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Newspaper
Le Mars Evening Sentinel
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1885
Page
4
The column discusses maritime burial ethics on ships and Prof. Bex’s echo system idea to detect icebergs and ships. It notes long bridge traffic figures for the Brooklyn Bridge since 1883 and quotes remarks on Beecher, Pattison, and Judge Usher, highlighting historical views and anecdotes.
Judge Usher described Lincoln as unable to comprehend Grant's conduct, noting it differed from other officers' leadership. The remark reflects tensions over Grant's strategic approach and Lincoln's reaction to it.
A mute patient at Morris Plains Asylum in New Jersey, believed deaf by doctors after five years without speech, suddenly spoke following a severe finger injury. A second patient, a boy there, is a lightning calculator who envisions his brain as a moving grid of blocks solving complex problems in minutes.
Henry Ward Brecuzr writes to Rev. George Morrison of Baltimore discussing sermons on evolution. He asserts a personal God, universal human sin, conversion, divine agency, and Jesus as God in human form, rejects Calvinist atonement and original sin. He notes sermons in daily papers are fragments and will be revised for autumn book publication.
The member for Eve, Ashmead Bartlett, pressed multiple questions on Prime Minister Gladstone. Gladstone deflected, noting a similar question from Sir Stafford Northcote and promising to address it to the House, provoking glee and a hint of future trouble in the chamber.
Edward Everett Hale critiques European views of social pyramids with a stark metaphor of base laborers supporting elites. He argues such imagery misreads the will of the people and undermines democracy and suffrage. A misdated quip about a Yankee widow and ham ends the piece.
A humorous tale reveals a brutal practical joke on Orlando J. Dowd in Montana. A bogus Sioux raid triggers a terrified flight, a gunshot wounds a performer, and Dowd flees to British lands. The story warns against cheap pranks and their lasting harm to the victim and joke initiators.
The article explains baleen prices vary with fashion, noting £500 to £850 per ton and rare profits. minerals replace train oils and hunting has reduced whale size and numbers. It describes whaling as risky, often returning no catch, and outlines Greenland whale feeding and the fixed tongue anatomy observed in a cast baleen whale.
A narrator describes pressing a soft surface that yields, forming an oil-filled pit when pressed with a hammer head, filling rapidly to submerge the hammer, hand, and wrist. The passage cites outdated whaling lore from Longmans Magazine noting royal ownership of whale parts.
In a Pennsylvania town amid abolition fervor a court case threatened to return a black family to Georgia. Wendell Phillips spoke briefly as a crowd gathered, but the fugitive trial dragged long into midnight. The Southlean judge ordered the family to be removed, yet they vanished from the ante room, fueling claims of political manipulation.
A French reprint of the June 22 1815 London Zines contrasts with modern papers, praising England's Waterloo triumph. The Times correspondent Duke of Wellington provides a modest battle dispatch dated June 19 1815 from Waterloo and highlights the Prussian role and Bulcher's army contribution.
A Murray Tull man jokes that young ladies kissing poodles is absurd. He cites a Marc Antony precedent, saying women have little to kiss, and invokes the cry Havoc to justify dogfighting of war as a mock precedent, per the New York Journal.
A fragmented historical note offers aphorisms on poetry urging poets to craft their best on the first and last stanzas while treating middle stanzas as expendable. The piece also includes jagged aphorisms about rot in poetry and a clipped, garbled attribution style from the Boston Transcript and Douglas Jem.
Niagara Falls swarmed for the opening of the State Park with special trains from across Western New York and Canada. Delegations from Ontario and Canadian officials attended as Governor Hill, James C. Carter, and Bishop Coxe spoke. The day featured music, a park presentation by William Dorsheimer, and a parade marred by a fatal bayonet incident as police crowds swelled amid festive displays and warnings about safety.
Marie Van Zanooe gains attention in London high society and collects fifty pounds for attending fashionable gatherings after performances. Meanwhile distant notes mention Scotch shepherd dogs used at the Cape of Good Hope to herd ostriches with noted sagacity. Tyre University of Tennessee grants Doctor of Laws to Professor W G Sumner of Yale. CononEy Roseard G Incersonn family summering at Nahant Massachusetts.
Judge David Davis recalls his fourteen years as Eighth Judicial Circuit judge in Illinois from 1848 to 1862 with Lincoln, Voorhees and other Western lawyers at informal inn circles. The fall of Richmond on April 3 1865 sparks nationwide celebration with 800-gun salutes, illumination, and speeches by Johnson and Seward. Voorhees emerges as a fierce Democratic counterweight, delivering pointed denunciations and waging partisan battles in Congress.
A quirky string of 19th century quips and jokes on marriage, heaven, and social life spans concerns from pugilists to hotel boards and a Bowery traveler who notices a restaurant sign. The snippets mix wit about vows, unions, and everyday amusements with brief remarks from period newspapers.
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