24 Aug 1872
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1872
Page
1
35 State Street advertises a sweeping stock reduction on boots, shoes, and slippers to clear out fall and winter goods. Prices list Ladies French Kid, American, lace, Serge Fox, Plain Serge, Tace tips, and men's calf boots plus Oxford ties, Prince Albert, and Bantam styles. Large selection for men women and children all marked plainly.
Haydn, burdened by poverty and family pressure in Vienna, finds aid from Porpora and rises to fame after a pivotal oratorio and royal patronage. A dramatic turning point arrives with Esterhazy service, leading to enduring legacy and a moving farewell at his Vienna triumph.
The passage argues against hostility to salt in dietitians and moralists. It notes salt exists in most foods and body fluids, in tears, and is essential for life. Civilization increases salt demand, with deficiency risking parasites and disease. physiology supports salt use over anti-salt pretensions.
A London police reveal a cruel beggar making system with deformities used to harvest alms. The piece condemns the practice and calls for heavy penalties. It also argues that living cheaply requires simplification, thrift, and dignity, urging middle class readers to value basic comforts over show.
The sister of officer Harry Mansfield raises a mockingbird that comes at her call. When she falls gravely ill the bird sings to comfort her, but upon her death the bird stops singing and only responds to her voice. The Nashville Banner reports the curious case of animal kindness shaping behavior.
A group of about twenty Illinois residents crossed into Indiana during corn hoeing season to view a pauper living with farmer Bill Turner. They expected a beggar or oddity, but Silas Brown proclaimed the visitor a man, sparking amusement about compassion in charitable care.
The piece notes strychnine as a dangerous poison yet still used by physicians in tiny doses. It cites Orinoco natives who use salt to neutralize poison after delivering a lethal dose, suggesting salt as a potential antidote and urging exploration of safe practices and responsibility. It reflects on modest origins of scientific discoveries.
Professor Farady endorses Flourin's theory that human life averages one hundred years. Growth ends at twenty. other animals reach growth earlier. Life divides into growth and decline, with infancy to twenty youth to fifty virility to seventy five old age beginning at seventy five, influenced by health and restraint.
Dr. Lieber reports a Washington tale from France via Laboulaye. Jefferson mocked two houses while Washington cited English and American history. The general answered with a vivid example, noting Jefferson poured hot tea from cup into saucer to cool it, illustrating the design.
A London Echo Madrid correspondent portrays Spanish prisons as horrid. crowded, filthy, verminous halls with half naked inmates, overseers' threats, armed jailors, military guards, fetid air, constant brawls, and heavy chains.
An Austrian servant using a microscope examines a Nile mud brick from Dashour, revealing river debris, seeds, flax, wool and pottery fragments. The study supports biblical and Herodotean brickmaking and illuminates Egyptian life, geography, customs, and language.
D A Wasson argues in a recent lecture that the hardest work is mental rather than manual. He cites Theodore Parker and others to illustrate how great effort can be packed into a short span and compares mental fatigue to physical toil.
In 1812 Colonel George Shoemaker found fire in black stones near the Schuylkill River while building a limekiln. He transported the material to Philadelphia, where stove designs failed to burn anthracite, leading him to abandon the idea and return home.
The article argues that severity is unnecessary for taming wild beasts. Repeated kindness quickly quiets ferocity in lions tigers and polar bears and earns their trust. Gentle handling during horse and ox training replaces whips or chains with soft words and patient repetition.
A Scotch law lord seated with a Scotch shepherd on Bonnally hill notes the sheep lie in a cold spot. He tells the shepherd he would be on the other side of the hill if he were a sheep. The shepherd retorts that if the lord had been a sheep he would have more sense.
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