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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1879
Page
1
An Arabic folktale fragment shows Fatima hungry and bargaining in a bazaar for food and a boat to fetch her dog Boh-wow. The dog dies then miraculously returns to life, prompting Fatima to cry out in frustration and request a powerful derrick boat and more from the crowd as the tale moves through desert imagery and ritual phrases.
A childlike lament laments a tree toppled by storms and the memories it held. The speaker mourns its loss, recalling blossoms, birds, and a sisterhood of beauty, and notes the plow has ruined the soil where life stood. The bones of the tree lie fallen, and hope fades as memory remains.
A fragmentary verse meditation questions if there is a by and by asking readers to view life as unfinished and mortality as final. The speaker, addressing unseen listeners, wonders whether hope and heaven await beyond earthly life.
A surreal vignette describes moonlit forests, shadowed mountains, and silent figures moving through a pale pillow of night. The dreamlike scene features listening leaves, distant bells, and a tranquil, uncanny stillness across the landscape.
A humorous catalog of social foibles from clergy to editors and wives. It lampoons traits such as piety without detail of Galileo, restrained praise, memory of sermons, modest dress, and awkward conversations in church and public life. It reads like a playful survey of character flaws and foibles among men and women.
The piece describes Hermann entertaining Parisian idlers with tricks that mirror miracles. In a Bosphorus boat scene he makes a vizier’s watch appear from a fish after a joke about a fishing rod, then juggles before the Sultan and Autocrat of all the Russias, briefly mirroring a broken mirror and restoring it unseen.
Bob Toombs condemns the Union and declares his willingness to fight again, claiming he fought for his country with his chin and that many Northern veterans share that stubborn spirit. The piece extols the so called chin champions as steadfast fighters.
The parents recount eleven years of misery under various doctors who failed to relieve their ill daughter. They credit Hop Bitters with restoring her to good health after two years of pushing it, hoping others will not endure prejudice against this medicine.
A shopper recounts a vexing experience in an apothecary where three cents of medicine go into a ten cent bottle and a small lamp adds time and material costs. After lengthy delays and careful wrapping the pharmacist finally proclaims a total of forty cents.
The visitor enters without a bell or knocker, bows are exchanged, shoes are removed, and a servant guides them to a study filled with wood walls and silk trimmed pictures. The master and wife host tea, talk of marriage and children, and a daughter and son sit on the floor while music is played.
A Southern girl writes to the Clarksville Chronicle about street corner flirting observed among local youths and visiting Northern men. She details handkerchief flirtation between girls and young men, notes how such acts are common, and contrasts Northern men as well dressed and stylish with Southern girls’ attitudes.
The text portrays Julius Caesar as indifferent to life and God, seeking self mastery. He argued death is not a punishment and that the grave ends sorrow, a view widely shared in the Senate, including Cicero, with Caesar voicing his beliefs openly.
No dairyman can afford to sell white butter. Consumers prefer yellow butter and pay more for it. Wells Richardson and Co. offer Perfect Butter Color to give a golden June like color year round. Sold by druggists and merchants.
A humorous remark suggests a man kissing a girl should have a dry clergyman preach to him to stretch the sensation. The quip reflects light social banter on romantic moments.
A collage of pithy sayings and quips about people, work, health, and society. It features humorous lines on vanity, honesty, time, friendship, and daily life, with punchy one liners and moral snippets from a late nineteenth or early twentieth era style.
A vivid narrative ties Napoleon Bonaparte's arrogance to Queen Louise of Prussia and the rising anger of her son, tracing the path from insult at dinner to Sedan defeat and a Berlin monument funded by French money, reflecting on history’s dramatic texture and vengeance.
In Portland the so called Baby Plant from Japan has attracted about 5,000 visitors. The lily family plant stands up to four feet, but the showcased specimen is about twelve inches tall with star shaped brown and yellow flowers. Its tiny nude baby figure under a canopy has wings and outstretched arms. Other varieties imitate animals and birds. Mrs. Mark Hopkins of San Francisco owns one selling for $300. The plant could reach three feet when mature.
A Siatky clothing merchant amid U S troop movement asks General Ish ter Scheneral about a Bannock pursuit. He mourns his son Shacob killed nearby and pleads for justice as troops vow to strike the rebels. He urges officers to shoot high when facing armed Indians wearing new pants.
A Manchester based non-tariff insurance company received a Wales issued policy order covering equal shares on a dwelling-house, a shop and cottage, and eight farm houses at various Welsh place names. The policy clerk says the task was exceptionally difficult.
An ad touts Kidney-Wort as a remedy for back pain tied to kidney trouble. It claims the product acts directly on kidney secretions and also regulates bowels, urging readers to buy a package today to cure themselves.
In a Chicago church a deacon named O. Hell creates a comic moment as a chair and minister clash over a misplayed hymn and the minister jokes about passing the contribution box.
A 19th century guide claims a woman's character can be read from her hand. Thumb size and palm shape supposedly indicate intelligence, temperament, and domesticity. Large thumbs imply temper. square hands suggest practical, faithful spouses, or women who can be duped.
A Canadian teller in Ingersol Ontario earned about 1500 a year yet lived in style with a fine house and servants. He entertained richly but is now under arrest for embezzling about 20000 from Mol son’s Bank over several years.
An English writer sharply criticises London public school management and presents exam specimens from scholars. The quips include misinformed geography and biblical lore such as Turin and a fanciful tale about Abraham with ten wives and biblical misinterpretations.
The list details heights of world monuments from the St. Antoine column in Rome to the Capitol dome planned at 300 feet. A Limestone street boy explains hell with a shirt button joke. Amusing exchanges touch on dogs, streetcar chases, misheard marriage questions, and social fads.
A Nashville American item catalogues social quips and quotes from a court scene on cattle feeding costs, a matrimonial agency joke, tobacco usage stats, political jab at Indiana Republicans, Captain Boyton’s Yellowstone swim rumor, a landlady quip about Java grounds, Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup ad, and light humor on weather and whisky.
In Jeffersonville and Madison new railroad timetable changes take effect after Sunday. Trains will run with limited service to Madison and Columbus with departures from Indianapolis at 0 pm and 2:50 pm and arrivals times around 9 09 pm in Columbus and 7 que Madison. Passengers should verify exact departure and arrival times at local stations.
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