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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1880
Page
2
A poem contrasts dainty robes and luxury with poverty and toil. The wearer imagines a life of gowns and music while the maker toils in damp rooms sewing lace, dreaming of a different fate and the moment when both lives might meet.
A 10 year old boy nicknamed The General helps Grandmother on a Saturday by splitting wood, cooking omelette, and learning chores, then heads to the woods with friend Billy McEvoy. A bear attack ends with Greening killing the bear and discovering cubs in a cave.
Special correspondent notes in Honesdale describe Jerry Greening, a noted Pennsylvania hunter, recounting adventures with wildcats bears and deer in Pike County just before the cold snap.
The Philadelphia Press notes the General Index of Bureau Veritas 1880 81 shows world gross tonnage 6 475 198 with Britain holding over three quarters. The US is second with 548 vessels totaling 624 272 tons, France third rising fast, Greece the fastest growing maritime power, and a table of nations follows with tonnage figures.
Olive Logan laments Americans seeking distant Alps on a shipboard tour. A New York family with three children is celebrated abroad, while Swiss host Boniface jokes about Americans seeking distant peaks as the White Mountains at home. The column quips that true mountain sightseeing starts in the United States.
A portrait of Thomas Babington Macaulay detailing his prodigious memory, kindness, generosity, and love of good cheer. Anecdotes describe his scholarly range, his early slovenliness, later refinement, and his role as a famed cultural figure with courtly encounters and a peacockish dignity.
The sale featured Satsuma plate and vases at $115, cap of point d Alen lace at $13, Brussels needle point lace $202.50, Alen cone collar $5, seventeenth century Valenciennes lace $40, eighteenth century Worgentan ground lace $7, Brussels point d Angleterre $8, Mrs. Fitzherbert shawl $100, Indian embroidered shawl $50, Meehlin rail $37.50, white parasol $80, Worcester mug $40, Spanish Chantilly $347.59, cabinet pieces $100, Japo di Monti casket $00, royal Sevres plate $40, Limoges enamel $300.
A Boston story recounts a Maine clergyman describing President Woods at Prex prayers. The students silently pressure him as a giant sign reads Pray for the country. He concedes and prays fervently for the nation.
Farmers urged to feed cows well to boost milk, with butter prices high. Old cattle and sheep can be fattened for butcher profits. Sheep earnings soared for a Hinsdale, N. H. producer who raised three lambs from a Shropshire ewe for $19.50 total. Leghorns, Spanish, Houdays and Hamburgs lead in egg production with proper care.
A benevolent lady found a bleeding horse at her gate and used adhesive plaster on its shoulder. The owner replaced the plaster each day, and the horse thanked her with gentle neighs and stays. The tale argues for humane, considerate treatment of animals by their human keepers.
The article notes upcoming royal ceremonies at Windsor including the investiture of the Duke of Bedford as a KG and the surrender of Lord Stratford de Radcliffe insignia. It mentions a historic burial ground fee of 250 pounds charged by Windsor’s Dean and Chapter for “creaking the ground” at St George's Chapel, tied to royal tomb access, with a past incident where a Presbyterian Lord Chamberlain delayed payment.
A writer explains Jupiter's vast gravitational power, equating solar pull to 170 million bars of sand steel and Earthly pull to 23 billion bars of steel. The text notes Jupiter's approach poses no danger, despite immense forces, and assures the sun's dominion remains supreme.
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