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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1878
Page
1
A rural verse recounts Katie and the gray squire planting corn with a chant that assigns one kernel to the blackbird crow and worm. The farmer insists on counting as the seeds drop and predicts future harvests tied to heed of the chorus and soil. The refrain repeats to bless the field and align planting with nature.
A traveler meets Our Jim, a blunt prospector and pocket hunter, at Tuttletown on the Stanislaus. Jim shares mining lore from mill veins to pocket leads, his rough hospitality, and stories of Dick Baker, a troubled inebriate, as they bond over quail, fish, and the river’s rugged landscape.
The Italian majolica earthenware began circa 1300 in Urbino under Mala Testa lords of Pesaro. Red clay vessels were white-grounded near Siena, traced with colored patterns, then lead-glazed for a metallic iridescent finish. The Spanish Moors knew the art and their pieces excited Italian development.
A 19th century analysis estimates global gold stock ten years ago at about 5.95 billion dollars. It calculates weight, volume, and value of gold foils and blocks, noting impracticalities of vast melted bulk and debunking overstatements of malleability. It ends with a church critique urging shared burdens and charity.
A sweep of items notes America sending 4 000 000 cigars to England a Cochesett Mass man fined for assault on his 91 year old grandmother fish in the Gasconade river dying from worms a women’s art college opened in Rome Berlin gardens sending 4 000 000 plants to schools in April Aletta Jacobs first woman to earn a Doctor of Medicine in Holland small fractional currency deposits to New York sub treasury cloud formation due to vapor currents American Tract Society distributed 74 million tracts with over 400 000 revenue Deadwood murder convictions rare fines for shooting within city limits rice production led by South Carolina and Georgia brief reflections on truth and knowledge British ignorance of swimming Paris Moniteur Universel to send an equatorial Africa expedition Borway exhibits at Paris Exhibition a New York doctor misidentifies antimony and soporific dictionary additions English writer on aging beauty Chinese ambassador Kwoh Sung Tan travels book banned for praise of outside civilization earthquakes tracked in Japan curious Chelse Virginia turkey partridge nesting partnership Markland Michigan show with accidents and a shooting mishap ending in injury
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