16 Mar 1878
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1878
Page
1
A meditation on appreciating beauty before it fades. The speaker laments neglect of nature’s sweets until they vanish and invites memory and faith to transform sorrow. The tone shifts to a calm resolve to gather sunbeams, keep blooms, and remove briars through patient effort.
Bella Worthington a hotel table girl in Rayville forms a bond with Joseph Paul heir of a New York merchant. Their love grows as Paul heals from illness and Bella reveals her mother's past. Uncle John Paul learns Isabel Verner was his beloved, guiding Bella to join the family. The couple wed with blessing from John Paul.
A series of maxims and reflections on virtue, temper, and humility. It exhorts kindness, self-restraint, and diligence while warning against vanity, revenge, and a poisonous literature. It includes a cautionary Indian parable about a deadly serpent in a book.
A collage draws on military equine behavior at Balaklava and riderless chargers, then shifts to poems on a stove, Murat, Napoleon loyalty myths, a perilous secret order tale, autumn foliage myths, and a North American forest diversity note with European comparisons.
A professor describes a simple cheap telephone using a wooden tooth powder box with a punched lid and bottom, a tin disc on the bottom, a magnet and reel arrangement, and wire connections. He claims conversation over about one hundred yards, citing Nature as the source.
A delegation from the Amalgamated Society of Tailors told Under Secretary Cross that the sweating system forces workers into overcrowded rooms, often in homes, spreading illness. They cited 1,300 workers affected and cases where sick or dead bodies shared space with garments.
It is instinctive in man to seek something better than the world offers. Those who have reached life’s median have received all the world can give, or the worst it can bestow, yet they still anticipate something better beyond.
The note suggests using good light to enhance color in a picture. It emphasizes achieving an advantageous lighting setup for clear color rendering.
The quote contrasts analyzing others work with improving one own craft highlighting the value of self improvement over criticism. It emphasizes constructive effort and practical gains from doing better rather than pointing out flaws.
An 1874 report recounts Blondeau saving a man caught in balloon ropes at Oran Algeria as the Montgolfier rose. The stricken passenger hung by a foot above the trapeze while Blondeau steadied the craft and freed him. The crowd stayed hushed as the balloon descended safely to ground.
The notice lists advertising prices: 1 inch for $1.00 per week and 25 cents per week for each additional insertion, with twelve lines of nonparicil type per inch. Special notices for marriages and deaths cost 15 cents per line. Prepaid transient ads. yearly ads limited to immediate business. Ads due by Thursday noon for the next issue. religious, obituary and pole notices charged as ads.
A Swedish paper reports fossil palm remains near Koma Greenland indicating former rich vegetation, later buried by advancing ice. It notes cooling trends pushing ice south toward European coasts, cooling Icelandic summers and preventing corn ripening, prompting Icelanders to consider emigration to North America.
A colonial-era piece extols a good daughter as the light of her father’s home and the nurse of his sickness. It contrasts with a social critique noting that holding the dress in the right hand causes posture decline and will yield a crooked spine in women within five years.
A terse archaic exhortation speaks of bold speech followed by suffering and comfort. It ties faith to confession and the cross, urging steadfast endurance and spiritual consolation.
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