20 Oct 1892
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Newspaper
Sumner Gazette
Location
Sumner, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1892
Page
1
A poetic fragment titled The Harp of Love details a summer courtship crossing seasons. It contrasts fading wet season imagery with a looming doom and a fire that consumes their love, ending with a stark image of a harp left quiet. The language evokes a bygone era and the couplets reflect romantic optimism crushed by tragedy.
A narrator recalls Fort Ludlow's spring refuge and the hidden tragedy of Colonel Baxter and his young wife. The Colonel's wife defies tyranny by aiding a Southern officer prisoner’s escape, risking social ruin to grant him aid and a chance at happiness, while the fort’s women gossip about power and duty.
The San Francisco Examiner notes a simple 10 block numbering method for country houses, dubbed the Contra Costa plan, gaining nationwide attention for rural postal delivery reform. A. L. Bancroft drove its adoption in Contra Costa County, with county boards approving but not funding its rollout.
A detailed description explains road measurement by blocks, two numbers per block, and distance calculation from the county courthouse. It covers block frontage, odd and even numbering, use of letters for successive houses, mile markers with circles, and how town and country numbering interlock. The Granville Way example lists field notes, road condition, elevations, and landmarks, proposing a county directory from the blocker’s notes to aid travelers.
A trader named O Reilly found a precious stone near Vreil Griquiv and West and sold it for three thousand dollars. The Dutch host De Beer owned the mine that yielded diamonds, and the farm changed hands for ten thousand dollars. The region now and its nearby mines produce over fifteen million dollars in diamonds annually, with total wealth to date around two hundred fifty million. At Wesselton a meercat hole yielded a three quarter carat diamond and more, with two million five hundred fifty thousand dollars offered recently for the farm. Since then over two hundred thousand carats of fine white diamonds have been mined.
Jemmy Herst, a rustic, wins dinner amusement when a lord’s visiting nephew tries to prank him. At the hunt, the dandy bows and calls him Father Joseph, prompting Jemmy to reveal his simple honesty and blunt judgment about appearances and wit. The exchange ends with a self-deprecating quip about the visitor being a donkey.
Forest and Stream recounts a man who, on a cold Long Island morning, secretly pocketed a duck shot by another hunter before dawn. He hides it in his valise and jokes with a servant about cooking it, only to learn the bird was someone else’s lost quarry. He defends his actions as a mistake and praises game law respect.
The text lists lifespans of various birds from swans to nightingales and ravens, noting ages up to 300 years for swans and 162 for falcons, with parrots over a century and magpies 20 to 25 in captivity. It ends with an odd gendered remark advising girls to learn masculine tasks like clipping trees and swiping.
The French Republic strengthens its position via a February Senate election yielding more Republican members and through broad priestly support. Cardinal Lavigerie and other prelates push clergy to back the Republic, diminishing monarchist influence and signaling a durable government after the 1875 constitution.
The narrator reflects on the proverb Deaf as an adder citing Psalm 58 and an old belief that adders hear poorly. He recounts a boyhood memory, the origin of the phrase, and a legend of serpent charmers. The piece also describes a natural sculpture in Cape Verde resembling President Washington, a colossal ridge of dark gray volcanic rocks near San Vicente Harbor.
The article describes a massive monument dominating the landscape, reproduced with exact detail against a deep blue tropical sky. It stands out as one of the island’s first striking sights as approached, its vast scale and ocean backdrop creating a powerful, lifelike portrait.
Gambetta's mother, obsessed with seeing Paris, travels there in winter and falls gravely ill. Gambetta delivers his famed Chamber address while sheltering beside her bed, then learns of her death. The scene unfolds as newsboys celebrate his speech and Europe watches.
A seasoned African explorer tracked a buffalo lions had seized in a jungle night. Crawling through a three to four foot high tunnel with two Tokrooms, he and two men entered on full cock. They found the lions guarding the buffalo, but their cautious advance frightened the predators away, allowing the trophy head to be secured.
A worldly lady explains why plain girls marry sooner. She says plain women flatter men to flatter their vanity, while handsome ones seek flattery yet lack tact in men. The remark contrasts feminine tact with male receptiveness in marriage dynamics.
A widow tells her daughter that at her age marriage is due. The daughter jokes about a second marriage, sparking the mother to marry the daughter's lover. The daughter then marries the lover's rich father to seek revenge, depicting a sly, catlike figure and a common claim of doing work for three men.
A New York Tribune note describes a Central Park elephant amusing spectators by using his trunk to bat a popcorn ball toward his mouth after a stout effort with chains and a stall. The scene includes a curiously dressed eight year old watchingNearby, a nursemaid and child remark on the elephant’s antics and comic struggle.
A mosaic of moral maxims and broken lines on virtue, truth, and sin. It confronts pride, gentleness, love for God, and the danger of wealth or tongue in human life, urging humility, repentance, and faith. The fragmentary text blends religious admonitions with scattered aphorisms and misspellings.
The London News reports the King of Siam has a glass pavilion built by a Chinese architect. Walls, floors, and ceiling use glass slabs sealed with cement. Entry is through one hermetically closing door, with roof valves and a large reservoir to flood the space, submerging the pavilion to provide a cool, dry shelter for the king.
A compact meditation on age and emotion contrasts in prose style. It muses on women’s ages, love, sorrow, and beauty, noting a widow’s weeds may blossom and tears in eyes. The passage ends with thoughts on humility and the vast scale of humanity.
A playful exchange between Cara and Hook explores the strength of friendship through life’s changes. Cara dusts off a shoulder and asks if their bond remains as strong as at the start. Hook responds with a practical, teasing remark about a bet or fate.
The Cumberland Rhode Island meeting house dates to 1740 and is noted as a historic landmark. It is also recalled that Garfield’s mother worshiped there in her youth. A proverb contrasts a dimpled white hand with a rough working hand as the prettiest in each world.
The article notes that raindrop size ranges widely from nearly invisible specks to as large as about two inches in diameter. Lowe’s experiments with moisture sheets show drops at a given site keep the same water content, some drops are hollow, and variations affect precipitation dynamics and atmosphere moisture.
A Sunbeam through a lens onto lampblack or textiles in a glass vessel creates sounds via a rotating disc with slits. When a prism produces the solar spectrum, colored light falls on materials like red worsted or green silk, yielding sounds in some colors and silence in others.
Mr Long and Mr Short discuss plans to introduce balloon travel at Coney Island. Long is optimistic about the idea while Short voices strong skepticism, noting travel costs and safety concerns as a reason to doubt the venture.
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