11 Sep 1878
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1878
Page
1
A nostalgic poem describes white jasmine along a gray wall and empty rooms in a once lively home. The speaker recalls summer days, cherished memories, and a departed loved one, offering comfort that memory heals and time softens grief. The verse laments absence, notes faded vitality, and hints at enduring devotion through sorrow.
A quartet at the Hotel du Rhin in Switzerland discusses a reckless plan by Viscount Montague and Sedley Burdett to voyage down the Rhine in a crude boat. After delays and warnings, they sail at night, face a perilous fall, and Montague dies in the second cataract, leaving Marion Wentworth a grieving survivor.
The piece chronicles Byron’s only child’s marriage to the Earl of Lovelace and her line, noting two sons and a daughter. It details the eldest son’s odd exploits at Eton, his eventual work in Scott Russell’s shipyard, and the subsequent shift of inheritance to the Wentworth line. It also reports on Goodwood opening day fashion among the nobility and Mrs Langtry’s pale pink ensemble.
A jumble of curiosities and comic vignettes from the era sit side by side. A editor asks if civil war nears while a Detroit Free Press ad boasts a piano for sale by a lady with modern legs. Other notes cover embattled politicians, royal monuments, and a humorous reform tale of Bijah and a wayward boy in a city jail.
Bradford Breeze offers a rambling list of archetypes from old maids to milkmen who overwater milk, a tender hearted butcher, a hotel clerk failing to size up men by clothes, and singers who mumble. Mrs Berkley returns from Niagara Falls amused by her husband’s snoring compared to the cataract roar.
A Fairbault Minnesota tale recalls a young husband who smuggled Limburger home, faced a pungent confrontation with his wife, hid the cheese in a gate-post, and endured a costly sewer cleanout while insisting he did not eat it. The piece stops with a note on a balloon descent at a Cincinnati camp meeting and a tangential remark on Hindu beliefs about souls.
A reflective essay humorously defines hash, traces its two forms home made and hotel fare, and recalls childhood memories of hash smells and kitchens. It notes suspicion over ingredients and bones and jokes about the universal search for safe hash in American dining establishments.
A Sunday in London shows strict Sabbath observance with closed stores and churchgoing crowds while Paris features open shops and grand performances. American clergymen fill London pulpits, including St Pauls and Westminster Abbey. A Nebraska bishop preaches at St Pauls and a Pittsburg bishop is announced for next week. The note ends with Puck quip about war, yellow fever, and tobacco in crowds, and a brief fish talk joke.
A collage of humorous clippings and quips from various papers. Topics range from wordplay and weather to social satire and odd anecdotes. Notable items touch on Washington Monument work, judge satire, odd crimes, and a portrait-gallery tease, all in a brisk, period-voiced roundup.
The Glermont Courier presents legal and transient ads at 41.0 per ware for the first insertion ten lines and 0.50 for each extra insertion. Annual reductions apply. Business cards up to six lines cost 84.00 per year.
In a grim scene the morning light reveals a man’s fall through a staircase as a girl below uses a scrub brush and lye. The poem imagines death by washtub and suds, contrasting despair with the urge to rise above sorrow. The reader is left with stark imagery of peril in a domestic hall.
The passage notes Sir Samuel Baker's claim that a negro has never tamed a wild elephant or any wild animal. It mentions ancient Carthaginians and Romans trained elephants, Arabs and others often found elephants distressing for children, and that rewards for young elephants were offered but none were obtained alive.
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