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Newspaper
Wallaroo Times And Mining Journal
Location
Wallaroo, South Australia, Australia
Date
Oct 13, 1869
Page
3
A narrator recounts learning the velocipede from a generous amateur who provides patient instruction, including toe pointing, pedal pressure, balance, and fatigue management. After a first outdoor ride on May 10, the speaker gains confidence, travels far, and feels ridiculed no more as the practice proves enjoyable, healthy, and empowering.
A Parisian observer recalls attending a Lords of England session and the famous exchange of non possumus. He notes the ceremonial guards, the Dublin Mayor arriving in scarlet and gold, and his own outsider arrival as an aeronaut who had just descended from a balloon, while Gladstone’s critique of the Lords echoes in the chamber.
The narrator watches a House of Lords sitting noting the right side of parliamentary cloth, aristocratic crowd, and the arrival of Mr Gladstone. He describes the Lord Chancellor’s discomfort, the Queen’s fears of Cromwell, peeresses in the gallery, a striking young reactionary woman, bishops in their ornate dress, and Madame Gladstone entering near the throne to observe charity work. The scene blends satire with vivid detail of privilege and power.
Gladstone who advised her husband to channel funds from the secularization of Irish Church property into benevolent works is noted for influencing philanthropic efforts. The remark highlights the couple's approach to use church property proceeds for charitable causes.
A Herald writer compares a teenage offender to a dark river of vice, detailing a night of drunken escapades, vandalism, and theft. The vivid account moves through the youth’s appearance, cowardice, and brutal consequences, ending with a harsh plea for action against rising delinquency.
Delos G. Lamberston, a Washita battle survivor, arrived in Detroit en route to New York Anfield Monroe county. He recounts Indian fight tactics in dawn combat near a valley, describes captivity at Maramie Hospital and his scalp loss as Black Kettle’s forces retreated into holes and rocks.
A collage of anecdotes features Middlesex Massachusetts lawyer Josiah Adams famed for wit, missionary missteps in Labrador, Henry Ward Beecher’s humor at prayer meetings, and a Carlisle rail noise nuisance voiced by Mr Justice Hannen. The piece blends humorous tales with legal and ecclesiastical figures, reflecting late 19th century temperament.
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