02 Aug 1879
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1879
Page
1
A Hope Street weekly paper lists subscription rates in advance at two dollars per year, one dollar for six months, fifty cents for three months, and twenty five cents for single copies. The notice states the paper will not be discontinued until all charges are paid and the publisher may discontinue at his option.
A famous early 19th century actor, Yankee Hill, recalls a tale retold in Scribner's Monthly July edition. He performed in a western New York town where seats were separated by gender and total silence reigned during the performance. Despite every effort to provoke laughter, the audience remained unresponsive, until a countryman at the hotel joked that his mouth ached from keeping a straight face and confessed he would have laughed if not for the women present.
A dialogue shows John avoiding beer for temperance reasons. He explains his father’s death from drunkenness and that he signed the pledge over his coffin with his grieving mother, making him vow not to drink. The exchange contrasts social pressure with personal tragedy guiding his abstinence.
An official telegraph report from Sumatra notes wires are hard to maintain in the tropical region. The wild elephant wrecked an eighteen mile line in May last year, and jungle routes face frequent interruptions from buffaloes, tigers, and bears. Monkeys also use poles for gymnastic tricks and steal glass insulators.
Mark Ripon, a Crusty bachelor in Ripon, has long doubted women's faithfulness. His godson George marries Emma, who hides a secret portrait gift from an Italian artist. When Mark discovers Emma’s harmless Christmas ruse, he loses his cynicism and joins a festive union.
A moral meditation argues that civility excludes superfluous formality and that one’s station and life-work are divinely chosen. Contentment comes from embracing current surroundings and duties, not craving a different place or role.
A discussion on the value of long titled nobles like M De Champhinson, accusing provincial nobles of indolence and isolation. The piece then recounts the Ruskin Millais story: Ruskin's wife sat for Millais, they fall in love, Ruskin offers support, and the couple divorces to marry Millais, with Ruskin remaining friends and Millais’ The Slough of Lovers portrait linked to the wife.
An aging letter carrier learns a death alters a mother’s life when a long awaited letter from her long‑lost son finally arrives after she dies. The tale shows how letters become more than ink to a carrier, revealing intimate family secrets and lingering devotion.
The Louisville Courier Journal reports Gilbert Doane, a Fifth Street coachman, became entwined with two sisters in the household of J. M. Rurey. The elder married Doane in February, followed by the younger. the former coachman now drives the carriage, denying nothing. The tale, offered with oath, reflects real life romances in Louisville.
An exchange notes a new picture of noble, dramatic figures with a left hand banner and right sword, hat on ground, head back, and a cast upward toward the word fi. Hello, a five dollar bill is found. the writer suspects a bank robbery or a guilty subscriber.
The Atlantic Coast Pilot explains nine deep mud holes off the New Jersey coast, deepest at 145 fathoms, about eighty miles southeast of Sandy Hook. The depressions likely formed as the Hudson river eroded sea basins, suggesting the coast once lay farther seaward and the continent has since subsided.
A Canadian man marketed 10 cent packs claiming guaranteed death to potato bugs with no poisoning risk to animals unlike Paris green. The sachets were not to be opened until use. A victim who opened one found two wooden blocks with instructions to place the bug on a block and press with the other.
A long narrative on the Missouri River's April and June rises, detailing how churned waters carve new channels, erase bottomland farms, and alter towns from Forest City to White Cloud. It explains eddies, snag-caused diversions, and the peril to Missouri settlements along bluffs, with examples of changing navigable access near Omaha and Kansas City.
A discussion of lightning as a single phenomenon with varied forms. Heat lightning results from distant thunder showers. Forked lightning occurs near the observer. Zigzag chain lightning shows a crinkled path. Sheet lightning lights the sky with broad glow. Ball lightning is a rare globe that rolls and explodes.
A crown was buried at Finchley England in a funeral marked by a circus procession. The ringleader led four ladies in costume followed by performers including bounding brothers sword swallowers and bareback riders. A dwarf with a black flag and the Barbary ape in sable gear accompanied the coffin borne on a bier. Clowns filled mourners roles in garb out of place. The circus band closed the ceremony with airs. Billy Walton’s last rites ended as comedian brothers somersaulted over the grave.
Paris dispatch claims Princess Mathilde, famed for brilliance and beauty, influenced imperial circles and politics. Once powerful amid Louis Napoleon’s plans, she now supposedly counsels her nephew Prince Victor while opposing Eugenie. Her drunk husband Anatole Demidoff was barred by the Czar.
A Black Hills sunset described as superb, with clouds lit in red blue and white edges, skies from horizon to zenith painted with color. As the sun sank, bright flashes faded to storm clouds, yielding a glorious but changing spectacle. Observation credited to the Black Hills Times.
A quirky discussion on etiquette asks what to say when someone says thank you. It considers options like You’re welcome and How d ye do and notes that many phrases feel stiff or awkward. The piece suggests grinning gracefully and changing the subject as a better alternative.
A mature maiden with Arab servants travelled by camel to Mount Sinai, spending three weeks in the desert and four days at the mountain. She endured monks who dine with Medoc, climbed solo via a rock staircase, and discarded a broken champagne bottle from a group of Americans. She plans no book, only personal satisfaction.
A compact survey notes how beard fashion and meaning shifted across cultures and eras. From Darwinian theories of ornamental beards to Maori, Icelandic, Egyptian, Libyan, and Greek practices, the piece traces social signals of bearded men and the varied reactions to facial hair in history.
Lucretia Mott, aged 87 and frail, lives in Montgomery County near Philadelphia and walks long distances to attend weekly Quaker services. Despite weight loss and age, she travels half a mile by carriage, eight miles by rail, and walks several blocks to reach the meetinghouse where she often speaks for 20 to 30 minutes. The Chicago Times notes her voice is soft but her memory strong, and her conversations are enriching.
Coal in Sonora Mexico stands as the coast’s premier resource with an anthracite seam tied to an old Silurian or Devonian formation. A 120 mile northeast outcrop on the Sonora Railway branch supports three veins including a seven foot main seam, two and a half foot secondary vein, and possibly greater thickness beneath. The Barranca quartz-mill has used the coal for steam for two years, reporting low ash and no clinker, and the outcrops extend for many miles along the line.
A 1878 Buffalo advertisement urges drastic self-denial to starve fat away and promotes Allan's Anti Fat as a safe vegetable remedy. It claims two to five pounds weekly loss, citing a customer testimonial from Powell and Plimpton, wholesale druggists, and targets druggists as sellers.
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