26 Jul 1879
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1879
Page
1
A reflective sermon-like text urges a patient mission to reach wanderers, sick and weary, widowed and orphaned souls. It calls for tending the banished, gathering them under sheltering wings, and speaking Jesus’ name with living power, urging perseverance in missionary care.
The Court Circular recalls a story about the late King of Italy Victor Emmanuel I. While going to the theatre in a gray coat he found he could not return to change. He borrowed a coat from a young marquis then wore his servant’s white tie, asked if he looked kingly, and kept his dignity. The anecdote shows his informal charm.
Miss Jerusha Jenkinson tempts Jessie Wintrinham with gossip about her husband Rich. Jessie disguises herself on a 7.30 train to test his fidelity, sharing a stealthy rendezvous at the St. Julian and returning home with a confession and renewed trust.
A miscellaneous aphorism argues that acting in anger mirrors setting sail in a storm and that authentic affection dies when self love, benevolence, humanity, justice, and philosophy prevail.
A reflective adage notes that happiness comes to those whose mood fits their situation, yet true excellence lies in a person who can adapt temperament to any set of conditions.
The article explains the vast number of types in an eight column paper and the precision needed. It compares cabinet mosaic work to printing, noting printers must fit tens of thousands of pieces daily with perfect orientation, or the error is obvious to all.
John Morley argues in Fortnightly Review that disorderly manuscripts burden editors and printers, waste time and money, and reflect poorly on authors. He cites Burke Carlyle and a Scotch compositor to illustrate how careless drafts complicate production and harm all parties involved.
The passage praises bashfulness and reverence toward women while condemning the flashy libertine who surfaces as charming yet harms virtue. It extols the shy suitor as a defender of women, urging choices based on delicacy, modesty, and genuine respect over wealth or ostentation.
Early observations from 1857 note bees find their hives by a natural sense of location rather than color cues. Bees travel, circle, and return along a straight bee line home, resistant to color-based hive painting, suggesting environmental position guides them more than visible markings.
A barber scene ends with a barber gag as a young man hops into a chair and insults the boss while a solid citizen swallows his pride under lather. The punchline hints at a vacant shop position and a wry Detroit Free Press note about applying for the job.
A German authority argues sponge cultivation can yield profit. By cutting live sponges into small pieces, fixing them to frames, and sinking them in favorable seas, each batch grows to market size in about three years. For 4000 sponges, cost is $45 with $80 sale, net profit after first immersion. Gulf coast and Florida Keys currently produce over $100,000 yearly. cultivated sponges could boost income with proper care.
A man came to the late Duke of Wellington with a patented article. He offered a bullet proof jacket and wore it under orders to be loaded with ball cartridge. The inventor disappeared after the test and was never seen again near the Horse Guards. No money was spent pursuing the device.
In Colorado a ten acre field sits atop a subterranean lake with a eighteen inch soil crust. Corn yields 30 to 40 bushels per acre while fish inhabit the soil a foot or more below. The water tastes brackish yet seems fresh and eyeless cave fish resemble.
A senior story from old Harvard recalls two future notable men via a college prank. Jack borrows a history book, finds it in a professor’s library, and later refuses to lend his bellows, inviting Tom to use them in his room. The tale paints dorm life, wit, and campus manners of an era.
George A Mansfield of Melrose Highlands Mass explains a free remedy for canker worms. In dry weather when worms are two thirds grown, shake them from trees then heap lime ashes cement or sand around trunks a few inches deep to stop reinfestation. Worms gather at the trunk and can be killed or perish.
A quirky note from the Free Press mentions a new hat awaiting a man who has a boil on his leg and refuses to believe that everyone he meets wants to rub against it. The item reads as a humorous, hyperbolic oddity reflecting local wit.
A Roman correspondent describes the Vatican garden once off limits to outsiders now entered by a carriage road and landau. The tour includes lush hedged avenues, fountains, ancient statues, a Lourdes grotto, and the elusive Casino where Pius IX and the current Pope studied.
The article urges farmers to use ice houses and store ice for use in warm weather. It notes benefits like lighter dairy work, better food preservation, and added comforts, arguing ice is cheap and accessible even to the poorest, with growing adoption each year.
A longtime Italian priest lives with Arab nomads beyond the Jordan teaching their children holy matters. Their camps form tents as chapels, and during Holy Week they move to the river, while the priest makes a Jerusalem pilgrimage on horseback. He celebrates Holy Thursday and Good Friday in Jerusalem and returns for the Easter festival with the tribe. Catholics praise the Arabs as devout and noble.
An overseer struck a worker in a Paris workshop and instantly went blind. Medical exam showed ruptured vessels behind the eyes and blood flooding the intraocular cavities, causing sudden loss of sight.
John Russell Young writes from Canton about sampans along the river. He notes flower boats fitted for entertainment with music and supper, group boarding at ten cents, and women and children managing the boats while men work ashore. He observes thousands of families live their lives on these boats, moving with the tides and oars.
A historic account describes the intricate method to produce gold lace wire. A silver rod about an inch thick is coated with gold leaf and repeatedly thinned until the gold is one hundredth the silver’s thickness. Through successive dies the wire is drawn finer, with gold never detaching from silver. The final gold coating is astonishingly thin, perhaps one third of a millionth of an inch, or one tenth the thickness of standard gold leaf.
On a bright spring evening in St Petersburg Sum mer Park locals lie on the grass with hands behind their heads tears on their cheeks as a Guards band plays. The scene shows peaceful citizens enjoying a day off with vodka raw ham and apple cakes dreaming of a land without snow police taxes or wars.
A Boston Transcript remark highlights a woman who embarks on a long shopping tour seeking many varied items. She plans precise ribbon, carpet, knot measurements to wrap a full set of purchases yet return with empty funds. She can also name each lady’s costume seen en route, provoking comparison with male capabilities.
A correspondent notes birds can suffer throat damage from violent singing. He recalls treating a bird with soft food water and greens, which led to recovery in three months. Examination of the roof of the mouth shows if a slit is elongated and inflamed, indicating the issue.
A dramatic contrast links Indian depredations to the quieter but deadly danger of consumption. The piece warns readers to beware savage attacks and compares them to the stealthy advance of illness, urging belief in Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a remedy for consumption.
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