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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1883
Page
2
Poetic exhortation by Countess Corent urging bravery, steadfast faith, and love as the path to heaven. The piece counsels bearing burdens, resisting sin, and trusting God, ending with a call to rouse the heart to work in faith and seek paradise.
Lysander Southernwood aims to marry Olympia Jones but keeps the match secret from his sister Catherine who resents the girl. Catherine invites Olympia to stay, enlisting Lysander to fetch help from Huldah Rush. Domestic strife grows as Olympia struggles with cooking while Catherine contrasts Olympia's inexperience with her own kitchen prowess. The minister and family soon visit, dinner hinges on Catherine's plan.
Olympia receives a basket cloth dress and blue trimmings from Miss Catherine as Catherine’s brother plans to marry Miss Huldah Rush. Olympia laments being sent away while Hul dah's refined appearance contrasts with Olympia's tawny hair. Helen W. Clark.
Four main ways to acquire U S government land are homesteading pre-emption tree culture and purchase. The timber culture act allows 160 acres plus another 160 under homestead or pre emption with restrictions. Tree claims require yearly cultivation planting and proof of 2700 trees per acre plus 675 thriving trees. Land office entry fee is 14 dollars for 160 acres. Only western prairie land may be taken by this method and cottonwood is a timber tree.
Mr L P Mairhead of Kilcreggan discusses the origin and spread of ensilage. He notes early German use of grass and clover in pits, with terms like saltfutter and vieh-sost. The practice reached Scotland around 1850, with Rev John M Wilson providing a detailed account. Muirhead questions the etymology linking ensilage to American or European words for pickling or salad.
A 1880s statistics note compares self-murder reports in the United States with Germany, citing 817 cases through March 1882 and 1606 by February 1883, with men far more affected than women and Americans leading by nationality. Methods include shooting, poisoning, and hanging, with regional rates varying widely.
The text urges creating inviting apartments with thoughtful lighting and furnishings. It recommends avoiding isolation by combining drapery, furniture, and pictures, studying room after guests leave, and arranging chairs in conversational clusters. It advises placing ottomans, sofas, and reading spots to maximize sociability and comfort.
The reviewer notes that wealth and elegance without warmth creates dreariness. Homes should be easy and cheerful so visitors feel joyous and in harmony with their surroundings, avoiding stiffness and severity.
A discussion on beginner swimming form from Popular Science Monthly emphasizes maintaining correct body position, minimizing water resistance with arm placement, and using leg motion modeled after frog swimming. It recommends alternating arm and leg strokes for steady buoyancy and reduced fatigue during long swims.
A compendium of old time units and numbers describing lengths weights speeds and lifespans. It cites cubits paces fathoms leagues and other measures with values for grain yields, barrels, and distances alongside milestones such as the Hudson steamboat era beginning in 1807 and the first horse railroad built in 1826 27.
A experienced glycerine expert recalls nitro glycerine’s power from blasting rock to a city with a $500 fine. He notes headaches among visitors near the material, describes a table concealing crates, and recounts a contractor’s accident in Canada that razed two thirds of a town.
An observer recounts a dramatic pursuit of a herd of sleek, well-groomed horses. After an initial miss, the rider closes in, the stallion bleeds and weakens, and a final shot from between the mare’s ears ends the chase with a somersaulting fall.
A lyrical voyage contrasts a sunlit hopeful voyage with a mournful river encounter. The first stanza depicts an opulent ship decked in flowers and bright sunlit imagery. The second portrays a desolate scene as a sorrowful bark sinks beneath a dark moonlit river.
A collection of social quips and tongue in cheek observations. Witty lines poke fun at education, marriage, flirtation, and domestic life through a series of short setups and punchlines.
Andrew Jaquith known as Prof George Greggs the astrologist died in Washington at the St James Hotel after a career that drew bankers brokers and professional men to his office in New York and later worldwide predictions including a claim about Garfield. He predicted a short life and had worked despite poor health for two years. He died of consumption.
Professor Thurston of Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken ridicules the idea that the Central Park obelisk is a simple concrete replica. He cites a Thames embankment obelisk sample containing silex mica and crystals of feldspar, noting its granite-like composition.
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