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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1879
Page
8
A garbled column surveys diverse topics from social manners, fashion, and humor to politics and industry. It mentions Manchester’s seaport project, English orators, schoolroom quips, and a Canadian trade note, weaving eccentric anecdotes and scattered quotes into a noisy collage of late 19th century public discourse.
Col F D Curtis reports a suburban butcher sold only one sheep and kept it for a month before eating it with his family. He contrasts this with large beef and pork sales, notes consumer preference for beef, and argues Americans dislike mutton, despite it being wholesome and versatile like corned or salted meat.
The piece extols mothers as central hosts in English households, noting their ceremonial role, table presence, and evening leadership. It argues maternal authority blends with daughters’ youthful charm, creating a picture of uniform paternal authority paired with intimate family freedom.
A compact portrait of the Nile as Earth's oldest sustained waterway. The river’s bed sits above the surrounding land, acting as a savings bank for four thousand years. It travels twelve hundred miles with steady flow, no tributaries, nourished by canals and gardens, delivering Egyptian wealth.
A Stark County farmer cited by the Akron Argus reports fodder corn experiments showing one acre yielding five tons of dried fodder, equal to three or four acres of hay. Seeded in June at two bushels per acre with no cultivation, stalks were cut in early September and bound in sheaves to dry in the field. The fodder cannot be housed but is stored in the field for later use, claimed to be a superior forage crop.
A Janimica Plain sexton who bought communion wine for his church also purchased whisky. The two demijohns were mixed and on the next Sunday parishioners received whisky instead of wine, with several sisters seriously choking from the strong liquor.
A compact survey notes August as a month of major dates: Columbus’s voyage in 1402, Carter’s overland march in 17xx, revolts and battles across centuries, from De Montfort’s revolt in 1265 to Vionville Gravelotte in 1870, with highlights including Crecy 1346, Napoleon before Dresden in 1613, Gustavus Adolphus 1631, Hood’s retreat in 1864, Wallace’s execution, and Scott’s Mexican victories at Cherubusco and San Antonio.
A compact method for making skeleton leaves is described using washing soda and quicklime in boiling water to soften the leaf tissue. After boiling, the flesh is rubbed away under cold water to expose the skeleton, then bleached lightly with chloride of lime and dried under gentle pressure. Simple leaves such as vine, poplar, beech, and ivy are recommended for beginners.
A Chicago Tribune correspondent promotes tar water as a cheap method to kill Colorado potato beetles and other pests, claiming a farmer’s success with tar spray. A Missouri farmer cites dogs consuming hog feed and boosting pork value, arguing public school funding would exceed pork value. The piece notes Arnold’s house and a hidden stair in his former New Haven dwelling.
Dr Attilio Lelli received a large dose of strychnine and was treated without fatal outcome. The antidote proved effective in preventing the poisonous effects and reduced the violence of the toxin's action.
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