19 Aug 1871
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1871
Page
1
A reflective meditation on beauty and loss, comparing life’s joyful moments to roses near the tomb. The verses note blessings arrive with happiness but fade into grief, acknowledging the brevity of earthly joys.
An elderly craftsman is described as content and discerning with time. He aligns each moment as a stitch in his work, finishing tasks with precise skill. His careful approach ensures every deed is sealed, and his closing is firm and flawless to the end.
In the Fort Mims defense near Mobile, Blanche Burton wife of Lt Allen Burton and her infant survive a Seminole assault. Conanchet leads 2000 warriors. Blanche wounds the chief, then guides her dying husband to safety as Blanche detonates a powder trap to shelter her family before escaping by boat to Mobile.
Dr. Hall’s Journal of Health recounts a winter night devotion by a solitary woman who tended a dying patient in a back room. She provided tireless personal care and unspent funds for weeks while the patient’s family stayed away, an act of mercy attributed to ALICE Cary, said to be descended from John Cary Bridgewater’s first town clerk.
A Sidney Smith essay argues that much talent is lost to timidity and hesitation. It urges readers to stop fearing cold risks and to dive in, noting modern times demand bold self initiation rather than cautious consultation with friends and kin.
A 19th century note argues dress aesthetics reflect character and household order. Lavater is cited on women’s attire signaling taste and duty, saying well dressed wives support harmony in marriage. The piece asserts simplicity can show taste and calls for a serious treatise on dress esthetics.
A concise exhortation to take pride in humble labor and avoid laziness. It argues that every honest calling earns bread, that trading benefits all, and that one should not fear getting hands dirty. The piece mocks idleness and envisions a world enriched by diligent work from every person.
A London lecture on the ear details the anatomy from the tympanic membrane to the labyrinth and Corti’s organ, describing how vibrations travel to the auditory nerve. A Sunday school anecdote in an Eastern city shows perseverance, as a boy, caring for his mother, wins a mill job and later donates $1,000 after the Pemberton Mills accident.
The piece urges keeping children constantly active from sunrise to sunset, praising their busy bodies and curious minds. It warns parents to provide wholesome, useful work, arts, and reading, and to foster a pleasant home that nurtures virtue and joy for the little ones.
At New Castle on Tyne a boastful gentleman presented a spider in a glass that allegedly lifted a laurustinus sprig many times its weight. The spider raised and fastened the sprig to the glass rim, and the feat supposedly remains suspended there after forty years.
God knows what keys touch the human soul to draw its sweeter harmonies. Some walk sorrow’s path, others sing loftier joys, yet all unite in harmony as the chorus of the redeemed heaven.
A reflective maxim urges praise be earned for personal virtues rather than lineage. It emphasizes merit over heritage and encourages character, integrity, and deeds as the basis of honor.
A shy sparrow-like bird with a red top-knot feasts on mulberries and sings a low sweet tune that brightens the day. Its mate wears a gray brown business suit, and the pair care for a fuzzy young one as berries vanish quickly. The male frets about the chick’s health while continuing to trill from the high tree tops.
Practical tips for canary care from an experienced keeper. Advice covers cage placement to avoid drafts, seed mixes of canary and rape seeds with supplements, soft water for bathing, and air temperature. Focuses on moulting, feeding, and avoiding bad seed, plus greens and gentle feeding when birds are ill.
Passengers on two contesting steamers look for victory as a Rhode Island Quaker observer keeps calm. The aged Friend quips that after fifty miles they have gained about an inch, a humorous note on the race’s slow progress and spectators’ eagerness.
Leaders of public opinion are individuals who advocate some truth not generally familiar. Week judgments rely on the leader's judgment and may swallow the error with the truth. Stronger judgments, disgusted with the error, refuse the truth.
Observations on dreaming and somnambulism recount how minds solve problems and compose art while asleep. Accounts include Condorcet, Goethe, Coleridge, Tartini, and Lord Thurlow, noting sleep driven mathematics, poetry, and music later recalled or performed.
A chemist reports that certain dry materials such as old clothing and wood can self heat to ignite without flame. Tests show oil soaked rags shrink and burn, while oil free rags with matches in a sunlit loft become blackened ashes. The findings suggest many fires blamed on incendiaries may originate from household rags and fabrics generating heat in close rooms.
In this excerpt Chief ideas compare mind and body growth, arguing thought leaves living impressions on brain tissue. The author cites Daniel Webster and a London phrenologist to claim that intellect enlarges the head as ideas form, and that changes can occur overnight with new insight.
Krummacher narrates a fable where an angel sprinkles dew and grants a request, adorning the loveliest flower with moss. The story emphasizes simplicity over costly embellishment and mirrors the idea that a meek quiet spirit is of great price in God’s sight.
A concise moral exhortation urges living with purpose by serving others and quietly doing good. It emphasizes usefulness, illumination through deeds, and steady effort toward a meaningful end.
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