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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1894
Page
3
Poem fragment by Yobhn Talman in McClure's Magazine, describing music's power to uplift memory and spirit while awakening awe and sorrow. The speaker rides waves of time, senses Circean founts, and feels sublime joy intermingled with desolate recollections as vanished souls return.
A family moving into a house found slim, shining tracks in the cellar. Mice hid leaves under a box where the creatures were kept in a glass jar and fed. The slug stretched from head to tail as it moved, reaching about six inches, with an apparent endless chain propulsion.
A Boston Advertiser clipping notes a surgeon in the United States who, after two years, recruits classmates to his practice of eye straightening for Japanese patients. The procedure uses a fine blade and silk thread to alter eyelid shape, yielding visibly straighter eyes and rising earnings.
A tale from the Sheffield Telegraph recalls a witty exchange after a Spanish battle. A brave young officer boasted he would dine with Wellington, prompting the duke to quip about titles. The officer replied that he would not use Mr for any name, including Wellington.
A peddler asks a housekeeper about daughters and offers resonators for sale. He describes one hanging in the hall that magnifies sounds, making a goodnight kiss resemble a cannon shot as the exchange ends with a request for three resonators.
A described device resembles a compass with a silver body and small holes at the rear through which damp passes move the needle to point at the word damp. The contrivance allegedly detects unaired sheets by this damp-detecting mechanism.
A garbled excerpt discusses a prisoner unable to write his own name, a judge’s remark about naming another person, imperial Britain and colonial Africa, Rudyard Kipling’s mother, Sudanese troops, and a venom snake bite cure. It reads as a miscellaneous historical fragment with many distortions.
Extra Wallace, west bound to Emerson, 10 p m June 16 1878, a rear brakeman crushed and saved when a runaway collision was averted by a tramp who leaped aboard and flagged No 7. The rescuer later rose to prominence as a railroad executive.
A fragmentary account contrasts the Dokos, an African people noted for their ant and snake diet and former slave status, with an anecdote of Edwin Booth in King Lear in New York. The text interweaves exoticism with a memoir of reuniting with a boyhood friend and critique of theatrical depictions.
A Georgia court heard a hog theft case with an accomplice admitting they helped eat the hog to hide the crime. The judge pressed the man about aiding the thief while claiming sickness would not justify the act. The excerpt ends with a quip about Miss Leftover and Miss May Budd fishing for compliments.
The essay praises enduring tunes like Auld Lang Syne and Barbara Allen, contrasting them with fleeting modern hits. It notes how old melodies evoke memory and emotion across generations, citing composers and works from Bach to Wagner and referencing Gilbert and Sullivan.
In an interview with Eugene Melville, the Eskimos use whalebone segments sharpened at both ends and bound with sinew and grease. They scatter bait on the snow to lure wolves, which swallow the bait and die from a delayed internal reaction within days. The method aims to capture wolves without direct hunting, reflecting Arctic hunting practices.
In a March 1788 entry Mr Weddell records a voyage by barge with crew of six who began with ale for breakfast. The narrative notes travel from Somerset Stairs to Beane and mentions meals of chocolate, cheese, and ale as part of early provisioning.
A quirky note reports the grocer matcher baker and milkman refusing to leave until paid. Mr McAuber-Hem offers lodging and board at the York Weekly while provisions are settled.
A New York Sun piece defends typewriter operators, arguing skilled dictation yields high output and that women in the field are well educated and capable. The author cites wages, rates, and productivity, recounts experiences with George Townsend, and challenges critics who demean typewriter work.
The Chicago Tribune argues beer kegs endure long wear due to four coats of protective pitch and modern materials. Kegs resist internal decay but external damage from rough handling and improper transport accelerates aging. Heavy construction shifted from necessity to manual handling demands, with extra material in heads and staves to absorb abuse.
A tobacco maker, moving in select circles, challenges a fellow connoisseur by gifting a cigar described as red cone recina of stems wrapped in Havana leaf. The recipient lights it and is overwhelmed by heat and burning, suffering nausea as his tongue skin peels and his strength fails. The Philadelphia Record notes the incident.
A fragmentary row from Pearson's Week features a playful exchange about age and maidenhood. The dialogue includes characters nicknamed Little Boy and Professor Dry and references to Queen Elizabeth and lectures on age.
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