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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1881
Page
7
A Baroda snake charmer in India hypnotizes cobras with a pipe and music, producing multiple snakes from a boy's cap as an audience member shares the eerie scene. The account blends travel notes with vivid detail of the performer, his attire, and the dramatic performance.
Mrs George Livingston of Calhoun County Alabama hatches seven goslings from six eggs. A 22 year old alligator trapped near Talbotton Georgia measures five feet four inches and once escaped from Levi B Smith's pond in 1861. An old maid in Plattsburg Missouri keeps five trained cats sleeping on five decorated pillows. Manila gardens echo with wild canaries whose song rivals domestic Songsters, while winter flocks include linnets and goldfinches. Durango reports a deadly scorpion ala eran whose sting kills and lacks a remedy, requiring three or four men to restrain a victim and marking a dangerous insect enemy of grasshoppers.
The Empress Regent known as the Hastert Empress dies suddenly, ending one of the two old ladies who ruled China for the infant emperor. Critics note her neglect of state affairs and treaties in favor of power. The other regent, the Sampress, was famed for restlessness. A constitutional manipulation kept regents in power after the late emperor’s death in 1861. The death of the girl Empress and rumors of power struggles marked a grim chapter. A high official Wu Xotu, distressed by these acts, committed suicide two years earlier.
The article recounts two cases from a Magdalens Home. A wealthy man brought a woman to reform and marry after two years in residence, and they later wed in the institution parlor. A second case follows a reclaimed girl who married a prosperous farmer after disclosure of her past.
A manager relates a street meeting with three well-dressed women who joined him in a car. One woman, recognizing him, is revealed to be a former inmate who recently married and introduced her husband’s relatives, raising questions about their knowledge of her past.
A Nashville hospital dying man confesses a murder tied to Prof. Crowley of Mount Vernon Female College Cincinnati. Crowley was slain in 1549 defending a woman. three assailants fled, one stabbed Crowley, then a stranger with Crowley’s same size and manner later killed another, prompting fear and wanderings across the West. The killer’s last confession closes the century old mystery.
Truesdale, detailed to shovel grain, was caught by a perpendicular flange screw elevator. With his foot in the belt, he held the rotating shaft still for three quarters of an hour using sheer muscular strength against the engine. Rescue arrived, and doctors expect recovery of the injured knee.
A satirical notice from a newly opened hashery lampoons strict house rules. It jokes about intemperate conduct and harsh billing while absurdly detailing extra charges for dreams and nightmares and odd requirements for boarders and reporters.
Dr Charles A Doremus discussed his analysis of elephant milk before the American Chemical Society noting its richness and high butter and sugar content. He said elephant milk is about half cream and yields very rich butter with a pleasant flavor and odor and an olive like oil.
A Kansas City Times report recounts a prank by a lively young girl who wrote tinted notes to pastors on a Saturday night. Nine preachers fled to St Louis and three went West, creating a townwide sensation and sparking talk of scandal.
The 17 year old native Missourian Blind John, touring from Warrensburg, captivated St Louis audiences at St Pauls Chapel with remarkable imitations on piano and harp, mock violin, and comic routines. He demonstrated memory and skill by mimicking pieces and performers, including Blind Tom, Gottschalk, and local figures, to roaring applause. The report notes his nervous stage presence yet deep passion for music and wide-ranging instrument ability.
The Saturday Review argues English soldiers lack true marksmanship. Low target practice, few rounds per year, and inadequate exposure to uncertain distances hinder battlefield effectiveness. It recommends realistic training with simulated ambushes and variable targets to teach judging distance and shooting under stress.
A humorous calculation estimates William H. Vanderbilt's $51,000,000 annual income from government bonds would earn $5,000 daily, $208.25 per hour, and over five cents per second. The piece muses on endless ways to spend or repurpose wealth, from encircling the earth with nickels to funding a road to the moon, and even funding funerals.
The article contrasts German and American girls noting equal early schooling but limited sciences for German girls. It highlights strict class traditions, distrust of independent thought, and strong emphasis on housekeeping skills, wedding trousseau, and faithful engagements as defining features of German domestic life.
The Colorado landscape in Durango presents vast displays of wildflowers across hills mesas and valleys. Butterflies hover among harebells daisies and currant blossoms while white bell shaped flowers and wild sweet peas color the scene with a diverse array of hues.
Jasper a Black man from eight to ten miles from Americus reports Friday his ten year old son was entangled by three large black snakes while hoeing cotton. He freed the child by stabbing and cutting the serpents, receiving several bites in the process.
A May 31 lightning bolt hit Gray on a porch in Lancaster County Pennsylvania. The bolt traveled from the chimney to the stove, along the floor to the chair and Gray, then down his leg into his boot and the porch step before entering the ground. The farmer suffered non severe injuries and the house sustained minor damage.
A humorous fragment highlights pious readers and mock-solemn observations in a small town. Jests about temperance poems, escaped nuns, and flirtations mingle with quips about revised scriptures and social foibles. A colorfully described fire of everyday characters ends with a humorous note on work and pleasure values.
The piece explains dogs detect a unique odor from almost everything through an exceptional nose. It notes Anacharist can recognize people by scent, even under disguises, and that objects and ground retain trace smells hours later. It argues a dog’s sense and human sight form two halves of the canine universe.
A penniless American in Florence visits Powers's studio and is shocked to learn the Greek Slave sculpture costs three thousand dollars. He jokes that statue prices have risen and that he cannot afford such a piece.
In London a horse owned by Lord Denman was found nearsighted and treated with spectacles, using the same method as for humans. The owner reports the eye remedy worked, reducing the animal’s visual defect during street use.
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