17 Oct 1874
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1874
Page
1
A tale of Ted Burr and Janet Fentonsleigh told through a stern grandfather’s warning, a failed affair with Rosalind Harrison, a dramatic carriage wreck, and a final reunion after trial, forgiveness, and a vow kept. Janet’s steadfast honor clashes with Ted’s pride as love endures.
A brief miscellany quotes Pope Joubert and Shakespeare noting themes of fate and speech. The item contrasts opinion formed from prejudice with strong, sometimes violent defense of beliefs.
A compact maxim contrasts the value of wealth and health with time. It notes that wealth may be regained, health seldom, but time once spent cannot be recovered.
A reflective meditation on life’s trials, noting how moments of fatigue and the touch of a hand on the brow mark the deepest burdens. The text emphasizes intimate, somber human experience over grand public conflict.
A dated reflection states that music offers sensual gratification without harming moral or religious feelings, attributed to Addison. The line frames music as a safe indulgence contrasting with other pleasures.
A compact reflection on gratitude noting that others faults do not excuse ingratitude and one should give despite the lack of thanks. The saying implies personal duty to act kindly even when not returned.
A meditation on gratitude as a virtue valued for its own sake. The dialogue notes that profit may accompany virtue, yet true merit lies in virtue itself beyond gains or losses. The passage frames virtue as intrinsic and ethically worthy.
A quotation asserts happiness requires mastering impulses through adherence to principle. Those who never sacrifice present desires for future or personal gains for general good cannot truly speak of happiness.
A reflective essay linking the need for education to moral development and social usefulness. It argues that just as crops require cultivation, human faculties need guidance to form upright citizens and personal happiness.
A succinct reflection on gratitude noting its universality and ease. It contrasts gratitude with covetousness and sloth, drawing on Seneca to argue gratitude should be inherent wherever there is life. The piece conveys a moralizing tone about virtue.
A farmer spots a weed crossing a fence and cuts it, noting that bad weeds do not respect boundaries. He explains that neighbors' children influence each other and that parents should help shape the outcomes of local youngsters for the community’s benefit.
A PrerrecT Home describes a simple house where a mother creates a loving, intimate home life for her family. The narrator praises her influence, daily routines, and devotion, noting wealth would perfect but not replace the warmth and character she provides.
A correspondent from Norway describes Hammerfest as the world’s northernmost town with a 2057 population. The article notes cod liver oil industries, reindeer, sparse horses, lengthy winters with midnight sun, lantern schools, and a single hotel. It mentions a granite pillar marker and historical pendulum experiments near the North Cape.
A travelogue style note describes monkeys in Darfour and Sennar lured by fermented beer, then entropy and capture. Monkeys drink, attract others, and a line of intoxicated primates is led away by natives to be caged and gradually sobered.
The text argues for internal cleansing through water and drinking habits, claiming washing the blood and body prevents disease. It compares internal washing to washing clothes, urging thorough internal hydration and cleanliness as essential for health.
A clergyman opened his sermon with a quip about saying a few words beforehand, likening it to a man who takes a short nap before he goes to sleep. The light humor offers a quick moral on timing and redundancy.
A sneak thief in Paris broke into a gentleman's apartment using false keys but found no valuables. He planned to steal clothes instead, only to be interrupted by a second thief and later the owner. Police took the man away wrapped in a blanket insisting he had been robbed of his clothing.
The piece argues against delaying youth education until adulthood and asserts that infancy requires careful guidance. It claims few adults can truly form men, and that early training shapes character, steering youths away from dangers as they enter life. It emphasizes the pilot's art of instruction.
The article describes German ivy as a lush decorative vine for framing. It suggests filling old medicine bottles with water, inserting a slip of ivy, and letting it grow along a room. Other ideas include suspending an acorn in a hyacinth glass to raise an oak, and using pine burrs or sweet potato bulbs for window greenery.
The article explains how transits of Venus help determine the sun’s distance, noting historical attempts in 1639 1761 and 1769, with 8.57 arcseconds parallax yielding 95 298 260 miles. It previews the 1874 transit and future visibility in Europe Asia Australia and the Southern seas with 92 500 000 or 91 000 000 miles as possible Earth-sun distances.
A New Guinea bird called the Megapodius lays three inch long eggs in large sun warmed mounds from September to March. The mound reaches ten feet high and sixty feet around, with young birds emerging from a top hole and mothers guiding their broods. A Cape York native died while probing a nest when the upper mound section collapsed.
A reflection on reading emphasizes that reading provides material for knowledge but thinking animates it. Quiet meditation converts general ideas into personal understanding by examining reach, force, and coherence of what is said, else the material remains loose in the mind.
The passage speaks on avoiding many small faults and indulgences to cultivate integrity and negative beauty in a holy life. It lists sins of indolence, indecision, slovenliness, cowardice, equivocation, worldliness, vanity, temper, and selfishness as deeds to abstain from.
In a Boston hotel office a man offered a cigar and nineteen men rose to accept, replying with thanks and “don’t care if I do.” The incident captures a casual moment of social ritual among a group of men.
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