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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1880
Page
4
A naturalist muses on sight in animals from greyhounds to pigeons and dragonflies, noting gaps in understanding how eyes and nerves compute distance. He cites gnats, geese, ants, woodpeckers, and birds warning others from a Brazilian expedition, highlighting innate judgment of danger and instinctive defense.
The Bahama Islands devote much land to fruit cultivation, notably oranges and pineapples. Pineapple estates form striking landscapes with vast yields sometimes reaching a million and a half fruit per acre. Bahama pineapples from New Providence are praised for size and quality, with Nassau exporting a million tins yearly, worth about £16,000.
A gentleman with a thick skulled servant nicknamed him king of fools. The servant retorts that if the gentleman could make his words true, he would become monarch of the world. The exchange highlights sharp wit over grand pretension.
A reader asks whether Sinbad’s memorable voyage on the rock was the first time a man went out on a fowl. The query hints at legends and prior maritime tales and seeks clarity on historical precedence.
A fragmented OCR snippet shows a mule driver addressing his team with a quirky phrase my dear earers and a stray line about leap year, bull frogs, fashion, and crockery suggesting garbled early text. The readable bits hint at a period newspaper fragment with odd dialect and unclear context.
Farmers are urged to grow Hungarian grass though few adopt it. It matures quickly if planted with warm weather and cut early. Harvest timing, dust reduction, and proper cutting height with hand rakes improve yields and cleanliness.
Orchard grass increasingly grown in North and South. Mix it with clover at a ratio of half bushel seed to one quart clover, then repeat to four to five bushels. Wet thoroughly, add plaster or ashes, dry to workable bulk, spread and sow like wheat. Avoid bulk storage over night in heat.
The text explains road strength depends on the hardest spot and urges fixing rough spots to haul heavier loads. It notes April as a good month for road repairs and paths improvements, criticizing using good teams on poor roads and urging better alignment of effort with road conditions.
Guidance on rearing a young bull from birth to maturity. Start with cow milk until six months, then reduce to twice daily, then daily. Introduce light work and variety foods, gradually increasing rations. Wean gradually in pasture, ring at eight months, daily handling, avoid disturbing the wound, and apply mutton tallow on the nose until healed. Afterwards, feed like other cattle to maintain condition.
Sore throat and similar troubles if progressed threaten serious pulmonary affections. Brown's Bronchial Troches reach the disease center and provide almost instant relief.
An exchange describes planting a new corn hill every fifteenth row to ensure pollen supply after dry spells. Replanted pollen helps silk fill when tassels fail, reducing barren ears. It notes six bushels of peas per hog fattening, and that Early Rose potatoes yield best with minimal seed per hill.
A Boston Globe excerpt dismisses quack tonics and praises Simmons Liver Regulator as a cure for general debility from alcohol use. It argues liquors worsen stomach and liver conditions and cites a patient from Coman's Well Virginia who was cured after using the regulator.
From experience and observation the St Louis Miller testimony endorses onions as beneficial for lung and liver issues and colds. Consuming raw or cooked onions at night reduces trouble by morning and regular use promotes digestive health. syrup of onion juice can help, though fried or roasted onions are preferable.
A inebriated Speculator wandered to New Street opposite the Stock Exchange asking which way to the other side. A broker pointed across the street and the drinker exclaimed that the house across from him was now over here, claiming G-d had just told him the truth.
A listed recipe describes cleaning brass copper tin stair rods taps and windows with a thick paste made from whitening rotten stone soft soap vinegar and water boiled then mixed with turpentine. Store in wide mouth jars and apply lightly with a rag then polish with leather dipped in Bath brick to prevent tarnish.
Citizens on Larned street converse about a 20 note. One man insists payment or protest. They discuss bank deposit and notification to pay, with potential protest costing twelve shillings.
A six year old boy near Bridgeport was asked by a teacher for his name. He replied they call him a genuine jackass. The inquiry was abandoned.
A method in Portugal cleans and sprinkles sugar inside fish to preserve it. Fish lie horizontally for maximum sugar penetration and extended freshness. Salmon treated this way before salting and smoking gains improved flavor, with a tablespoon of sugar per five pound fish.
Belle laments a red holly sprig in her hair while Aunty suggests mistletoe to invite a kiss. Belle resists the idea saying she expects attention from young men, but Aunty counters that they would not kiss anyway, sharing her own failed attempts.
A collage of quaint vignettes from a past era featuring mischievous children, retorts in a court session, folksy quotes about presidents and fools, a tale of a drunken traveler to Hades, a razor joke, clergyman and tipsy man exchanges, and domestic quips about chores and meals.
A recipe instructs boiling sugar with water, adding orange rind, then brandy. Simmer briefly, pour hot over prepared oranges, and chill before serving as a sweet orange dish.
Recipe describes simmering beef onions carrots potatoes rice split peas with herbs in a covered earthen vessel in a moderate oven for four hours. Uses one gallon water and salt and pepper to taste. Indicates suitable when stove top is needed for other cooking.
A metric style recipe describes a Scottish cake using butter sugar currants raisins candied lemon and orange soda eggs milk and spices. Mix cream butter add dry and wet ingredients gradually fold in currants and soda then bake slowly until done.
A recipe instructs to save bones from a turkey, break the backbone, boil bones in extra water, skim, add turkey meat cut small, boil briefly, then season with salt and pepper.
Sorr Molassies gingerbread uses one cup molasses one teaspoon saleratus one teaspoon ginger one tablespoon butter or lard and a pinch of salt. Stir add half cup boiling water and one pint flour. Bake thin sheet about one inch deep. Water must boil and flour beaten well before adding.
A recipe instructs shaping bread dough with suet raisins currants to rise then steam for two hours. The second item reports a father warming a son with a base burner in Albany County, detail noting abuse.
An antiquated note praises a quip about Charles Knight and references amateur pedestrian matches in Atlanta. It then reports on competing remedies pushed by advertisements including Dr Bull's Cough Syrup, sold widely at 25 cents, and introduces Carboline as a deodorized petroleum extract claimed to cure baldness and act as a hair dressing.
A court ruling clarifies that recommending a soothing remedy for children containing opium is harmful. Dr Bull's Baby Syrup is certified not to contain opiates and should be widely advised.
An editorial urges readers to try Dobbins' Electric Soap made by Cragin & Co of Philadelphia and to ask grocers for St. Pimples and Humors on the Face. It says Vegetine cleanses the blood and removes humors that cause skin conditions.
Avorn a Costrvl Habit or Bopy, not only because of the attending discomfort, but lest it engender diseases involving more serious consequences. Dr. Jayne's Sanative Pills are either Laxative or Cathartic, according to the dose, and may be depended upon to produce healthy secretions of the Liver and Stomach.
In Worcester Massachusetts on February 3 1879 a letter from an elderly reader praises Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Pellets for recovery from pneumonia and long standing lung weakness. The notice touts growing popular favor in the United States and a London branch to serve foreign demand and includes an address for the World’s Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo NY.
A Maine Farmer quote touts Hop Bitters as the remedy to regulate the stomach and liver, claiming perfect natural action of these two organs will greatly reduce most human ailments in any climate. The ad stresses Hop Bitters as the sole means to achieve this health.
M Tholion reports a solar protuberance seen with high dispersion spectroscope, measuring one sixteenth of the sun’s diameter about 55 000 miles. The text adds a note that ostrich feathers can be bleached by sunlight in air saturated with benzine turpentine or petroleum vapor.
A historical note claims Nature cures disease by expelling via the cave, asserting Kidney-Wort aids this natural process and performs sixty miracle cures according to McEncury.
An advertisement for Dr C W Benson's Celery and Chamomile Pills. claims to cure headaches neuralgia nervousness paralysis indigestion and more. Priced 60 cents a box or six for $2.69, post free from Parsons Bangs & Co wholesale druggists of Portland Maine. Satisfaction guaranteed.
An advertisement offers a free recipe to treat nervous weakness and early decay in men. It claims discovery by a missionary in South America and asks readers to send a self addressed envelope to Rev. Joseph J. Anman in New York City for the remedy.
A book on the liver its diseases and their treatment sent free The work covers liver complaints torpid liver jaundice biliousness headache constipation dyspepsia malaria and more Address Dr Sanford 162 Broadway New York City NY
Advert says the belts will be sent to the afflicted after an 80 days trial with speedy cures guaranteed. They declare they mean what they say and urge readers to write without delay.
In Port, Illinois on September 27 1873 J H Porte writes that Vegetine is a valuable medicine. He states it is one of the best remedies in the market for general debility and a blood purifier.
A grateful mother states Vegeteine restored her daughter's sight and likely saved her life, describing the medicine as very valuable and expressing strong gratitude to the remedy and its effects.
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