25 Jul 1879
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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1879
Page
1
A poem speaks of a loom of life where wheels turn ceaselessly and fate is woven. Threads of love may replace sin as the centuries roll, the speaker asking if life itself is a fabric spun by the divine weaver and urging to supply a virtuous thread each day.
Public lecturer Mr. Petronius Penfield, en route to Pippsville Four Dorsets, battles a March blizzard. Snowbound stagecoach delays spark reflections on fame while he stubbornly pushes toward an expected lecture at the Atheneum. He finally seeks sustenance and warmth at a tavern as anticipation and irony mingle.
A lecturer named Mr Penfield, traveling by stagecoach, arrives at a rural Atheneum for an evening lecture. A mix up leads to a mock ceremony as the bride, groom, and guests mistake each other for participants, ending with a ruined wedding and no Dickens lecture.
A street hawker pressed a door to door sales pitch for a five minute catarrh remedy. A skeptical woman challenged him about his dead husband and his claims, purchasing two bottles after a heated exchange. He stalked off in frustration, muttering.
Lichig shows oat meal nearly as nutritious as the best English beef and richer than wheaten bread for bone and muscle. Professor Forbes measured hundreds of students at Edinburgh on height chest breadth and arm and loin strength. Belgians lowest, French higher, English higher still, Scots and Scotch Irish highest, fed in early years on oat meal porridge.
A collection of quirky Chinese proverbs links ambition to hunting ideas and impatience to tea with a fork. It mocks courtly vanity, warns against excess, and critiques stubborn disobedience with vivid, if odd, comparisons.
Jefferson County judge Joseph Mullen in a lakeside visit with Captain Warner recalls a New York tea-pot episode. A police officer questioned him at the St Nicholas Hotel corridor while he carried the dented silver piece to Tiffanys to have dents removed. He later quizzed himself on the officers actions and praised the constable for common sense.
In Common Street Montreal a bear pit under Joe Beef's canteen held a 400 pound male and a she bear with cubs. A six year old fell in as the she bear attacked. Joe leaped into the pit and saved the child, though he was badly mauled. A visitor fired a revolver but did not stop the danger. Joe fought off the bear with a brick and brought the child to safety. He refused medical aid claiming there is one doctor for every 000 people in the United States.
A correspondent recounts sneaking into the Vatican garden once off-limits, describing a carriage road, a grand labyrinth of hedges, grottoes, a Lourdes shrine, and a secluded Casino once used by Pius X. The tour offers views of St Peter's, the Tiber valley, and Monte Mario, with lush June scenery and atmospheric contrasts to prior snow on Mount Washington.
A compiled list notes long strings of statistics from 1875 to 1879. It covers congressional elder Artemus Hale, U S hog slaughter totals in Chicago, naval recruitment swimming rule, school endowment and attendance, Wesleyan University enrollment, wheat yields across nations, butter consumption, silver payouts, business failures, swine counts, London poor, postal workforce, coal production, railroad foreclosures, Fresh Air Fund funding, national agriculture and postage figures, Niagara lighting plans, a plumber's billing, Racine College leadership, Brazil coffee exports, France forestry, German emigration, Paris art fund, Sarah Bernhardt fashions, Sadoga the horse, US trade gains, Ohio governor’s theft capture, and a 100-year-old Providence woman.
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