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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1879
Page
2
A vivid verse scene wonders at daisies in a meadow as if tiny elfin faces peek from sweet clover beds. The speaker muses on their curl of heads and whimsical charm, weaving a playful, dreamlike impression.
A veteran seaman recounts a wreck, yellow fever aboard, and a ship’s mutiny led by Billy Edwards. After a harrowing voyage from New Orleans to Ireland in the Fairy Queen, Edwards saves a lone survivor and earns fame and a fortune, while the narrator laments a missed chance at wealth.
Poetic lines echoing Bret Harte as a speaker urges patience and waiting for clarity. The passage contemplates dimming night and approaching dawn with themes of hope and uncertainty. It references stars, rivers, mountains, and love in a reflective, lyrical cadence.
New York June 10 The Tribune reports sea captains see oil pouring as sentiment not practice yet cites Captain Jarman of the four masted ship Romsdalis recalling a voyage in a twenty hour Atlantic hurricane. He poured three gallons of oil per quarter and claims the water calmed around the oil slick easing the ship’s shocks.
In Jefferson Market Court Justice Morgan deals with Mr. Donahue charged with gross intoxication. The seedy figure insists he was not drunk, attributes behavior to nerves and a faulty night storm. The judge jokes that lightning struck like New Jersey currents and banishes him to ten days on the island. An ad for summer boarders appears unrelated.
The article urges women to try watercolor flower painting as nature’s teacher, outlining practical steps, materials, and techniques. It covers choosing paper, brushes, and pigments, studying botanical anatomy, planning light and shade, and building confidence through patient practice, with emphasis on fidelity to nature’s essence over exact replication.
A simple craft project describes building an air castle from five groups of fans and twenty one baskets using eleven sheets of note paper one sheet of gilt paper yarn and basic tools including a bottle of mucilage.
A writer describes a prison frame with layered inlays and a beaded outer edge, plus a walnut oval mat design and a trellis like assembly. The piece ends with detailed methods for making a fret saw design and securing glass, followed by extensive strawberry jelly preserving instructions and sugar stages for best color and flavor.
A dense essay urges boosting sheep husbandry in place of broad beef and pork focus. It argues mutton and wool imports harm domestic yields, notes mutton demand rising, and compares sheep to cattle for cost, labor, and pasture use. It also covers breeding shifts, regional opportunities, and practical care tips for flocks and dairy stock.
A 19th century advisory stresses driver skill and vehicle maintenance to prevent runaway horses. It covers handling fear around cars and trains, keeping harnesses in order, using safety reins, gradual turning, and staying in the road during an incident. Also notes treatments for heaves and knuckling in horses.
Eighteen or nineteen years earlier a commission approved a lighthouse on a wave-battered rock off Cape Finistere Kravee. Rugged currents and contrary winds forced men from Sein to risk life at the site. From 1857 only eight hours of work occurred amid fatal danger, with fifteen borings. in 1858 more progress followed, and construction began in 18/9. Now the structure rises forty feet above high tide, ranking among the era’s most hazardous feats in lighthouse building.
A ballad about deceit and its toll. The speaker contrasts a deceptive maid with a faithful wife, noting that private secrets endure like rocks under the tide while public storms may pass. Refrains emphasize a loving spouse’s tenderness and the ruin caused by hidden betrayals.
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