03 Nov 1881
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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1881
Page
1
The text speaks of the soul’s release and future peace in a brief span. It contrasts human turmoil with divine knowledge and urges stillness as the soul awaits its resting place. The piece uses biblical imagery of sparrow's fall and a patient, obedient hush.
On deck at dusk aboard a steamer, Hetty and Deb hear an old captain recount a romance from a past voyage. A first officer marries a sick Spanish girl to save her from a scheming stepfather, a dramatic voyage, a court, and a child, ending with the captain’s son as a new love interest.
Reports recount Michigan forest fires scorching miles away from shore leaving sailors uncomfortable and wildlife seeking refuge. A gambler named Tex dies. his wake passes into a mountain funeral in a valley amid mourners and a charitable, noble character noted for generosity despite gambling.
Dr. K von Fritsch of Halle argues earthquakes originate at shallow depths not exceeding ten to fourteen miles and arise from minor forces. He notes Krupp’s 1000 centner hammer and Leimbach dynamite blasts cause noticeable shocks at large distances. He explains rocks may swell or crevice under physical and chemical forces leading to oscillations in schists and varied seismic phenomena.
The passage describes Mexico as a nation of diverse classes and colors with Creoles praised for beauty and courage. It contrasts Spanish, French, and Italian belles with Latin American women, notes expressive eyes, and laments poverty as the burden shared with loved ones across years.
A Leadville correspondent reports the arrival of J. B. McClellan’s body after a late night in the Gem saloon. The town’s miners, merchants, and rough characters crowd the scene as musicians play. The marshal and crowd witness the aftermath of a fatal event amid revelry and ruin.
Describes Queen Victoria's simple Balmoral day: piper at 8, breakfast, outdoor walk until noon, lunch, then official reading and correspondence work until 5, followed by a daily drive from 5 to 7 or later, with cottages near the castle visited occasionally.
A mellow raw apple digests in an hour and a half while boiled cabbage needs five hours. The baked apple is touted as the most healthy table dessert, especially when eaten at breakfast with coarse bread and butter and no meat, reducing constipation and acidity and cooling fevers, with a claimed reduction in doctors' bills if families substituted pies and sweets with this fruit.
In 1852 a cheap suspension aqueduct linked two river bluffs in California. A higher bluff offered water but yielded less than the lower. Sailors, including a whaler's mate, built an eight inch duck hose strung between the hills with a rope, piping water to the lower valley. They struck it rich off land once deemed worthless.
A father recalls his son's first tooth and early years with scenes of family warmth. The narrative traces tooth growth, parental pride, tender mornings, playful pillow fights, and a lifelong bond as the child grows into adulthood. It ends with a bittersweet note as the son, now thirty, greets his father with a familiar good morning echo.
A domestic mishap ends with a woman attempting to hoop a flour barrel using a rolling pin and camphor while thinking of martyrs. The man redoes the task, but a misstrike hurls the barrel and hammer across the room, suggesting a grim fate for the household routine.
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