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Newspaper
Mccook Weekly Tribune
Location
Mccook, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1885
Page
6
The excerpt recalls Cupid visiting in February. A blustery scene features a dimpled figure with a portmanteau tapping the window and asking about a little maid with curly yellow hair. The saucy boy calls himself Cupid and claims the speaker as his Valentine.
In an orchard heavy with fruit, Jessie Maybrick resents a London lodger, George Leith, for courting her sister Caroline and later by secret affection. Jessie’s quiet playing at night and her guarded presence lead to a surprising twist as she admits feelings, and the elder daughter’s irony yields to a wedding with Leith, transforming the household.
The Boston Gazette argues against a proposed gender neutral pronoun thon noting the awkwardness of he or she constructions. It contends language already expresses ideas clearly and advocates using plural or rephrased forms rather than a new word.
The Baltimore Underwriter notes the chloral habit rising among insomniacs and those with nervous strain from speculation or late hours. It warns that chloral is more seductive than opium and should be screened in life insurance questions. The note cites the Marchioness of Lorne as a notable cigarette smoker.
A curious roundup lists price notes and curiosities from Wood and Cuba to Cuba, New Hampshire churches, navy boy counts, and a meteor near Gainesville. It notes sugar planters, wood prices, opium dens, a San Francisco theater anecdote, and early chocolate trade tariffs and origins.
The Gazette recounts Jeremiah O'Donovan Ross a life from Skibbereen shopkeeper to Fenian organizer. It details his 1853 oath, Phoenix club leadership, 1858 trials and 1859 release, emigration patterns, and rise as a key American Fenian figure, culminating in a harsh penal sentence and later influence among Irish revolutionary circles.
A Shanghai correspondent for The London and Chinese Telegraph describes the Woosung forts garrison being reinforced by four thousand men. He notes chaotic discipline, frequent flogging with thousands of strokes, lictors punished for leniency, and extreme penalties including finger and ear removal, with many officers bearing injuries themselves.
The Toronto Globe notes a Buddhist creed linking rest and activity across cycles of life and planetary chains. It foresees periods of repose after each incarnation and a final cosmic night when all seven planetary chains and the universe enter rest after humanity's seventh round.
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