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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1880
Page
1
A meditation on character over creed, stressing that true immortality lies in who we are rather than in artifacts. It urges simple language, kindness to all, and independence within society. It cautions against dissipation and encourages perseverance for truth despite minority. It questions rejecting Christianity due to counterfeit Christians.
The poem muses on aging as life speeds with time. Youth seems longer in retrospect while aging quickens as sorrow grows. The speaker asks why time must accelerate toward death and suggests heaven grants fade-long strength for youth’s sweetness, while friends depart and grief remains.
In a rural tale a London maid Catherine, working hard on a farm, reunites with Timothy believed dead in Australia. He returns to claim her, they marry at a farm, with the master and workers present, celebrating a hard earned union and shared happiness. The piece contrasts class, endurance, and imagined losses with a hopeful domestic ending.
The article notes experiments on the sensitive plant using chloroform ether and chlora absorbed at the roots. Primary effects excite stems from bottom to top. later leaves bend as anesthetic reaches them. Secondary effect is elimination of anesthetic. Velocities of liquid movement in stem range 0.90 to 5.76 meters per hour, increasing upward, with root absorption from two to six and a half minutes.
A Memphis Tennessee judge, Eldridge, ordered officers of the circuit to attend promptly under a fine. He himself was late once, causing suspended business. Attorneys urged remission, but the court upheld the fine, insisting on punishment for absence. Bartlett’s fate irrelevant to the decision.
At a market near Jardin des Plantes in St. Marcel Pars, vendor youths in blue blouses sell prime toads in barrels to gardeners who value their insect-eating. The exchange is brisk, license revenue high, and profits are substantial, with vendors claiming to “live pretty well.”
A writer shares old methods to trap rats using a steel trap buried under bran with a light wad of cotton and corn kernels as bait. He notes success against wary rats and recounts a failed attempt before resorting to a cat as a decisive predator.
Auditor C Wieland of Lake County reports a seven foot eagle attacked three siblings near a homestead. August Burr, seven, felled the bird with a butcher knife, injuring its leg and saving his younger sister from further harm. Neighbor shot the eagle as it roosted on the barn. The girl sustained scratches but no serious injuries.
A preacher reflects that tools like hammer and saw can praise God through honest labor. He says there is a sweet echo in the arches of heaven from work done with loving hands, even if the result is rough or sounds noisy.
A long autobiographical tale unfolds as a northern storm halts a Taganrog to Kharkov route in 1569. The postmaster recounts his life from birth in 1809 through Cossack-era pride to marital strain and a sudden act of violence that ends in departure with urgent despatches.
A man recalls enlisting as a fourteen year old in the Empress's Guards and his long separation from his wife. He returns incognito to Kharkof to find Olga, now a widow running the Donski post station. The Government insists he is dead, but the pensioner in uniform continues to draw pay under his true name.
A collection of culinary and domestic hints on cooking and food prep. Salt use in meat, boiling water tips, avoiding water on grease, how to brown and stew beef, removing odors with charcoal, cleaning cloths, milk on glassware, boiled egg skin as a boil remedy, and plant tomatoes in gravy.
A singular encounter at Blackpool involves a mastiff and a young donkey owned by retiree Weddington. The dog attacked the donkey, lasting about thirty minutes with severe injuries to both animals. The owner shot the dog after it clung to the donkey’s nose, the donkey continuing to attack the corpse as rescue attempts failed.
A tale of Edward and John Scannell in New York linking a 1868 assassination attempt on Florence Scannell, the 1872 Donohue murder, and the brothers' shift from education and crime to gambling in Barclay Street and near Thirtieth and Broadway. Edward Scannell, then at Fordham College, later joined a priesthood path disrupted by family crime.
Sutro Tunnel projectionists say the hot water originates at great depth with rock temperatures high enough to feed the Comstock lode and Steamboat springs. The tunnel drains mines, discharging about twelve thousand tons daily. pumping costs exceed $3,000 a day if raised to the surface. Water cools from 165 degrees to 130 135 degrees over four miles in a pine flume. Water exits via a shaft to a wheel and a tail race, then to the Carson river. Citizens already use warm ponds. future plans include baths heat glasshouses and irrigation for a thousand acre farm and potential fruit and vegetable cultivation under glass with warmed water.
The Alpine horn, carved from cherry bark, acts as a long distance speaking trumpet. A shepherd atop the highest Alps peak proclaims Praise be the Lord, echoed by nearby shepherds and rocks. After the echoes fade, they kneel in open air to pray, then rest in the sunlit grandeur of the mountains.
A compact reflection on faith describing belief as straightforward and sublime, equating faith with rebirth and a transformative inner birth, inviting personal interpretation.
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