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Newspaper
Mccook Weekly Tribune
Location
Mccook, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1884
Page
6
Poem contemplating fate and death in a relationship. The speaker wonders who would die first and how to live until parting. They acknowledge not knowing and prefer not to know, hoping time between partings remains short and meaningful.
Lord Grayton attends a charity ball at Copswood private asylum where Ophelia captivates him with art talk and quiet grace. He meets Lady Mary Pettigrew, misreads her as a patient, and they connect through shared kindness. A month later they marry, with the doctor presiding.
A Cincinnati Enquirer piece lampoons a New York girl adopting masculine riding attire. It cites rising summer mania for trousers under skirts, silk scarves, dickeys, vests, gloves, and jaquette garments, noting the masculine influence in collars, cuffs, and hats like silk hats and jockey caps.
Canadian Pacific railway officials urged the Canadian minister of customs to allow Montana cattle in bond to pass through Canadian territory to reach shipments via the Canadian Pacific Railway. Montana ranchers favor entering cattle at Fort Walsh and driving them to Canada for export, hoping to make Montreal a cattle market for Montana and nearby western states. The minister considers relaxing duties to enable the trade.
A poem traces summer arrival through insects and achingly vivid details. White dandelion grass signals season, a June beetle’s death and a surprising revival by peers who lift him from a book, prompting the speaker to flee as summer poetry settles in.
The writer describes how Cubans stay cool in Havana through light clothing and open shops. They begin work at 6:30 in the morning, take a light breakfast, and avoid heavy meals, preferring fruit, fish, and broth. Evening brings leisure, music, cards, and social promenades, all under a cooler climate.
The text discusses drinks that cool the body such as soda water lemonade coconut water and limeade and notes them as slightly laxative. It contrasts strong drinks Vermouth Spanish wines and French clarets with gin among laborers and mentions brandy seen at night as unwise. It advises dressing for the season keeping out of the sun and using a sun umbrella.
Discussion of how mental cultivation and literary tastes enhance charm and social appeal. It argues that inner intellect, cultivated by reading, improves expression in the eyes and demeanor, outweighing physical features. It notes lack of intellectual expression dulls beauty and hinders social bonds.
The Boston Journal reports a cliff-city in Walnut Canyon Arizona found last summer. The vast ruin spans five miles with three quarters of a mile of stone houses built into living rock along a canyon ledge. No weapons, temples, idols, or inscriptions were found. Authorities note the builders remain unidentified and origins unresolved.
The Athenaeum discusses the link between heartiness and melody in songs, praising Elizabethan poets for their musicality while noting modern writers like Downing struggle with rugged consonantal effects. It quotes Samuel Lover on using singing words with open vowels and avoiding harsh sounds to sustain melody over grandeur.
The Bohemian governor forbids the Pan Germanic Association of Warnsdorf from singing Wacht am Rhein at meetings. The Interior Minister notes the current situation prevents deeming the song sedition and chooses no protest.
Robert Laird Collier recalls a midnight stroll through London’s Strand and Covent Garden. He describes beggars, bootblacks, penny purchases, coffee and potato carts, and the relentless police urging crowds to move on. He finds life vivid yet warns the evil must pass away as wisdom endures.
The Gold Dust steamship, five years old and 85 feet long, navigated the Cascades of the Columbia yesterday morning with five aboard. Engineer St Martin called the run perilous yet accomplished, noting rough, 100 foot channel, six foot rocks submerged by high water, and cheering government onlookers as the boat slid from Upper to Lower Cascades in minutes.
Portland Transcript reports a Boston woman survived a seventy foot fall with a broken neck from vertebral dislocation. Surgeons restored alignment after anesthesia while the spinal cord remained intact, prompting reflections on surgical advances and a controversial idea about experimenting on executed criminals.
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