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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1883
Page
1
The punctual tide draws up the bay with wave and spray. The great red lighthouse tower blooms on the headland, a fiery rose emerging from darkness. A dazzling beacon, a beckoning shape on the tar cape as it comes and goes.
An American narrator visits Maroki's in Nippon Bashi with a Japanese official friend. They sample broiled eels cooked in skilled fashion, view the kitchen, hear of the bones boiled for jelly, and observe the lavish hospitality and high bills.
Captain H T Owen recalls a dramatic Civil War feat at Manassas on August 30 1862 where a Federal artillerist risked his life to save a cannon, racing through a ditch under fire with four horses pulling the piece. The account shifts to a humorous anecdote about a printing press mishap involving Mr and Mrs Spoopendyke and Stanley Huntley.
A New York hospital patient, Henry Stube nicknamed Masky, has a face that never changes expression due to nerve and muscle paralysis. He has worn the mask for two years since a neuralgic cold and is treated mainly with electricity while his lips move only with his hand and eyelids are held shut at rest.
The article traces the Jew's harp origins across countries and languages from Germany to Denmark and Greece. It highlights Eulenstein the German herdsman who mastered the instrument and performed in Paris and London in 1826 with Stockhausen, bringing European recognition to the instrument.
A traveling granger with a wagon lured boys in an eastern town. He tied ropes to wrists and held apples while two bystanders pulled opposite directions. He could bite the apples alternately, winning each bet by exploiting a two against one dynamic. The stout man relied on partners pulling opposite sides, always leaving him one of the two.
The 1823 London exhibit described a single masted sea vessel buried under nineteen feet of sand. Found near Malham on the Rother driver, its dimensions measured sixty three by fifteen feet. The ship featured no keel, two stern cabins, and a unique steering system using rubber bands on the rudder. Artifacts included a flint and steel, sword fragment, vases, bricks, locks, leather ink bottle, shoes, tiles, calendar board, bones of humans and animals, and a curious oak board with lunar markings.
A narrator recalls jealousy on a veranda as a man offers a crimson rose to a beloved, while the speaker longs and then lifts a white rose from a white breast to her lips, expressing joy and emotion in a restrained, formal tone. The scene centers on romantic ritual and inner contrast between crimson passion and white innocence.
A US Express detective traced a package robbery at Comnerstown by teeth marks on the pasteboard. He befriended Charles Bassett, the town’s one-armed man, hired him as a detective, studied bite marks, and used a wax cast to match the imprint before arresting Bassett.
A collage of witticisms and anecdotes from a local page includes church dues paid with eggs, snappy sayings about tastes and contracts, tales of a Baptist cornetist losing his post, and satirical lines about occupations from stone yards to cemeteries. Named items include the Moss Pointers of Mississippi and various professions.
Captain Burton notes that many cultures forbid whistling for religious or protective reasons. Arabs, Tonga islanders, Icelanders, and parts of Germany link whistling to disrespect or ill fortune, while women are said to whistle less due to perceived ugliness or risk to appearance yet have appeared at public events emitting refined tunes.
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