06 Feb 1878
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1878
Page
1
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An old verse-like lament recalls a man’s courtship gone awkwardly sour. He watches a woman in church, hopes rise with the organ, then hears blunt plain words that reveal her love as insincere. The narrator laments his tame life and mistaken longing.
In Gosport, Dr. Palmer’s school harbors tyrants like Perry Nugent and Morton Elston. New pupil Mordaunt Ellis endures brutal hazing as Nugent and others torment him until a near-fatal rope prank triggers intervention by Morton and the doctor. Nugent is expelled. Ellis transfers after recovery.
In a humorous kitchen exchange Mrs. Pruzals and Ebenezer discuss cramis and crams as a new trend in household ware. The dialogue shifts to a Philadelphia Press note on European savings banks and Paris deposits during the 1877 crisis, contrasting frugal workmen with shifting cigar trade dynamics and post strike labor.
In Cambray Ontario a tame crow formed a bond with Mr. William Sinclair’s hound. The bird shared food and slept in the dog’s box, teasing the hound with its crusts before finally leaving to seek warmer quarters. The crow has not been seen since last week.
The extracts publish thoughtful pieces from our most intelligent writers. They express views on current questions of the day and offer substantial entertainment for a university audience.
New Yorkers, led by prominent physicians, warn that cigarette smoking injures health more than cigars due to inhalation. They cite effects on the nasal mucosa, pulse, nerves, and circulation, with increased risks of catarrh, vertigo, and anemia, plus claims about paper wrap from cigarettes.
Ten thousand cigar strikers end a four month work stoppage as unions in other cities had aided them. Employers lose on closed factories while government revenues drop. strikers gain only charity before resources dry up and idleness returns.
A New York Mail piece mocks a California push to bar Chinese imports and expulsion. It contrasts supposed Chinese frugal habits with Western vice, suggesting assimilation fears and urging caution before forcing removal. The author notes potential for imitation of local hoodlums and questions the motives behind anti Chinese sentiment.
A writer to the English Mechanic pleads for inside door handles on passenger cars to prevent rain wet cushions and reduce danger from open windows. He argues children and ladies would be safer, and notes recent railway heatings via pipes from the baggage car with a universal joint for train coupling.
The text surveys wide odds and ends from Barnum ticket totals to silk plush efforts and a 102 year old with a sister older, plus local notes on rye production in Pennsylvania, oyster trades in Baltimore, and a Paris bracelet of Teslacage slavery. It blends humor and trivia with curious facts and social quirks.
Jean Plantier a pointsman on a French railroad is hailed as a hero after being struck by a goods train while trying to close a crossing. His arm was amputated but he tied off the bleeding and remained at his post until the station master arrived to aid him.
The article notes Britain consumes about 900000 tons of sugar yearly, roughly sixty pounds per person. Raw sugar carries 2 to 3 percent impurities, with cargoes sometimes containing up to three tons of stone. Experiments by Dr. Cameron and Dr. Hassel report up to 100000 mites per pound of raw sugar.
Andrew Ogden found a large snake at a spring on O A Jennings farm northwest of Salem. J M Graves reported many snake heads at the bluff, guiding a party to dig the den. They removed two hundred ten reptiles but miss some, with lengths from eight inches to six feet and one leg‑sized giant retreating.
January 30 Senate debates on recording chattel mortgages being replaced by indexing, governor consent to nominations to Longview Asylum declined. House bills include jury pay and Supreme Court salaries. January 31 petitions on canals and liquor code amendments. reorganization of Neview Asylum and Canal preservation efforts advance.
A collage of mid 19th century observations describes leather finishing with varnish, lime for bone preservation, and polishing mixes. a Breslau factory chimney project uses a fireproof, waterproof ceramic method. choleroform and etching with muriatic acid detail insect killing and cutlery decoration. It notes steelmaking tangents, paste for jewels, glass from slag, and steam electricity experiments in locomotives.
A collage of random quotes and notes from multiple papers. chatter on politics, society, and culture. Snippets mention a river race, Holmes on Motley, a debate over a poem, a New York auction scene, and reflections on national debt and civilization.
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