25 Jul 1868
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1868
Page
1
A young narrator admires her aunt Katharine while planning a match for her. The tutor Mr. Devereux courts Katharine, while the narrator's lover John Aubrey vies for the narrator's heart. In a twist of romance both couples wed, revealing hidden affections and clever matchmaking.
The piece argues that habitual cheerfulness is a health based trait not a virtue of merit. It notes that those praised for cheer may merely possess a healthy constitution while some are naturally melancholy due to nerves or sensitivity to surroundings.
Bishop Burgess speaks of a vast human journey beginning with ten thousand souls and the thinning of ranks through ten decades. One third vanish in ten years, half are left at life’s midpoint, and by a century end a final few remain as the century closes.
The piece discusses aging with cheer, religious reflection, and enjoying life despite years. It surveys historical myths debunked by Belgian and American scholars, criticizes Pompeii legends as inventions of guides, and extols Japan as a paper producing and using nation with a long tradition of paper walls and exchange through paper wealth.
An elderly man in a Paris attic kept corks as moral relics from a squandered fortune. A manuscript explains his wealth vanished and the corks record histories of friends who failed him, with notes from Champagne and Cyprus wines dated 1843 and 1850. The bequest aims to warn amateurs about human nature.
Hosrrrazirr offers a sturdy tie with chain and spring hook for secure guest mounts. The text adds that kindness to animals includes road side troughs. It also warns that purchasing excessive goods may compel selling necessities.
Daniel Webster speaks on humble beginnings born in a log cabin in New Hampshire. He recalls early hardships and logs the ancestral home as a lasting family shrine, praising forebears who fought to defend the country and secure a better life for descendants.
A fragmentary meditation from Western Methodist sources contrasts grand religious imagery with Cowley’s naturalistic poetry. It then shifts to notes on legal stamp duties, property deeds, and estate papers, ending with a humorous Orthodox pastor misplacing notes and quipping about Job.
A Lewiston Journal correspondent describes Bristol line steamers as crowded three-story ferries with 1800 passengers and rough conditions. The story also recounts a Tennessee bishop’s tale of a plantation preacher confusing spiritual and earthly bodies in a humorous church congress anecdote.
A Pennsylvania editorial lauds Canton Ohio for transforming from a dull town to a thriving industrial hub after citizens funded a ten thousand dollar factory initiative. Resulting plants include plows, stoves, reaper and mower knives, saddlery hardware, wagons, and bridges, boosting employment to about two thousand five hundred and tripling the town's wealth and population.
A Western editor replies to a complaining subeditor about the damp morning newspaper, quipping that the dampness stems from there being so much due on it.
A Berks County resident nicknamed Old Adam sells a questionable horse claiming it is “nine over ten” and defends his dodgy stories. He later passes rotten wood as sound, and the piece closes with assorted moralizing quips about commerce and Puritan thrift.
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