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Newspaper
Augusta Mirror
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1840
Page
4
A reflection on how women sustain and strengthen families after reverses of fortune. The quote highlights softer sex rising to support husbands in misfortune with courage and dignity, citing resilience and mental fortitude as approaching sublimity.
A stranger enters Napoleon's Italian town and asks to meet the great emperor. The emperor replies with a dry quip that he himself shaves the emperor. The exchange highlights Napoleon's wit and power in a curious domestic moment.
A maxim warns against habitual borrowings by those who can subscribe and pay for a paper themselves. It cautions that such behavior may extend to taking personal items like clothing or toothbrushes in the future.
The Methuen Gazette poses a mathematical riddle asking how many dogs a man too poor to buy a newspaper can afford to keep. The item reflects a humorous take on income and newspaper access in the era.
The column reports on forthcoming books and projects by S Hale Bishop Mellvaine Arthur Cleveland Coxe Lucy Hooper Powell and others. It previews new editions biographies and a pictorial topography of the Holy Land along with plans for biographical annuals and a portrait gallery of American writers.
The article surveys current literary developments. It cites Pelham authorship under dispute, Bulwer projects, Samuel Warren's Ten Thousand a Year in Blackwood's, H W Herbert's Oliver Cromwell misattribution, Horace Smith, Thomas Moore editions, Mrs Haight Letters from the Old World, Southgate's travels, and Bonaparte's Napoleon in ten cantos by Joseph Bonaparte with French demand, noting a delayed reveal of the Count's poetic vanity.
Mr Richards will resume drawing classes at the Masonic Hall starting Monday the 26th inst. The gallery has additions including state scenery paintings. He offers instruction in penciling, flour and fruit painting in watercolors and oils, with landscape, fruit subjects, and perspective. He plans to sell his collection at a reduced value and may accept commissions. Augusta, Oct 17, 1840.
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