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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1874
Page
1
A fragmentary verse pleads for love to ease grief and provide shelter from stormy trials. The speaker imagines icy cold and angry waves as relief if the beloved is protected in port, seeking calm and safety in companionship. The tone is earnest and yearning.
A broker William Everett earns two thousand dollars in a single day. A poor thirteen year old boy, his former employee and son of a widowed mother, watches with sad eyes. News of a missing California swindler unsettles Everett and dampens his satisfaction.
A broker, Mr. Everett, notices the sobbing plight of John Levering, an orphaned helper. He learns the family owes fourteen dollars in rent and gifts twenty dollars plus a promise to help, finding deeper joy in charity than in gains from a late business deal.
A reflective item contrasts thinking with speaking and writing, urging care. It notes a smile can hide sadness and a rainbow above may mask the sea’s moaning below.
A brief reflection on honesty as essential to strong character in youth. The piece argues that without a firm foundation in truthfulness, future resilience and integrity are compromised.
A saying warns that betraying another’s secret over a quarrel stains true friendship and breaches kindness, arguing that breach of trust is worse than the quarrel itself.
A reflective quotation from Mrs. I. B. Stowe contemplates imminent passing and the revival of past moments as love faces finality. The excerpt centers on mortality, memory, and enduring affection in the face of death.
Philosophical observation compares life to costly material slipping away, urging swift, deliberate action to craft one’s chosen pattern without delay or regret.
A reflective quotation from Lowell notes that legal weight is not fixed and God's measure lies in a criminal's heart. The balance shifts with each person, and even a tear can tip the beam of judgment.
A compact list highlights three virtues to love and admire three to hate and delight in. It lists aims to wish for like avoid cultivate contend govern and think about life death and eternity in a compact moral reflection.
Be on your guard against reforming others while unreformed yourself. Be examples of reform yourself and avoid intolerance and wrath. Speak plainly yet avoid clamor, be patient, reasonable, and allow people time. Give reasons when asked and trust God for the rest.
A Christian Union meditation contrasts inner peace with sunny temperament. Paul endured storms and illness yet maintained faith without requiring cheerful mood. He did not base belief on mind or body but trusted God despite tribulation.
In a western Scottish town a weekly club witnessed a dying member return as a ghost and sit in his chair. the incident later inspired a nurse to confirm the tale. A Vienna tattooed man is described as six feet tall, covered with blue and red ink, and fully tattooed in three months without ill effects.
A Journal of Commerce piece urges merchants to favor consistent advertising over costly drumming and showy campaigns. It argues that visible, ongoing promotion yields larger sales and lower overall expenses, recommending old fashioned, legitimate methods to attract broad customer volume.
A fire in a German town threatened a stork nest atop an eighty foot fortification tower. The three unfledged chicks were saved as the storks repeatedly dipped in fish ponds, carried water in their beaks, and doused the nest while rescuing their young.
A reflective passage critiques constant judgment of people by petty flaws. It cites horse habits, clerical quirks, and universal complaints about slow or fast ministers, urging restraint to avoid rashly condemning the best in England.
A narrator visits the Irving burial plot with simple stones and a recently placed rose bud. The setting speaks of tranquility as oaks shed leaves and the scene recalls the writer’s poetic reach across the Tappan Zee. The piece contrasts modest graves with costly monuments and notes no footpath to the larger memorials.
The piece argues that true education begins in infancy and that youth should not be left to self direction. It asserts middle aged adults can guide children best with wise counsel and gentle example, teaching them to navigate life like a pilot steering clear of rocks. It warns against assuming minds are fully formed early and emphasizes the rarity of forming lasting character.
A coach maker explains that varnish on carriages stored near horses deteriorates in ammonia from manure. He recommends a separate dry carriage house from the stable and re varnishing about once a year for continual use.
Dr B A Gould reports a vast swath of langostas across Cordoba August 18 and September 1. The wind carried a moving black train, with altitudes up to 2000 feet and widths of several miles, darkening the sun as swarms passed for hours. The phenomenon extended over twenty miles and persisted into twilight before thinning.
A Congregatonalist item recalls two clumsy preachers. One forgets the Lord's Prayer during a wedding Sabbath sermon, muttering Job text amid giggles. The other misreads a note about a bereaved husband, discovering in the end that the bride in white is his second wife.
A social vignette recalls wedding motives and sham explanations. Bridget Conley explains she was talking with her eldest brother at the gate, revealing her brother Barney Octoglan’s name and a prior marriage, exposing a playful lie.
A letter describes a large Russian military display near a legation with 80 uniform cavalry, polished brass, and 4000 to 15000 troops, praising discipline and monarchy. It also recounts Tom Corwin’s witty anecdotes on General Crary and others, including a Covington anecdote about a New Orleans unread admission for colored folks.
A London physician Dr. Symes Thompson argues in a lecture that contagious diseases have idiosyncrasies and are spread largely by controllable factors. Enteric fever cholera water supply scarlet fever typhus and typhoid arise from filth overcrowding and impure habits, with prevention hinging on basic sanitary laws.
The writer laments modern newspapers overburdened with news and appearances of telegraphic speed, contrasting them with earlier times of simplicity and lack of headlines personals and market reports. The piece reflects nostalgia for less news-devouring days in New Orleans Picayne style.
The English Parliament of 1770 enacted a statute declaring that any man reading into matrimonial bonds with rouge powder perfumes artificial teeth or other adornments could be prosecuted for sorcery and have the marriage voided. The Figaro asks who could marry under such an act.
Mitton’s wife is described as vixenish. Buckingham once praised her as a rose. The poet admits to not judging colors and reflects that he feels the thorns daily, implying his blindness and the sharp edges of his marriage.
In a vivid survey, Prof. Mathews notes eccentric hobbies from shell collecting to coin hunting and music, then focuses on book lovers whose libraries swell with vellum pages and calf bindings. He catalogs many bookish types like black-letter men, Elzevirians, and editio princeps enthusiasts.
A Children's Advocate piece extols good manners as essential to friendship and prosperity. It cites a disciplined boy Charley who attentively helps his mother when his father is away, illustrating how polite behavior costs little and yields great value.
In England Florence Nightingale mistook an elderly visitor for trouble and had her maid deny him entry. The man claimed to be Raglin Ragman, and Nightingale later realized the visitor was the commander in chief, exposing the maid Abigail's error.
Cuas Warren Stoddart offers a blunt take on Salt Lake City noting handsome hotels and commendable street cars, while describing the Gentile element as suave and uncompromising and remarking that the two groups do not mix to any visible extent.
A Beecher quotation on balance, praising the value of practical effort alongside deep feeling. It suggests that steady work sustains life, while expressions of emotion add intensity, and notes not everyone has the stamina to both sustain labor and express sentiment.
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