05 Jun 1878
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1878
Page
1
A fragment discusses a curtain lecture at eleven thirty PM with warnings about poor financial choices. It mocks following poor advice and urges reconsideration of stock moves while noting disdain for the country and mentioning coal shares. The excerpt ends with a quoted Harper's Bazaar line about prudence.
A sick man in Dusseldorf occupies an artist’s studio to seek oculist care and encounters a mysterious nightly knocking. He sees a painting of a crouching leopard that seems alive and moves, until his doctor explains a cat trained to mimic the portrait.
Four hundred years ago six metals were known, now fifty one exist with about thirty discovered since the modern era began. A Vienna mechanician has powered a sewing machine with clock-work, wound in minutes and running for hours under user control. A Grove battery and bar magnet in London isolated a steel chip from a mechanic’s eye, the chip dislodging from the cornea. Calculations compare threads and hairs in size, noting ten thousand hair-sized threads are smaller than a beard hair, and four million young spider threads are smaller than a hair. Wood offers weight strength, coarse grain bears dampness, and is suited for weight carrying like ties. The rain tree of Pew yields little ground moisture. leaves shed water from cicades, akin to honeydew from aphids on lime trees.
A long, crowded column surveys curious notes from history including a four year old with a fifteen pound head, Edison’s autophone myth, Paris women studying medicine, a Detroit socialist forecast of labor unrest, royal restorations in Dublin, and a comic cross country carriage tale about odor and manners on a train.
A quarrel erupts after Miss Kellogg accuses newspaper men of being lemons to be squeezed and discarded. The Buffalo Express retorts with a sharp demand to keep distance and calls for police action.
The arrival of the picnic reason sparks a nationwide joke about a young man in lavender trousers sitting on a custard pie, breaking out as widely as smallpox or spring poetry.
A lengthy reminiscence on Mrs. C a rarity of the Southwest life from Washington to Van Buren era. Her hundred plus years reveal a life hoarded in wealth and slaves, solitary mansions, and a stubborn claim to inherited farms. Her heir a pauper dies while she clings to fortune. The piece ends with a moral on effeminacy pride and covetousness.
Harper's New American novels describe Johnson holding formal meetings with a department head roll call and table seating while Lincoln favored informal rooms and private talks. Lincoln reportedly relaxed rules, roaming the room and even putting his feet on the table while chatting with Secretaries.
A November morning tale describes a tall man who accepts a brick as payment for five hours of work. He completes the task amid a crowd, earns a dollar and a half, and later secures steady employment. The brick stays on the mantel as a cherished symbol of a transformative gamble.
The article profiles Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, narrating his disciplined, work driven routine in Vienna, his winter and summer habits, and love life. It recounts his first romantic meeting with Princess Elizabeth at the Traunsee, where Elizabeth captivated him during a hunting visit, shaping his lasting marriage.
Scribner June reprints W L Kingsley’s critique of Samuel Peters History of Connecticut 1781 as source of Blue Laws folklore. Wild frogs march through Windham in 1758, provoking fear and odd dialogue, then Bellows Falls and a dramatic Connecticut River passage described as monumental natural phenomenon.
A collection of curious notes covers whaling methods oil quality from ships to tar and feathers as a winter safeguard. It jokes about ultra-thin gold coinage, vast stellar distances, chemical unifications, and astronomical ephemerides. It notes a heat-powered future and odd fossil finds with playful claims about pyramids and sound experiments.
A wiry woman claiming she is the Goddess of Liberty entered the White House during a visitors’ reception. She demanded the president pardon her son in New Jersey prison, but was ushered out after the doorkeeper cited papers at the Capitol.
The Clermont Gousier outlines advertising charges: legal notices and all transient ads cost $1.00 per square for the first insertion (ten lines) and $0.50 for each additional insertion. Local rates apply.
A whip-poor-will perched by the woods voices its plaintive refrain. The pond by the pool echoes with frog and cricket as night settles and the bird laments then flees into the forest. Harper's Magazine for Jane.
A collage of humorous snippets and social jibes from early 20th century papers. Quips about women and youth, editorials, stray anecdotes, and light oddities reference figures and places in a brisk, miscellany style.
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