28 Sep 1872
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1872
Page
1
In a New York opera house a ragged girl named Perdita gains access to the stage via the patroness Frankiin. Perdita rises to fame, falls in love with poet Dudley Mandel, rejects marriage, and sails to England, ending a brilliant yet tragic career in Italy.
A cockney aboard a steamer in dense fog jokes about starting as the captain stalls. The captain replies they will not go that way despite starlight overhead, underscoring navigation uncertainty during poor visibility.
A short aphorism notes that helping someone in trouble can avert disaster much like a switch prevents a wreck, with only an inch separating trouble from smooth prosperity.
A miscellany piece contrasts John Foster’s call for reform with a sentimental meditation on life. It ponders conscience and fleeting time, portraying life as a sequence of small, intimate details leading toward death.
A devotional reflection equates gentleness with love in society and family. It portrays gentleness as considerate tenderness, warm sympathy, and the soft, healing influence that lightens burdens and comforts without harshness, likening it to an alabaster lamp and a comforting pillow.
A Springfield Republican correspondent reports a western household that holds daily prayers with a terrier joining in. The dog whines and snaps the Amen in time with the family, drawing laughs from a stranger who sees the canine’s apparent religious development.
The Shakespeare garden at New Place in Stratford upon Avon opens to the public. The grounds include the former foundations of the house where Shakespeare died and a restored garden. Charles Flower offers five acres by the Avon if £5000 is raised to build a new theatre, with proceeds from a special April 23, 1873 performance to support it.
A passage on Ardennes sheep herding dogs showing their guardianship and fierce defense of lambs, with a second piece honoring Rev. Dr. Upham, detailing his long, faithful ministry, personal warmth, and continued pastoral work at Fourth Street Church in New Bedford.
A long devotional and reminiscence piece pleads for hope through faith in God, memory of loved ones especially mothers, and comfort in sorrow. It blends personal grief with hymnic exhortation and reflective notes on faith, death, and the afterlife.
The Albany Argus reports a colored prisoner tricked a police officer by selling his train ticket to a countryman. The officer bought a second ticket, sat at one end, the prisoner rode at the other. A conductor stopped the train and both were aboard when the constable found his prisoner ejected, paying double fare to reboard with the inmate.
Farmers and others exposed to wet and cold can use a boot dressing composed of neatstoot oil beeswax turpentine pine tar and a simple melt and mix method. Apply to damp leather for better absorption and rub pine tar into soles before the fire until no more is absorbed, with three or four applications greatly increasing durability.
A carpenter questions a green apprentice about finishing tools. The lad answers he has not ground the handsaw and admits he could not remove all gaps from it.
A young wife married a man named Dust despite her agents wishes. After a brief quarrel she tried to return to her father’s house but he refused her entry. He declared Dust thou art and unto Dust thou shalt return, and she responded by dusting.
A story recalls Oliver Goldsmith on a journey to Edgeworth's town who, seeking whiskey and lodging, is mistaken for a guest at a private house. The host Mr Featherstone humorously entertains him, serving wine and supper before the youth learns he is at an old acquaintance of his father. The anecdote later informs She Stoops to Conquer.
Mr. W. W. Wheildon of Concord Massachusetts argues against the Gulf Stream explanation for Arctic warmth. He presents Arctic temperature fluctuations tied to descending warm air from the upper atmosphere, noting rapid snow to rain shifts and saying open water alone cannot explain these phenomena.
A Rochester man learned kerosene kept away flies before breakfast. He used it on himself to woo his beloved. After embracing her he feared a dead rat odor but confessed the scent came from him. He warned the servant, Bessy, to spray the room with cologne and stay away. The prank ends with him avoiding the house.
Dialogue shows Sam meeting Mr. Jenkins by the cotton gin. The overseer is described as good looking, and he bows when addressing the enslaved narrator. The exchange reflects plantation social dynamics and informal impressions of authority.
The text asserts that a person can endure or forego happiness and instead pursue blessedness, a deeper form of fulfillment arising from virtue or spiritual steadiness beyond mere personal joy.
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