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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1880
Page
1
A reflective verse laments fallen leaves and fading year thus autumn becomes a somber mood piece. The speaker compares nature’s decline to a life past recall and mourns beauty lost as wind and sun shape the season.
A narrator recalls a Gypsy grandmother and a family diamond that splits open to reveal a ring inscribed by Lettie Skrine. The inscription prophesies bloodlines mingling with Gypsies within a hundred years, and the diamond’s bond is explained by antique cement and climatic factors.
A tale of Jack, a Philadelphia stage joker turned Baltimore police attach, who travels with empty trunks. He cons a hotel into renting a fine room while claiming trunks are at the office. The landlord discovers only old velvet trunks, a ruse that yields a cheap snap and a quick departure.
A household advice piece urges a young housewife to fix seven days for washing baking sweeping and ironing as distinct, immovable days. Following a strict weekly code will ease labor, reduce wear, and keep the home orderly even with distractions or help unavailable.
Fulton County residents recall veteran Gregg who guarded Napoleon Bonaparte aboard the Bellerophon. The 85 year old describes the emperor as grand yet mercurial, tall in presence though slight in stature, cheerful and sometimes blue, often walking the deck and engaging with officers and sailors alike. The crew believed Napoleon would be England's guest with a pension but learned he could not land on English soil.
The guide explains priming thinness with linseed oil for outdoor work and warns against turpentine in priming. It covers drying times between coats, adding Japan gold size to speed drying, and preparing second and third coats with proper consistency. For interior walls it suggests coach varnish additions and a zinc white damar varnish finish for gloss.
A fragmented note discusses ancient locking mechanisms featuring sliders and tumblers, noting their long history and evolution in security design. It hints at craft traditions and mechanical complexity without detailing specific dates or figures.
The sponge trade centers on Key West and Florida’s Gulf coast from Tampa Bay to Pensacola. Sponge schooners operate on Anclote Keys and Rock Island with dingys and long poles to harvest sponges, mainly the valuable sheep wool variety, while loggerhead sponges fetch no value. Spongers seasonally dock Fridays to clean and dry sponges, with Cedar Keys and Ogall… ships contributing additional output. annual value around five million dollars.
A survey of the world’s premier diamonds notes the largest stones held by rulers and realms including Rajahs of Mantoa Borneo and the Shah of Persia. It recounts jewels such as the 279 carat Selon to the Emperor of the Mongols the 136 carat Regent in French regalia and the Koh i Noor associated with Britain.
At the last British association meeting Sir John Lubbock presented a paper on seeds. He described variation in size shape and surface, and explained dispersal by wind water and animals. He noted seeds that germinate on the ground or parasitize trees and described mimicry like the scorpiums to tempt birds, ending with a caution about best intentions.
A correspondent details the Creek and other civilized tribes in Indian Territory. He notes constitutions and courts among Creeks, a Baptist chief justice, and missionary work two hundred fifty miles west. Public schools, teacher pay, and tribal funds support education and tools. The piece blends social life, marriage customs, and an odd digression on meadow grass and a buffalo chase demonstration.
John Richardson, a private of ten years on the Indian frontier, trained buffaloes a antelope a prairie wolf and a prairie dog into pets. He showed them in a farm yard near Fordham and planned an exhibition after feeding and drilling them with Upton's tactics. The trio of wild animals obeyed best, though the wolf remained disobedient at times.
A fragment recalls a tramp’s note on a woodshed wall near Dorsey’s on the Baltimore and Ohio line claiming a meal at a Virginia bound stop. The writer Edger A Wilkins of Bristol England is cited with a playful jab about field picked dandelions and peas and Paris tobacco shop trivia.
A long assemblage of aphorisms on virtue, humility, self-control, forgiveness, and the value of knowledge and health. The speaker urges benevolence toward others, steady effort for knowledge and labor, prudent speech, and living by reason rather than vanity or anger. It contrasts wealth with health and emphasizes inner strength over public praise.
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