10 Oct 1863
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1863
Page
1
A narrated scene from an English work describes battles among mice, scorpions, and centipedes in Barbadoes. A surgeon observer tests interactions by releasing mice inside a glass bell and notes the mouse often dies from scorpion or tarantula encounters, while the tarantula proves deadly to the mice.
The passage explains ginger as a tropical plant native to the East Indies now grown worldwide. It describes plant structure, harvest/drying methods, color variation from dark brown to light when scraped, and distinctions such as white ginger. It notes imports from East and West Indies, price variation by adulteration, preserved ginger from China, and uses in flavoring preserves. Frost roots can be potgrown and seasonal.
Francis Galton, famed English traveler and Alpine Club member, recounts a summer close encounter with avalanches on the Jungfrau range. He watched three descents in a half day, each massive and loud, with a central view likened to an orderly mob racing toward a shared target. He compares Niagara’s great sheet of water to the deliberate, majestic motion of an avalanche and notes the ice mass size and the terrifying rattle it creates.
A historical note claims the term dan derives from John Dunne a London bailiff famed for vigorous debt collection. It asserts the proverb arose when a debtor refused to pay and the question Why don't you Dunne him? entered common usage in the days of Henry VII.
A pompous visitor enters a New England bank asking for the cashier. The teller jokes the cashier is away at Lake Superior, and urges the man to wait or leave. The pedlar, growing restless after an hour, departs without further words, having been told the cashier will not be back soon.
A lone survivor of a U S vessel wrecked off Jersey on a December night was helped ashore by Camden and Amboy railroad workers. Amid rough surf the mariner cried to know his country and place and muttered I float a little further before vanishing from sight.
A chaotic scene unfolds as a ragged roler enters a nurse house during a raid claiming to be John Morgan. An elderly woman faints, children and adults stumble under tables and chairs, and a rebel confesses theft before being restrained by locals and released.
Hens lay more eggs with animal foods and roam right. provide insects, fresh meat scraps, lime, and water. Ensure shelter from storms and wind, whitewash poultry houses to curb lice, and use unleached ashes, oyster shells or bone meal, and sand or gravel for digestion.
A fragment urges turning living rooms into scenes of mercy hope courage faith and charity. It quotes a biographer of James Mackintosh on education of passions, warning against gloom and advocating kindness as a central gospel practice for daily life and family.
Ralph Norton, a Scottish Earl in French service, travels to Burgundy to wed Mademoiselle de Ruche Noire. In a moonlit hall, he discovers a portrait of Fulmen, a dead sister who returns as a phantom to remind him of his vow. The apparition urges forgiveness and love beyond death.
Ralph, a Scottish officer, pursues the living illusion of Fulmen in a moldering tale of love and death. After a ritual failed to end his life, he swallows a vial and awakens beside a radiant Fulmen, revealing a supernatural twist in a late night apparition and the reader learns the explanation.
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