27 May 1875
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Newspaper
Ohio Cambridge News
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1875
Page
1
A lyrical tribute from Atlantic Monthly June praising Freedom as a guiding force for men and women. It celebrates a idealized feminine influence inspiring courage heritage and moral duty linked to historic events and national memory. The piece invokes battles and martyrs to honor a perpetual call for liberty and renewal.
A narrator fantasizes wealth turning him into a national leader and icon, detailing an extravagant chain of gains from trading a watch to buying land, railroads, and political power, including a humorous sequence of imagined newspaper notices before a grim ending. The piece blends satire with a meditation on money’s lure and social ascent.
A collection of light anecdotes and curiosities from Europe and beyond. The Prince of Wales trip to India is pegged at 1 250 000 dollars while a French scientist’s son dies in a laboratory accident. Other items include a Welsh will case, court outcomes for aristocrats, Parisian mob scenes, plans to light Paris by a balloon lamp, and a rich American in Paris entangled with a cigars gater. The Pope scenes and a Vatican incident close the round.
Divers examined the Schiller on the 14th finding it broken up with no cargo recovered. 100 bodies were counted by the morning of the 15th. Carlists shelled Pampluna, Gaetaria, and Peshawar fire devastated half of the city of Pesha war. Count von Arnim’s trial set for July 1. Cracow arrest tied to conspiracy against Prince Bismarck. Carlist gains at Montserrat. smallpox spreads in Carlist camps. Tilton-Beecher case opened in Chicago. whisky fraud defendants bailed. Sioux delegation welcomed by the President. John C. Breckinridge funeral held in Lexington.
New York markets report flour wheat oats corn and pork prices with futures and cash offers. Chicago prices for wheat corn oats rye barley pork lard and cattle listed along with regional quotes for hogs and sheep. Prices show firm cattle and varied hogs and sheep values across districts.
Instructions from Maine Farmer describe making fringe mats by cutting carpet crosswise, using foundation cloth, folding strips to create a stepped edge, and sewing with stout thread. Edges align with half inch overlaps, corners turned square, and a final central band ties the pattern together for a neat mottled appearance.
Edward Gay from Jersey City Heights was in a New York juvenile asylum for discipline when he and others loaded gas-pipe powder and fired it. A fragment struck his eye, destroying it. He has been removed from the asylum and a $10,000 suit against the guardians was filed. The asylum is a Legislature-incorporated institution with guardians as security for those entrusted.
The stickleback, a tiny fingerling under three inches, captivates with color shifts and feisty behavior. Males build intricate nests from straw and plant matter, guard eggs fiercely, while larger sticklebacks prey on fry creating constant commotion. A related note recounts Agassiz’s South American nest experiments with an Antennarius fish.
A New England woman noted for spelling 650 words of Congregationalist has never learned to bake bread from flour yeast and water.
A Minanzi woman, after patient study, invented a process to spin silk from cold cocoons. The method uses no heated water, saving space and coal and reducing effort for the spinner, while producing stronger silk than the old technique.
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