Roundel of Night and Lunar Light in Verse
A fragmentary verse piece extols night’s hush and moonlit streets. The speaker expresses intimate affection for a beloved, invoking Dian and celestial imagery to frame a tender mood.
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1895
Page
4
A fragmentary verse piece extols night’s hush and moonlit streets. The speaker expresses intimate affection for a beloved, invoking Dian and celestial imagery to frame a tender mood.
In a carriage Miss Lambton-Hyatt argues for women’s freedom and independence while a male companion questions tradition. When a late train derails their plans, he guides her through a hotel delay end and a milk train return, ending with a proposed shared responsibility.
In Galesburg Illinois a physician named Dr. Smithers treated a penurious rich business client during a severe colic attack. The patient vowed to pay $500 if cured and later said the doctor would owe him his life. Six months after, the doctor sued for $8.
A verse tribute from Longman’s Magazine by Anthony C. Deane laments time’s passage and the violin’s memory of joy, love, and sorrow. It muses on faded beauty, bygone dances, and the haunting plea of a past that remains through remembered music and petals.
A doctor recounts a domestic horror from Provence in which hypnotic suggestion nearly drives a man to suicide. A paper knife and a hidden dagger provoke a fatal act, revealing a wife and neighbor’s complex motives and a tangled plot of deceit.
In a New York divorce case before Judge Barrett six or seven years earlier the sides clashed as Daniel Dougherty accused Robert Ingersoll of heartlessness. Dougherty challenged Ingersoll calling the claim a lie, prompting a heated courtroom scene and a dramatic exit before the two lawyers reconciled.
A Boston Herald opinion notes that horses avoid intentional harm to dismounted men and that a unit will pass over a prone soldier. It explains horses search for stable ground and tend to strike down others rather than step on them, making runaways dangerous mainly by knocking victims over.
A French watering place scene at Tronville shows dogs amusing observers. A white terrier owned by the Comtesse de Bretenil wore white doeskin leggings when muddy, while a pug reportedly wore five different coats in one day, all embroidered.
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