13 Jun 1860
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Newspaper
Lebanon Advertiser
Location
Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1860
Page
1
A lullaby-poem vivid with tender imagery of sleep and protection. The speaker pleads for a baby boy to rest while nature and stars provide calm, using personified birds, flowers, and streams to evoke safety and motherly care. The verse closes with a soft river rhythm and intimate endearments.
A historical note recounts repeated meteorite falls across Europe and England. It cites recovered stones rich in vitrified earth iron nickel with sulfur, chemical analyses and reports from the Philosophical Transactions and the French Academy. Records include 1705 Yorkshire stones and 1769 French falls, with heated, smoky impacts and rare mineral finds.
Accounts describe two meteor fragments splitting in the east, one striking a field and the other a meadow, with a loud shock and a 16 pound weight fragment. The piece surveys ancient and modern theories about falling stones, from volcanic ejecta to celestial orbits and atmospheric combustion. It then recounts a Boston area romance where a woman, deserting her first husband for a mechanic, ends with a California wealth return and a marriage to the former lover.
The disease, originating in Massachusetts, now hits New Jersey cattle with respiratory symptoms. Treatments include burning barns, salt licks, chlorate washes, lime, onions, fresh greens, and water while avoiding hay. Physicians compare it to typhoid pneumonia in humans.
A reader offers simple nail driving tips to avoid splitting wood, stressing setting the nail across the grain, light successive blows, lubrication, and slow cooling for toughness. The tale closes with Jimmy Jones at a political barbecue, biting into a monster sueded pound cake and jokingly being asked what he has.
The Providence Journal reports mysterious bell ringing in Providence with bells moving when wires are touched, while others fail to identify a cause. Parisian nightlife is described with ball attendees dancing late, plus makeup and costumes. An albino man named Nicholas Balingsly is noted after a dramatic skin color transformation following a fall. A Stewartstown scene recalls a servant drinking ale in anticipation of thunder.
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