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Newspaper
Indiana Democrat
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1902
Page
6
A fragmentary piece by James Leasell Lowell in German titled Auf Wiedersehen. It contrasts German farewell with English farewells, depicting a girl in a lilac lane saying goodbye with wistful emotion as she gazes back and he lingers, evoking lingering memories and farewell sentiment.
I recount a July August 1898 voyage in a Connecticut shore town near New Haven. A night paddling Long Island Sound ends with fog, towing barges, and a perilous cable rescue by bargemen who hauled me aboard. The Grand Canyon dimensions and English surgical insurance themes follow in brief notes.
The anecdote pairs Eliot translating a Bible line into Indian tongue and a teacher asking students to define bovine. Indians supply a word for lattice, revealing how misinterpretations arise. A school lesson on bovine ends with a student shouting water as the animal behind meat, shoes, and straps.
The piece recalls a legend that denying a finger bowl at meals signaled entry to royal circles. It ties the superstition to Jacobite use of finger bowls to imply “the king over the water,” while noting later followers of James I avoided drinking water and that finger bowls were unnecessary due to large vessels.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports Adjutant General Corbin, while still in his honeymoon, advises that regular army subalterns should not marry to focus on professional training. He suggests singing a regiment’s battle hymn as a substitute sentimental pursuit, though many young officers and their partners disagree, noting other professions face similar learning curves.
The piece surveys child crime laws across nations, noting ages of criminal responsibility from seven in England and America to ten in several European countries, eight in France and Belgium, and twelve to sixteen in others, with a remark on immigrant numbers in the United States since 1850. It concludes with a proverb about small ideas in big words.
In effect January 5, 1902, the Eastern Standard Time timetable lists J R Wood as general passenger agent. The north bound schedule is shown for Buffalo and Rochester routes with times effective November 85, 1000, in standard time.
Train notices show schedules from Blairsville to Salieburg Butler Junction and Pittsburgh via Blairsville Intersection with times across weekdays Sundays and holidays. It lists connections to Indiana Altoona and other points, with agent contact Thos Watt and officials Hutchinson Wood for detailed information.
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