13 Mar 1884
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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Mar 13, 1884
Page
1
A nostalgic verse tale recalls Jack and his bachelor friend walking to a seaside orchard home. They discuss love, cost, and happiness as trees grow with the children, and the man reflects on youth, marriage, and whether anyone cares for him now.
A young unlucky farmer meets an old woman who directs him to a solitary fir tree. He cuts it down and out pop a magic ring and eggs that reveal a wish ring tale. He learns that turning the ring on twice grants a wish, but the advice cautions careful use of power.
A farmer hosts a thief jeweller who steals his wish ring. The thief’s wish for wealth backfires, killing him as gold rains down. The farmer and wife prosper for decades by prudent use, never using the wish, and die peacefully in old age.
A vivid metaphor compares life to a lamp with three wicks for brain blood and breath. Press the brain and life fades. stop the heart and all wicks extinguish. choke the life range and the fluid ceases, leaving stagnation, cold, and darkness.
In Boston an exhibit displayed a razor sharp honey bee sting under magnification, while a remarkably large needle appeared five inches across under the same microscope. The exhibitor declared that God can make a fine point, but man cannot.
An elderly woman stops a Scottish minister on a Sunday and says she likes his preaching. The minister, aware of his unpopularity, replies that there are too few like her. She explains she enjoys his sermons because she always gets a good seat.
Dialog humorously probes what R.S.V.P. stands for on Mrs. Tomkins invitations. Eudora correctly identifies the phrase as Repondez s il vous plait while the others speculate about foreign origins and common vulgar language, highlighting confusion over etiquette initials.
A Detroit photographer exploring printing photos on linen predicts a craze for linen prints on curtains tickets and handkerchiefs once fashion adopts the idea. The process yields washable boiled images that resist fading, with potential for elegant natural designs in dress goods if color representation via photography is developed.
The piece notes plague patients and workers like grave diggers often survive epidemics because fear is its own danger. It asserts that those not fearing disease resist infection, while the fearful invite illness, a view applied to physicians undertakers nurses and others exposed to outbreaks.
Benator Frye laments being labeled rich by a Washington paper and explains his poverty rooted in a Quaker upbringing. He recalls receiving $5 as a boy to spend in Boston and losing track of money, shaping his later financial condition.
A meditation on homophones and puns opens with playful wordplay about bear, pear, and right write meanings. The piece shifts to a Wisconsin church trial where a deacon questions a member about gambling in stocks and profits from church ventures, ending as the verdict approaches.
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