15 Dec 1881
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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1881
Page
1
A urging poem to a son about leaving home with courage and honesty. It counsels speaking up clearly, resisting temptation, and honoring mother and father. It asks him to stand for God and justice, country and kin, wherever he goes, and to carry the dear homestead in memory.
A Munich masked ball tale follows Captain Ernest von Steinberg who courts Baroness Anna von Graffenberg while under a wax King Louis mask. A web of deception, a midnight meeting, and a palace revelation ends with a double wedding promised by the Bavarian king.
The article explores why a man uses the left hand unarmed but the right for weapons, noting that handedness varies, with many children preferring left or right. It discusses advantages for left handed athletes in cricket and other outdoor pursuits, while acknowledging the long-standing bias toward the right in most cultures. It cites Greek usage describing attacks from the shield side.
The Russian government debates a law to curb grain speculation and police markets instead of allowing speculators to steer them. The piece warns such control could reveal despotism and mirror a less free regime.
Details recount a voyage of 80 000 pilgrims with 800 aboard the Calypso as stowaways. The description depicts extreme privation, disease, and death from hunger, thirst, and opium, with priests and patients neglected on deck and in the hold. Mrs. Burton's testimony notes widespread suffering and rapid deaths.
In Leadville Tim Foley once joked of selling cattle to the Frewen Brothers from England who visited Wyoming. He allegedly used a hill behind a herd to inflate numbers and secure a $4,000 cattle sale, a tall tale some doubt but present as a humorous relic of frontier lore.
The piece argues that extinct suns prove our sun will eventually run out of heat. It estimates a 17 million year timescale, notes possible extensions from meteoric accretion and radiation changes, and reflects on humanity as small in cosmic terms within vast planetary and stellar eras.
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