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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1882
Page
1
A lyric fragment recalls a dream of home amid life’s hardships. The speaker’s vision blends in a distant lamplit home, grain fields, an orchard, and a lake as wariness and solace mingle in a bedside vision. The stanza hints at an angel by the bed and resolve in dread.
Fifteen years pass as Silas Marner remains reclusive in Raveloe, feared for his fits and herbs. A crime by Dustan Cass exposes the stolen gold, while the orphaned child Eppie becomes Silas’s daughter and brings him renewed happiness and community.
A farmer writes a testimonial praising a patent clothes-wringer. He notes buying the device and using it on a load, then recounts using the wood jug as green kindling after the wringer proved effective. The quip highlights practical satisfaction and economy.
The article reports impurities in caustic soda from direct production methods, noting arsenic and vanadium presence. A sample showed 0.16 percent arsenic acid and 0.014 percent vanadic acid. Detection uses Marsh apparatus, hydrosulphuric acid tests, borax bead work, and confirmatory precipitation with putgalls.
Report details the Auburn New York State Prison at night with nearly a thousand convicts in the north wing. Guards patrol every half hour while inmates keep quiet, read, and conspire. disturbances include whistles and laughter, cannons, and sudden awakenings.
The fragment notes an ancient English pearl fishery dating to Caesar's time and mentions large bogland in Treland covering nearly 3 million acres. It also references bank directors, Baron Rothschild reportedly leaving 400 million dollars, and a claim that the largest animals are rapidly disappearing.
An English spectator compares how Americans and Britons revere the War of Independence. He notes Washington's fame eclipsing contemporaries, and Patrick Henry’s fiery eloquence that helped sever colonial ties, stressing England’s fading memory of the conflict.
A new steam catamaran built by John Evertson of Troy New York arrived in Providence. The 45 ton vessel carries about 400 passengers with a double engine amidships driving a midship propeller between hulls. It features two decks an elliptical main deck and a broad open upper deck with pilot house and captain’s room. The pilot operates the engine from the pilot house dispensing with bell signals. engineers remain for other duties. The speed remains to be demonstrated and owners claim it as the first successful steam catamaran of its class after four prior attempts failed.
A satirical list urges husbands to never assist with chores and to keep wives tired and financially constrained. It mocks male hypocrisy by recommending wasteful spending on cigars, public talks, and neglectful behavior at home while demanding wives endure illness, gossip, and harsh treatment.
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