Lament of a Mother for a Lost Child in Nature
A mother speaks over her child lost to a peril of the frontier, describing the burial beneath a living tree, the soft dawns and sunsets, and the enduring bond that will bring reunion in a timeless land. The verse contemplates nature, memory, and the night skies as the child rests among birds, blooms, and starry witnesses. The voice vows future sorrow yet hopeful reunion beyond seasons and storms. By William Cullen Bryant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lehall
German Professor Aids Reanimation Of Desiccated Animals
A German professor at University Weissnicht demonstrates that desiccated animal tissues and even whole bodies can regain life after moistening and electrical stimulation. Experiments show muscles, vertebrates like cats and dogs, and other tissues can be revived from a suspended state, challenging views on vitality and coagulation.
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University
Weissnicht
Muller
Paris doctors revive two communists by desiccation method
A German physiologist led experiments at the Paris Veterinary School using blood removal and calx solution, then warm dry air to desiccate two condemned communists, Dodu and Bran. After failed attempts on Dodu, Brune regained life 14 hours after galvanic revival, while Dodu died from heart and liver degeneration. Bran later recovered and is said to be in Switzerland under an assumed name.
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Hundefat
Parla
Louget
Du‘treehet
Magendlé
Richeraud
Paria
M. Thiers
Dodu
Bran
Brun
Almass
Veterinary School
Alfort
Paris
Richelaud
la Roquetle
Thia
Sience
Switzerland
Fourche
Wouldn't Come Down about More
A quaint Scotch minister overstates in the pulpit provoking his clerk who signals him with coughs. The preacher, dwelling on Samson and fox tails, exaggerates measurements until he declines further discussion. Cedar Rapids pays $69,000 for her gas works.
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Sampson
Cedar Rapids
Tyndall's Lectures. An Irish Englishman Enlightens Science
The account profiles Prof. Tyndall at the Lowell Institute lectures. It describes his appearance in evening dress and his engaging manner. It notes his demonstrations on Newton rings, undulation, magnet experiments, crystal formation, and Faraday-inspired imagery, praising his clear, genial teaching style.
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Empious
London
Newton
Young
Tyndall
Faradays
Jack Frost
Shanes
Prof. Tyndall
Lowell Institute
Hydrophobia and the cautery cure myth over dog bites
A Applatoma Journal article dismisses bogus remedies for rabies and urges rational precautions. It describes cauterization with heated metal as a foolish, painful practice and notes that many bitten people escape infection, while superstition and quack cures proliferate in Haiti and elsewhere.
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M. Leblanc
Hayti
Applatoma Journal
Gentle Woman on the Care in a Seated Contention
A letter from New York Mail describes a crowded railcar scene where two women refuse to yield a seat and a gentleman calmly defends his rightful place. The observer laments the petty conduct, urging reform of domestic manners and self restraint among well-dressed urban women.
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New York Mail
Feng Pordona
Rutin
A Romance of the War at Tiffin and Nashville
An incident from the Civil War era tells how Captain Downey rose to Colonel of a colored regiment and saved Colonel Washington near Nashville. After Washington’s death, Downey’s widow and children receive the colonel’s estate, valued over $100,000, including cash and 300 acres.
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Tiffin
Cleveland
Oslo
Tifa
Downey
Tennessee
Washington
Nashville
Col. Washington
Dees
Ancient English Turtle Lived Two Centuries in Garden
An archival notice recounts a Petersborough garden turtle aged about 220 years. The tame creature ate lettuce and greens in spring, fruit in autumn, and preferred strawberries and gooseberries, for which a chain kept it from raiding fruit trees. It weighed 13 pounds, carried a garden weight at times, and hibernated each autumn in a sun-warmed burrow before returning each spring.
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England
Petersborough
Pril
Fortune and Wisdom Prayer in a Humorous Parody
A spoof of the classic prayer asks for wealth and virtue with playful anachronisms. It invokes Fortuna and Solomon, asks for charity, restraint, and success in fashion and business, and ends by naming Beau Bennett in a humorous, archaic diction.
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China
Solaman
Taylor
Stillminker
Miatden
Widdo
Reddy
Emmy
Venfaon
Manny
Beau Bennett
the Beautiful
Towns grow and disasters loom across a sprawling era
In 1850 Town’s population reached 200000 with rapid growth to 1,050,000 in 22 years. A fire destroyed John Moran’s dwelling in Claire City. The Central Railroad aims to reach Mankato by January 1. Locals report new funding for apparatus, a reservoir expansion to 4000000 gallons, and shifts in newspaper ownership. A reform school adds a girls department. Tragedies include James Minick’s gun accident and Torkle Holchinson’s death on a threshing machine. A Davenport surgeon notes horse catarrh and patent innovations boost machinery efficiency.
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O. KF
Avery
John Moran
Claires City
Mankato
Minn
Urdy
Town College
Arinnell
Swineheart
Maple Grove
Titm
A. W. Boges
Vinton Hugle
Walter C. Morrison
Dubuque
Minnesota
Minneapolis
Town Reform School
James Minick
Red Rock
Marion County
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Neticen
Business Directory
SESE
Gill & Doxsee, Tholesale and
Etall
Flint Street
Monticello
Towa
B. B
Attorneys At Law
J. Monroe
MM. M. Moulton, Justice of the Fence
Monroe & Moulton
A. J. Monroe
Onticello
Jones County
RM. W. Herrick
Monticaro
Iowa
Wirant’s
John McKean
Anamosa
Milton Remley, N. M. Remley
Heimley & Remley, Attorneys AT Law
Notary Public
First Street
Davis McCarn
Sheean
Sheean & McCarn
Law and Solicitors
I ‘Chancery
Fisher House
Anamosa, Tow
Brick Manufactory
Joan Ginson
W. Gurney
Farwell
United States
Mm, Wo
Moka
Justice of the Peace
First
I. J. Phillips, M. O
Ffice
Condon
Cedar Street
Newcomb'hoese
D. Gould
Port Iowa
National House
J.P. Sleeper
Gordi Pon
Monticello House
Monticell
Louis Vaussler
The
Cara
D. L. Norcross
Wright's
E. C. Brown
Dealrk IN
Hopkinton
Ranson
Feed & Sale
C. W. Gurney
Sonfetanga
Davenport
P. H. Babcock
North Cedar Street
Navy
Insurance Company —of
North America
Philadelphia
Stillman & Cowles
Franklin Fire
Ins. Co
D.e.pond
Underwriter's Agency
Chicago
OF New York
D. E. Pond
WM. Abet
Kirst Street
Abel
D. Nelson Coen
Geo. O Goodrich
Ar. We
Wim
Cullen Bryant
N.Y
Tribune
Fanny Fern
Vietin
Canear
Hilling
Btate News
Cendar Rapids
Johny Carter
Davenport and
Des Moines
Torkle Holchinson
Claytoon County
L. F. Parker
Lowa
Town
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