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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1893
Page
3
A collection of uncanny anecdotes from the late 19th century includes a Bordeaux bishop watching a seminarian compose nocturnal sermons while sleepwalking and correcting his own writing. Other items recount a Cincinnati cabinetmaker’s dramatic failed suicide, a giant toad hidden in a sawed log, a Washington miner’s gold claim purchase, and curious animal tales from Oregon, California, and Michigan.
A children’s verse from the St. Louis Republic recounts a toy raft voyage by two dolls. The wind shifts and the dolls fall into the water, but rescuers bring them ashore as the children lament their loss and sing Yo-ho.
Instructions describe building a four foot kite with a hickory frame. Cross-bar set one foot from end, bow three feet long, cords around frame, captive string attached at bow joint and to the stick, tissue paper covering, and balancing to fly. Includes step by step cord setup and balancing tips.
The hydrographic office publishes monthly weather and storm signal charts for U S coast mariners. Branch offices in Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Savannah New Orleans San Francisco and Portland provide free pilot charts and corrections. Special deliveries reach fast steamers from New York and Boston, with officers praising the value of this service in improving safe voyages.
A narrator describes a Javanese bed in Batavia with mosquito curtains and minimal bedding. He initially questions its adequacy but after nights in the hot coast towns grows to appreciate sleeping with only a bolster and pillows, learning to endure the steam and heat while valuing the bed’s simplicity.
Naturalists note birds devise ingenious concealment and evasion tactics for nesting. Skylarks transport offspring to safety, partridges move nests before plough passes, warblers hide in fern banks, and magpies shield nests with thorn barriers and hidden exits.
A boy plants a tiny tree behind the yard gate and tends it with care. After initial struggle the sapling thrives in a sunny spot and blooms with morning glories. A playful kitten disrupts the flowers, but the tree soon yields fruit like bananas and oranges, delighting Tommy and his family.
The report details the 21st Ohio firing 43 500 rounds during the battle, its heavy casualties with officers and men killed captured, and argues the two armies were evenly matched in size. It notes Rosecrans losses over 16 000 and Bragg’s heavy casualties amid attempts to drive Thomas from Horseshoe Ridge, and ends with fashion advice about mourning veils.
In a Detroit Free Press piece a wounded soldier, believed dead, lies on the field under a starry night. He awakens with a vision of home, dreaming of Ben, Nan, and the baby, learning his family remains. Lanterns come for him as a cold reality of his duties and his orphans.
The Chicago Herald recalls an 1860s episode where Bismarck, off duty as a cavalry officer, dived into a lake to save his groom Hildebrand after a horse lost footing on a bridge. He saved the man despite being pulled under, earning the local town’s praise and the Prussia safety medal.
A New Orleans Times-Democrat report describes a mint weighment error where a supervisor rejected two dimes from a 5000 coin batch for being sixteen one-hundredths of a grain light. The discovery led to reweighing the entire lot and notification to Washington.
The piece lists the first issue years of papers in each colony, noting Massachusetts 1704 and Delaware 1701 among others. It also states that by 1775 the colonies had 37 newspapers with a total weekly circulation under 4,000 copies.
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