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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1874
Page
1
J Leavy a florist on Main Street between Grant and Sherman offers a steady stock of redding plants bulbs roots and a variety of seeds including tomato cabbage celery and related herbs. EO Pyburn and J Percival are named in association with the listing.
A biting panorama of Butler and Tilden, their campaigns, and the Tammany Hall purge. The piece surveys Butler’s downfall and Tilden’s rise, noting Tweed’s fall and the Rochester convention as a turning point, with portraits of Kell y Morrissey and others shaping New York politics.
A bronze Lincoln statue by Larkin G. Meade was unveiled in Springfield Illinois amid ceremony. Gen Grant attended, as did Meade, whose life story features a Venice courtship and Florence civil marriage. The narrative celebrates the artist and his wife Mrs Meade and their triumph.
From the upper camp on Trap Creek the party describes spruce forests on a fractured slope, wind driven by terraces and slides, and an ascent to the Range with panoramic views of North Park, the Medicine Bow range, and distant peaks. The note adds a reflection on religion as science in a Prof. David Swing quote about the indefinable mysteries of God.
In Pors Clavigera for August, Ruskin critiques railway travel detailing Ulverstone from Coniston by rail. He laments the loss of self powered movement, notes wasted beer costs and shareholder fees, and decries the demoralization of travelers. He mocks officials carrying citizens and questions the profitability of mechanized transit.
Professor Charles Pritchard of Cambridge contends that natural selection cannot explain mental faculties. He argues humans possess longings and powers beyond mere environmental needs, implying hope for a higher future state and a fellowship with nobler spirits as a potential heir to unseen worlds.
Sylvester Keith of Hadley uncovered a bag of fifty old Spanish milled dollars buried in his corn field. The coins were uniformly aged and came with a remnant of checked linen, now lost. Keith had previously found two similar coins in the same area over the past sixteen years and eighteen. He unearthed the latest spoil after trenching across and then at right angles, five feet deep, amid a field planted for corn to avoid curious eyes. The time and manner of burial remain a mystery.
The Berlin correspondent of the Times reports Lady Dilke died in London and was buried at Dresden. Herr Siemens conducted a cremation trial in a furnace where the coffin melted in stages, leaving six pounds of dust after seventy five minutes, with the brother in law present among scientists.
The French pupil M Paraf, affiliated with the College of France, proposes using calcium chloride to attract and condense moisture from the air. He claims its application on various soils irrigates land cheaper and more efficiently than canals. He asserts moisture can be retained for days, producing two blades of grass where one grows and reviving desert-like fields.
The dean appeals to parents of sophomore and freshman students to extend the voluntary ban on hazing for two more years. Juniors and seniors have already ceased hazing, and officials hope the custom will fade from the college culture as a result.
A paradoxical scene recalls Confucius receiving a two foot rule that breaks when opened the wrong way. The Master deems it a poor rule that cannot function both directions, highlighting pragmatic limits of rigid guidelines.
A fragment attributed to Lemarfine proclaims poetry as the morning dream of great minds. The line appears as a concise, reflective thought about creativity and intellect.
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