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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1880
Page
1
A speaker reflects on life with scant hope yet steady work until the conqueror arrives. He compares his fragile home to a Summer dwelling on a dried riverbed and foresees ruin when autumn rains come. Regardless, he questions why to plant or sow as invaders will seize his goods and defenses in power.
In a near-empty Avenue Montaigne apartment a dying Countess de San Castell lies under poverty and neglect. Once famed in fashion, she now endures illness with only a doctor, her chambermaid, and a daily small coin from the physician for support. Madeleine and the nurse wait as bailiffs strip away remaining finery and memory of a glittering life.
A dying Countess debates life with Sister Rose de Lima as memories of love, vanity, and faith surface. The nun reveals her birth name and father while the Countess recalls Gabriel de Beryls, then the tale shifts to a river plant’s journey from mud to blossom and a boy Bertram Krause’s rise from humble origins to artistic fame.
An Enogusa urima sold 8000 fire proof safes in Turkey before it was ascertained that the filling was only saw dust.
A Spanish artillery officer details a new aerial machine using two air bags and hydrogen lift. By adjusting compressed air and ballast the craft rises or falls and steers with a rudder and center of gravity control. The inventor compares it to a bird in flight and notes feasibility remains uncertain.
A colonial era reflection on sailors as contented jokers who favor traditional sea humor over novelty. It notes sailors repeat a bottle joke, claim landlubbers are easily fooled by sea mystique, and depend on old tales that endure as regular duty for their amusement.
A tall, sunburned man enters the Mayor's office demanding a license for his daughter Maria Jane to write poetry. The mayor explains no license is needed and jokes about her literary ambitions, while the father boasts of his Sherman veteran status and schooling claims. The scene ends with the mayor assuring free poetic writing.
An elderly Detroit resident laments losing his telephone service and details ongoing miscommunications at a Gratiot Avenue saloon. He describes confusing calls from relatives, mistaken words like goats and coats, and the toll of isolation as the Central Office ends service. The tale blends humor and hardship with regional speech.
A narrator describes trapping monkeys with grain in holes, a noose hidden in earth, and the seized animal transported home. The method draws a small crowd as monkeys inspect holes and chatter, then a bold youngster is caught. He is released later to rejoin relatives amid mixed reactions.
A British Columbia legislator De Cosmos spoke for twenty six hours to halt a land confiscation bill. His exhaustive delay tactics kept the vote open until noon the next day, preserving land for settlers as his exhausted presence outlasted the majority.
The New York collection traces Jewish coinage from the first Maccabean issues 140 to 37 B C to later coins under Herod Agrippa and Roman governors. It notes inscriptions banned images, the first coined Jewish money, and later foreign pieces used by Jews with improved artistry and imperial portraits.
A historical note on village smithies in Germany where farmers supply iron for tires, wagons, and horseshoes. The smiths keep the cut ends in a shop “hell” for their own uses, while farmers must assist by blowing bellows and holding the horse’s hoof during shoeing. old shoes often stay with farmers as payment or are repurposed.
An essay traces the cycling fashion of walking-sticks for women from Empress Eugenie’s era to earlier centuries. It notes sticks five to six feet tall with shepherd crook ends, varied materials like pale green glass wood ivory and whalebone, and references a 1762 description of long varnished canes with ivory heads.
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