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Newspaper
Weekly Wisconsin
Location
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1885
Page
17
A Wisconsin poem paints a summer evening sinking into a restless sea. Grim shadows gather as moonlight sharpens, rooks the night with odd quiet. Birds fall silent, dogs and crickets fill the hush, while pale cliffs rise above the roiling surf and vapor trails blur the lowlands in bloom.
Benjamin Benton dies at ninety nine after a life centered on the Benton name. His lone surviving son and heir dies unexpectedly, then a newborn great grandson is born to keep the line. The story traces a century of Bentons from a ditcher ancestor to the last male Benton, with Priscilla’s quiet endurance and the family’s stubborn pride shaping a peculiar social fate.
An editorial urges rigorous limits on who may teach, arguing a healthy body is essential for effective schooling. It stresses cheerful, attentive instructors and recounts a case where a nervous teacher disturbed pupils, contrasting with a calm, engaged instructor who fosters natural, focused learning.
A Baltimore American reprint recalls Judge Bond of the United States district court recounting a Boston 1877 séance. Bond writes a list, taps, a voice materializes, and a long exchange reveals astonishing claims. The judge later, in a mock astonishment, says he almost doubts the power of Om.
A San Francisco Chronicle correspondent depicts the Mojave people near Needles, detailing appearance and customs. The piece portrays both virtue and vice, notes farming limits, and humorously recounts attire and behavior of Mojave men and women along the Colorado River.
The Journal of Chemistry outlines mixing rules for compound paints with principal ingredients listed for each color. It advises using boiled oil for a glossy body and storing paints in a box with pasted directions. Brushes should soak in water when idle, and well cared for brushes last years. A joke about a Brooklyn man and a Presbyterian pastor closes the excerpt.
A Laerdal observer traces Norwegian naming customs linking farm names to ownership. He explains Ole, Olaf, and Olesson as components in a nonfeudal system where a family’s farm name defines generations, challenging European rank notions.
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