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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1880
Page
1
A collage of verse on June’s renewal and human longing followed by a domestic scene of Mr. and Mrs. Defoe debating private theatricals. The piece includes an excerpt on memory by M. Delaunay noting racial and cognitive differences, aging, and seasonal effects on recall.
A poem urges a loved one to accept life’s blend of sunshine and shade. It contends that a perfect, unblemished day cannot exist and that adding pain and thorny edges completes the vast picture of life. The imagery shifts from ideal to inevitable dusk as the dream ends.
A poem excerpt questions fame and duty. It contrasts silent ocean depths with noisy shore and urges living by daily duty and conscience. The dialogue asks how to gain eternal life and answers by performing rightful acts now.
A reflective poem chronicles birth and promise as a child emerges from darkness into light. The speaker blesses the newborn, calling him a perfect form and a prophet of virtue. The verse links the child to parental love and to the enduring hope that his life will shape a righteous path. The language evokes fate, time, and the quiet power of a growing life.
Poem fragment in which the speaker urges a beloved person with blue eyes to soften and show gentleness. The speaker claims love is strong, fate is powerful, and freedom is acknowledged while expressing restraint and emotional tension.
The famous wit Foote avoided a deadly confrontation with a renowned duelist by humor and quick wit. At an inn Foote entertained the table, preventing a gentleman’s challenge as the duelist prepared to draw a card for a duel. Foote then walked into the street, narrowly saving his life.
Farmers who sell white butter believe dairy income improves only with top color and quality. Using Wells Richardson Co s Perfected Butter Color and marketing butter in perfect condition yields good prices, with the color trusted by leading creameries and dairy men, sold by druggists and merchants.
A pupil asked what mist is replies ambiguously that it is an umbrella. The incident highlights gaps in atmospheric knowledge in local schools and prompts review of science teaching.
The Albany Journal notes that few spectacles rival the display of a college boy wielding his first cane, a scene described as memorable and impressive in strong terms.
King James pursued bishops in Scotland, using Tulchan Bishops as a device to milk church lands and tithes. The calfskin mock bishop was meant to satisfy the crown while the Scottish lairds sought rents, a deceptive mechanism debated in Parliament and Council and later torn apart amid uproar when exposed.
The article reviews a Russian proverb about evil predicted for czars after twenty-five years on the throne. It cites Ivan IV, Peter, Alexander I, Nicholas I, and the current czar, noting prosperous periods followed by calamities, revolts, or death as decades advance. The tone links fate to tenure and internal disorder.
An aristocratic medical consensus from this country and Europe endorses Kidney-Wort as a breakthrough remedy for kidney and liver troubles and constipation. The product targets both kidneys and bowels simultaneously, claiming to cleanse the entire system.
A brief note notes that the phrase he flies higher than he roosts appears in current slang usage, illustrating evolving expressions and their playful contrasts.
A Philadelphia Sunday Times excerpt describes Africa's geography and a South African scene where a Bishop Colenso observes baboons sunning themselves by the Donga River. A hungry young baboon finds a scorpion, is scolded by an elder, and the meal is snatched away as the group resumes its lazy lounging.
In spring 1865 near Waynesboro Union guards protect a lone widow's house as Sheridan and Early clash in the Shenandoah. The elderly woman, hobbling on a crutch, recounts pillage by several generals and insists guards move on, noting a cannon ball hole in her home and singing the Pilgrim's Hope as she continues her routine.
A Linsley’s Magazine piece notes that after the wedding the bridegroom never speaks first in the carriage. He has exhausted all topics of interest, and with nothing new to say he drifts into commonplaces, sighing that the ceremony is over and the honeymoon has begun.
In Russian provinces especially Finland, schools train both male and female teachers in wool carving, boot making, basket weaving, straw hat plaiting, brushes, spinning and weaving. A union at Helaingtors offers artistic instruction in drawing, sculpture, glass and tin painting, ornamental writing and bookkeeping. About 125 girls and as many boys graduate, producing solid work.
Physicians advocate the new Food Medicine Malt Bitters as more nourishing strengthening and purifying than any malt or medicine. They claim it avoids the objections raised against malt liquors and promotes health.
A miscellany of anecdotes and maxims from a 19th century notice page. Tales include Richard III’s oak bed with hidden treasure, Leicester wealth, a butter joke, local witticisms, and quips on manners, fashion, and politics. The item blends historical folklore with brief humor and literary references.
An obituary style portrait of Charles De Young, the California editor, praising his devotion to his mother. It notes his aggressive journalism and repeated shootings of adversaries, his efforts to shield his elderly mother with special editions after Mayor Kalloch’s shooting, and hints at the looming tragedy of his mother’s distress and possible death. The piece emphasizes filial devotion amid a life of conflict.
Lord Yarborough owns a large pack kept on the Isle of Wight. The dogs sleep in one bed under a bell that signals the keeper to quell quarrels. Each dog named and counted at roll call. Food includes horse beef, oatmeal, and barley meal for meals. The keeper ensures cleanliness and order.
Paris customs repeatedly allowed empty wagons through. An inspector finally detected a double roof lined with zinc and a six by three foot tank of brandy hidden inside. Earlier, toy wagons from a Paris maker passed inspection, but a rushed search would have revealed hobby horses dolls Punch and drums filled with alcohol.
An advertisement column touts Hop Bitters as the best family medicine to regulate bowels purify the blood relieve costiveness aid digestion and tone up the system. The note credits purity perseverance and harmlessness and contrasts suspend the total with hang it all in a satirical aside.
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