From Lands of Mist to Sunny Shore
A traveler crosses bleak lands and sleet by night then greets dawn to find spring. The scene shifts from Burgundian vines and frosty tracks to blue skies, birds, orange blossoms, palms, and fragrant plants. The speaker feels revived, declaring a resolve to love and live anew.
Mathilde and the painter's jealous guardian angel
Miss Carlyle, driven by a breezy benevolence, rescues Mathilde from a fate as servant and muse. Nic Somerville, gifted yet dilettante, falls for the girl and marries her after a tangle of scheming by Miss Carlyle and Inez. Clavers Loraine returns to forgive, as Nic and Mathilde depart for Dresden together.
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Miss Carlyle
Nic
Mies Carlyle
Nic Somerville
Eness
Inez
Carlyle
Mathilde
Trious
Republic
Mereé&T
Paris
Mias Carlyle
Biddy Ryan
Valenciennes
Anasa
Misa Carlyle
Clavers Loraine
Loraine
Clavers
Sahara
Mathie
Traine
Dresden
Torture of Widows Among New Caledonia Tribes
A Western writer details a brutal widow tribute in New Caledonia among Taw wa tins Ba bines and nearby tribes. Widows burn with their husbands, endure suffocation and heat, then must salvage bone and ashes, carry a bag for three years as slaves, and endure gradual social ostracism before a feast to end the rite.
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New Caledonia
Vancouver's
Columbia
Salaries of Funny Men in 19th Century Papers
A St Louis Journal note lists several humorous writers and their weekly pay plus the implied glory of the job. Catlin earns $25 weekly, Williams $30, Burdette $30, Goldsmith $35, and Criswell and Burbank $25. Field, of the Journal, gets $30 weekly and spends it like a gentleman.
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Catlin
New York Commercial
Williams
Norristown Herald
Burdette
Burlington Hawk-Eye
Goldsmith
P. I. Man
New York Herald
Lewis
Detroit
J’ree Press
Criswell
Oil City
Burbank
New Orleans Picayune
St. Louis Journal
Evening Flowers Dealers and Paris Looms Large
The passage notes Evening Flowers brands employ many workers in southern France for cultivation and processing. It mentions 1,500 people employed in Paris for bleaching dying and making bouquets wreaths and crowns. On All Souls Day, 25 I decorate the tombs at Per la.
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France
Paris