20 Jul 1872
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1872
Page
1
A narrator recalls attending a fashionable church service with his wife and child. He laments the rich occupying cushioned seats while the poor sit by the door, contrasts wealth with poverty, and cites the parable of the rich man and the beggar. The piece critiques ostentatious piety and urges simple goodness and humility before God.
To mix mustard use cooled boiled water and a pinch of salt. Add water gradually until it drops from a spoon, then stir and rub lumps smooth. Do not use hot water or raw cold water. Use a small pot and make it fresh for best flavor.
In Provincetown a dog mourned his mistress after her death, the care she gave him daily ending with her passing. He refused his bed and ate little, wandering in search of her touch before dying days later, leaving the lesson that some are born to lead and others to follow and obey.
In a brown November world, Ettie mourns Blue Boy, her seafaring love, who vanishes at sea. Years pass with guardian guardianship and a haunting belief he perishes until a dramatic return redeems her, revealing a tale of devotion, danger, and unforeseen happiness amid a life of guardians and dogs.
The piece notes that aging parents prefer early bedtimes as they lose elasticity and struggle with late hours. It argues most people over sixty avoid staying up past eleven, valuing sleep more with age. Elders urge the younger to quit risky late nights, a counsel echoed by medical journals and physicians.
The passage argues that mere years and routine do not constitute life. Vitality comes from knowledge, truth, love, beauty, goodness, and faith. Emotions and experiences such as laughter, tears, music, doubt, mystery, hardship, and trust nourish the human being beyond mere survival.
A harsh London Society notice targets the Devonshire family known for poaching at their thirty acre freehold. A photographer captured their barn while a press writer nickname Tickler credits them with notoriety. Fifty prior convictions are cited and the piece mentions seasonal burrows and possible insanity in their oddities.
A London Quarterly Review passage discusses horses’ pain from wounds and injuries, noting their sensitivity to whip, spur, and insect sting. It compares animal suffering to human trauma, describing numbness after concussion and the lasting awareness of injury as wounds inflame.
An article by Richard Mallet highlights India as a leader in large scale iron manufacture. It cites a wrought iron pillar near Delhi's Utub mosque, 60 feet long, 16 inch diameter, about 80 cubic feet of metal, weighing over 17 tons. A six line Sanscrit inscription places its age to the 3rd or 4th century AD.
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