10 Oct 1850
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1850
Page
1
A fragment list quotes a satirical piece on marriage and domestic life mixing husband and wife woes with social scenes. It weaves comic bites about prying neighbors, chores, and the tug between individual desires and marital duty, closing with notes on trees and seasonal prompts.
A lyrical piece traces a youth’s awakening to love and joy, then a harsh unveiling of poverty. The speaker recalls Beauty Psyche and Dian, recalls honeyed dreams, and laments memory’s chill after love fades. It ends with a solitary heart beating farewell.
The essay extols the sea as the noblest cemetery where all ranks sleep alike and no monument marks their end. It contrasts ocean graves with earthly cemeteries and praises the moral grandeur of the sea while lamenting fashionable propriety lacking soul. It praises Moore's Western Magazine excerpt on the country press and urges Westerners to support home papers.
A young lady explains she did not use medicated soap because she has plenty of soft soap from her bean which she says brings color to her cheeks. A hand organ vendor contrasts it with a piano, claiming any fool who can crank a organ can make music.
A Norfolk style clipping shares varied maxims and curiosities. It mentions Neptune steamer butter recovered after twenty years underwater tasting as fresh as ever and offers reflections on pleasure pain jealousy and social foibles in brisk, pointed lines.
A Chinese man Cuixese Fexirat died at the Chinese Restaurant of Macoa and Woosung. The funeral drew about 150 Chinese mourners, all in white crape. The ceremony featured lowering the coffin, disposal of arm bands, candles and wine, bowing to earth, and a final grave filling with liquor and sugar offerings. Americans were invited to partake.
A fragment from the late Admiral Sir Joseph York’s papers describes a nautical dancing method. The steps include heave ahead pass yard arms regain berth, maneuver ahead and back, pay off alongside, make sail, and cast off to shift for herself while regaining place and letting go anchor.
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