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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1883
Page
1
Poem excerpt reflecting yearning and profundity of love, describing the world as vast yet inadequate to contain the speaker's immense emotion. The speaker laments the impossibility of love fitting within earth or heaven and imagines a grave as a final confinement for the overwhelming feeling.
Antoine Wiertz paints a startling portrait of Maitre van Spach after the notary refuses a high pay, then recasts the work as a prison scene. The prank escalates to public display and a tense bargaining duel ending with charity payment.
A Harper's essay recounts colonial scalping practices from 1698 to 1722, including Hannah Dustin and Lovewell, detailing bounties paid for scalps and noncombatant targets. It discusses official tariffs, religious justifications, and Cotton Mather’s demonology as explanations for the brutal policy.
The article explains Helmholtz on nerve conduction with thought traveling a mile in a minute and Hirsch noting touch reactions in a seventh of a second. Hearing responds in a sixth, sight in a fifth. brain processing takes about seventy-five thousandths of a second, with recognition and willing actions totaling forty and thirty-five thousandths respectively.
A Baltimore News summary discusses moon effects on fluids and bodies, noting hairline links to sleepwalking, dreams, myopia, and animal sight. It cites Forbes Winslow and French psychologists, arguing meteorological and lunar phases may indirectly affect brain and nervous disorders.
The article traces ancient spurs from jeweled knightly adornments to their role in cathedral etiquette. It describes whip traditions in York’s whip dog day and a blindfolded rooster game, plus the old whip top pastime and Dryden’s Virgil translation mentioning youths whirling tops.
A London correspondent notes vast numbers of boot and shoe shops and many India rubber goods shops in business streets. He also observes a surprising abundance of artificial teeth shops and wonders if dental work is performed on the premises and whether such a trade can be profitable with so many traders.
An Arkansas man reading on a cross tie did not hear a locomotive whistle due to deafness. The engineer slowed and gently shoved him aside, apologizing as the man realized he had been moved by a train. The incident highlights the traveler’s remark about the “imperlightest feller” ever seen.
A London Field correspondent details the Indian tattoo pony famed for pugnacity. When well fed and worked they rival game cocks in aggression, yet under neglect they turn stubborn and dangerous. Despite cruelty and unlovely appearance, some hope remains for the tattoo’s future.
The nails grow fastest in summer and slower in winter. In children growth is rapidest, then slows with age. Right hand nails renew faster than left, with growth varying by finger, fastest in the middle finger and slowest in the thumb. Left-hand nails take eighty two days longer than right.
Poem attributed to John C. Blair urges scattering kindness to revive hope. faith in compassion can revive lost souls even when actions go unseen. The piece frames kindness as a guiding light that endures beyond earthly life and promises a blessed end.
A humorous assortment of quips about broken promises, public figures, a grocer, and comic misunderstandings. It features jokes on swimming guides, barber banter, Apache stamina, and a duel of fates between Job Shuttles and Patience, ending on a note about justice and Bluemood.
In Paris the eccentric poet Baudelaire sought to shock M. Du Camp by drinking Bordeaux and Burgundy in one sitting and later dyeing his hair green. Du Camp remained unmoved, saying he had seen greener hair that day. Baudelaire stormed out, calling Du Camp the most disagreeable man in Paris.
After the Chinese legation opened its quarters in Washington a beggar was treated with unusual hospitality. Attaches conducted him to a luxurious room, offered him a lunch, and a collection was taken for his benefit. News of the episode spread quickly and the legation has since faced many unprepossessing visitors.
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