22 Apr 1870
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Newspaper
Kokomo Journal
Location
Kokomo, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1870
Page
1
A collection of short aphorisms and witticisms on daily life labor love law and habit. It touches on aging economics marriage immigration newspapers education crime temperance and curiosities with a sprinkling of jokes and moral sayables. The tone resembles a miscellany column from a 19th or early 20th century paper.
A reflective meditation compares life to a drifting bark moving toward the rapids and Niagara. The speaker ponders enduring youth within aging and the schemes used to satisfy the heart as time presses on.
A reflection on humble workers who remove weeds and plant flowers, labeled as cheerful and useful. It contrasts their sunny outlook with Christians who lament and dwell on evils, arguing that tears must lead to action and effort rather than idle sentiment.
In this account from 1865 1868 Oregon frontier exploration a U S Army party led by 1st Sergeant Stearns ascends to a vast blue circular lake eight miles wide set in the Cascade crater near Fort Klamath Oregon The text notes a lava bed around the area a conical island within the lake and reports that the lake is part of an extinct volcano with a dramatic precipice rim and a spring feeding a channel to the rim It also mentions local Klamath myths and later visits by others including a party with a boat to reach the water.
Wendell Phillips recounts the story of a Potomac soldier saved from ruin by charity. The man faced Ball's Bluff three times with unfired muskets, later tore from his uniform, swam the river, and reached camp half naked. A captain offered wine, but the soldier preferred facing cannon to that glass.
Chicago Poet notes Oliva Logan and Anna Dickinson as firm friends who, in their character and contracts, envision a special enactment allowing them to marry each other if they ever wed. The remark signals satire on social norms and legal reform.
The Janior's Report describes a Vandalia train excursion to Clay County coal mines and Indiana furnaces attended by 300 to 400 guests including steelmakers from Pittsburgh and Youngstown. It notes daily outputs of iron and coal, local employment, and optimistic forecasts for state survey plans and future development.
A humorous father recounts a week of solo housekeeping in Maine, detailing failures with cooking and dishes and joking about masculine ineptitude. He mimics a bachelor’s trials with the skillet, frying pan, and bed making, ending with the bed left unmade each day.
In the New England Conference the question of receiving Mrs. Van Cott as a preacher on probation was dodged and a resolution recommending her as an evangelist was not passed. Her Springfield labors were praised and she plans to go to Chicago this season.
The Christian Advocate estimates about 70,000 Jews in New York City, with fewer than 1,000 poor. Most are wealthy real estate holders and among the city's most active and enterprising merchants.
A letter to Zion's Herald from Bishop Thompson before his death declares the Lexington Conference in Kentucky must lead as the banner conference for small salaries. It notes last year’s largest ministerial pay at 500 dollars and the smallest at 3.75 dollars, with a Presiding Elder serving the church for 50 dollars annually in 1861 and 1862.
A Montgomery man by the Mohawk River observes a fox manipulating a goose. The fox hides the first goose by sinking it in moss and water, covers the burial, and returns with a second fox to dig up the earth. The buried goose is gone and the two foxes quarrel over the ruse.
Three things to bive courage gentleness and affection. Three to admire intellectual powers dignity gracefulness. Three to hate cruelty arrogance ingratitude. Three to delight in beauty frankness freedom. Three to wish for health friends cheerful spirit. Three to pray for faith peace purity of mind. Three to contend for honor country and friends. Three to govern temper tongue and conduct. Three to think about life death and eternity. Three to avoid idleness loquacity and flippant feats.
An enterprising youth borrows $5 from his prospective mother in law to hire a sleigh for taking her daughter to the parson. He collects whisky, starts for the ceremony, but the bride refuses to go out. He then brings the minister to the house, gets lost while intoxicated, and sells the sleigh and gear to recover the route, leaving him languishing.
An urchin asks a neighbor to lend candle molds and then wick and taller gauges for his mother. Mrs H kindly lends the items and offers to mold the candles herself, sparking a lighthearted request and fallible humor about neighborly help.
A quotation by Thomas G. Carver warns that the man who pulls others down is unfit for elevation and a heartless tyrant, while the woman who spreads evil reports from house to house is a suspicious creature and a vixen, urging silence to avoid harm.
A Birmingham temperance meeting cited English city statistics on habitual drinkers. Per 10 000 people the figures were Liverpool 303, Manchester and Salford 6, Leeds 83, Rockdale 81, Halifax 57, Sheffield 51, and Birmingham 43, illustrating regional variations in alcohol use.
A concise exhortation highlights gratitude for mercies patience under trials and sociable ties as pathways to happiness in this life and the life to come. It urges accepting this view and avoiding pursuit of happiness where it does not exist.
A reflective note argues that opposition aids character, saying winds of hardship, not calm, shape effort. It asserts that no one advances without challenge, and that adversity in one’s native soil builds manhood and self reliance.
Madame Demorest at a Woman's Parliament meeting advised parents to let daughters learn remunerative business and be chosen for them as for sons by capability. She argued women are suited to many professions and that progress in fields like teaching, medicine, telegraphy, bookkeeping, and typing requires effort to overcome obstacles.
A garbled reminiscence describes a young man drinking excess and being hauled by a constable from a cutter to jail. The text mixes rural imagery with urban vice noting wild oats, a barroom, and gutter as symbols of fertility and excess.
A playful prompt asks for a single sentence versus ten sentences to explain differences in spelling and phrasing. It contrasts a concise question with a longer elaboration to contrast brevity and repetition.
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