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Newspaper
Mills County Republican
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1880
Page
8
A fragmentary poem speaks of love dimmed by youth and aging pain yet finds solace in patience. Three angels symbolize love, hope, and patience guiding life through storm and winter toward a hopeful, eternal bloom.
Mark Twain presents a comic scene where Mortimer and Evangeline argue during a violent thunderstorm. They improvise with German phrases, improvised lightning protection, and a clattering dinner bell. Neighbors mistake the scene for a threat, while Garfield’s nomination distracts them all as the storm passes.
An excerpt from Arthur Connolly's Overland Journal describes hyena capture by Afghan and Arab methods. It details trapping with a cloak or qupta, slipping knots on forelegs, and pulling to immobilize the animal for transport to the krayl or for training. The piece notes cross cultural similarity in techniques between distant regions.
The passage notes maternal anxiety when daughters are infants and contrasts it with later feelings. It praises a graceful resilient spirit of a Black man who, struck by lightning, calmly jokes that the experience grants him relief, illustrating endurance and humor in hardship.
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