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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1886
Page
3
Selections echo a moralist tone praising inner virtue over outward display. Lines urge humility faith and quiet devotion favoring kindness, parental care, and spiritual growth over worldly glamour and fame. The piece closes with a reference to a child in God’s house contrasting with earthly power.
A forgetful chain of letters travels from New York to Newark to Boston, Yokohama, Vienna, and Florence. Henry Milford’s delays and misdirections test love with Clara Bennett. After two years of wandering, Clara’s response arrives, and Milford learns patience pays. a wedding ends the tale.
In Baltimore society the current vogue features wedding breakfasts and toasts, ornate watch cases, and elaborate jewelry including gold rope bracelets with gems. Brides receive jeweled brooches, lace pins, earrings, or bracelets. a ten thousand dollar diamond wedding gift was noted. Oatmeal water is praised for skin care.
An excerpt from Cornhill Magazine describes flat fish asymmetry with left versus right eye orientation and the unlikely growth of leptocephali. It explains leptocephali as young fry of shore-hunting species that drift to the open ocean, remain immature, and resemble elongated glassy creatures with large eyes.
A missionary recounts how Indian students restrain laughter in white society yet tease themselves with scenes like frogs in a drawer and a starving pony surrounded by crows. They laugh privately, balancing solemn demeanor with locals’ humor about white men and behaving within cultural limits.
The Philadelphia Times profiles Mrs Jay Gould as a gentle quiet, intensely family centered woman. Born Miss Miller she gained wealth with husband Jay Gould and detests ostentation while valuing Irvington life. She nurtures Nellie and the three sons, cherishing home, flowers, music, and a private yacht life away from Wall Street.
In separate incidents at roughly the same time, two Brooklyn women who endured regular beatings turned on their husbands and beat them severely. One used a stone, the other a pitcher, and both were taken to the hospital.
A collage of humorous vignettes and cartoon captions spans mock philosophy, hotel fire cautions, politics, poetry, and witty exchanges. The pieces reference Punch style satire, American quirks, and light domestic humor with city papers like Brooklyn Eagle and Norris town Herald contributing snippets.
Advice from the Boston Medical Journal on fruit intake, stressing ripe fruit and timing with meals. It warns against feeding children green fruit and overripe decay, linking improper fruit to diarrhea and dysentery risks, and notes cooking can reduce irritants while preserving nutrition.
A detailed description from the Chicago Inter Youu on papier mache, its production from paper pulp or sheets, molding, pressing, and shaping. It notes finishes, varnishing, gilding, and high temperature firing, plus applications in architectural ornaments, stereotyping impressions, waterproofing with iron sulfate and silicates, and imitation marble with whiting.
A lively survey of perchers and gamebirds, from sparrows and wrens to crossbills and hornbills, describing nesting, feeding, and unusual behaviors. It notes the Baltimore oriole’s pouch nest, the bowers of Australian bower-birds, and the plumage-driven trade in birds of paradise, with brief regional notes on migrations and habitats.
Youths' department offers a lyrical sendoff to a fantasy city "Shut-Eye-Town" with a lilting travel motif. The poem celebrates a bright, imagined journey filled with fairies, rainbows, and sunny scenes, urging quick attendance before pleasures pass. It attributes the piece to Clara J. Denton in our Litlie Ones.
Weezy, age four, plans a birthday tea with Jenny, age five. They dash along the path with a dust-pan carriage, dollies, and a bubble pipe. Across the street Jenny chats about a new bogey ride, while Ned brims with mischief and hints at stealing apples.
The beet sugar industry is just beginning in the United States while Europe produces about half the world’s sugar from beets. Napoleon spurred beet sugar with bounties. Germany supports it with laws, stations, and export profits. European beets yield high sugar and molasses, with diffusion and lime-based purification improving juice purity.
An anecdote from Scottish Geographical Magazine recounts a physician’s grim duty to medicate Uganda’s king Mtesa. The doctor explains the pressure to ingest medicines himself and to administer doses to seven bystanders, with death suggesting poisoning. A prank involving Mwengi wine reveals the king’s manipulation.
Two French chemists Hem bert and Henry describe a method to produce hydrogen by decomposing vapor over incandescent coke producing hydrogen and carbon monoxide, then recontact with carbon monoxide to yield more hydrogen and carbon dioxide. They report 1000 kilograms of coke yielding 3200 cubic metres of hydrogen at low cost. One Pharaoh, Rameses II, is unearthed near Cairo with the Khedive present. In California humming birds are kept as pets and bred in captivity.
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