23 Sep 1870
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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1870
Page
1
A Green Bay Advocate note recalls Captain W. Powell's forest encounter fourteen miles away where he shot an old bear and a cub after finding themselves attacked by a second wave of cubs. With his rifle empty, the Captain retreated as the bears pressed the assault and later recovered his game.
A poetic catalog where a visually impaired narrator reports seeing strange moral contrasts. The verses pair everyday figures with ironic scenes such as a doctor taking a pill, a fox declining a duck, and fleas that would not bite, offering a wry meditation on virtue and vice under law.
A neighbor recounts how a father’s brutal beating of his son William over a minor mishap became a life lesson. The tale shifts to the father’s remorse after seeing his boy Charley crippled by a past mistake and the costly cost of harsh punishment. The story ends with a vow to change and protect children from similar harm.
In a midnight bar-room scene a man explains he has been stripping shingles from his own roof to fix a leak elsewhere, prompting the landlord and wife to urge rest. James then resumes life, replying he must stop the leak he caused by shingling his house. The tale ends with the curious question of whose house he shingled.
A correspondent with the Prussian force recalls the entry into France as troops sang the Wacht am Rhein in a solemn mood. The scene includes Halt ordered guns charged and three cheers for King William, followed by a quick march into French soil.
A letter from Homburg details Turco conduct in battle including stabbing wounded Germans flaying faces and scalping. Three German officers were shot to end their suffering. Hanoverian soldiers had hands noses and ears cut off. A Tarco with both legs blown off crawled to a Prussian and shot him in the neck.
A genial bald gentleman in Paris slept on a zoo bench as an ostrich, misreading his shiny scalp as an egg, settled to hatch. The incident highlights the day’s oppressive heat and the comic mix up at the Zoological Garden.
Some Western farmers welcome a longer French German war as it would lift crop prices. They prefer extended conflict, arguing peace would hurt profits and farm incomes.
A North Carolina judge insists on a witness showing a body part to be sworn in. The battered soldier explains both arms bear shots from the war. The judge then requires the leg, stating no one can be sworn unless they hold up something.
A Decorah, Iowa man so frugal he moved seven cords of wood to retrieve a stray corn kernel from a wood-pile. A neighbor dropped a kernel near the search area and boasted his own larger kernel. The same man charged his hired girl ten cents every Sunday to ride to Sabbath school.
The passage notes half of global invention comes from the United States and highlights patent figures. It states France and England each issued about 80,000 patents in 100 years, while the United States alone granted more than 100,000 patents in the last 40 years.
The quote notes people waste time debating where sin entered the world while two men who fall through ice into a mill pond should focus on a quick exit. It uses a humorous analogy to urge practical problem solving over quarrels.
The magnitude of the census work is shown by an expected twelve to fifteen hundred volumes, each one thousand pages, needed to record the names of individuals returned by the Assistant Marshals.
An officer of cuirassiers at Woerth reportedly had his head carried off by a ball, yet his body stood upright and the decapitated horseman appeared to charge the enemy for about 100 metres before collapsing.
A wry joke contrasts a barn door with a barn bore to point to the entrance types in a printing office. The line plays on a pun between doorway and a slow or ineffective person in a work setting.
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