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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1884
Page
3
Poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox recalls a second room in sleep with light shaded by roof boards and sighing poplars brushing leaves against humble caves as a memory returns.
Rupert Arnold pursues Rose May with an inheritance scheme, but Rose uncovers his plan and returns to her values. A city visit reveals a disinherited heiress plot, and Rose rejects wealth to stay true to John. The pair’s courage brings a genuine fortune in love and decency. Rose’s honesty thwarts Rupert’s scheming and honors a stranger’s noble example.
A young woman was expelled from a New York church after accusing her pastor of kissing her four times. The incident has sparked controversy and drawn local attention to church discipline.
The dialogue hints at a forthcoming invention with a trap-door floor in a photograph gallery to hide shoes, while a Pittsburgh Chronicle debate contrasts newspapers and magazines. It suggests magazines overloading with ornament and the press eroding substance, urging concise writing and clear ideas.
The piece recounts John Randolph's scathing denunciation of Henry Clay in a secret 1825 session, its fiery rhetoric provoking a vow of revenge. It shifts to a Civil War anecdote about a Polish soldier Dyer in the Forty‑ninth Alabama at Shiloh, whose defiant reply to taunts strengthened unit resolve and became a lasting rallying quip.
Henry Clay’s birthday on April 10 was celebrated in Washington by friends who praised his long service to country in peace and war. They noted his influence persisted despite age and shared respect for his public virtues and devotion to the nation.
In Munich's Academy of Science and Arts a collection preserves mementos of Alois Senefelder creator of lithography. It includes the first lithographic impression, early stone drawings from 1797, a burning scene vignette, the gallows press built by Senefelder, his last hand press, drawing tools, zinc palette with six color shades, and a lithographic crayon sample. Also shown are Senefelder’s death mask, skull, and a right arm exhumed from his grave in 1846.
A Parisian styling custom for finger nails gains popularity in New York with a reception room and chairs. A typical session lasts about a chair, uses jars brushes and ivory tools, ends with nail shaping and polishing, and costs one dollar. The notes mention preservation of nails at the Smithsonian Institution. Another item tells of a_swabbed graduate housewife who plans spring mattress purchases after marriage.
James Payn recalls Thackeray’s mixed praise for Dickens and the late friendship they rekindled before death. Payn quotes Thackeray calling Dickens a genius while noting Thackeray warned of the peril of Dickens’s towering fame. The piece ends with Payn recounting walking with Dickens after Thackeray’s funeral.
A Mrs observes a sunset while her eight year old imagines God bored holes in the sky to reveal Heaven. He suggests angels float through the holes, making the stars wink, turning a simple view into a thoughtful celestial vision.
A traveler notes Rio de Janeiro windows crowded with women, funeral respectability measured by mule hauls, flooded streets after rain, and grandees paid for rides by porters. He claims Brazilians never smoke in their coffins and calls the head the common beast of burden in Rio. Sir Thomas Browne quotes conclude the piece.
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