Wayward Waves and Mary's Son Calms the Sea
The piece opens with a poetic meditation on weary waves and a calm sea, portraying Mary’s Son sleeping through a tempest and then calming the storm with a spoken command. It shifts to a vivid, vent-like description of India’s heat and harsh climate, drawn from a missionary wife’s letter noting blistering sun, dust, dry wells, and the struggle to breathe, ending with longing for cool air and distant seas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gustave Dore
Tophet
India
Adirondacks
Newport
Strand
New York Observer
Sailor’s Departure From Baby-land in a Lyrical Farewell
A mother bids farewell to her growing son as he leaves home for boyhood aboard a voyage. She recalls his sailor hat and navy outfit, the toy blocks, and a pocketbook he cannot locate. Tears mix with pride as the child declares he is done with baby things and sails toward adulthood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bovyhood
St. Nicholas
Johnny
Sentiments on the Sands With a Hidden Amount
A seaside scene unfolds with shells and driftwood on golden sand. A woman writes on a parasol shaded sheet, scrawling a bold sum of one hundred thousand six hundred dollars over the shore. The narrator notes a hopeful, sly glance and longing as waves murmur nearby.
The Churchyard Shrine Poem of Agnes and Remembrance
A lyrical meditation on love and loss in a churchyard setting. The speaker wanders toward sacred memories, recalling Agnes and a beloved Acacia, with nature’s whispers and angels offering rest and solace to a wounded heart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agnes
Perfume Plant Industry Vollumes and Global Trade
The article notes Europe and British India consume about 150000 gallons of handkerchief perfume yearly and England earns $240000 annually from perfumes. It cites Cannes distillery using vast quantities of jasmine tuberose acacia and other materials, and highlights Victoria New South Wales as a premier perfume plant region with species like jasmine rose and lavender. It also gives per acre yields and values for jasmine roses orange violets cassia geranium lavender and more with figures from the London Journal of Horticulture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
British India
England
Cannes
France
Victoria
New South Wales
South Australia
London
Journal of Horticulture
Boston
Empress Eugenie Remains in Sorrow at Chiselhurst
The Paris Gaulois reports Empress Eugenie in deep mourning, rarely leaving her room, dining alone, and aided by religious solace. She narrowly fainted upon seeing the saddle that killed Prince Imperial and continues to sleep with chloral. She resists moving to Spain, staying at Chiselhurst with a devoted reader.
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Paris Gaulois
Eugenie
Prince Imperial
St. Augustin
Massillon
Spain
Chiselhurst
A rural heckler questions Harrison in 1840 campaign
An 1840 canvass anecdote recalls a Western Virginia mass meeting where a tall man challenged Gen. Harrison’s record. He mocked a “Small-Tail Movement” citing dictionaries and histories, asserting Harrison unfit for president and withholding his vote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrison
van Buren
Virginia
Fort Meigs
Pye
Harrizon
Sager
United States
Gambling Spiral Ends In Flaming Fortunes And Resolve
A Pittsburgh man recounts a Leadville poker binge that wipes him out then oddly restores riches via a lucky pipe. He loses cash and gear down to a single pipe, wins back every item, and ends with $4,800 plus the original stake before vowing never to gamble again.
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Pittsburgh
Leadville
The Boomerang A Curious Native Australian Weapon
The piece is carved wood thirty to forty inches long shaped like a crescent and sharpened at both ends. A thrower can send it to fall at his feet, then it curves upward and returns, whizzing while spinning rapidly. It travels forty yards out and rises forty to sixty feet before dropping. It is dangerous to project at objects and can strike the thrower.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scientific American
The Greatest Blessing of Hop Bittern Promoted
An advertisement extols Hop Bittern as a universal cure and purifier of blood stomach kidneys and liver claiming thousands have been saved and cured. It urges readers to try the remedy and directs attention to another column for more.
Witty Fragments and Nostalgic Skits From a 19th Century Page
A mosaic of quips and anecdotes on weather, cats, oats, and love with jokes about bakers, oysters, and a barber’s shop. It playfully skewers common sayings and moralizing maxims while nodding to readers with domestic humor and rural scenes.
Preaching in America Reflects Popular Taste, Says Atlantic
The Atlantic argues that American preaching mirrors the culture and tastes of the people, shaped by the voluntary system and universal suffrage. It notes ministers fight popular demand for entertainment over spiritual depth, fearing preaching will simply reflect prevailing morals and intellect without improving.
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Atlantic
Sleeping Beauty of Indiana Awakens Daily at 10 Night
A twenty one year old German daughter in Knightstown Indiana appears dead for nearly a year. She awakens precisely at 10 o clock each night for about twenty minutes, converses with family, then returns to a coma until the next night. She eats little or nothing, having taken food only three times in thirty two days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knightstown
Ind
Casper Schmidt
Low Butter Prices Highlight Color Improves Value
The New York Tribune reports butter sold for 8 to 10 cents due to light color. It recommends Wells Richardson color from Burlington Vermont as a fix to achieve top prices, claiming it preserves and brightens butter without turning red or rancid.
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The
New York Tribune
Wells, Richardson & Co
Burlington Vt
Centennial of a Hero and Paul Jones’s Naval Victory
The 1779 battle off Flamborough Head saw Paul Jones in the Bon Homme Richard capture the British frigate Serapis, marking Americas greatest naval victory in the War of Independence. Born in 1747 at Arbigland, Jones rose from apprentice to famed American naval captain, later dying in poverty in Paris in 1792.
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Flamborough Head
Paul Jones
Scotland
Whitehaven
Earl of Selkirk
Island of
St. Mary
Earl
London
Lady Selkirk
Jones
U.i. States
Congress
Washington
Paris
The Norther at Vera Cruz Delivers a Sudden Sandstorm
A Vera Cruz correspondent describes a rapid north wind that turns harbor calm to chaos in minutes. Waves heap against the Custom House as sand fills eyes and ships rush to sea. The storm lasts days, cooling the region from coast to table lands and even toward the Pacific.
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Vera Cruz
Custom House
Gulf
Vera
Pacific Coast
Temperance Bust Turns on a Brandy Challenge
Col Colt offered a drink of brandy and water to a temperance applicant seeking a church fund donation. The man refused until Colt agreed to the drink and a $500 check. After the intoxication passed, the donor recovered his resolve and remained a temperance advocate.
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Col. Colt
Colt
Kidney-Wort advert promises quick relief from bilious symptoms
An advertisement urges readers to take Kidney-Wort as a preventive measure against illness. It claims the remedy is nature's great assistant and recommends early use before conditions worsen, listing symptoms such as head heaviness, foul mouth, yellow eyes, and kidney trouble.
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Nature
Japanese Import of Pianos Esper Elsewhere
The passage notes that Japan has started importing pianos from the United States, a development viewed as a troubling consequence for the Japanese. It suggests concern over economic or cultural impact stemming from this trade.
Woman in Massachusetts takes ribbed view on Eve and wives
A satirical clipping reviews women in history and society with sharp humor. It contrasts Eve and wives with men, jokes about cost of wives, and notes female abundance in Massachusetts while ending with a lament for Eve who is portrayed as dead.
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Adam
Massachusetts
East
Eve
Western wit beats a tale from the East in a stump story
In a tale exchanged with Col. B. and Maj. S. an Eastern man named Canseur is shown up by Western humor. Col. B. recalls plowing through a stump on a wooded Illinois farm with a sulky plow while Maj. S. recounts a home spun cloak and a stump that ripped his trousers before he pulled it out roots and all.
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Canseur
Col. B
Ilinois
Maj. S
Boston Transcript
Mountain Sinking Near Chattooga Mountain Georgia
A report from Atlanta describes a northeastern Georgia area near Talulah where Chattooga Mountain is sinking toward the Chattooga River. Observers note a horseshoe shape about thirty to forty acres, a sixteen foot deep depression, and trees toppled with roots up. The state geologist and scientists consider river erosion as a possible cause.
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Atlanta
Chattooga Mountain
Talulah
Chattooga River
Sun
Kidney-Wort Promises Swift Kidney Relief in Ads
Advertises Kidney-Wort as a cure for all kidney diseases caused by weakness with strong tonic powers aimed at treating debility. A lady’s album sentiment notes a wife’s view before and after marriage. A Chicago preacher claims his sermons last twenty minutes.
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Chicago
Change in Time for Jeffersonville Madison Indianapolis Rail
The Jeffersonville Madison and Indianapolis Railroad announces new schedules starting May 19, 1879. Accommodat n and Mail trains depart Madison 3:30 PM and 6:00 AM to North Vernon then Columbus and Indianapolis, with through tickets and connections to Cincinnati and Louisville. Through train from North Vernon to Indianapolis runs with a return trip from Indianapolis at 8:34 PM. South Accommodation departs Indianapolis 4:10 AM to Columbus and North Vernon then Madison arriving 11:45 AM. Tickets available at the depot and W H Rogers Drug store Madison.
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Madison
North Vernon
Columbus
Indianapolis
Vernon
Cincinnati
Louisville
Hare
W. H. Rogers’ Drug Store
A. Anderson
Horace Scott
Madison to Louisville Packet Schedule Details
R. Humphrey Master J. M. Grumar Clerk sails from Madison every Monday Wednesday and Friday at noon returning from Louisville on alternate days at noon. Passengers from Madison receive dinner and supper and arrive in Louisville by early evening. For freight or passage contact on board or Williams Barton & Co jan 1 1878.
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United States
Madison
Cincinnati
Louisville
Ledoni
Williams & Barton
Louis A. Sherley
Pike
Thomas Sherlock
R. Humphrey
J. M. Grumar
Williams, Barton & CO
Mails Schedule for Cincinnati and Surrounding Posts
Post office hours listed for Cincinnati Louisville Indianapolis and local routes. Daily mails open at noon and close in late afternoon or evening with varied times for North Vernon Aurora Rising Sun Pa triot Vevay Carrollton Ghent Warsaw Hanover Lexington Milton and several named weekly routes. Sem i weekly services to Manville Moorefield Home Craig Long Run Vevay Kent Graham Volga Cresswell follow specific day openings and closings.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Louisville
Indianapolis
Stony Point
Mud Lick
Bryantsburg
Rexville
St. Magdalena
New Marion
Titusville
Canaan
Haney’s
Barboursville
Versailles
Manville
Moorefield
Home
Craig
Long Run
Vevay
Kent
Graham
Volga
Cresswell
M. C
Garber
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Detroit Free Press
Mr. Henpeck
Robinson
Tempus
Milwaukee Sun
America
Eureka
Sentinel
J., M. & J. Railroad
Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis Railroad
ST. Louis
U.S. Mail Line
A Gen
Lyde
Carrollton
Madison and Jauisville
Maggie Harper
Daily Mails
F. Harper
Main and
Main Cross St
Indiana
Holman
Humphrey
Brown
Bartlett & Mason
J. E. C. F. Harper
Basiness
Ly H. Hallett , CO
Portland
Maing
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