10 Aug 1872
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1872
Page
1
Georgia newspaper note shows editor A Greene and publishing details. Rates listed: 2 25 per year in advance, 2 50 after three months, 1 13 for six months, single copy 5 cents. No discontinuation until arrears paid. Office at Phenix Building Hope Street.
A poem recalls a beloved father's portrait resting before the speaker. The smile inspires devotion and strength, guiding through life and death. The speaker credits the image as a heavenly beacon, illuminating paths in gloom and pointing toward an eternal home beyond.
A narrator recalls Five the enigmatic miner with a blue five on his hand. Five shares a hard life, a fall from grace, and a longing for his wife and daughter Maggie. Post gold era, Five reunites with the narrator in California valleys and laments changing towns.
Rev. Robert Collyer recalls a Methodist elder who faced death after a hard illness. With his trunk packed and ticket ready he asked for something pleasant to read. Instead his heart held faith and humor as he chose to die in calm confidence. The story ends with the man’s belief that he would meet angels.
The piece reflects on the sorrow of doing things for the last time from kissing lips to age. It notes actors singers preachers facing final performances and contemplates how birthdays mark growing older. It ends with death as a gate to a new land of promise.
The nightingale sings after sunset in spring, described as most musical and melancholy. It favors Stratford and Shakspeare's graveside region, appears mid April, departs in August, and is timid yet trainable when kept in captivity. It ranges from England to Persia and Japan, with distinctive brown olive plumage and hazel eyes.
The California Mustang is praised for endurance and sure-footedness, able to carry riders long distances and perform light work. The piece urges preservation of this native stock, noting its small size, spirited nature, and affectionate potential, while lamenting its likely decline.
A prize essay by a Scottish printer argues the world would be dreary without the Sabbath. It depicts workers driven by endless toil across farms, factories, and cities, warning of vanished joy, vigor, and hope if the Sabbath were erased.
Sidney Smith praised Macaulay as a living book of breeches, his memory overflowing with anecdotes. Prescott noted his infectious talk in England 1850 while Tom Moore’s Diary recalls a Roger’s breakfast where Macaulay framed the Monothelite debate and claimed authorship of two witty poems.
The excerpt cites John Ruskin arguing drunkenness does not cause crime but is itself a crime. It urges sobriety and argues society should provide better amusements than pothouses to curb intoxication and its profits. It frames drunkenness as a moral failing tied to social responsibility.
George Alfred Townsend portrays Long Island as a thriving land with three counties and a shared destiny with New York. He contrasts population counts across Kings Queens and Suffolk, notes geography from Montauk to Shelter Island, and emphasizes its potential as a maritime republic lacking a U.S. Senate.
The article explains Linnaeus’s floral clock with three divisions meteorological tropical and thorological noting 24 flowers that bloom at set hours such as daylily five AM evening primrose five PM and night blooming cereus after sunset. It mentions water lilies lotus and a floral calendar mapping months to flowers.
A Christian Union correspondent recounts a horse that showed intelligence and mercy. When a lame horse stayed in its stable a cat with five kittens sought aid, crawled to the manger, and after a leg injury lay at the horse’s feet mewing until Pony bent down to help.
The sponge fishery, mainly Greek, Sicilian, and Arab divers, peaks in December to February in Tunis waters. Spearfishing shows high skill as Greeks multitask with multiple spears to reach sponges up to sixty feet deep. Fine sponges come from the Mediterranean with Sumra as a chief market. Bahamas and Florida coast sponges supply large exports and local U.S. demand if fisheries were fully pursued.
A new method of washing linen, spread from Germany to Belgium, uses two pounds soap in about three gallons hot water with one tablespoon turpentine and three of liquid ammonia. Linen soaks two to three hours, covered hermetically, then washed and rinsed. Reuse of soap requires added turpentine and ammonia. The process claims time and fuel savings, with minimal rubbing and preserved color and cleanliness.
The speaker argues every mind has a unique specialty and that true success comes from discovering and pursuing what each person genuinely wants to do. Constrained by others expectations, individuals fail to reach their own right mark until they follow their true inclinations.
A strict day-school teacher failed to break a defiant pupil until she spotted the girl with a crying baby brother. The sight softened her, and the next day the teacher asked about baby brother, using that bond to win the girl’s cooperation.
The text extols mechanics as essential creators of grand architecture. It asserts no palace or spire is built without their skill, shaping divine beauty and structural strength in religious, commercial, and private buildings. Their art is presented as exalted and sublime.
Advertisement terms describe rates for inserts at $1.00 per square for the first week and 25 cents per square for each following insertion Twelve lines or less make a square Special notices before marriages and deaths cost double Transient ads payable in advance Yearly contracts offered with favorable terms Privilege limited to immediate business Hand in ads by Thursday noon for next issue Obituaries religious notices and political notices treated as advertisements
Advice urges self reliance and personal effort to success. The author argues fortunes come from self made work not patronage, urging perseverance with hands brain and heart. It notes that reliance on others and parental influence rarely leads to lasting achievement.
A collection of aphorisms describing beliefs about money generosity footwear honesty and behavior. It lists proverbial truths and warnings such as not drying wet with water and not letting a cat or housewife stay away from home. It notes miseries of a house including a smoky chimney and a scolding wife.
The passage declares pain as an evil unavoidable in life, though borne for love's sake. It asserts we should deplore pain as an imperfect state, trust in divine Beneficence, and wait for death to reveal the meaning, while maintaining faith in the Divine Author.
The passage argues greatness lies in gradual growth through small friendly acts and sacrifices, not in dramatic feats. Everyday lives are largely ordinary, yet the world’s work requires patient, humble service even when it is tiresome or uncongenial.
A correspondent claims burning coals and brown sugar inhaled as smoke can ease pain from wounds. He cites FOOT injuries from a rusty nail and a torn finger nail as examples, noting pain subsides after fifteen to twenty minutes and recovery is swift.
Dr Benjamin Rush explains that life duration hinges on precise balance between stimuli and strength rather than sheer vigor. He compares life to a watch spring and anchor, warning that anger and temper upset this balance and wear away the springs of life.
A witty exchange compares reading last winter’s Congress speeches to taking two years. A chap asks what to read and a friend replies with a curt remark about time and effort.
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