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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1886
Page
7
A brief verse contrasts a past romance on yellow sands with a present married life. The speaker recalls holding a lover close beside the sea, then notes they are now married and walking apart as life changes. The piece frames memory, longing, and commitment in a nostalgic tone.
Dallou's Monthly notes that in 1883 snake bites and wild animals caused heavy fatalities across British India, with tigers and other predators killing thousands, often due to night travel and cattle losses. Lions, leopards, panthers, bears, and wolves are discussed, highlighting behavior, hunting, and risks to natives and herders.
Mrs Maud C Murray advises five core rules to run a home efficiently with capable maids. Patience, kindness, system, proof before accusation, and calm handling of faults transform a young servant into a loyal, better worker, as shown by her own experience teaching a hesitant helper.
The Fortnightly Review argues capitals are vital military points, citing Napoleon’s use of capital defense to explain rapid conquests and 19th century campaigns. It notes London’s strategic value with Woolwich, Enfield, and artillery stores, warning that capture would paralyze defense and shorten sea control, even as governments relocate.
A New York court ruled that a wife throwing her husband’s pants from a window cannot alone basis for a divorce. The decision signals shrinking grounds for marital dissolution as seen in this case commentary.
A Topeka Commonwealth correspondent reports a violent hailstorm on a Kansas train near Florence and Osage City. Large hailstones smashed fifty four windows, water flooded cars, and passengers sought shelter on the south side as the storm raged for over an hour.
A resident's yearly report on the Sakils, a Malay Peninsula Aboriginal tribe, notes about 700 to 800 people in nine divisions led by head-men. They live by jungle produce, hunt with blow-pipes, use a cross-bow for large game, tattoo arms, desert villages on deaths, and live in bamboo huts elevated above ground. They resemble Malays but have wavy hair, trade with Malays, and are gradually gaining friendly ties with Europeans.
A Dakota settler tells his son of a proposed land scheme involving oil and gas speculation. The father urges caution, warns against early sales, and recalls past boom busts while advising honesty. The conversation centers on a potential fifty foot well, a quick windfall, and the risks of trusting a fast profit in eastern speculation.
A University of Illinois paper by Prof. G E Morrow on dirt road design argues good rural roads support economy and social growth. Elevate road-beds, crown surfaces, and install ditches and tiles to drain wet soils, with careful grading and narrow raised lanes for better drainage.
A collage of home and farm tips from various papers. Notes on water for birds, crop fertilization, buttermilk in griddle cakes, cleaning a dirty cat, fence maintenance for stock, making dainty sandwiches, care of oilcloths, driving lice from cattle with tar, use of dry earth to control odors, manure absorption, and brine or salt to suppress grasses and weeds.
Henry Stewart of New London gives practical poultry guidance for a twelve to twenty fowl flock. He outlines budgeting profit, egg and meat prices, brood care, nest management, feeding, water, and coop layout. He emphasizes minimizing fuss, using open south-facing sheds, garden forage, and bone supplement to boost health and egg yield.
The Chilkat Luchats practice a unique royal selection where the heir is the Queen’s closest male relative, not the king’s child. A queen’s bargain with a man allows him to become sovereign, often through marriage to tribe women. A Sitka Indian woman once bought a slave to be her husband for about a thousand dollars in goods.
Five million baseballs have been manufactured this season, reflecting production scales for equipment firms and sports leagues. The figure signals strong demand in youth and professional markets and underscores ongoing manufacturing capacity.
In Cairo Illinois dispatch the mosquito problem in Bird's Slough and surrounding bottoms drives lagers from Bird's Slough Missouri out of work. Over one hundred men between Cairo and Memphis abandon labor as pests render horses and mules wild and dwellings uninhabitable. The insect is said to be more numerous this year than ever before known.
Captain Olafsen of the Nordstjemen reports a collision with a right whale about 100 feet long during a voyage from Plymouth to this port. The whale was cut nearly in two and appeared dead. the vessel sustained a scrape and was repaired at Plymouth.
A collage of health ads and quips dominates this item, touting Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a cure for consumption and blood disorders while promoting patent remedies, hair tonics, and antibilious tonics. It also notes sundry witticisms and small anecdotes about animals, sports, and social foibles. The piece closes with a catarrh remedy and casual reflections on steel temper.
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