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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1880
Page
1
A searing moral meditation on friendship restraint and self knowledge. It extols truth and love as foundations while warning against despotism and capricious silence. It urges patience tempering behavior and shows irony about vanity and public perception.
A reflective poem recalls a shared riverside path under willows and elm, where spring and summer joys once thrived. The speaker notes distance from a beloved landscape and companion, as seasons turn from vibrant greens to winter stillness and parting.
In the final night of an engagement in an Italian city a gifted pupil of Max Herne receives applause while he watches with adoring yet critical eyes. She confesses longing for home as Herne urges devotion to art, and their tense dialogue reveals love, pride, and a power struggle between master and pupil.
Maude Leblanc rejoins Hunt Ellis in a German town with plans for Paris, where she earns a crowning triumph for her master Max Herne. Ellis reveals his past and love for Maude as she gives her future to pursue performance and marriage.
Fire insurance policies exclude fences yard fixtures stored furniture and plate glass doors over three feet unless specifically mentioned. Jewelry plate watches musical instruments ornaments medals curiosities printed items and several others require explicit listing. losses from explosions and theft are treated specially. leased property storage and preservation efforts affect claims.
The Norwegian army reorganized a skater corps into five companies of 110 men each, with 270 landwehr skaters as a wartime reinforcement. Armed with rifles, they traverse ice and snow with cavalry-like speed using six inch by nine to ten inch skates. A 120 mile relay from Roerass to Drontheim covered 120 miles in 18 hours.
Three prospectors recall dramatic finds and near misses in Utah. Stories recount a volcanic crater with quicksilver waterfalls, a silver bluff boat embedded in a cliff, a mule accident, and mountains of solid gold glittering in the sun.
A detailed, chronological tour of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem describes its origins under Helena, Constantine, and later Crusader influences. The piece outlines the site’s architecture, key chapels, the tomb of Christ, reliquaries, and the surrounding devotional practices, with historical notes on successive rebuilds and imperial rulers. A traveler anecdote concludes with a parlor tale about political misadventure and a safety lecture on railway windows.
Mrs. Jennie Lewis of Nevada returns from Europe with a remarkable ear case. A quarter-inch shell lodged in her ear for over thirty years, moving only after a long past removal attempts. After a decade of pain and a failed operation in Illinois, the shell finally loosened on deck mid voyage, and was extracted with a pin. The surgeon aboard noted the rarity of such a case.
A woman in a nearby town raises several songbirds and preserves their live summer prey by drying and bagging them. In winter she feeds the insects after rehydrating them, noting that mockingbirds thrive on spiders and regain song when fed this diet.
The Committee on Atmospheric Influences released a forecast for the coming winter citing four indicators: thicker corn husks, many overcoats in pawn, anxious women seeking bonnets, and frogs seeking deep water. The report suggests a tough cold season ahead.
Berlin crowds flock to see Joignerey at the Vaudeville Theatre where the French athlete performs a muscular act lifting a horse and rider suspended by a trapeze above the stage. He swings head downward and sustains their weight for several seconds as a trained horse takes the dramatic lift and descent. The show fills houses despite Berlin theatre managers lamenting empties elsewhere.
A stylish young traveler arrives in Paris from Brussels and asks a porter to guide him to Hotel de la Roumania. The porter leads him to the Prefecture of Police where detective Vanwater recognizes him as a wanted thief already jailed five years earlier. He is placed in a cell pending extradition papers.
The article explains two methods to etch glass using hydrofluoric acid in gas form or as a liquid solution. It describes preparation of the gas from fluorspar, calcium fluoride, and sulfuric acid, and cautions about fumes and skin sores. It also notes glass plates are waxed first and etched surfaces are created with gravels. It mentions acids for metal etching and warns HF acid is not used on metals.
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