26 Oct 1872
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1872
Page
1
In a Miss Thayer memoir style piece Aunt Avery ferries morals and everyday hardship to five lively sisters in Herkimer County. When Sue helps Mrs Frost and contracts smallpox she grows wiser through loss, love, and a surprising fortune that reshapes their quiet farm life.
Happiness is like man na. it is to be gathered in grains and enjoyed daily. It cannot be accumulated or stored away, nor found by distant effort, since it rains down from heaven at our very doors within our homes.
Beecher notes many men grind to make money and seek happiness but at fifty or sixty exhaust their nerves and enjoyments. Early life they labor with frugality and stinginess, and when they expect joy, there is none.
A quoted address urges boys to recognize that the wealth, technology, and global progress of the age will belong to them. It contends presidents rulers and scholars of tomorrow are today’s boys and calls on them to prepare to take possession of their inherited world.
The passage urges men to live nobly beyond harmless conduct by crowds of positive deeds. It compares beneficial action to a thriving flower that is valued for kindness and benevolence, urging love and service to God and neighbor in word and in deed.
The narrator recalls the balmy sleep in the old trundle bed shared with a curly headed brother newly moved from the nest. The cycle continues as each new child is turned out to make room for the next. Sad thoughts linger for those who have grown old or passed on.
A Chicago Standard column urges more walking amid U S reliance on cars and omnibuses. It cites a Doctor of Divinity who walked from Newton to Providence, plus a nurse who learned health in Europe and ten mile treks, urging ladies to walk for vigor and renewal.
A description of wild humanoid beings found in Borneo likened to a stunted gorilla. The piece notes erect posture about four feet tall, lack of families or habitation, nomadic sleep in caves, diet of snakes insects and eggs, and in captivity uttering speech-like sounds with human features, including modesty in females.
The piece lauds cheek or boldness as a driver of success, noting that unearned ascent often hides behind others' labor. It contrasts genuine effort with glib self-promotion and cites Columbus as an example of credited achievement versus behind the scenes work.
Reports describe magnetic rolling stones in Nevada that gather into clusters as they move toward a common center. Basins in a barren, level region cradle stones from pea to six inches, likely lodestone or magnetic ore, with one stone returning to its fellows when separated.
A tale from New Jersey recalls James Moore a devoted Methodist preacher whose farewell sermon ends with a bold challenge to a stingy parishioner. The audience shouts Amen as the preacher condemns exploiting the poor and curses the cheater who ground the vulnerable.
The Boston firm Hoop Stave & Co. shipped one hundred barrels to New Yorkers who condemned fifty as inferior. After a quick sale ploy using a fake buyer, Stave-Hoop returned to Boston without securing a customer, exposing the ruse.
A young man laments hunger while watching anglers on a bridge. An old fisherman offers to trade fish for a small favor and leaves a line to tend. The youth traps many fish and gains food, learning to stop wishing and cast a line for himself.
A humorous incident from an earlier conference recalls a young member addicted to exaggeration who was rebuked by the presiding Bishop. He stood, confessed sorrow, and said he had shed barrels of tears over the besetting sin.
The piece ridicules lobsters and their habits, noting oddities in movement and mating like a small boy’s shuffle. It jokes about patenting lobsters in Europe and America and ends with advice on eating boiled lobster for digestion and colic relief.
Rev. Robert Collyer recalls a London curate with a large family living on under a hundred pounds yearly. Facing starvation, the clergyman planned to seek admission to the poor house, but a mysterious five pound gift arrived to cover quarter day, saving the family from dire need.
A description of Mother Carey's chickens and their nocturnal flights by Dr. Gray. The small black moth like bird is said to be an omen of bad weather as sailors note its behavior, burrowing habits, white egg, and oily crop.
A letter from the wife of J Milton Turner, then U S Minister to Liberia, describes a lavish reception in Monrovia. The guest list includes generals, cabinet officers, lawyers, doctors, authors, editors, poets, a live president, and ministers from several nations. The account portrays Liberia’s cultural and political progress.
The first twenty years shape the whole life, passing swiftly yet leaving the greatest memory. They seem to dominate our past when we reflect, occupying more space in memory than all later years combined.
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