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Newspaper
The Evening Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1872
Page
3
A poem contrasts beauty wealth and love with the Pearl Street drummer as a symbol of power. It asserts friendship loyalty and affection endure but the drummer cannot feel love. A final moral states the true influence is the love of guilt behind the throne.
The article argues toys can educate without overtaxing minds. Bricks and a steam model teach mechanical ideas, while kites, magnetic toys, and puzzles reveal scientific laws. Early, well guided play aids reading, arithmetic, and even cooking, shaping character and knowledge for poor and rich alike.
The passage notes that for some, finding stillness is hard and suggests quieter toys as substitutes. It observes French preference for weapons and ape and other implements as boy playthings and argues this national taste has influenced character.
A collection of witty quips and sketches from varied sources including references to Darwin birth order and public oratory. The pieces touch on jokes about hens and swallows, digressions on politics, and humorous local misadventures from Nashville to Paducah with multiple nations and figures implied.
A garbled page extracts a collage of famous maxims attributed to figures like Grant Catacazy Confucius Fisk and Webster. The piece presents varied aphorisms on honesty industry self reliance and morality with names and dates distorted or misrendered. The source assembles contrasting voices and a humorous tone in a decorative flash of quotes.
A garbled local tale recounts Mr Bergh's agent interrupted a tug between two dogs and a boy near the river. The interference led to the dogs losing their pants in seconds before the man departed for another engagement.
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