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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1885
Page
4
In a Chicago Herald column the old theory of aeronautic suction for a fly’s grip is debunked. The insect uses a mucilage bottle to secure its footholds on smooth surfaces, moving by hopping between spots while extending its paste for daily life.
A foreign letter describes the metallic bluefly invading homes in India. The insect piles clay in keyholes and furniture holes, secreting eggs atop clay and spider Bodies, requiring careful inspection to avoid infestations. The robin will shortly be along.
The Lyons silk centers Croix Rousse Saint Just and Brotteaux crowd tall stone houses where families share a single weaving room with old Jacquard looms. Weavers work dawn to dusk earning about six francs a day, while numbers of silk workers declined from 70,000 to 35,000 over a decade, threatening Lyons’ role in producing high end velvets and silks.
Fragmentary verse laments sorrow from the fallen snowflake imagery and a world scarred by human sins. The speaker notes graves of disappointed hopes and a cloak shielding collective guilt before God.
The piece recalls Artemus Ward's rise in New York in 1866 from Vanity Fair efforts to his stage lectures in Broad way and De Walden. It recounts Ward's humor, the Broadway Bohemian scene, and the successful touring months that cemented his fame amid strong press and public support.
Mary Reynolds eloped with Henton, provoking a quarrel with Mitchell. After a dance and a missing suspect, the Hentons were found fatally wounded, their faces torn in a brutal attack. The case sparked mob sentiment as authorities search for the alleged assailant.
A fragment from The Rambler narrates a poor German tutor imagining eating a sausage, chalk on a slate, and drinking beer as hunger drives vivid scenes. The speaker insists the feast exists only in imagination, while the sausage remains unreal in reality.
Alvin Dixon, longtime tax collector of Blount County Alabama, was killed by his wife who shot a break-in suspect believed to be Dixon himself after discovering $1700 in taxes in the house. The item notes Dixon’s prominence and the mystery of the fatal incident.
Local timetable fragment lists arrival and departure times for routes including Jornwell Manheit Lancaster and King Street. Notices show morning and afternoon departures with vague station names and street references.
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