22 Feb 1877
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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1877
Page
3
A poem contrasts battlefield valour with steadfast endurance in daily life. It argues true heroism lies in patient endurance of want, poverty, illness, and hardship, more than in martial glory. The author praises a gentle, steadfast courage often found in women, surpassing wartime feats.
A poor urban family endures heat and hunger when 12 year old Tom steals two lemons to ease his feverish sister Kitty. A pursuing crowd, a station house, and a grateful sailor reveal the boy’s motive as the mother and father return from sea to reunite the family. The grocer forgoes charges after the family explains the need and the sailor validates the fasting siblings.
Nature notes curious world maps shown at the International Geographical Congress in Paris. A ninth or tenth century Beatus chart presents a spherical world with Europe in the lower left, Africa to the right, Asia above, a barlike Mediterranean, and Paradise guarded by symbolic winds in the corners. Also described is Sebastian Cabot’s 1544 map of North America with Latin and Spanish captions and vivid figures of natives and mythical sea creatures, regarded as highly entertaining.
The late M. Buloz who founded the Review des Deaux Mondes rose from humble shepherd beginnings in Naville’s service. His success drew resentment from writers forced to supply material, including Edmunds About who recounts Buloz’s habitual refusal to pay for first articles and his later petty deductions from unpaid earnings.
An 1768 incident in Shipton Mallet Somerset tells how Owen Parfitt, a crippled ex-sailor in his seventies, was placed in a chair on his doorstep for air and vanished. Susannah Snook and locals recalled a thunderstorm that followed, leading townsfolk to conclude the devil carried him away. No trace was ever found and the tale remained a mystery rooted in Parfitt’s violent youth and uncertain past.
The California fruit crop last year was unusually large yet shipments kept pace with rising output. In 1876 the crop was valued at 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 and sold at fair prices.
Dr Farquharson contends in Popular Science Monthly that idleness harms the brain as much as overwork. A sedentary life dulls mental resilience and weakens the brain against sudden emergencies, while routine work wears the body with sudden exertion. He notes that balanced mental effort and outdoor activity support health and that excessive limits are unnecessary for a well-rested brain.
A man in a Twenty third street boarding house died after a cherry stone sprouted in his stomach. Autopsy revealed fourteen sprouts winding through his intestines, one pressing the heart. Doctors call it a unique case likely to inspire further medical writing.
An ancient burial site in Selby England yields six to seven foot deep coffins carved from tree trunks. One coffin in York Museum holds a woman's skeleton with seven graduated oval beads near the neck and a skull hole like that seen in a Roman female burial. 1876 house rebuilds revealed hazel rods with several of seven coffins, rods found in a corpse’s right hand, and an upright oak post. Similar rods appeared in Oberflacht cemetery, Suabia.
A capsule of humor and social quirks from an old newspaper page. Jests about fashion, etiquette, and local manners mix with snatches of poetry, a legislative pageant with young pages, and wry commentary on winter and travel. Notable names and places appear in scattered witticisms and brief anecdotes.
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