28 Mar 1879
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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1879
Page
1
A rambling hostler recounts bear mishaps and hunts from a rural valley. A trappered black bear entertains with pockets picked of seed and comic bar fights while a family feud ends with Old Two Claws slain and a baby saved.
A fragment reflecting on trivial daily questions about weather, news, and greetings as quoted from the Boston Transcript. It satirizes the routine habit of asking about future weather and current events, noting the expected bland replies.
Coroners inquest into the deaths of William Crone and Thomas Tiernay outline how fire damp gas in a dual vein mine rose through slate, ignited by a miner's lamp in the intake passage, killing Crone and Tiernay while others survived with injuries. The roof held, air was flowing at 16 576 cubic feet per minute, and a boy named Grady died from a falling door. A second note reports oceanic storm data with waves 43 feet high over depressions.
A collection of assorted notes mentions the death in Paris of a famed but eccentric figure known as Pete Royer, his odd beliefs and schemes, his wartime devices, lyrics, and poems. The piece then covers diverse items from parliamentary petitions, libel suits in Marseilles, to Melbourne 1880 exhibitions, and a warning on death verification laws in New York and Europe, noting sparse legal safeguards.
Reports on the recent total solar eclipse indicate the corona is a reflected solar light. Observers cite meteorites or systems of meteorites near the sun as the source, potentially resembling Saturns rings. The note adds Erie Canal timeline and cost figures.
A mixed collection of curiosities, statistics, and humorous quips. Items include populations and languages in Chicago, notes on the Pekin Gazette dating to around 1350, astronomical fact snippets, livestock values in the western territories, a moon joke, a moral tale of two lovers, and a Davy Crockett anecdote involving a mistaken compliment to a monkey.
A New York Herald piece on the custom of treating with sherry and bitters. It details how a single act triggers a chain of seven drinks for each participant, multiplying to forty nine drinks, and ends with uncertain aftereffects on personal life. The piece critiques the social pressure to join in and the toll of excessive drinking.
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