge.
The Journal de Saint Petersburg describes preserved horse feed made from pounded oats gray pea flour hemp seed oil and salt. Thick four inch cakes with holes soak in water and dry on wires. four pounds equate to ten pounds of oats. horses eat well dry or soaked and maintain strength when heavily worked, useful for travellers with limited oats.
The great comedian Baron of Moliere's era was known off stage for sudden absent mindedness. One day in a hurry to reach the theater he hired a sedan chair, left when the chairbearers slowed, and mounted the empty chair to march onward. Only upon arrival did he realize the absurdity of his feat.
A Louisville preacher sermons on the fall of man and describes Adam and Eve recognizing their nakedness and sewing fig leaf aprons. The crowd smiles, though he claims no pun was intended.
The brush turkey family in Australia has a remarkable domestic economy. The mother avoids incubation and the old birds build a huge heap of leaves and debris as a natural heat source. Eggs hatch in a warm mound, and the young emerge ready to run and perch, with the mother guiding the family amid drought conditions that favor open roaming for sustenance.
A rapid penman writes thirty words per minute and drags the quill sixteen feet and a half across space. In forty minutes the pen covers a furlong and in five hours and a third a mile. On average sixteen curves per word, totaling 438 strokes per second, 28,800 per hour, 144,000 per five hour day, and 48,200,000 per year. Each alphabet letter requires three to seven strokes, about three and a half on average.
A Nashuan who wanders in back districts with a fish-rod asserts a reason farming lacks profit. Flo, living beyond the state line, recalls a hog that eats all the swill, leaving no incentive to cull and raise other hogs. The Telegraph notes the explanation rests with the hog’s consumption.
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