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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1878
Page
1
A fragmentary verse summons themes of self scrutiny and flattery. It contrasts the honest rebuke of a true friend with the peril of overplus praise, exploring inner blemishes and moral tests through a dramatic, dialogue driven reflection.
In a Rhine village near Bonn a miller’s servant girl Hanchen outwits a robber during a Sabbath peril. She locks the mill, triggers the great wheel to drown the assailant, and frees a child, then survives and later marries the miller’s eldest son. Also notes Haydn’s birth and early life with a vivid Viennese anecdote.
The passage recalls Haydn praised as a great minister by a confidant, praising his early masterpiece Tayrdn’s first opera produced in 1751 with immense success and earnings of twenty four gold pieces, amid storm imagery and theatrical fervor.
A northwest wind stirred the Niagara river when two youths Burdick and Creagan leaped from a sinking boat near Grass Island. A rower, Geagan, pursued them, and with Walker’s daring rescue, Burdick and Geagan were saved as the boat overturned and drifted toward Port Day. The rescuers were aided by Dr. Clarke and the town hailed Walker’s effort as one of the river’s bravest deeds.
A Berlin letter describes a vast display where nearly every object appears to be made of paper from paper lace to paper curtains and chairs. The show features paper carpets, jewelry, armaments, and even fleeting straw paper for press ephemera, with sections on albumen paper, book-binding, and portfolios.
The fragment notes August 44 1525 gift from Sir Walter Scott to Maria Edgeworth of the pen used for the Heart of Midlothian and mentions that all Scott’s novels to that time rest with Mr John Finskin, including Black Dwarf Peverill Woodstock and Fortes of Nigel.
Mr Arthur W Crossley chief of the Froot Division of the Patent Office received from Captain J W Redington a scalp taken from a Snake Tadian by a Umatilla in General Howards command. The duel occurred in the Blue Mountains after a hand to hand struggle between the two noted warriors. The Umatilla killed the Snake, ending the contest with a bloody facial wound for the loser. Crossley also received Todian accoutrements taken by the scout from Nez Perces war dead.
A collage of short items ranges from moral maxims to curious incidents. It notes a Hunt county Texas farmer finding a silver treasure under a silver goblet marked Myrick, reports on a Lisbon Pennsylvania tree strike by lightning and a scythe, plus various world notes on finance hydrophobia and a Texas courting quirk. It also mentions Wellesley College gifts, a Marseilles cuttlefish incident, and railroads seeking congressional relief for mail rates.
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