21 Aug 1875
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1875
Page
1
Poem lines express hopeful longing for future triumph over wrong. The speaker envisions a distant day in Morning Lands when hands join in victory and listening ears hear triumphal song, yet acknowledges delay and patience.
Quiet twilight verses describe starlight through trees and calm evening breeze. The speaker recalls memories of a dear figure and the enduring warmth of friendship across distance, mingling love and gentle longing with nature’s night.
A tenant narrator recounts a Paris tenement tale of a destructive trombone that torments a lodger, the owner Rigaud, and his daughter Therese. A building blaze forces a daring rescue, the trombone and love survive, and a hopeful marriage follows in a rebuilt, ground floor home.
A short observation notes friction impedes and enables railway progress. It explains that the frictional bite of drivers on the track, though minimal, creates the necessary hold to move hundreds of tons of weight at speed. The text emphasizes the iron contact as a mere line yet crucial for motion.
A historic tale recalls a criminal who credited his ruin to cheating a printer out of a two year subscription. After that deceit, he says, the devil took a firm grip and he could not shake it off.
Fragmentary verse prose contrasts difficulties in feigning sensations with hiding genuine feelings. It muses that past burdens are etched on faces, tempering mood to melancholy or gentleness, and likens some freedoms to a herd of swine drowning in the sea.
A reflective line argues intellect cannot be judged by physical traits such as nose shape or length, challenging superficial measures of mind and worth. The remark emphasizes inner capacity over outward appearances, urging deeper evaluation.
Misfortunes cannot be avoided but may be sweetened through philosophy. The idea suggests that thoughtful reflection can make hardships less bitter and help keep hope intact, offering a guiding perspective for readers facing adversity.
A brief critique notes that every sect relies on reason where it helps, yet when reason fails they claim faith as the sole arbiter. The observation highlights the tension between rational inquiry and doctrinal authority across religious groups.
A reflective line compares deference fading with intimacy to how a sensitive plant closes at contact, noting the shrinking effect as familiarity grows and touch provokes a response.
The quote emphasizes choosing differences over alliances, arguing that a friend may turn into an enemy and an enemy may become a friend. It frames caution in forming enduring bonds and highlights the unstable nature of personal loyalties.
The passage contrasts gratitude as the fairest blossom arising from the soul with ingratitude described as a deadly weed. It warns that ingratitude pollutes the atmosphere with fetid vapors, affecting moral character and surroundings.
The passage asserts that the world appears colored by our inner spirit, shifting with mood and season. It claims summer or winter power shapes perception, suggesting external reality mirrors inward state as if we are the ones who imbue the world with hue.
A devotional reflection recalls God’s presence with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the fiery furnace and Daniel in the lions den, followed by Paul’s thorn in the flesh. It emphasizes that God provides grace to endure rather than remove suffering.
A reflective meditation on love describing it as a heat of coldness and a sweetness mixed with bitterness. The passage suggests love is a selective, elusive force that feeds the tongue, with lovers bound by eyes and thoughts rather than hands, and notes that one may initiate love but cannot end it by will.
A terse reflection asserts a moral guarantor in contracts. It claims honest service remains secure as if God is in debt to the worker, with late payments accruing like compound interest as a warning against ungrateful masters.
Quote surveys forgiveness as supreme virtue, arguing brave souls forgive while cowards may act well yet cannot forgive. It asserts forgiveness comes from strength of spirit and security, not from weakness or fear of minor insults.
An old treatise cites Erasmus who laughed to recovery from a tumour and a physician observing a monkey grimace at rhubarb juice. The comic sequence, laughter amid illness, is described as lifting the patient’s spirits and aiding health through a sudden natural response.
A Baltimore American excerpt warns young men about Western emigration, listing six local sons who moved west for work such as an ice cart driver in Denver, a prize package peddler, a saloon keeper in Topeka, a Pike's Peak guide, and Kansas Pacific railroad track workers. Four of the six returned to Baltimore, while others stayed away only to avoid admitting failed hopes.
A 19th century sketch lauds Florence Nightingale for transforming Crimea war nursing, reducing sickness, and inspiring a new career path for women. It argues that trained, calm, selfless nurses are essential, capable of easing doctors and saving lives through disciplined care and vigilant observation.
A French journals describes a remarkable eight day clock with dead beat escapement. It chimes quarters and plays 16 tunes, with two tunes every half day or on demand. It tracks minute hour week month and year, moon age sun rise set tides and high water, with automaton ships that rise with tide and dry at low water. It shows day and date and long and short months and includes an equation table for clock sun discrepancy.
The article explains the name rosewood comes from the strong rose-like fragrance of the fresh wood, not its color. It notes several species grow in South America and the East Indies, with large trees yielding broad planks used for piano tops, and cites Madras government plantations to maintain supply amid depletion.
A motivational exhortation urges readers to assess whether they maximize their body and mind and to abandon indolence. It stresses honest self-evaluation, earnest effort in thought and action, and starting a new life by doing one’s best to improve personal character and, by extension, the world.
A reader instructs a wart removal method using a small piece of raw beef steeped in vinegar applied to the wart and worn daily. The remedy is claimed to kill the wart in a fortnight and can also cure corns.
Daily reflection urges examining all passages of the day to ensure what is right, correct what is amiss, and learn from missteps. Mathews Henry describes this as virtuous living that advances reform and preserves innocence.
A reflective meditation compares time and space to holes and dens, noting that human meddling disturbs the hive. If careless hands disturb the system, the expected sweetness of order yields chaos in the form of bees rather than honey.
A detailed science note explains how barnacles are related to crabs, tracing their life cycle from free swimming juveniles to adults fixed to rocks or ships. It describes early larval stages, the role of flappers as lungs and feeding structures, the gum cementing the creature to substrate, and variations such as some males living inside hosts. It notes transformation of eyes and limbs and mentions beauty of reef barnacles and coral impressions.
A reflective plea on maintaining friendships and avoiding petty slights. The speaker urges direct communication to mend faults, forgiving hurts as the wiser, happier choice. It stresses the value of true friends over many acquaintances and the danger of losing a friend to bitterness.
In a forest two foxes avoid quarrel by arguing over two stones. Each claims the stones, but the other refuses, since it takes two to make a quarrel. They realize their dispute is impossible and abandon the game. The narrator recalls this when feeling sulky.
In a broad life journey many dangerous paths lure the unwary. The piece warns against following others and urges listening to inner caution. It recalls a mother’s tearful plea to her son as he dallies toward ruin, a step taken beyond saving reach.
The speaker argues for treating workers with courtesy and respect, granting credit for successes, and holding them accountable for failures. Prompt, liberal pay builds loyalty, increases productivity, and enhances the value of labor as land prices rise. As prices rise, more labor is needed to profit, and a settled working class is forming through better management.
A brief opinion compares esteem for a loved person to the way a gem enshrines a Yalie, suggesting reverence and value placed on prized affection within a university culture.
Rates for Bates of Advertising outline one week inserts at $1.00 per square, 25 cents for each subsequent insertion. Notices for marriages and deaths double. Transient ads prepaid. Yearly contracts on reasonable terms with limits to immediate business. Entries due by Thursday noon for the next life and political notices.
A detailed note explains that coal oil lamp explosions stem from vapor forming above the oil as lamps warm. Gas ignites when flames reach it, with cheaper oil increasing danger. Causes include drafts, moving lamps, blowing out chimneys, broken or clogged burners, incorrect wick fit, and old burners.
Advice lectures on best fruit timing before breakfast and avoiding cold, plus home remedies for sore throat and catarrh. Instructions include sugar on a hot shovel, camphorated oil with potash gargle, wool neck wrap, and a carbolic acid iodine chloroform inhalation method.
The article argues that sound sleep is essential for health and mood, noting sleep affects temperament and performance. It questions exaggerated benefits of sleep reduction, warning that too little rest damages ability to work efficiently and that extra rest can enhance productivity.
An infamous English quack aurist named J rri son Curtis gained a reputation for dubious cures. He once attended Sir Robert Peel who suffered temporary deafness. Curtis carried two watches and used a syringe to threaten Peel, then switched to a loud ticking watch, restoring Peel's hearing in a startling, famed "cure."
The speaker urges immediate deeds, insisting that existence is proven by action rather than idle reflection. The voice of the innermost soul declares that worth is measured by what one does, not by brooding over piety.
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