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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1903
Page
4
The tale recounts James McNeill Whistler owing a female model five dollars for writings. She boasted to another artist that a piece of Whistler’s painting could fetch fifty dollars. Whistler, famed yet poor in money, exclaimed in shock when informed of the offer and his studio temper flared.
W E Henley born 1849 endured lifelong health battles after an early leg amputation. Doctors warned another amputation might be needed to live. He sought Lister's Edinburgh infirmary penniless and recovered, inspiring Robert Louis Stevenson to sketch John Silver from his nimble resilience.
The New York Press notes that biblical locust plagues darkened Egypt but were later swept into the Red Sea by a strong west wind, leaving the sea unfixedly red. The reddening was temporary, the article argues, not a lasting geological state.
The text argues that curiosity is the restless mind of educated women, noting that fully educated and employed women are not curious. It claims civilization has limited women's mental growth to traditional activities and condemns gossip as mere small talk about others, a reaction to focusing on one’s own affairs.
A humorous anecdote features Eugene Field meeting a sister poet who questions his fame. Field replies with a sly retort about his name and writing, highlighting his wit. The exchange ends with Field politely taking leave after a clever quip.
The article surveys the nebular hypothesis noting its survival in name while interpretations of cosmic change vary. It cites broad agreement on a solar nebula origin but questions whether it was gaseous or powdery, whether it emitted continuous or interrupted light, and how it organized into spheres and separated vast spaces.
A Kansas City Journal humor piece contrasts a man boarding a car with the postmaster general. The dialogue jokes that the figure lacks military insignia and status, noting he does not hand out letters at general delivery, only maps.
London Tit-Bits notes that the cochineal insect has been recognized as a medicine and once famed for wonderful virtues. It explains that honey and wax are insect products, while gulls used in medicine for astringent properties and for gallic and tannic acids are also products of insects.
A fragment describes a woman weeping and a husband asking for the reason luego detect a playful exchange where she calls him darling and he responds with a humorous line about horseradish, capturing domestic banter in a dated tone.
In a reflective line from the Milwaukee Sentinel, Nolan realizes his importance only after his wife calls him to attention, grounding his self view in a candid domestic moment.
A Portsmouth railroad conductor allegedly sold smelt on a trip toward Concord. He lost count, found a way to repay an old woman by returning seven miles to retrieve one more fish, then resumed to Concord. The anecdote appeared in the Manchester Union of February 6, 1859.
The article traces how sentinel and hussar embody word twisting in national speech. It links sentinators to ship bilge pumps and notes hussar derives from Hungarian for twentieth after Matthias Corvinus began raising an army by drafting every twentieth person.
The passage from Notes and Queries muses on the oddity of the words mistaken and mistake. It discusses self reference in argument and the difficulty of distinguishing error between speaker and listener. It concludes that language treats the one who is mis taken as in error, even as one may be right about another's mistake.
The piece portrays Morocco as fanatic toward Christians despite proximity to Europe. It states Christians are hated nationwide, danger outside Tangier, Moorish Jews control coastal trade, and Christians must stay in the Jewish quarter or be escorted by soldiers in Morocco City and Fez.
The London Globe extols the good red grouse as the sole vertebrate native to the British Isles. It notes the bird’s uniqueness among global fauna, praising its nobility, resilience, and impressive flight as a point of national pride.
A writer lauds the endurance of Chinese coolies who travel long distances with heavy loads. He cites a group that after twenty seven hours without food still offered to carry a man fifteen miles further despite fatigue.
Conversation shows Rackshaw pressing Ruggles to sign a petition while a businessman explains he signed a pledge not to sign any petition for one year after a visitor offered him a binding pledge to that effect.
A dialogue snapshot shows an anxious Adorer and a Sweet Girl discussing a father’s anger. The Sweet Girl reveals the father is in a terrible rage and urges her to appease him, highlighting a tense family moment.
Comic exchange about sailors learning swearing from parrots. Nancy questions why sailors swear and Cousin Tom agrees parrots teach profanity, a light Boston Transcript humor snippet.
The Dieppe baths boast ancient prestige dating to Henry II who visited in 1578 to bathe for ailments. Hydrophobia lore linked to dogs and royal visits, including Mme Sevigne’s accounts of mad dog bites. The Duchesse de Berry popularized Dieppe from 1824 to 1830, notably during a beach inauguration with cannon, bells, and a royal medical inspector in evening dress leading her into the sea.
The first Bible printed in America appeared in Cambridge in 1663 under restrictions on English scripture printing. Eliot's Indian Bible, limited to 1500 copies, is now rare and termed a sealed dead language. Newman’s Concordance followed, crafted in a log cabin by pine light, shaping later Cruden's standard.
In a dialogic scene the rich father proposes Sadie’s marriage for a $1,000,000 settlement framed as a down payment and weekly balance. Sadie weeps, her mother suggests the family’s plebeian origins are suddenly obvious, and the judge notes the absurd installment framing.
A New York man recalls a poignant remark by a young boy from the east side. On a Coney Island beach outing organized by a charity, the child watched the waves and sighed that this was the first time he had ever seen enough of anything.
Professor Mascart reports to the Paris Academy that birds such as sparrows and swallows flee from cities and countries facing pestilence. He notes that large-city birds leave when epidemics begin, supporting ancient writers' claims.
In a witty exchange from the Washington Star, Miss Cayenne contends that the amusements of many society people can be nonsensical, while humorously noting that even imagined amusements by such people may be less sensible.
An idle man never encourages good citizenship or progress or peace or decency. Idle men hanging around a town are always a pest. Mischief is always easy to stir up, and every useful, progressive man finds his efforts handicapped by loafers.
Characteristic to the Last reports Squibbs-Crogans the miser drowned last evening after falling from a steamboat. Hibbs recounts the event: I reached down and asked him to give me his hand. He said he had nothing to give and sank.
A Toledo News-Bee item notes that a fiery manager claims Ranter did well in Hamlet and returns to vaudeville. The exchange highlights theatrical reputations and Ranter's comeback involvement.
A Philadelphia Ledger quip notes that a man named Magmate is so rich he fears approaching a girl lest she sue for breach of promise. The remark frames wealth as a social hazard and courting caution.
A quip from the Atchison Globe notes that when you dance you should not avoid the fiddler the next day for he never forgets to present his bill.
Railroad service details for the New York New Haven and Hartford electric cars starting May 17 1908. Lists northbound and southbound weekday and Sunday times for Bristol Providence Fox Point and related arrivals and departures with numerous specific times.
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