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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1871
Page
3
Miscellany presents a plaintive hymn-like poem about a beloved Mary, evoking Burns in tone. The narrator recalls Mary as a lassie and later a faded but dear face, noting how wrinkles earn the affection once given to roses. The piece reflects on aging, memory, and churchyard paths.
A lyric reminiscence describes an ivied cottage hidden by trees and a maiden with blue eyes. The speaker recalls walking past at sunset, admiring her artless beauty and chastened charm, while confessing love that cannot be fulfilled.
An 19th century reflection on how press diffusion debunks sorcery and alchemy while exposing modern delusions such as omens dreams and superstitions. It notes the sway of dream books and the tendency to trust hearsay over independent evidence and reasoning.
A collage of jokes and anecdotes from Jim Fisk to roguish bedpost humor. A doctor boasts of eight days in the country while a nurse trades news with a punchline. A Punch cartoon prompts the publican to eject painters who mocked the king and country with E Pluribus Num.
The piece urges parents to channel boys leisure into practical trades such as carpentry turning and blacksmithing. It argues hands on tools build mind and character, prevent idleness, and may foster future innovators like Watt and Morse. It also discusses the broader value of empirical learning over bookish study.
The article surveys popular misunderstandings about law, crime, dogs, hydrophobia, graves, hanging, and corpses, noting how aphorisms and fiction spread false notions. It cites bigamy myths, Bulwer, and how novels shape beliefs about Indians, while warning that facts often diverge from imagined truths.
The text explains cave formation by flowing water eroding limestone through joints and fissures as streams deepen channels. Rainwater dissolves calcium carbonate via atmospheric carbonic acid, gradually attacking the rock and enlarging passages.
The Arctic fleet loss devastates whaling interests led by New Bedford owners. With 33 ships wrecked and 13,665 barrels of whale oil plus 965 barrels sperm oil lost, prices surge. Whale oil jumps to $1.00 a gallon in Boston, while sperm oil climbs. overall stockpiles shrink and market uncertainty spreads as insurers assess the disaster.
A traveler recalls a tall elderly couple in a dim town who ruled a parlor and two bedrooms. The man and wife, always appearing together to serve, seemed united in action with the wife mostly silent save for brief notes. They escorted the narrator to his room, the wife bearing a candle and the husband at the door.
The narrator admires a deaf old woman and her husband who is blind, noting their deep companionship. He marvels at how they understand and support each other, sharing senses and life, and hopes they remain inseparable in life and death.
A collection of scattered items notes varied topics from Philadelphia barbers and Ohio farm values to Edwin Booth Hamlet counts, a large Chicago coin loss, eclipse visibility, and European prisoner language remarks. It mentions soups for the poor in Philadelphia, bridal weight fees in Council Bluffs, and a Philadelphia inventor drilling hard substances with a steam jet. It ends with a teaser about a future Moscow World's Fair.
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