04 Sep 1878
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1878
Page
1
A verse dialogue about delaying marriage with playful insistence on naming a wedding day in May or June. The speaker coyly presses for a date as roses bloom, clover blossoms, and birds sing, while the beloved resists and teases about June.
Harry Vane escorts Aunt Polly from the depot amid snubs and laughter. Polly’s sharp tongue and comic carriage reveal her as catalyst in a tale of marriage plans, young Marian Lee, and bustling city life as Harry muses on a proposal’s fate.
In a playful scene Marian reveals Alice is her niece via a family ruse to test Ally's honesty about Marian's presence. Ally admits no fib, Marian clarifies, and the group reacts with laughter. Alice notes the outcome as Harry laughs at becoming Aunt Polly and the uncle to Alice’s brother.
An observer describes Constantinople dogs as a lawless, collared, nameless, houseless republic living in quarters of the city. They police their own turf, fight intruders, and endure injuries while the Turkish people tolerate their presence and affection.
During an Eastern city run of Uncle Tom the family of Eva in the Philadelphia Press account faced a missing younger brother who wandered away and was later found. The dramatic revelation prompted a moving finale as Eva’s speech and vision of a lost brother brought the audience to tears.
An old remark from the Indianapolis Rolling Mill era laments that Americans lack practical skills. A young job seeker is told Americans do not know how to work, unlike Germans or Irish who understand labor. The piece urges starting to learn a trade at once and cites Scientific American advising practical pursuit.
A Stillwater couple strolling on Third Street under moonlight narrowly avoid a cow after a playful moment between them. The scene, described in lighthearted terms, includes mentions of a lopeared mule for 27 dollars and a second-hand cook stove for 3 dollars. The couple, unaware of the cow, drift past as their boots and gaiters peripherally hover over the animal’s back. The cow departs as the pair retreats into dreams of the future.
English surgeons have pursued scarless removal of port wine birthmarks on the right face. The method uses parallel incisions through the full skin thickness with a frozen scalpel and additional oblique cuts as healing proceeds. Success reported as marks fade without scarring. sixteen parallel-blade instruments now simplify the procedure.
A Watertown youth aged himself to two young women. An irate father ordered him to marry one immediately under threat of being shot. The groom left to get shaved then boarded a train to New York, narrowly avoiding the arranged wedding.
An English Liverpool dealer was prosecuted for selling oleomargarine as butter. The sample tested by the borough analyst was clean and wholesome and a good substitute, but the court found the seller violated the law by using the wrong name. He was fined a small amount and ordered to pay costs.
At the end of his life Lord North, blind in Bath, met Colonel Barre, also blind and once his rival in Parliament. He said, You and I have often been at variance, but I believe there are no people in the world who would be more glad to see each other.
The passage notes water makes three-fourths of living tissue and covers much of Earth. It recounts Professor Chawssin drying a man's body to twelve pounds, and estimates daily water loss: breath about one and three-fourths pints, skin about one and three-fourths pints, kidneys two and three-fourths pounds, totaling roughly five and a half pounds.
A Boston physician reports milkweed juice can purpurate wounds with healing in twenty four to thirty six hours. He emphasizes drying the surface thoroughly with blotting paper before application and covering with blotting paper during healing.
A man asks about a young lady known to him. The responder says she is dead, and the inquirer asks for her disease. The reply bluntly labels vanity as the cause, saying she buried herself with an elderly man of seventy and fortune to gain gilded satisfaction.
A gentleman farmer asks if anything can make grain grow quickly. The old husbandman replies, essentially no, except crows, and the farmer then asks where to obtain some.
A playful notion claims Thomas Edison's latest invention, the tasimeter, could measure pressure and be worn by young ladies at the waist as a humorous safeguard in breach of promise suits.
A long, lurid tale from a church picnic recounts Deacon Smith and Mrs Champlin engaging in a forfeits game that leads to kissings, marriage rumors, jealousy, murder accusations, arsenic claims, a post mortem, and a courtroom defense involving homoeopathy. The piece ends asserting murder lay in the forfeits game while noting the court acquitted all.
The North American argues that vast internal growth from 1863 to 1878 came from leading corporate and manufacturing groups acting on profit calculations. It warns that after the recent depression railroads and banks suffered, and the land of enterprise was paralyzed. To restore momentum domestic interests must resume vigor, as European capital watches. The piece asserts America once offered a virgin field for development and domestic capital, if active, can rival foreign investment.
The Hartford Times notes a mass migration toward homesteads in the West as thousands rush to secure public lands. Settlements are expected to nearly double from last year, keeping land offices busy, while the nation still has ample land despite corporate absorption.
The Paris Exposition report notes American progress in book printing and press construction. It highlights stereotype and type casting advances, cylindrical presses for newspapers, and automatic type casting. It credits the United States with paying its debt to Britain through innovations and cites close American German exchange of matrices for manuscript and job printing.
A list of social faults shows boisterous laughter reading when others talk talking in reading conversation etiquette cutting nails in company gazing at strangers and leaving a seat improper behavior at church and in worship. It cites disrespect for elders correcting parents and lack of gratitude and poor listening plus speaking out of turn and laughing at others errors.
A satirical verse extols the penniless man who avoids salesmen, debt, and social obligations. He lives simply, eats frugally, and shelters in a bar room, snuffing whiskey and feasting on fish and chowder while cities and taxes pass him by. The poem contrasts wealth with selfish appetite and lists foods and vices as hallmarks of poverty.
A French scientific journal reports a curious phenomenon at Vernon France where five or six years after a lightning strike created a deep circular hole eight yards across the surrounding area died. The circle has grown yearly to eight yards, killing a cherry tree planted twelve years ago and binding anew gooseberry bushes to sterile fate. Possible soil chemical changes or humus burn are suggested, urging scientists to investigate.
A young boy visiting a neighbor learned that their hens had not been kept long enough to catch chicken pox. The woman asked if they had chicken pox at his home, and the boy replied gravely that they had not yet had their hens long enough.
A weary husband sinks onto a sofa exclaiming business drains him while his wife offers rest and a little pillow. Their four year old daughter quips about having seen the hired girl being carried about the kitchen. The scene unfolds with simple domestic humor and portraits of everyday fatigue.
Miss Kate Sanborn muses on genius and bachelorhood, arguing that genius equals practical common sense. Her quip suggests that traditional marriage may clash with the habits and focus typical of highly gifted men, lightly poking at societal expectations.
Dr Noah Porter of Connecticut discusses educational change since 1799 in a letter. He recalls Yale admissions then and laments scanty books and poor teachers, noting students were kept hard at work reciting vast geography volumes and memorizing grammars.
An old fashioned scene shows a man calling himself Squire Jones settling a marriage fee of two dollars. A youth lists gambling ideas and household costs, promising to adjust the payment by subtracting two dollars for dishes to cover the balance. The exchange ends with the couple to be wed soon and plans of domestic life.
Fragments describe a stranger claiming communist protection, a child’s grace role, statistics on equine births and army horse numbers, discarded food in a Bangor tale, adoption of tramways in Europe, lawyer stock quips, maxims, military humor, editorial work by Mrs. Holbrook, a brandy dosage tale, postage stamp scents, a sleeping foot, Rome’s churches, Grant’s return, tobacco reform, a sulphur lake, evangeli pricing, cremation societies, and Texas mileage.
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