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Newspaper
Rolla Express
Location
Rolla, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1873
Page
4
A mosaic of items notes social quirks and political hints. Mentions New York mayoral questions, a ladies fashion shift in Columbus Georgia, Texas turtle raising, and a story of whist games among prominent figures like Clay Fox and Webster. Also recalls smallpox anxieties and a prodigal son tale from St Louis.
At a Chicago examination a group of gambling defendants faced a jury that failed to reach unanimous verdicts. The foreman reported five jurors agreed while one obstructed, prompting the court to discharge the panel. The judge offered fatherly advice and released the accused.
The article describes the cocoa palm height and crown beauty, nut clusters, and spathes. It details sap collection for toddy, methods of climbing, yields of one night, and the souring process. It also cites European use and a literary aside about a family’s hardships and clever retorts.
Reading on medieval beliefs that animals faced punishment as criminals. The piece notes roosters accused of magical powers were burned with eggs, cites later declines in animal prosecutions, and reflects the antiquity idea that animals shared human traits and even speech. It closes with a dramatic tale of a cardinal cursing a thief with a fearsome curse.
A reflection on Dismal women who cling to gloom from duty and conscience. Some selfish or ill tempered. most aim to be good, insisting life is sin and sorrow until after death, finding happiness only by accident or duty.
December Harper notes the Library of Congress expanding to national stature, its open access catalogues by author and subject, and growing use by Congress and the public. It likens the 200000 volumes to Delos, a neutral national meeting place for scholars and citizens alike.
Junius Casar and Sosigenes first sought a permanent calendar fix by adding a day every four years to February. Pope Gregory XII later refined rules to align civil and astronomical years, calling a leap year every four years except centurial years not divisible by four hundred. The system aims to keep ecclesiastical dates consistent with the solar year.
Reports from Berlin describe xvol-dime thyl benzol as a coal tar distillate used against smallpox. Dr Xeulzer notes satisfactory experiments and widespread hospital use with adult doses of 10 to 15 drops and 3 to 5 for children. Monkeys reportedly suffer epizootic illness, with loss of smell, breathing trouble, and tooth loss observed among street organ grinders.
Botanists in Europe cultivate the Coriaria Shymifolia or ink plant whose Changi juice blackens on exposure and resists pens. The piece also offers recipes and tips for potatoes with onion dressing, burns treated by egg whites, oil from egg yolks for wounds, soap making from grease, and a promotion for Allen's Lang Balsam as a preventive health measure.
A new life insurance policy presented on New Years day by a husband to his wife or by a parish to their pastor is proposed as a graceful enduring remembrance beyond traditional gifts. It promises lasting benefit and perpetual remembrance as a thoughtful seasonal gift.
The New York Insurance Commissioner lauds The Equitable Life Assurance Society as leading the recent surge in life insurance, noting its multiple years of top new business and broad public support. Other items promote Wingcar for health benefits, Pierce pellets, and Brown's Bronchial S_roches with endorsements.
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