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Newspaper
Augusta Mirror
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1840
Page
8
A reflective passage on women's fortitude during severe reversals of fortune. It notes how hardship can awaken resolve, elevating character and turning wives into sustainers for their husbands, enduring adversity with unshrinking firmness.
A stranger enters Napoleon's shaving room in an Italian town and asks to see the great emperor. The reply is blunt and witty: I shave him. The anecdote highlights Napoleon's quick humor and presence of mind.
A witty adage warns against a borrower who can afford a subscription yet takes another’s newspaper. The saying cautions that such a person may next borrow personal items like a shirt or toothbrush.
The Methuen Gazette poses a humorously economic math question asking how many dogs a man too poor to pay for a newspaper could afford to keep. The item reflects a lighthearted editorial aside about affordability and leisure.
Compiled from the New Yorker. S Hale’s history of the United States is nearly ready with premium history reputation and expected high value. Bishop Mellvaine of Ohio prepares a critique of Oxford Theology. Arthur Cleveland Coxe’s Christian Ballads, Lucy Hooper’s Scenes from Life, and a proposed Gallery of American portraitures are announced. Various publishers preview editions, biographies, and regional scenery with notes on forthcoming works and engravings.
The piece notes Pelham author’s doubt, Blackwood’s Ten Thousand a Year by Samuel Warren, H W Herbert Oliver Cromwell republication, Thomas Moore prose edition, Mrs Haight Letters from the Old World, Southgate travels, Paris announces Napoleon poem by Joseph Bonaparte, and the Count’s poetical vanity exposed.
Mr Richards will restart drawing classes at Masonic Hall on Monday the 26th inst opening to visitors daily until then. He adds state scenery paintings to his gallery and offers instruction in penciling oil and water color methods and perspective.
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