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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1872
Page
1
A reflective verse on how unkind words can wound the heart. It laments careless tones and predicts lasting sorrow from harsh words spoken in the morning. The poem contrasts kindness to strangers with sharpness toward loved ones and warns that nighttime cannot undo morning mistakes.
A man recalls buying a Dolly Varden calico for his sister Milly. Mistakenly he embraces Ariel Aubrey, the Southern heiress in the same pattern, sparking a playful clash over who is whom. The tale ends with a wedding question sparked by a dress.
A miscellaneous reflection notes that all men have frailties and that true friendship requires loving others despite faults. It argues self love coexists with recognizing flaws in friends and urges affectionate acceptance.
The passage compares life to a voyage and conscience to an anchor that can insure safety in most cases. It warns that conscience, like an anchor, may be carried away, leading to ruin and wreck if lost.
The quote contrasts revenge with forgiveness, noting revenge is brief and remorse follows, while forgiveness brings lasting joy. It cites a Roman emperor remark about ending enemies by turning them into friends.
The piece compares small sins to shavings and sticks set near a green log, showing how minor temptations grow into a blaze. It warns that Satan lures with phrases like no great harm and no great peril, until the log is consumed by the green fog of sin.
A curious observation notes that white letters on black appear larger and readable from farther away than black letters on white. The effect, irradiation of light, arises as bright objects cast a broader impression on the eye, extending beyond the actual lit area and overlapping darker regions.
The sunlit pieces of a wrecked ship remind us that what remains is precious and valued. The domestic circle shrinks easily when neglect or misrepresentation distorts motives. In social life delicate relations require care to prevent rust and lasting spots.
A reflective meditation on immortality and reunion after death. The passage argues hope promises a joyful recognition of loved ones in the hereafter, banishing fear of the grave and offering comfort in mortality’s mystery. It treats immortality as a beautiful, if uncertain, possibility.
A devotional exhortation urges parents to teach with patience and gentleness. It emphasizes line upon line instruction, avoiding sharp rebukes, and guiding curiosity toward deeper inquiry. The piece champions nurturing children to grow into thoughtful, useful adults, authored under Afdther's Friend.
The Springfield Republican laments press demands and sleep as brain revival, arguing against stimulants and praising true rest. It then defends Francois Mansard roofs, praising durability, masonry, and attic space, while criticizing fragile construction and urging thick partitions and solid framing.
The article explains iron in the blood and the body's mineral balance. It notes normal iron around 100 grains and that a ten percent drop harms health. It lists phosphorus, lime, fluoride of calcium, common salt, and other minerals as vital, warning against deficiencies affecting bones, blood, digestion, and mind.
The article explains that a moist hand can touch molten iron without injury due to a protective vapor film formed by heat. Dr W B Carpenter notes water forms a spherical droplets when cooled by heat, creating a barrier. Houdin describes the sensation as like handling liquid velvet during the experiment.
A speaker mistakes a captain for the mate and asks to borrow the breadaxe to saw an empty flour barrel in two. The aim is to carve a makeshift hog pen for a cow.
In these days of inordinate greed and self-indulgence, study contentment. Keep down the accursed spirit of grasping. What they don't have makes thousands wretched.
A translated article summarizes Dr Faure’s views on rheumatism as a cause of variable symptoms attacking cerebral function. It describes moments of despondency, fatigue, headache, altered sensations, loss of interest, and temporary mental collapse followed by recovery, noting individual variation.
The Old South Church in Boston is described as a famed Congre gational edifice with origins in 1669. It details its cedar first building, the 1729 replacement, open services from 1730, the British occupation in 1775, and later repairs by 1782 restoring the structure to near its present form.
A Chinese barber shaves a customer with an improvised kit and rough methods. He straps the razor to the leg, shaves swiftly, cleans ears with a needle-shaped spoon, twists the neck, beats the body, and finishes with cold water. Price two cents.
Professor Muller in Berlin lectures on why curves captivate sight. He describes six eye muscles guiding circular motion while straight lines use only two, causing tedium with repetition and a preference for curves that distribute effort evenly.
The article explains how the anableps Surinam fish has eyes split into upper and lower halves serving distinct tasks. The upper half scans for danger while the lower half guides for food, effectively combining telescopic and microscopic vision. It notes the eye’s sharp angled cornea and asks how the mind could manage two functions at once.
The article explains a simple method to preserve autumn leaves using blotting pads sheets of paper a brush varnish and a thick book to press and dry them. It notes leaves turn color and ivy is ready and mentions poison ivy as a decorative but cautionary note.
A farmer’s wife in Ohio reports butter tasting spoiled due to atmospheric odors. She describes veal blood in the cellar causing butter to smell like spoiled beef. Another reader notes nearby stagnant pond odors affecting cream and butter until the pond was drained.
Col. Donn Pratt notes a young Army officer nicknamed Old Probabilities. The piece paints him as handsome, with a Roman nose and blue eyes, a military bearing, a charming wife, and a fashionable Washington home, enjoying wine and jokes at dinner despite storms.
A young eccentric clergyman spoke of a phantom he carries daily during his sermon, prompting a loud reply from a mischievous girl who mocked the idea. Congregation members faced a tense moment balancing decorum with humor as the quip echoed through the pews.
A quotation warns that a person dies within minutes without air and days without sleep or water, while food deprivation extends longer and varies by constitution. It asserts many alleged cases of life without food collapse upon fair scrutiny, often revealing fraud at the root.
A physician lecturing on public ignorance recalled a lady who asked what his next lecture would cover. When told the topic was the circulation of the blood she said she would attend, claiming she had long suffered from that very complaint.
An observer describes oyster growth from spat to market size. Juvenile oysters hatch from the parent, drift in water, and mature through stages with microscopic detail including shells, cilia, and movement until they reach marketable size after four years.
The piece argues health is vital and preventable disease is better than cure. It notes changes in farming toward machinery and better stock, demanding brains and nutritious food. It warns against fat pork and bread, urging more fresh meat and better cooking for industrious American farmers.
A speaker reflects on learning to do small tasks well, noting that perfection in each part sustains the grand whole. He cites Nature’s beauty and harmony, imagining a divine plan with many little parts shaping landscapes for people and animals.
A recent find in Mexico describes a grass or cactuslike plant producing a strong silklike fiber. Leaves arise from a central stalk and can reach a foot or two. The macerated, brake-processed fibers spin into a durable thread usable with silk, cotton, or wool. Manufacturers foresee cheaper dress fabrics and widespread growth of the plant.
A veteran instructor says he taught about six thousand pupils. Of these, roughly fifty became ministers, many more became lawyers, doctors, and teachers, with numerous others entering farming and mechanics. He notes four were transported, two were hanged, and many others deserve similar judgment.
Quote reveals a denial of milk contamination with a claim that a cat was drowned in the milk. The speaker asserts swift action by straining the milk after learning of the incident and directs the response to the person addressed.
A celebrated physician tells Lord Stowell that after forty a man is always either a fool or a physician. The lord retorts that he may be both, delivering a wry, half-drawn remark in a refined court voice.
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