Four Thousand Communicants Reach Milestone in Talmage Sermon
Rev Dr Talmage celebrates a church record of four thousand forty five communicants and likens them to four full regiments marching to praise. He reflects on sacrifice of Christ, maternal sorrow at the cross, confessional humility, and the coming reunion with the saints beyond the Jordan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church of God
Scotland
Highlands
Christ
Loni
Church Triumphant
Church Militant
Cross
Jesus
Tiberius
Aes
John
Ingret
Mary
Bethlehem
Egypt
Atlantic
Heaven
Sio
Venry
Beecher Remembered In Profound Farewell Address
A preacher reflects on Henry Ward Beecher as a lifelong friend to the oppressed and a guide to the community. He recalls Beecher’s welcoming the new pastor, joining dedication services, and delivering words of hope. He laments Beecher’s failing health and prays for a peaceful death and family consolation.
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Henry Ward Beecher
God
Curious Clocks and Clockmakers of History
Curious clocks built by Torriano for Charles V at St. Yuste impressed monks who doubted human craft until shown. Other marvels include a Geneva clock with living figures and a Toblentz giant head that opens its brass mouth with each hour.
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Charles V
Spain
St. Yuste
Torriano
Charles
Geneva
Droz
Kauthaus
Toblentz
Coblentz
Longfellow
Poydar Science Monthlu
Perfectly Looney on Bags Recalls Prof L Agassiz
In Bangor Missouri a writer recalls a Bangor House visit by lumbermen and a bug loving academic nicknamed Perfessor. A guide spoke of a scientific party seeking fish snakes and birds with Prof L Agassiz as the walleted addressee for his well worn pocketbook.
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Bangor
Bangor House
Prof. L. Agassiz
Cambridge
Mass
Doston
Voices of Spring Birds Sing Along the Stream
Poetic sketch describes frogs and birds in a spring scene with the bull frog thrumming a bass-viol and a frogess replying in treble. A boy wounds a frog’s toe, and an ornate leader in yellow breeches dictums about Paddy. Birds chatter, chirp, and sing, creating unwritten music.
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Paddy
Bobolink
Chuck
Katy
Ben
Perley Poore
How to Tan a Sheepskin with the Wool On
Instructions describe soaking dry skin, preparing a fleshing tool from an old scythe, scraping flesh and fat, trimming edges, and making a paste of alum salt and brandy to apply to the flesh side. Skin is rolled and cured four days before unfolding and working pliability, with deer calves and furred skins preserved similarly.
Disease Among Sheep and Anthrax Fears in Flocks
An article from the New York Times warns sheep flocks are vulnerable to a contagious form of anthrax causing weakness, staggering, and death with bloody skin patches. It advises killing sick sheep, fumigating stables with burning sulfur, and moving healthy stock to new pastures, noting medicine offers no cure.
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New York Times
Rapid hog multiplication drives pork price swings
The Cultivator notes hog reproduction can surge supply when corn is abundant, as sows breed up to three times yearly and litters multiply quickly. With ample feed and mild winters, pork output could continually rise, risking gluts if hog cholera and disease in large herds are not controlled.
Sowing Garden Seeds Tips for Proper Germination
The New York World summarizes best seed sowing practices from D. M. Ferry. It covers moisture and heat needs, soil preparation, and plant depth for various seeds from turnips to peas. It warns that germination is fragile and that mistimed conditions can ruin crops.
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D. M. Ferry
Detroit
Mich
New York World
Milk as Poultry Feed Boosts Egg Production Warns Palmer
In a New York Tribune letter S M Palmer argues milk is crucial for egg output in hens. He cites better results when fowls receive milk and bone feeding, notes occasional bird deaths, and dismisses bone-fire as harmful. He urges farmers to use milk and avoid meatless diets.
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S. M. Palmer
New York Tribune
France
Farmers Keep a Drowsy, Forlorn Hen Lot This Season
Neighbors remark on a handsome brood of hens kept by a farmer. They face plenty of feed, shells, bones, milk, ashes and dust, with ample ranging space. The hens hardly damage crops, though a repeatedly ploughed field pleases them as a feast of morsels in the freshly turned earth.
Farm and Garden Notes From The Seed Desk
An average egg weighs about 1 000 grains with shell 107 white 604 and yolk 289. Fine butter costs as much as good butter to produce. Keep soil around newly planted flat trees clean and mellow six feet out. Walnuts white maples ash elms and horn elder grow quickly from seed. Persistent layers tend to have thin shelled eyes. Milk and wheat middlings mixed have been advised as a remedy.
Mean Husband Bets Wife on Milk Marches February
A Nashville Michigan note recalls a February milk challenge where a wife tried to drink a quart daily for 30 days to win a silk dress. She stops at sixteen quarts when discovering February has 28 days, and the husband brags of winning the wager.
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West Castleton
Nashville
Mich
Daughters Wives Nethers Pamphlet on Female Diseases
Free securely sealed pamphlet urged by Dr. J B Marehisi of Utica New York. An advertisement lists remedies for cold cough croup throat issues and says Kilimer’s Cough Cure provides instant relief with prices at 25c 50c and 1.00. Warns against poison in books newspapers or conversation.
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J. B. Marehisi
Utica
N.Y
Kilimer
Emulsion and tonics promise cures for coughs and debility
An assortment of 19th century health ads extoll Scor's Emulsion for throat and lung diseases with cod liver oil and Trypophosphites, plus testimonials for Dr Harter's Iron Tonic and Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription. Irregular claims include cures for tuberculous and scrofulous affections, nervous debility, and general weakness. The notice also promotes Sage's Cattarhs Remedy and a World’s-Wide Medical Association book offer.
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Scott
W. Rh. S. Convent
M. D
Manchester
Be not simply good but be good for something
Hallett & Co. of Portland Maine ad offers work available to all ages and sexes with profits from $5 to $25 per day while living at home. No capital required and immediate start promised. Also a health tip for toothache and a testimonial claim for Piso’s Cure for Consumption.
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Hallett & Co
Portland
Maine
Hoo
Hood
Mas. c. F. Lono
Dover
C.L Hood & CO
Apothecaries
Lowell
Mass
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