26 Aug 1852
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Newspaper
Huntingdon Journal
Location
Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1852
Page
1
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The poem protests impious mockery of bereavement by fashion and art guiding sorrow. It condemns secularizing religion and the notion that rites can be worldly and vanity dressed as piety. The piece laments hollow worship that bends to social display and false sanctity.
The verse questions judging a man by attire, arguing paupers can hold royal potential while outward riches fail to reveal inner substance. It emphasizes divine value of souls over clothes, noting genuine beauty and wisdom lie beyond appearance and status.
A reflective critique lists vices from thin footwear in rain to overeating and late hours, urging temperance in attire, meals, and pleasures. It warns against haste in marriage, poor health choices, and neglect of spiritual growth through scriptures, stressing humility and prayer as paths to true knowledge.
A reflective essay extols calmness and self-possession as essential virtues. It contrasts the fretful, impulsive with the steady, systematic, and upright, recounting a monetary case where lack of courage led to panic and near ruin, and urging readers to confront difficulties early and act with integrity. It emphasizes discipline, punctuality, and moral strength as keys to success and contentment.
A humorous portrait of a widower who longs for companionship and plans to remarry. He frets over social polish and attire, assists young women in church, scorns public exits with his children, and dreams of reconfiguring home life including reuniting with a late wife’s memory while pursuing a new match for his eldest daughter.
The piece surveys historical views on mourning colors from various cultures. It notes differing associations with black white blue violet gray and brown, including China Siam Japan Castile Persia Lycia and Peru, and mentions beliefs about souls after death and mourning customs.
A Troy Young Men's Association talk defines a fop as an outside philosopher. The speaker mocks outward show with costume and accessories, calling fops nervous, fond of tailor bills, and driven by externals. He notes their usefulness and the idea that without tadpoles there would be no frogs.
An English paper recounts Captain McKinnon of the British Navy praising American inventors. He cites grain elevators, hog lard gas, a zinc paint, a sewing lever, and a milking machine as examples of Yankee ingenuity, noting how Americans reward inventors and excel in innovation across diverse fields.
A late London letter cites authority that in 51 Europe had 2,775,833 regular soldiers plus volunteers and guards totaling about 3,000,000 among 227,403,000 people. It notes a 150,000 seamen across 2,763 vessels and 44,105 guns, claiming Europe never appeared so belligerent since the peace movement began.
Florida specimens labeled Preserved mosquitoes from Florida are cited in a Jacksonville Journal of Commerce tale about mosquitoes biting a Yankee hiding in an old boiler. The man allegedly sealed the bills inside the boiler, prompting the boiler to rise as the mosquitoes fled toward the Okefenokee swamp. No further proof remains beyond the boiler, with the final link expected.
A cluttered excerpt mixes a German lecture on mechanics with stories of a self possessed youth in an eastern village. Jokes touch Irish roads to England, temperance, clean streets, a startled mother and the gag Angelina Arrabella who faints over Gen. Pierced. A Transcript note hails Dr. Lyman Beecher as a father of many brains.
A New York Dutch TM column recalls the enduring reach of a mother's teaching as it quotes a childhood prayer. The piece contrasts moral influence with the temptations of politics business philosophy, asserting nothing can erase the early plea Now I lay me down to sleep that a patient mother taught a child's lisping innocence.
A Victorian-style moral urges little girls to speak kindly, help peers, avoid scolding or contention, and extend sympathy to those in trouble. It likens virtue to priceless stones carried as one passes through life and urges spreading sunshine and joy to become beloved.
A comic classroom scene shows Joseph misplacing Africa in the eastern continent while claiming its people live down South. Thomas mistakes the equator as an astronomer’s imaginary pole. William Stiggs likens an eclipse to a race horse. Jack offers a moon and sun clash explanation as the class is dismissed.
A historic geology snippet claims earth heats with depth, noting thirty feet to a rise in heat, fifty feet per degree, and eighty eight degrees at Cornwall’s thousand two hundred feet. It speculates extreme heat would melt rocks miles below and compares molten basements to a seething globe.
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