28 Aug 1879
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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1879
Page
1
A meditation on conquering injury through noble restraint. The speaker argues that true strength lies in scorn for revenge and yielding to worthy foes, improving hearts rather than destroying them, while acceptance of redress remains possible if justice requires.
In a quiet town a man buys a grim estate and falls for Edith a touring singer. Horace Chichester pursues his former wife, frames her lover, and dies after Edith, loyal and brave, dies in a final confrontation abetted by a deadly betrayal.
Learn to mend and prepare garments daily. A sharp habit of checking your clothes gives independence, spares your mother effort, and builds confidence. A small girl who sewed and quilted shows smartness, but not danger, and daily practice makes you self sufficient.
General John Beatty, during a long march, drank what he believed to be tea but was tobacco juice. The servant had brewed it from a paper of chewing tobacco given by the General, insisting he was following orders. After noting the odd taste, the General learned the truth and disposed of the remainder.
The passage argues against the notion that more food or harsher exercise yields greater health benefits. It condemns eating without appetite and meals taken to please taste, and criticizes sacrificing sleep for temporary pleasures that harm overall well being.
A farmer named Whitehall misreads orders at multiple stores after a night of heavy drinking. He blurts misheard requests for calico and waistlining while shambles through saloons. Police escort ends the spree as two wolves pursue a mother fleeing to safety with her fish, a scene recounted with humor and chaos.
An 1849 tale from Greene Maine recalls a Brunswick fisherman's wife fleeing a wolf pack with her baby and fish. She crossed ten miles to reach Harpswell, then pressed on through woods despite wolves closing in, dropping a fish to slow them and escaping with her child intact.
Ancient writers note several locust types and their palatable use in Palestine. Travelers recount salt fried locusts resembling crayfish in taste. Historic plagues describe swarms across Syria, Mesopotamia, Poland, Wallachia, Germany and England from 593 to 1748, with ordered marching and tree bark destruction.
After climbing five hundred and fourteen steps, visitors view the city from the cathedral spire as a Fete Dieu procession begins. Crowds in holiday attire line the streets, garlands glow, bells ring, and priests, officials, and an archbishop carry the host beneath a gold canopy while children scatter flowers.
A living Egyptian desert snail arrived at the British Museum and was mounted on a tablet. It slept for four years without food, then revived when placed in tepid water, and resumed moving about the basin to pose for a portrait.
The piece portrays Jack Finehart a famed West gambler and lover involved in a deadly pact with his brother. After a staged duel on the Platte riverbank the pact collapses and jack seeks death by his brother’s hand but is thwarted by a misfiring pistol. He later dies in a railroad accident at Denver in a grim twist of fate.
Dr England of Newark New Jersey displayed two preserved lizards retrieved from Lucy Davis and recounted a historical case with a milk snake removed from a patient near Flatbush. The tale includes dramatic reactions from onlookers and notes prior cases with similar bizarre migrations of reptiles into human throats.
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