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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1890
Page
7
A playful verse describes a boy who teases his cat and sisters and spends all his pennies on this and that. He is hungry for treats, wonders why his stomach aches, and hates bedtimes. He complains at school time yet remains cheerful when making a racket.
Septimus Sowerby, a lifelong bachelor, travels to a Somerset village seeking health and disguise from loneliness. There he encounters Miss Clarissa Cox, whom he had once mistaken for Priscilla, and after an impulsive wedding vow he learns the value of freedom and companionship. Clarissa rejects the hurried union yet agrees to a second ceremony, and the pair affirm their commitment.
Foreign gossip reports a Woking prison female mosaic paving laid across St Pauls crypt with hopes to extend. It mentions Prince Haree of Japan as a healthy ten year old heir apparent, Vatican observatory plans including celestial photography, and Italian child trafficking stories in Tyrol. It covers Angora goat farming in Tasmania, Mount Omei temples in China, and reforms at Melton Mowbray parish including scales of parish pensions and livestock, plus prison life at Elmira with education, craft, and a 100 acre farm. a costly state institution with 61 officers and 83 cattle and 500 swine, 1890s reporting.
Robert Southey argues that fear of death is uncommon and arises from a diseased mind, noting the poor show a calm acceptance and faith in immortality. He reflects on personal losses, saying bereavement strengthens belief in a next state and that ties to loved ones beyond the grave shape his feelings about death.
A Western paper describes German officer development from five years as a lieutenant to staff roles and battalion commands, detailing three years at the war academy, progression to brigade command, and eventual Major General status. It notes schooling in tactics, history, fortification, geography, math, and languages.
The article explains obesity as a health issue tied to muscle and heart strength, noting fat serves protective and nourishing roles. It urges regular vigorous exercise, gradual fat reduction, medical advice, and cautions against quick fixes or slimming medicines, citing the Turkish bath as deceptive.
A Massachusetts reformatory prison at Concord operates on a collegiate system similar to Elmira. It houses a high proportion of serious offenders and burglars, yet limits initial confinement to five years with indeterminate, graded sentences for rehabilitation under a lenient regime.
The present fashion movement favors naturalness in form and design. Hoops and the bustle won’t return, as the taste shifts toward tailored, snug garments with minimal excess fabric. The trend suggests a steady, long lasting style with plain, clean fabrics and smooth outlines, though demi trains on promenades face opposition.
Chicago Herald reports the discovery of Schopenhauer’s final reflections in a hotel notebook after his death on September 28, 1860. The note includes maxims on nations, friendship, doubt, freedom, crime, poetry, and a quip about machines and cows.
A Chicago Tribune note recounts a tense exchange in class where a boy defends himself as indignant and a teacher claims rule enforcement. The article also mentions an average migrant income of about fifteen dollars entering the country, just enough for railroad fare toward Ohio Valley travel.
A collage of maxims and aphorisms from Milwaukee Journal Yonkers Statesman Atchison Globe United Presbyterian and The Old Homestead with notes on humility mind power and social duty. It discusses self opinion cooperation between crafts and philosophy and the pursuit of consistent happiness through knowledge and virtue.
A tale from Detroit Free Press about Farmer Brill, notorious for frugality, who spares a hungry boy by offering a whole bushel of apples. A sudden Indian attack reveals the boy Charles von Tottenham as a swift rescuer with a scythe, saving the farmer and wealth from their assailants. Brill learns a lasting moral: a good action brings unseen riches and He Who-Hawkers-for-Scalps is driven away.
A Boston Globe correspondent relays Deputy Collector Lewis B. Smith account of 1873 Grant visit to Maine. Amid cigars and supper at Mrs. Mullen’s North Haven tavern, Grant spoke openly, recalling Belmont to Richmond in vivid, concise terms, while praising soldiers and generals.
An old soldier recounts a social poker game in which he claims the biggest bet on record, two million dollars, after a Civil War raid near White Oak Church Virginia. He describes capturing a paymaster’s wagon with Confederate money, then returning to camp to play the heaviest game of poker, anteing $100 with unlimited stakes. The tale unfolds as he and three tentmates gamble the haul in a high stakes draw.
Cadet Grant impressed peers and an instructor with a fearless riding leap at West Point in 1843, clearing a bar on a chestnut horse as spectators watched. Decades later General Fry recalled the moment, noting Grants’s later life and his generosity to the riding master Hershberger.
Marcellus Reynolds of Company Sixty-Eighth Indiana recalls foraging with ten men and a lieutenant from Huntsville Alabama, captured by 480 Confederate Johnnies after a skirmish, marched hundred miles barefoot to Hollow Mountain, then Cahaba, and later paroled at Selma before boarding the Sultana. He survived the explosion and drift, was rescued by a gunboat yawl, dislocated wrist, floated twelve miles, reached Indianapolis, and discharged. He invites other Sultana survivors to respond.
The Department of Iowa W. R. C. counts 5,983 members while Acker Post St. Paul Minnesota lists 828 members and notes it furnished six Governors. Missouri G A R headquarters move to the Houser Building in St Louis. General Lew Wallace seeks a Mexican War pension to donate to Montgomery County orphans' home. General Sherman comments on war pensions and soldier pay. Minnesota Department reorganizes into three divisions with departmental officers visiting posts at least once yearly.
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