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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1886
Page
6
Rev T DeWitt Talmage urges Brooklyn Tabernacle listeners to rebuild the bridge of sympathy between employers and employees. He counsels high wages, humane hours, healthful workplaces, moral guidance, home visits, and personal care for workers while stressing Christian duty in management.
The Chicago Times argues fifty years of state and county fairs boosted dairy quality, breed improvements, and farm practices. It urges fresh premiums to spark novelty, promote shelter belts and stock ponds, and push rural architecture, silos, and new agricultural departments for ongoing progress.
A Gentleman's Magazine piece argues the classic pi approximation 0.7854 is nearly exact to one ten-thousandth, with decimals reaching 607 places, then notes the absurdity of infinite division. The Jacob Telegraph quips about a Massachusetts man renowned for fifty years of waking to kindle the kitchen fire.
A collage of curious reports spans Africa to Japan and North America. Witchery of the shark cult on the African coast is noted with yearly child sacrifices mentioned. A California lawsuit cites a blotting pad as evidence. A Japanese tale describes a materialized soul in a tiny blue flame manikin. A Manitoba farmer survives a lightning strike while an eye removal method uses horsehair. Congressman Tim Campbell is mocked as a Scots Irishman in a dispatch joke from the Washington Hatchet.
The last obstruction to Clyde navigation, Elderslie rock, has been removed, allowing large ships to steam into Glasgow. About 100000 tons of rock were blasted and dredged at a cost of nearly 70000 pounds, expanding the river to twenty feet at low water and thirty six inches at high water. The Clyde Trust’s work transforms Glasgow into a premier port, with expected docks at Govan boosting trade and the city’s standing.
A collage of curiosities from 17th century cherries to Russian crisis reports, Paris carpenters on Sundays, prize essays for naval defense, a jailed envelope seller in England, cattle plague losses in Russia, Sphinx overhauls in Paris, a Dublin chapter-house find, and Kate Rowland the dwarf leaving a wardrobe gift to buy twenty dolls for orphans.
The Trinidad source discusses Obeah as a pervasive belief across the West Indies. It outlines Obeah practices from casava root poisons to arsenic bean plants, notes Jamaica and Haiti prominence, cites St. Vincent as its home, and mentions Kingsley’s Trinidad visit as evidence of imported poison culture.
A poetic meditation on how human praise can drown divine whispers and how the truly elevated soul seeks God’s approval above all. Lillien B. Fearing, Chicago Advance, contemplates angels, heaven’s music, and the inner rapture of spiritual achievement over worldly acclaim.
A compact listing of quarterly lessons and dates for May 30 to June 20. Topics include Jesus feeding the crowd, Jesus the Bread of Life, Jesus the Christ, and Jesus and Abraham, with related Bible references. Includes a concluding review and optional lesson selections by the school for service of song missionary temperance or other themes.
A Congregationalist article argues that true success is using one’s God given opportunities, not chasing fame or wealth. It cautions against judging by outward status, urging people to value humble sacrifices and personal progress over appearances.
The reminiscences recount Jenny Lind’s pledge to endow schools for poor Stockholm children. She spoke of earning thirty six thousand pounds in America to fund the plan and asked for God’s blessing on the Lambs of Christ’s flock. She hoped for three years to complete the work.
A mosaic of moral maxims from various authors reflects on education, virtue, trust in God, domestic restraint, the value of purposeful living, and family religion. The excerpts praise learning, moral discipline, steadfast faith, and the role of homes and prayers in shaping character.
The account recalls Bishop Stanley defending the singer Jenny Lind by praising virtue and talent. It quotes a chaplain who says conversations with her made him a better man, and anchors the tale in St James' call to visit the fatherless and widows in distress as a model of pure religion.
The piece argues small daily duties and simple acts of guidance or encouragement can have infinite future impact. A word, a greeting, or a brief note under duty's pressure may influence others more than grand works, making the present act the best for maximal good. God can use our least deeds for great outcomes.
A Springfield correspondent recalls Elder Swan in Albany defending the Bible amid skeptics. A loud critic offered five hundred dollars and a month to bring a better book, but produced neither the money nor the book. Swan quipped the Apocrypha outclassed any rival.
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