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Newspaper
Cambridge Sentinel
Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1907
Page
3
A collage of Civil War era vignettes recalls Lincoln’s comfort from a neighbor's faith in survival, a tale of a boy Sandie and a shilling, and a sobering scene of Sandie’s end. Other pieces offer aphorisms from Newton and Stevenson on truth, conscience, and married life, with quips from a North Carolina judge about holding up limbs in court.
Easter dancing sessions begin Tuesday night April 2 to 3 for 12 lessons at the Academy 573 Massachusetts avenue. Private lessons available day or evening. May Festival at Odd Fellows hall North Cambridge May 1. A military veteran recalls two narrow escapes and two marriage proposals, both declined.
The excerpt contrasts romantic devotion with martial duty. A speaker renounces gentle love to pursue warfaring life, claiming a new mistress in battle and a stronger faith. The poem frames inconstancy as something the beloved should accept, highlighting tension between affection and obligation.
A patchwork of quotes and anecdotes: a drummer recalls paying a porter with a five dollar gold piece and being misdelivered at Syracuse then Rochester. Seneca’s voice on life and return. a Danbury gentleman mocked by angels after mince pies. and a 1300 form of the Lord's Prayer in altered spelling.
A German merchant dining with a Chinese mandarin in Hongkong worries he might be eating cat after being told Chinese eat cats as well as rats. The Chinese man, unable to speak German, replies Bowwow after the man asks Miau miau, ending the comic miscommunication.
A girl describes her father and a trial where the judge spoke at length to twelve jurors and then sent them to an adjoining dark room to develop. The vivid detail highlights the strange image of deliberation as a process of developing.
A quoted aphorism by Stephen B. Elkins contrasts wealth and speech. The saying notes that the very rich never whistle while the poor always do, and that bird songs reside in the heart of the poor.
An Englishman and a Frenchman plan a duel in a dark room but a prank turns tragicomic when the Englishman fires up the chimney and the Frenchman, hiding there, is brought down. The line ends with the Englishman up the chimney, as told to France.
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