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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1883
Page
1
A devotional poem urges the heart to endure earthly shame and fear not. It calls for courage, self denial, and steadfast faith, urging love as the path to forgiveness and paradise. Countess Coreilt.
Mr. L P Mairhead of Kilcreggan writes to the North British Agriculturalist on ensilage origins describing a wet season practice in Germany eighty years ago using grass clover and vetches in a ground pit. He notes German terms saltfutter sauerfutter and cow salad, the spread to America and Europe, and cites Rev. John M Wilson and Sala's note on ensilage.
Olympia receives a new basket cloth dress from Miss Catherine as Hul dah Rush plans to marry Catherine’s brother. Washington’s tone shows family tensions and a young woman’s sense of responsibility as she reflects on past laziness and a better future.
The timber culture method allows a 160 acre farm with the option of taking an additional 160 acres via homestead or pre-emption, but not both methods twice. Five acres must be planted and cultivated in stages over four years, culminating in proof of 2700 trees per acre and 675 thrifty trees per acre to obtain patent, with extensions for losses due to pests or drought. The entry fee is 14 dollars and only treeless lands qualify. cottonwood is among timber trees noted.
An 1880s overview notes rising personal crisis reports in the United States, with 817 cases in the year to March 1882 and 1606 in the eleven months to February 1883. Men predominate, Americans lead in nationality, farmers top occupations, and causes center on family and illness. Methods varied from shooting to poisoning and drowning. regional rates vary widely, prompting concern.
The passage advises arranging rooms to convey sociability using lighting, drapery, furniture, and pictures. It suggests placing chairs in conversational positions, keeping layouts cohesive after guests leave, and crafting scenes with lamps, sofas, ottomans, and stereo views for pleasant effect.
The article explains proper body position and stroke for beginners focusing on minimizing water resistance with arm placement and rapid recovery. It compares leg technique to frog swimming, stressing horizontal motion, slow knee opening, and alternating arm and leg propulsion to improve buoyancy and reduce fatigue in long swims.
A compilation lists units and measures such as cubit two feet pace three feet fathom six feet palm three inches league three miles and other values for weight speed and distance. It includes data on languages lifespans and early transportation milestones like the Hudson steamboat entry in 1807 and the first horse railroad in 1826 to 1827.
A veteran with nitro glycerine experience recalls its extreme destructiveness in rock blasting and a curious headache effect on bystanders. He notes a city ordinance banning the substance and a contractor's fatal accident from spilled glycerine on a wagon tire in Canada.
A hunter recounts sighting a herd of zebras and pursuing them on a galloping chase. After missing at first the stallion is wounded, the herd scatters, and the hunter closes in delivering a fatal shot between the ears as the stallion collapses in a dramatic turn.
A fragmentary verse scene depicts a grand argosy sailing the sea with lush imagery and festive scent, then shifts to a mourning river voyage where a bark sinks under a grim night sky, with references to rue and fallen figures. The poem contrasts beauty and doom through rich natural and symbolic details.
A collection of quips and sharp lines on marriage, social manners, and curiosities. The items mock conundrums and flirtations, note a waiter’s misread order, and poke fun at openness in marriage with a sly exchange about honesty and what “happens.”
Andrew Jaquith known as Prof George Greggs the astrologist died of consumption at the St James Hotel in Washington DC after years of a lucrative practice. Once a Boston dry goods clerk he built a nationwide clientele including bankers and professionals who paid him daily for future insights and boasted horoscopes and predictions.
Professor Thurston of Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken ridicules the suggestion that Central Park's obelisk is a simple concrete copy. He cites a sample from the Thames embankment obelisk showing silex mica and feldspar and notes the granite-like richness.
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