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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1882
Page
1
The poem contrasts morning and evening, praising evening’s sacred calm. It describes Evening as a holy robe that brings rest, peace, and a holy fragrance, with angels’ footsteps guiding the weary to sleep. Morning lacks the same tranquil power, as night’s mantle offers deeper beauty and repose.
In a tale set around a young couple, Edward Falconer relents to Lou Falconer’s demands for luxuries, risking ruin for a costly dress and social vanity. His generosity collapses into debt and disgrace, ending with his suicide as Lou laments, too far. The episode portrays a ruthless pursuit of status and the ruin it brings to a family.
Lieutenant Danenhower reports from Yakutsk December 30 1881 describing daily routine meals and visitors in a small hotel. He notes Yakutsk as a 5000 person wood built city with fur trade, extreme winter cold and summer heat. He mentions a visit with Mr Correikoff his family and local produce and animals including Yakutzs horses cows sheep poultry and crops.
A hunter rested in a Louisiana swamp and surprised a sleeping alligator nearby. He rigged a horn, percussion caps, and a pin in the tail to trigger an explosion and fatal blast. The creature thrashed, collapsed, and finally died after about fifteen minutes of convulsions.
The narrator describes a massive seven foot high German stove in a hotel room with three iron doors and a locked middle partition. A waiter lights a tiny fire that smokes heavily as the stove heats the great room, illustrating German claims of heat efficiency and safety amid skepticism.
The Middle and North Parks in Colorado are praised for fertile valleys and timbered ridges that shelter game. Altitudes range 7000 to 8000 feet with room to 9000 feet for crops. Dairy products, hay, and vegetables are expected to support local towns and mines, reducing frost risk in sheltered valleys.
The report lists 364 US Christian colleges by denomination with 41 Baptist 53 Methodist 36 Presbyterian 17 Congregational and 10 Episcopalian. Total property value approx 80 million dollars and per member values range from Baptists 3.82 to Episcopalians 13.57. Student to member ratios vary by denomination.
A Detroit commercial traveler on an Atlantic express to Niles relocates two satchels and an overcoat to make room for himself, then confronts the owner of the cargo after learning his New York wholesale crockery house failed for 288000 dollars. He boasts his firm’s assets and offers a cigar while warning the other to find passage home.
The French painter on glass is summoned to install seventeen windows he designed for William K. Vanderbilt. Sixteen are uniform size. the final twenty one foot high panel depicts Henry VIII meeting Francis I at the Field of Cloth of God with 133 figures. Includes queens Claude and Anne Boleyn and 16 other heraldic windows. Subject chosen by Mrs. Vanderbilt.
A seedy wanderer proclaims himself a dead copper to the country, recounting failed crops and disasters from Maine to California. He claims Comstock mines never paid since he arrived here, while a Comstock veteran jokes about drowning him if he is a Jonah, as the ragged tourist heads toward Oregon.
The article discusses the crowded market of infant and invalid foods sold in boxes at grocers and apothecaries. It warns that many products misrepresent their value, urging caution as starch can harm infants and some sick adults. It notes cereals claim to be starch free, gluten rich, and suitable for nourishing the young and ill.
The beer is treated with slaked lime and quartz sand, evaporated to a paste, cooled to form a hard residue, milled and extracted with 80 to 100 cent. of a 1 1 mixture of absolute alcohol and ether. Glycerine is isolated after evaporation. Two drops of the extract with phenol and sulfuric acid heated to 120 degrees form a brownish yellow solid, which dissolves in water and ammonia to yield carmine red. This tests glycerine and other fermentation byproducts.
The saying urges restraint in nicety and shows how small things matter. It compares stubborn habit to hardened mud and warns against letting sentiment grow into vice.
Tacitus noted Nero’s incredibilium capitor as he seized Rome after burning it. He built a mile long palace with a colossal statue, gilded interiors, and ivory rooms. His throne, dresses, and retinue reflected immense wealth, while he indulged every vice. The public admired his splendor for years, crowning his tomb with flowers on anniversaries of his death.
The Tower of Bologna has seen four documented suicides this century. A 1833 shoemaker drank wine then leapt from the battlements. 1874 a 23 year old man with eyes covered jumped, leaving his coat and letters behind. two years later an old man with a boy wrote infamy on the wall before leaping. most recently a failed exam candidate ascended with the keeper, lit a cigarette, then jumped as the keeper watched the bell, causing bystanders to find the keeper fainted.
Mr. Morris showcased Liberian products including coffee and cocoa, praising its climate hazard for whites but noting lower mortality than Jamestown. He cited palm oil as Africa’s great product, a mountain of natural steel ore, and widespread indigo and spices across the country.
A collection of maxims on speech and skill emphasizing that eloquence requires lifelong effort, slander should be met with refutation, and value is often recognized too late. It notes that brains are not measured by head size and that each person has a unique aptitude.
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