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Newspaper
Weekly Bulletin
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1874
Page
3
The poem reflects on autumn labor and change as harvest time ends. It contrasts rural toil with advancing machines and societal shift, imagining a farmer’s daughter watching labor yield to modern progress while linking seasons, family life, and longing for enduring craft. VT. Trowbridge, in Harper's Magazine.
The narrator wanders a green gloom valley filled with snakes and magic. He Witnesses a hunter killed by snake venom and a village sorcerer who commands serpents. The tale shifts between savage dangers and haunted beauty as a colossal boa drags him toward a fatal river.
The piece rails against daily routines such as ice baths, rough towels, and extreme wake times, arguing for abundant nourishment, adequate rest, and later rising. It links overwork and insufficient sleep to nervousness, misfortune, and decline, urging farmers and wives to share duties and favor healthier rhythms. It also notes Disraeli’s London statue unveiling with a vivid portrait of the Prime Minister and a snippet on iron alloy science.
A stream of jumbled clippings and anecdotes touches on superstition, marriage strain, humor, and death. Tales range from a woman’s nervous breakdown under stern housekeeping ideals to a fat man suffocating from obesity, a dog caring for kittens, and a score of quips about social pretensions and human folly.
An unnamed female patient in Springfield Massachusetts details a life run by rigid daily routines. She explains that “systematic” living orders chores, meals, and household duties and envisions a future universal system guiding schools and society to prevent sickness and even death.
A survey of famed memory feats from Cicero through later scholars such as Scaliger, Aviceaux, Lipsius, Fuller, Magliabecchi, and Colburn. The piece cites extraordinary recall, mnemonic feats, and the belief memory may be divine, noting notable individuals and anecdotes from various eras and regions.
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