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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1883
Page
1
A poetic meditation on enduring love after death repeats lines about lingering memory and celestial signs. The speaker imagines daisies and stars as witnesses to love, while acknowledging distance between souls. The verse centers on separation and yearning.
A narrator recounts a perilous elopement plan using a portable fire escape and a violent dog rescue, culminating in Bella’s capture by guardians and a narrow escape for the narrator. The piece shifts to a solemn Hindoo suttee tale, describing a widow’s self sacrifice and funeral rites with reverent tone, before returning to brief financial notes on unclaimed bank deposits and a Paris letter about American ignorance abroad.
A New York aquarian called The Water Queen describes her tank diving feats. She began training five years ago, weighs 145 to 150 pounds, and notes slight eye effects and good appetite. She recalls a 3 minutes 45 seconds underwater stint with 160 pounds pressure. A Whisky water mishap in Boston left her briefly drunk. Senator Edmunds endowed a $5000 room in Mary Fletcher Hospital for a free patient, Julia M. Edmunds.
Paris museums prepare a new salle at the Musee de Cluny featuring ancient boots and leather ware. The collection includes pieces from M. Jacquemart and Baron Schuter plus Venetian court boots and tapestries from Chateau de Boussac, restored so deftly as to blend with the originals.
A Newark bride’s reception hall overflowed with flowers as palms and ferns framed the rooms. Maiden hair ferns, white daisies, rosebuds, violets, and chrysanthemums formed elaborate fans, a mossy well with an owl figure, and a satin rosette portiere.
A deranged young man bursts into a city doctor’s office and asks to be bled to death writing his life in blood. The physician refuses, lampoons the idea, and reveals a red ink joke while noting tobacco vapor kills insects in greenhouses.
Reports describe a bat species in Bahia causing cattle deaths by bloodsucking. The creature uses a suction tongue with many pipils and needle-like teeth to create round wounds, while wings whip around to fan and quiet victims. Large numbers roost in deserted buildings, and locals fear and spread myths about the bats.
The article explains ostriches select foods they prefer among options and may overeat leading to death from indulgence. It notes their strong appetite for mealies and prickly pears, and reports a Graaff Reinet farmer finding a gizzard filled with hundreds of stones. It also mentions necks reaching over fences to grab shiny objects.
A writer recalls observing two lampreys building a nest in a creek below a bridge. They move pebbles with suction mouths to form the nest, using the current to their advantage. The female plows the bottom to clear mud while spawning. Many die after spawning, with bodies found in June in their streams.
Freeman notes English and American usage diverge on clerk. He argues the US favors Clark as a mistaken form tied to spelling, while the true sound is clairk, similar to French clerc. He cites surnames Clark Clarke and the Scots Clarke as evidence of historic pronunciation shifts.
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