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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1887
Page
2
A poem by Robert Burns Wilson in The Century contrasts youth's fleeting fame with the search for rest. It speaks of striving, battle, love, sorrow, and the grave as the shadowed world fades, ending with the refrain I shall find rest a little further on.
An anecdote told by Carl Zerrahn recalls Mendelssohn directing a Schwerin festival in 1842 or 1843 with 26 violins and 500 chorus voices. He supposedly detected an F sharp misprint, while a later violinist claimed the F sharp was written in lead pencil, suggesting a light intrigue rather than Mendelssohn’s ear alone.
A Chicago Journal anecdote recounts a ticket agent describing a man who bought a ten ride family suburban ticket and asked seven rides punched. The man claimed a wife given ticket had four rides, one used, another lost, so he bought a new ticket with the same number of rides.
Public Opinion tabulates average population per square kilometer by continent and lists European countries with ranks and figures. Saxony leads with 212, followed by Belgium 198 and Holland 151, then Britain and Ireland 110 and Italy 104. Other entries include Germany 7 and France 72, Spain 84, Sweden 10, Norway 6.
The article explains ozone as a denser form of oxygen with a specific gravity around 24, likely consisting of three oxygen atoms per molecule. It notes ozone’s instability, heat evolution, explosive decomposition, and strong irritant, with powerful effects on oxidizable substances in concentrated form. London Lascet.
Special correspondence from Rome recounts a tourist party's lively guide Hector and a misfit history lesson on the Coliseum. The narrator contrasts high art with crude humor, disdains ruins, and notes Rome's closed churches and mixed views on Italian beauty and American stereotypes.
Special Correspondence from New York outlines Olive Harper the prolific author and editor. Born in Wyoming valley she became a widow at 15 with three children, wrote for Harper's and The Oakland Daily News, traveled across the U S and Europe, and gained fame for a poem Cleopatra and several novels. She built a storied career while living with a lifelong limp.
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