28 Jul 1888
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1888
Page
1
Edward Rowland Sill portrays a tranquil hill town with white roofs and closed doors, where peace pervades. The lyric envisions death as a gentle angel guiding the reader through the door of infinite love, far from life’s clamor.
A fragment from Esclepiad traces extreme living as a path to perfect health and argues that even perfect knowledge could render death impossible. It contrasts two ancient cremation ideas, showing how ritual purification through fire emerged to free the soul, while embalming aimed to preserve the body for future revival and memory.
The piece contrasts vibrato use in singers with a vocal tremato and notes that vibrato, if controlled, enhances power in opera and large halls but can irritate sensitive listeners when exaggerated. It also warns about dangers of cold venues for elderly people, unsafe heating, damp transit, and air drafts affecting health, citing health and building-ornament trends from various sources.
The piece describes a vineyard near Gulack in the Elburz foothills with mud walls and irrigation, noting vine layout and sun exposure for grapes including kishmish used for sul tana raisins. It also includes thoughts on actor articulation, Pasteur’s rabbit disease proposal, a London Spectacle mission for eyesight, and a butter adulteration anecdote from the New York Sun.
Traveling from Panama northward the article describes the commanding figure of the commandante and the Central American army seen in ports and interior towns. It contrasts the polite, ornate officer corps with low caste privates, describes uniform detail, discipline, and a mishmash militia. An accident with a gun during a presidential salute is noted, followed by remarks on organization and pay.
Susan Wallace describes a wedding procession in a narrow Bosphorus street en route to a Greek church outside Pera. Sedan chairs bear the bride and groom with lilac adornments as guards clear the path. at the altar the wreaths, ritual rounds, and wine give a deeply ceremonial conclusion to a scene likened to a grand spring festivity.
A vintage panorama describes Persian horsemanship and luxury gear on race day, noting saddles encrusted with diamonds and emeralds, a Turcoman charger, and ambassadors admiring the ornate ensemble. Also referenced are Russian imperial settings, Havana mule carts, and general notes on fruits, pavements, and Germany potato production.
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