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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1873
Page
1
Prof. Chadbourne argues the Bible’s language shines through natural imagery drawing on stars, flowers, and gems to illustrate divine truths. He cites Job and Jesus praising lilies and grass, noting unity across books despite time and place.
A Kentucky paper recounts a tale about Mr R arguing against war and Mr Lincoln affirming his duty to defend the Constitution. Lincoln narrates a coon hunter story to illustrate restraint, wishing the string would break while promising to hold the captured coon.
A seafaring narrator recounts life aboard the clippers White Swallow and Sea Horse, including a bold race from New York to Liverpool, a dramatic wreck rescue of the Cherub of Boston, and the later fate of Captain Daly. The tale blends voyage peril, daring rescues, and a widow’s compensation linked to a wager.
James Greenwood reports on Holloway in London where prisoners may not speak aloud and only whisper. Solitary cells and constant scrutiny drive inmates to desperation, with forced treadmill work and rigid chapel discipline under strict wardens.
A Norwich husband purchases an India rubber air bed to sleep on but his wife doubts its ventilation. While he was away she punched about fifty holes in it, leaving the couple in a disputed, humorous domestic quarrel that reflects old time attitudes.
In a miscellany note, the piece elevates delicacy as the foremost virtue among features that adorn women, placing taste above all other qualities and emphasizing refinement over boldness or excess.
A compact quotation advocates pungent, concise speech and warns that one wrong habit or corrupt influence can ruin prospects. It contrasts mental resources with bodily needs, arguing that reliance on others for happiness signals greater poverty than poverty of body.
It states that strength comes from digestion, wealth from saving, learning from memory, and righteousness from practice, emphasizing actions over words in moral merit.
A reflective meditation on time as a gentle, almost inaudible force shaping life. Days arrive softly, dawn after dawn, each bringing fresh air and quiet music that gradually claim the citadel of our existence.
The passage argues that sense and refinement admire a woman in her proper role. It says a woman stepping outside this character offends, requiring delicacy of appearance, refined sentiment, gentle speech, modesty, and aversion to notoriety and impurity. It asserts these traits are always admired in a woman.
A reflection on maternal influence, praising a mother’s words and example as planting seeds in her children. It argues every expression and gesture at home imprints on young minds, shaping the soul and education of future generations.
A wartime era voice urges decisive action. The speaker promotes seizing opportunities and avoiding hesitation. Do not waste time or energy on vague intentions. Complete each task fully before moving to the next and live every hour with purpose.
A Boston lawyer on School Street cleverly tests a boy selling waste paper. The boy offers fifteen cents for a pile the lawyer values at twenty five. The lawyer accepts and later receives payment, praising the boy’s honor and promising faith in God’s rewards.
A reader report describes Miss Sarah Smith Stafford owning the first star spangled banner, patched and faded with twelve stars, crafted by Philadelphia church ladies and John Brown. The flag sailed with Bon Homme Richard during the 1779 battle with Serapis, then with Alliance and later sold to Robert Morris.
A discussion argues that overwatching children weakens initiative and courage. Free play builds practical movement, risk assessment, and health, while excessive parental anxiety curbs independence and physical and moral development.
The text describes how birds of prey such as condors eagles and vultures have telescopic vision enabling them to spot prey from great heights. It details the shifting focal axis as they dive and rise and notes snail eyes on flexible horns hammer head sharks and flies with compound eyes that detect light from many facets.
The piece notes that many eminent figures began with nothing and rose through effort. It cites Peter Cooper Horace Greeley Governor Palmer and A T Stewart as examples of self made success. It recalls a one eyed French boy who built Girard College from humble cider bottling beginnings and Corneilus Vanderbilt earning early wages rowing travelers.
Prince de Joinville recalls a remark attributed to Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War crisis. When asked about policy Lincoln allegedly replied that he had none and that his aim was to prevent the storm from blowing down the tent and to drive in the pegs as they were pulled up.
Dr. Reiss becomes the first to scale Cotopaxi with a climb beginning at dawn and reaching the crater rim after noon. Snow, ice, and volcanic gas complicate the ascent as he and his major-domo and dog struggle upward, observing a 5993 meter barometer reading and chlorides in crater deposits. The account challenges fiction about altitude respiration and notes the dog’s endurance.
The piece argues happiness equals personal definitions shaped by wealth culture religion and love. It notes health and goodness as foundational, warns against unwarranted unhappiness, and ends with the moral that happiness comes from loving and being loved with inner virtue as the key.
A 17th century reflection by Jeremy Taylor urges embracing present blessings and enduring current evils. Do not dwell on tomorrow's events, for contentment comes from appreciating what is today and trusting God to provide.
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