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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1858
Page
1
The Warren Mail, a weekly newspaper, announces publication every Saturday morning under editor E Cowan. It serves the local community with news, notices, and social items from Warren and surrounding areas.
The article extols Harvard College Observatory founder A. and notes fourteen comets discovered by George Bond and Horace Tuttle with Charles W. Tuttle adding the tenth in 1853. It details astronomers laboring through cold nights, calculations of orbits, and references to Safford and Maria Mitchell, plus Arctic sea debates sparked by Kane and Rink.
A compiled jumble of quips and curiosities quotable in a periodical style. It includes crude jokes about punishment and cooking, a riddle about hatching, Noahs Ark wordplay, a misadventure in Lowell involving a failed hanging, a spelling exchange about cat and kitten, and moral allusions on reputation and companionship.
Taylor recounts his October visit to Alexander von Humboldt in Potsdam. Humboldt, frail yet vigorous, talks of Cosmos, geography, and climate, insists work is life, explains a vertigo, notes difficulty with limbs, and shares memories of Frederick the Great, Hastings trial, and Verona. He hints at new prints and an illustrated Gila work forthcoming in Berlin.
Under the patronage of the King the work will cost about twenty eight dollars a copy Hambolt wrote the preface and shared it He notes the readiness of our Secretary of War for Mr Mollhausen to receive a second appointment Brurges Love is cited A March Atlantic Monthly writer discusses Kate asserting a wife's rights and the equality of the sexes The dialogue shifts to why animals form stronger attachments to men than women with a reply invoking affinity
A South Western preacher urged giving to missions by example, naming Colonel Smith with a hundred thousand dollars and a hundred bales of cotton. The colonel stood, offering to give one hundred dollars, if the Reverend Hanson would amend the figure, explaining he raised only half that amount.
A late date letter from Jerusalem describes M. Ratisbonne purchasing part of Pontius Pilate’s palace to build a Daughters of Zion house of prayer and expiation. It notes Pilate’s Arch, ruins in Herodian style, and opposition from locals, with a 42 000 franc price and bribe culture. The piece then shifts to a frontier tale about Blanche Bertrand and a perilous river voyage with a dramatic start near Point Pleasant during Lord Dunmore’s War.
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