26 Mar 1872
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1872
Page
1
In Ortonville a longtime church singer laments a parish choir’s modernizing hymn and fears losing her voice. She recalls five decades of faithful service, while the congregation laughs at her attempts to join the new tune, and she expects death may soon end her singing.
Seth Howe, a discouraged bachelor, hears a sermon on marriage from John Taylor. After failed housekeeping and a near crisis with a log cottage, Howe wooes Jennie Grant, marries quickly, and discovers a happy, orderly life with Jennie managing the home. The tale ends with a vow to marry and a celebration with friends.
Rev. W. I. Murray warns against spiritual pretension in the church urging frank self confession and honest piety. He argues against pressure to appear saintly and calls for a standard of being as good as one seems, and not better, to foster genuine growth.
The hochwohlgeboren gnadige frau lein Feodora, Duchess of Saxe Meiningen Hildberghausen, has died. Local undertakers lament that even a name inscription on a tombstone defies a proper tribute to her virtues.
A reflective essay contrasts nerves as a real agony with public indifference. It cites workers like truckmen and surgeons, mentions John Leech, and notes how refined suffering is often misunderstood. The piece argues self indulgence worsens nerves and warns against pitying oneself.
A London correspondent describes Chinese finger notation for arithmetic. Each left-hand finger stores nine digits with joints signaling unit to thousands and tens of thousands, while the right forefinger points to the digit being called into use. The method reportedly enables rapid addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division up to one hundred thousand with high accuracy in commerce.
An anecdote tells of a man with a fish appetite who tries to hide a codfish under a short coat while paying a merchant. The merchant, catching the theft, seizes the chance to roast the debtor about honesty and offers blunt advice on future talks of honesty and dress.
A Delaware Independent tale recalls how captains on an 1816 Philadelphia voyage sold four surviving Roof and Waltmire children for their passage money. John and Anthony Roof, later Paducah resident and Ohio farmer, reunited with Joseph and Jerome Waltmire after decades apart, led by a Lutheran minister brother.
A Denver Tribune correspondent recalls Henry Clay on the Whig era, noting southern dissatisfaction with his policy on compromise, a dramatic homecoming and a stray speech that won him reelection to the Senate, and a long financial strain over a $30,000 Ashland mortgage ending with a bank note cancellation and tears.
A Baptist in Boston intends to leave a denominational school $100000 at death if the institution pays him six percent interest until that event. He purposefully buys life insurance for about $4,000 to $5,000 to fund roughly $2000 annual income, creating a comfortable revenue while supporting the college.
An essay arguing that many suffer from their own pretensions and fear of social opinion. It critiques Mrs Grundy culture, class demarcations, and the pressure to pretend, urging natural conduct and avoidance of a false position for respect. Chimney orner.
A Icelandic newspaper advertises two Russian merchants seeking to buy women’s hair, signaling a shift in fashion supply as Russia ends its own hair exports and dealers hunt distant sources. The piece worries about finding future supply and jokes about African woolly curls or Tartars' hair may become fashion.
The article surveys tongues from elephants to humans, detailing how length, shape, and function suit each creature. It notes an elephant’s proboscis strength, a giraffe tongue acting like a finger, an ant bear tongue tearing ant holes, and the dog and human tongues enabling complex acts of lapping and speech.
The article explains that moist air saturated with noxious gases traps moisture and gases in the lungs and skin, smothering the body's combustion-like process. Pure dry air allows gases to escape quickly, improving health and reducing distress.
Miss Ellen L. Fletcher of Charles Town New Hampshire has started a jeweller's shop and notes that many young men in town now have watches that run out of order due to her new business.
A Macon Telegraph and Messenger correspondent describes findings near Macon including a flattened skull and absence of European ornaments. The article notes successive mound builders and that Creeks did not claim sole authorship, suggesting earlier peoples may have created the tumuli before Creek presence during early English colonization.
A reflective meditation on weddings showing variety from true love to money unions and masked pairs. It imagines brides and grooms as figures, sometimes living and sometimes hollow, with pasts clinging to the present and the curious, solemn journey to the altar.
The piece cites M Bertillon and figures from Brussels and other cities claiming mortality rates 4 per 1000 for married men versus 10.4 for bachelors and 22 for widowers between ages 25 and 30. It notes marriage’s beneficial influence across ages and suggests U S results may differ due to economic strain.
The giant clock in Parliament House is the world’s largest. Its four dials span twenty two feet each, the pendulum is fifteen feet long, and the hour bell weighs nearly fifteen tons. Winding the striking mechanism takes two hours and it runs eight and a half days while striking seven and a half.
A New York Evening Post correspondent reports on Colorado mining, detailing Gilpin county's vast ore output, extensive lode systems, heavy milling activity, and high value from stamps, tailings, and matte. The piece notes numerous mills, smelters, and profits, plus environmental and transport aspects of the mining frontier.
The Kentucky People recounts a Virginia era anecdote about Gov. James F. Robinson of Scott and Judge Duvall. At a toll gate the governor declares a gentleman should not pay expenses when invited to ride, prompting Duvall to joke about not being asked to work his way.
London papers recount humorous Oxford undergraduate slips in Scripture exams. One student misnames Saul as Saul Paul after a flawed answer. Another mixes Balaam and a whale caper, claiming the other instance of animals speaking is the whale at Jonah.
Two Boston girls have recently become paralyzed from the use of narcotics in a reported toxin exposure case. Authorities investigate the source and warn residents of possible contaminated substances.
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