23 Jan 1872
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1872
Page
1
A poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes contrasts a devout organist with a preacher. The speaker admires the organist’s faithful, skilled playing and silent labor behind the scenes, while critiquing the preacher’s plain style. The poem celebrates craft, duty, and divine influence in music.
In a Chicago memoir style piece Uncle John watches nephew Peter M Lean and wife Nellie navigate romance and marriage. Nellie shows tact in social scenes while Peter clings to affection, and a club outing reveals pretensions, revealing how wives influence domestic harmony and men's pride.
The narrator recalls a social visit where Perkins and his wife were kind and affectionate. Peter is mentioned returning to his gown and slippers, described as domestic. The note adds that M Lean and Perkins, dry goods dealers on Church Street, are not in any social club and praises the couple as unusually kind and discreetly ruled by kindness in New York.
A historical note traces when marriages were advertised in papers from Paris London and beyond. It recalls 1797 London rules and a ladies portfolio of letters from rank and fortune suitors. The column notes money often accompanied such matrimonial ads.
Western and Alaska waters restrict fly and line fishing for salmon, sparking sport puzzled and disappointed anglers. Recent reports reveal salmon bite flies in salt water near the Columbia mouth, where large fish up to forty pounds are caught near the lighthouse and lighthouse area before the fish move upriver.
A Dental Cosmos writer with 30 years of practice claims he extracts teeth painlessly using ice or pressure on the temples rather than chloroform ether or nitrous oxide. A firm one minute pressure from an assistant on each temple supposedly numb the nerves, enabling painless extractions though risks exist if skulls are thin or fingers are strong.
Washington weighs two folding and covered card ideas to curb public writing on postal cards in England and Germany. Grand Duke Alexis gave $5,000 to Chicago mayor Medill for the poor plus letters from women seeking aid, with one NY woman seeking funds to marry a widower.
A sweeping account of early American exploration chasing El Dorado and the Fountain of Youth. Chronicles Raleigh and Pizarro era ventures toward mythic gold, detailing Gonzalo Pizarro’s 1542 trek, hardships, and the fateful river journey with Orellana and Vargas.
A surviving narrator recalls leaving Pizarro to fate and guiding him back toward the Inca realm after desertion spread by Orellana. He describes abundant food sources and a search for the golden city Paititi, which remains unfound despite tales of its wealth.
The text explains Kamchatka taxation by the Russian government using sable skins as payment. Each male aged fifteen to fifty must supply furs roughly valued at seventy five cents per person. The government takes best skins to meet the tax, sells the rest, and shares proceeds among contributors. Sable skins range six to thirty dollars, and some furs are treated to appear darker.
A collection of light vignettes and quips from public life including a boy and his trumpet, city social character observations, chestnut roasting debates, a Sabbath school joke, Cartwrights wit, a circus vow, quinine misadventure, a Napless German farmer tale, a barter joke about eggs, a Terre Haute cartoon note, and Boston street vehicle quirks. It notes jokes from newspapers like the Norwich Bulletin and Louisville Courier Journal.
A Chicago Times overview of a newly described subterranean cave about eighteen miles southwest of Pineville Missouri near the Arkansas line. The article details a seven by four foot lava fissure entrance leading to a vast hall with bats, a grand passage of bluish gray limestone and purple shale, the Hall of the Frost Giants, a chamber with misaligned stone furniture, a dramatic cataract and magnesium-lit spray, and a twenty four hour exploration totaling roughly thirty two miles by route estimates.
News notes report a shipwreck near Holyhead with five survivors, local curiosities from Iowa and New Hampshire, floods in Bengal, and a plan to exchange seeds with Jamaica. Other items include a Persian Shah reception, London smallpox toll, a watch once owned by Martha Custis, a Moscow expo start date, and quirky anecdotes from New England horse history and a Dixon- era church-bell parody.
Congress considers a new steamboat law requiring hydrostatic boiler tests and three fourths test allowance, abolishing low water indicators and certain gauges, prescribing life boats and life apparatus, and restricting inflammable cargo including crude petroleum and camphene on passenger steamers.
Corn alone provides sufficient nutriment across varieties from oil rich yellow eight row and pop corn to starch heavy Tuscarora and white types. It supports human life in cold and warm climates and serves well for animal fattening, though oil content varies by variety.
The 1873 event will be Austria’s first world exhibition and the largest yet. Vienna has designated a vast park for the fair, with the main building extending four thousand six hundred fifty feet.
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