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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1880
Page
2
A lyric meditation on death and faith. The speaker bids farewell to friends, urging acceptance of loss as a passage to divine light. He characterizes the departed as a treasure within Allah, urging tears to give way to trust in eternal life.
Vivian Vivash plans an amateur stage production at Schloss Egmont with Count Paul von Egmont’s visit looming. Wolfgang, Jeanne, Ange, and Sir Christopher Marlowe clash over parts, rehearsals, and rivalries as Vivian coaches the cast, chasing glory amid scandal and vanity.
Jeanne Dempster pleads for shelter while Ange hesitates as Wolf gang aids locking doors and Turk the loyal mastiff guards the stairs. Jeanne plans a midnight escape through a window with Von Egmont's portrait, while anxiously awaiting Count Paul's return and the fate of Wolf gang.
A fragmented prose piece recounts a stormy scene where belongings vanish and a family disintegrates amid wind and rain. It recalls past floods and a childlike debate about heroes, with characters Louis Hector Homer and Del Rochell weaving through memory, guilt, and small acts of kindness.
On a May day Del Rochell and her family collect flowers at Fairmount Park. Del’s habit of picking more than she can carry triggers a dreamlike encounter with tiny flower sprites who scold her cruelty, urging mindful care for blossoms. The tale closes with a father’s gentle lesson on sharing beauty with others.
The king kept three beloved Turkish lap dogs Lilvie Mimi and Titi as sentinels guarding him at night. One dog barked loudly warning of danger when Jacques Clement entered with a killing paper, and Henry was later found stabbed to death.
A reflective poem contemplates death and the grave as a release from earthly care. It questions waking to sorrow and suggests sweet death may be best when life yields no tasks to finish. The speaker asks death to hold them fast and trusts in God to decide whether to wake or rest.
A New York physician cites Paracelsus 1591 such that sigilla or planetary charms were carved on tin iron and lead with numeric grids to count 34 65 and 15 feet. The Jupiter Mars Saturn Venus seals promised love strength victory and luck though warns of misfortune if timed badly as a 19th century reader notes. A World poem laments the unsolved final line of the block puzzle.
A Yankee enterprise seeks a state charter to build a rail network from Cairo to Mosul with branches to Jerusalem Jaffa Nablus Beirut Aleppo Iskenderun and Erzeroum The promoters claim strategic value in the East amid a future England Russia struggle and note solid financial backing.
The island Rotumah lies near Fiji and was provisional ly annexed to Britain by Sir Arthur Gordon following a chiefs deputation from two hostile factions. Discovered by Captain Edwards in 1791 while seeking Bounty mutineers, Rotumana hosts numerous villages along a fertile shore. The islanders are skilled sailors and many youths train at sea, with small vessels trading for vegetables and provisions among South Pacific islands.
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