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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1873
Page
1
An aging narrator recalls youth when she fell for Hugh Chamberlain a handsome law student. A stylish eighteen year old ward arrives from an old friend of her aunt, stirring jealousy, vanity, and romantic tension within a small city household.
An aging woman recalls a decade of heartbreak caused by Irene’s schemes and a delayed trust with Hugh Chamberlain. After Irene’s engagement ruse and Hugh’s silence, Kittie learns the truth, forgives, and reunites with Hugh as they plan marriage.
The French Academy condemns coffee drinking while acknowledging the work of honest tradesmen who sell burnt beans and dandelion root by fair measure. The piece notes the public reaction and questions the grounds for such indignation.
A Pittsburg jury handed up a communicated endorsement to the judge amid a case, noting the phrase The honorabils gug.
A brief miscellany note reflects on victories won by peace and the greater numbers won through love as compared with combat. The line contrasts romantic triumphs with martial success.
A homely maxim notes happiness comes to the king or peasant who finds peace at home. It warns that those who rely on others failing will not escape hunger.
A compact proverb-like note extols the integrity of a virtuous man comparing it to a boot that shines when blocked, implying resilience and inner strength under pressure.
A reflective aphorism likens human life to a day ending in beauty and a year cycling through summer, autumn, and harvest. It emphasizes that good deeds ripen like crops in the field.
A cautious father condemns lavish gifts at weddings citing a young husband ruined by failed business bets and a silver tea set bridal gift. He argues that expensive presents encourage imprudent spending and financial ruin, urging dowries tied to income rather than luxury.
A quotation from Isaac Taylor extols a sunshiny childhood as the best base for moral and intellectual life. It argues tranquil felicity on earth is attainable and warns against seeking momentary gratification as a substitute for lasting happiness.
A Saturday Review writer cautions that women should learn life’s solid realities beyond romantic dreams, warning against loveless marriages and unsubstantial notions of love. He argues beauty fades, romance cools, and prudent choices yield lasting value over flashy but fragile ideals.
A southern baptism among Black worshippers at Zazoo Mississippi unfolds as a preacher baptizes candidates from a riverbank tent. A thunderous mixed choir of basses tenors altos and sopranos belts out full harmony without trained musicians. The scene blends sacred rite with astonishing communal music.
A Miami County tale describes a mighty oak toppled by a thunderstorm revealing a human skeleton inside. A pocket book with Revolutionary War era papers identifies Roger Vandenberg of Lancaster, Pa., a Washington army captain, who reportedly died as a prisoner during the St. Clair expedition in 1791. The oak hollow and diary reveal his plea of hunger and cold, a stark echo of tragic fate.
A humorous essay arguing against letting neighbors’ chickens and children roam in gardens. The author prefers polite pest control by complimenting the fowl, notes legal limits on harming children, and proposes sending kids to Sunday school with agricultural lessons to protect neighbors’ vegetables.
The article notes Japan relies on rice straw fed horses, with straw shoes lasting barely a day. It records limited domestic animals, mainly horses and oxen, introduced from Korea. cows' milk is shunned, and butter or cheese unknown. In 1860 Japan had about 350,000 horses and 600,000 oxen, vital for rice farming and transport.
A Washington priest Father Boyle is humorously quizzed by a student about the origin of Easter eggs. He responds with a quiet reply about a hen, illustrating how common courtesies matter in life.
A German presiding elder recalls disciplining a boisterous young preacher. He loosened the pulpit pins, causing the front to crash when the preacher struck a mighty blow, humiliating him and amusing the congregation. The lesson, it is said, would not be forgotten.
A French baron who collected famous skulls is confronted by a broker claiming to bring Shakspeare's skull. The baron cites his own older skull of the playwright, bought from the broker's father years before. The dealer identifies differences in size and phrasing to prove the claim. The baron purchases the second skull.
The camphor tree, hardy and productive, could thrive where apples do yet has been neglected by farmers. It is native to China and nearby regions, grows as far north as the Amoor, common along Amoy to Shanghae, and provides camphor gum by distilling leaves and twigs rather than the trunk.
The Christian Union answers an inquiring reader on croquet, calling it amusing to women, agreeable to men, and fascinating to ministers. It says croquet offers gentle exercise and is a kind of field billiards, better than billiards, and mocks the overly pious who should be kept from play until meeting time.
The passage urges carrying unhealed sorrows as if through herbs and heavenly plants. It suggests healing comes from spiritual gardens whose fragrance accompanies recovery. Sorrows may turn to riches as God’s husbandry uses heart wounds to plant seeds and drive growth.
The Jewish times reports about 2,000 colored Israelites in Cochin who are Jews by faith and claim intellectual superiority over white residents. They trace their origins to Babylonian and Yemenite traders who, in India, acquired black female slaves later converted and married, forming their descendant race. Ancient Hebrew manuscripts supposedly found among Cochin Jews are mentioned.
An ill Vermont farmer overhears kin and a hired man bragging after slaughtering a fattened steer. In a last act he asks what they did with the hide and is told it was left in the barn to sell later. He dies after the exchange, the tale ending with his succession.
A Boston Traveller correspondent recalls a four year old son of a clergyman who once gave away one five cent piece and kept another. The child declared the lost coin was the one he planned to give to the heathens, revealing his moral choice in a quaint incident.
The text notes Hanle in Thibet at 16,500 feet with twenty one monks, the Schlagintweits at 21,000 feet in Ibi Gamin, Everest at 29,000 feet as the world’s highest mountain, and a condor seen about 500 feet higher than that peak.
Taine in English Literature describes the snob as the product of aristocratic societies who reveres those above and despises those below by status alone, pursuing outward deference while judging worth by position. He adds the snob instinctively kisses the boots of the first and kicks the second.
A recounting of a Philadelphia politician Gotlieb Scheerer and Dallas in a court anecdote. Dallas questions Harrisburg visits while Scheerer insists he was never in Harrisburg, delivering a humorous misdirection. The court and audience laugh while Dallas remains unmoved.
A Congregationalist correspondent recounts a new Edwards anecdote never before published. Jonathan Edwards the second, long in New SIlaven, shared wit with Pierrepont Edwards a lawyer known for keen humor. A tinker seeking work was told there was a job to mend a Saybrook platform unsoldered.
A gruff city merchant chides a clerk for lateness then jokes about a fall that morning. The clerk explains he woke early and dozed again, prompting light banter as the merchant mocks him kindly.
A comic exchange shows a lady and an Irishman where a simple query about Mr. Jones’s location leads to confusion. The man jokes about not living in the street and the family size, provoking a sharp, humorous retort from the lady.
A traveler on a New Market Junction line left his silk umbrella on a seat. Two well dressed ladies sat ahead. When he asked for the umbrella back, one woman discreetly offered it. He claimed it, noting the $10 price, and the lady reddened as the exchange ended.
The line attributes a paradoxical difficulty in pushing ideas or hard tasks into a receptive mind, implying resistance despite gentleness. It presents a concise, pointed metaphor about effort and receptivity.
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