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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1871
Page
4
A reflective lyric contrasts falling tears with the year’s end and dawns of love. The speaker calls beloved Lily, hints at destined union, and muses on nature, birth, and lifelong fidelity amid seasonal imagery. The poem blends longing, blessing, and hopeful commitment in a romantic arc.
Workmen uncover a two inch lizardlike creature embedded in a petrified fir within a ten acre Calistoga Napa County forest. Samuel Brannan preserves the specimen in a four ounce corked vial, noting its dislike of light and apparent immobility after three weeks. Scientists have yet to classify it and a Smithsonian collection request remains pending Brannan’s wish to keep it.
A Richmond Whig correspondent recounts Lafayette recognizing his old comrade Sergeant Hood, a private he had not seen for fifty years, as the marquis greeted him in the capitol chamber. Judge Brooke, who served as captain in the revolution, witnessed the moment and Lafayette wept with joy at the private's sudden acknowledgment. The scene is praised as one of the most agreeable reunions the judge recalls.
Florida remains the most sparsely peopled Atlantic State with a 500 mile Atlantic coastline and 600 mile Gulf frontage. Despite few inhabitants, its semi tropical climate and rich timber and game resources offer notable natural attractions and accessible inland navigation. The soil quality varies widely across the state.
The author extols Florida's fertile swamps and diverse crops including oranges lemons grapes and olives. Cattle and other livestock thrive on native grasses, suggesting rich potential for systematic cultivation and early market advantages, with milder costs of living and a shorter work week compared to northern regions.
A peppery sea captain commissions a six month build exactly as drawn but refuses additions. The carpenter completes the exterior and first floor while omitting stairs, since they were not in the plan, exposing the captain to a real oversight and a moral about temper. Since then the captain is said to get in a passion when stared at.
Times correspondent notes a circulating tale set in Versailles where a Prussian officer and troops brutalize the house of the Marchioness of B and terrify her, then the officer confronts her, recounts a vow tied to a past insult by Capt De B, and departs promising protection for the mistress as French children gaze on Prussian soldiers in the snow.
Dr Hall condemns clothing the neck to ward off colds noting over heating causes tenderness and higher infection risk. He warns especially for children and urges gradual removal of neck muffling to avoid prolonged colds and throat ailments. He advises keeping the neck cool within comfort.
An Illinois farmer Elmer Baldwin notes post mortems on cattle fed dry corn husks show fatal inflammation from overeating with little water. A case of nine oxen fed heavy corn stalks near November ends with six dead prompts advice to provide running water and salt. He disputes smut as a disease cause and cites hemlock rat proofing, winter poultry feeding with meat and cayenne, and rust in wheat linked to fall grass seed.
The Daily Australasian of Melbourne is praised as a premier newspaper with thirty-two pages per issue and weekly Saturday supplements of forty-eight pages. It is lauded for compact small type and thorough world coverage through news, editorials, and criticisms.
Dr. 8. W. Crawford exhibits a milk white constrictor found in Western Virginia. The snake measures about five feet now, with a slender body and no fangs yet sharp teeth. It can constrict tightly, has a half inch horned tail, and has learned to drink milk while feeding on a rat.
The article discusses somnambulists who read and sense without normal sight, citing Despine cases of finger reading and sensory perception through nontraditional body parts. It notes blind individuals described colors in dreams and a sheriff awakening to a missing prisoner who later appears to have left.
The February Scribner's Monthly is highlighted for breadth and value. Key articles include Hassard on the New York Mercantile Library, Baird on the French Conquest of Lorraine and Alsace with map, and Maury on weather telegrams. Other pieces cover the pulpit, a Valentine tale, a Haunted Ship story, poetry, and George Macdonald and Hans Andersen installments. Roy's Magazine is noted as a promising new venture for boys with wide appeal and low price. specimen copies offered. Publisher Wa. H. Riggine, Boston.
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