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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1885
Page
10
The poem fragment traces a vanished author called Incognita found among MSS in a London museum and discussed by the Horning Chronicle. It laments mortality and fame, contrasting physical decay with virtue, and contemplates a life of contemplation over wealth.
A Geneva dispatch relays a clandestine report on the fortress of St Peter and St Paul in St Petersburg, depicting the casemates as a vast, damp dungeon where political prisoners endure daily isolation, inadequate food, and brutal conditions. It highlights long incarcerations without trial, the moral and physical toll of cold, vermin, and flogging, and the fate of women prisoners, with vivid accounts of suffering and occasional suicides.
In an interview, Mavis Dulles Floyd extols self-preservation via daily routine, horse riding, and eight hours of sleep. She notes lifelong habits from rising at six to lengthy walks, detesting alcohol, and avoiding tobacco. She credits health to discipline and an active mind, and credits horseback riding for stamina as she ages.
The article notes roller skating becoming a national vice with a vast infrastructure of rinks and promoters. It cites clergy warning of evils, educators and editors commenting, and various states reporting sensational feats and income from skating, amid public amusement shifting toward this craze.
An account describes the young Chinese emperor’s palace arrangement with artificial hills, lakes, and cascades. The landscape features include delicate pavilions, grottoes, artificial rock work, and watercraft, such as a large house boat for palace ladies, all arranged to maximize views and variety.
An account of the Coptic Church of Alexandria detailing apostolic succession from St. Mark, monastic selection of the Patriarch, celibacy, and the hierarchy of bishops and priests. It notes seven sacraments, confession, extreme unction, lent fasts, circumcision, liturgy in Greek Coptic, and reverence for St. George and St. Mark, with remarks on language and practices observed by monks.
An editorial note reports Fahrenheit, a mathematician, linked circle degrees to 360. He found fixed points at steam and ice, using a glass tube to relate temperature to the circle’s diameter. He concluded mercury would drop by thirty two spaces in the scale.
A collage of quips and snippets from old papers includes jokes on poetry and critics, a joke about a baseball club member who never caught anything, and playful banter about leisure and shop signs. It weaves in brief notes about actors, editors, and a dramatic call for a door to be opened, all in period newspaper voice.
A collection of brief items notes Sarah Bernhardt earning 300 a month for newspaper work, knighthood for Centor, landholdings of George Hurst in California, and career musings of Hannin Hamlin and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Also remarks on a singer’s rest, a Quaker senator’s views, Dickens readings revenue, obituaries, and a case of sudden eyesight restoration in George Augnatug Sala.
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