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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1889
Page
4
A reflective excerpt from Ella Wheeler Wilcox in Independent urges timely action and charitable deeds. It frames kindness as lasting joy, urging readers to plant seeds of help for others and to speak comforting words to those bereaved. The prose blends natural imagery with moral exhortation about independence and generosity.
A narrator attends a bullfight in Spain, where the humble muleteer Sebastian seeks to win Juanita by killing a bull. Juanita, admired for beauty, watches as Sebastian, pale yet determined, faces the bull in a dramatic arena filled with color, sound, and crowd enthusiasm.
In a vivid Blackwood's Magazine scene, Sebastian fends off repeated charges by a bull, finally killing it with a single stroke. He bows to the governor, then confronts Juanita, who remains cold. She flings a rose, then confers a fatal blow, stabbing him as he exits the arena amid deafening cheers.
A survey of prominent writers and editors including Sir John Dilke Mrs Custer Frances Hodgson Burnett and Gyp. Memo mentions Margaret Oliphant M de Sante Ana Sarah J Hall Mayo W Tazletine Nicholas Ball Tolstoi and Sir Edward Arnold noting their careers ages and literary influence across Europe and America.
A gray eagle intrudes on a crow feeding ground at Fishkill and is driven off after a half hour battle. Curlews and sea gulls on the coast collect clams by dropping them on rocks, then feasting below. The tailor bird of India sews leaf nests with plant fiber and deposits cotton inside for warmth. The palm swift of Jamaica builds hanging nests from cotton and feathers, sometimes creating linked chambers with gallery-like openings.
The Philadelphia Times describes Mrs. Kennan’s Siberian curios, noting an authentic scribe of a noble icon from Nijni Novgorod, now profusely painted and gilded. It details a wooden figure with a saint’s features, a robust chest, and crude carving showing centuries of decorative influence. Russian silverware, gilding, and proverbs also adorn her table service.
A sweeping collection of brief curiosities about leaders, nobles, and prominent figures. Notes mention Lord Wolseley’s unpopularity, the Earl of Zetland’s church livings, Yale’s oldest alum, Massachusetts governors born in 1818, ex-Congressman Wilson’s granite tomb, Lord Salisbury’s detectives, and many others including Ibsen, Pauncefote, Guyot, Forbes, Mahone, and Cassius M. Clay with vivid, often humorous details.
A compilation of aphorisms on principle, adversity, patience, and humanity. Observations compare honesty, anger, and joy, with reflections on selfhood, sociable conduct, and cultural greetings from various peoples, attributed to the New York Mail and Express.
The Eiffel Tower in Paris stands at 904 feet, the Washington Monument at 565 feet, Philadelphia City Hall tower at 535 feet, Cologne Cathedral spire at 511 feet, St Stephen's Vienna at 470 feet, St Rollin chimney Glasgow at 400 feet, and Cleopatra's Needle New York at 68 feet.
A flamboyant survey of 19th century monarchs and dignitaries highlighting extravagant costs of Emperor William in Constantinople, polo rough humor about the Japanese Mikado, the Portuguese king’s prowess, German empress’s diamonds, Danish queen’s birthday, and a parade of rulers from Patagonia to Siam. notes on royal tastes, marriages, and linguistic prestige.
A collection of pithy maxims from the Atchison Globe on guilt, crowd behavior, early rising, neighborly weeds, independent living, frost, savings, gun ethics, prevention, and balance between heart and head, reflecting regional proverbs.
A San Francisco Examiner text fragment lists major historical events and figures associated with Friday. Many items mention Friday as the day of surrender birth or destruction, including Lee, Napoleon, Shakespeare, Victoria, Charles I, Fort Sumter, Assassination, and battles like Marengo Waterloo and Bunker Hill. The passage mixes dates and famous happenings with no cohesive narrative.
The report lists average thunderstorm days per year for many places including Java England Norway Cairo Sumatra Hindoostan Borneo Gold Coast Rio de Janeiro Italy West Indies South Guinea Sibaia Bavaria Belgium Holland Saxony Brandenburg Buenos Ayres Canada Austria Baden Wurtemburg Hungary France Austria South Russia Spain Portugal Sweden Finland East Turkestan and northern regions. It notes sparsity in East Turkestan and extreme north with limits at Cape Ogle North America Iceland Semelfi and the Siberian coast.
A historical summary lists various perceived causes of leprosy among Hindoo populations in the colonies and India. It cites daytime sleep, eating when not hungry, gluttony, drinking cooling water when fatigued or frightened, excessive exertion after meals, fasting Brahmins, over indulgence in new rice and curds, fish salt acids treacle and cakes, and prolonged sun exposure after meals as factors.
The square becomes a thriving business hub with twenty active sites on all sides. Four brick structures rise in three years, including Gates grocery, while Duke Bros burn area and Camp House improvements upgrade the district. North, south, and east sides host shops, printing, harness, cigar factory, blacksmith, livery, and a church used as a G A R hall.
The proprietor of Kemp's Balsam claims thousands of bottles are given away yearly as advertising. He asserts the balsam cures coughs throat and lung troubles and promises visible relief after the first dose. A trial bottle is available through all druggists in large sizes at 60 cents or one dollar.
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