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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1884
Page
2
A poem excerpt describes a delicate, unreal palace built by a patient architect. Its fragile frame gleams beneath sunlit splendor without roof or beam, hovering as if conjured by fairies. The owner appears in the air as a wind event and the structure dissolves when entered, a surreal, luminous dream within St Nicholas.
Christina Schmidt marries Han Jeni a promising Alpine guide from Engadine. After a perilous ascent on Piz Bernina a rope breaks and Jeni perishes. Christina, grieving, becomes increasingly unstable, awaiting news and clinging to a fantasy that he will return. Her father Schuldt tries to shield her as she sinks into despair. The tale ends with her death a year later, overwhelmed by loss, while Stanley confronts guilt.
A historic pledge to elevate farming as central to America’s prosperity and identity. It envisions the coming farmer as a national leader in commerce and politics, shaping laws, culture, and progress while farms blossom and rural life gains dignity and cheer.
Architecture needs a single composer and many executants for each work. Most executants are mere mechanics, capable of drawing straight lines and curves, but unable to grasp higher art in details. An artist-workman is required when forms become difficult and cannot be fully explained by drawing alone.
The Bartholi statue, claimed to surpass all antiquity, would dwarf the Colossus of Rhodes in size with a 137 foot body and a 220 foot height including its pedestal. Its copper shell, one inch thick, would be sand-filled and air cooled by an interior iron frame and an elevator. Critics doubt its winds and weather endurance and fear it may symbolize a cold metropolis ruled by one.
A man in tight trousers a colaway coat a hats and kid gloves posed by the Trust Company building on Market Street drawing watchers. He joked with reporters about a “mash” while a window dresser failed to engage a woman inside Einstein's window. The scene drew a crowd as the man pursued flirtation with the display before moving on. Also noted a Davy Crockett hunting knife donated to the Tennessee Historical Society with a wooden handle and a six inch blade.
A New York Observer correspondent laments modern reliance on physicians and extols wild plants once used for healing. Dandelion, coltsfoot, foxglove, Glycyrrhica glycyrrhiza, hoarhound, angelica, nettle, peppermint, mallow, and wild geranium are cited for remedies from easing asthma irritations to skin inflammations and pain relief, recalling historic country remedies passed through generations.
A collage of household guidance and farm tips from multiple papers. Topics include horse care with carbolic cups and stable sanitation, improving farm health, absorbing ammonia with sand plaster in stables, and manure management. Food tips cover fried bread, lemon fritters, custard desserts, and banana slices with custard. Home remedies describe ginger elixir for stomach cramps and a topical preparation for cow udder issues.
An Army and Navy Journal anecdote recounts a cavalry officer tale where an enlisted cook serves up wild turkey with grasshopper dressing. A lieutenant at the opposite table is urged to try it, prompting polite resistance and a jokey claim that grasshopper dressing is customary in the country.
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