Evening Promise Lights the Gloaming Night
A reflective verse evokes waiting as dusk falls and the night nears. The speaker lingers in the gloaming, cheered by the promised light and the hope of a brighter hour arriving with the evening.
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1886
Page
1
The Chamberlains and the Beauty Revival
The article surveys Miss Jennie Chamberlain’s European arrival and the beauty craze, tracing how the press and society compare her looks to Mrs Langtry, with notes on her family fortunes, Newport debut, and Prince of Wales interest. It discusses diverse opinions on feminine beauty across nations and eras, astrology’s alleged influence, and varied preferences among people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jennie Chamberlain
Europe
Langtry
American
Miss Chamberlain
Prince of Wales
Wmn. Chamberlain
Cleveland
Ohio
Zelah Chamberlain
Miss Wilson
Minnesota
Chamberlains
Newport
London
Timbuctoo
Mayfair
Fifth avenue
hell
England
Curran at the Bench and Lord Clare in Ireland
Curran’s sharp exchanges with Judge Robinson and Lord Clare reveal a fierce, witty advocate. Anecdotes show Curran testing legal limits, while Clare derides Curran’s sinecure and mocks his aging with a dog on the bench during a chancery argument. The recollections tally losses from Clare’s actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curran
Robinson
House of Commons
Sir Boyle Roche
Lord Clare
chancery court
Timbuctoo Tussle in a Prize Poem
The Weekly Post once reached the banks of the Niger and might reach Timbuctoo. The place figures in history as the subject of a Cambridge undergraduate Alfred Tennyson prize poem in 1829 and is linked to a famous rhyming line about cassowaries and a missionary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Niger
Timbuctoo
Alfred Tennyson
Cambridge
Education and property in politics and suffrage
The text argues that property does not guarantee intelligence or sound judgment and that education, not wealth, underpins wise leadership. It contends suffrage reform must target education as the source of reform, making instruction the price of privilege and securing intelligent, responsible voters for a free ballot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Journal of Education
Dreams And Illusions In Sleep According To Wundt
The text explains Wundt's view that most dream images are illusions arising from weak sensorial impressions during sleep. It details how inconvenient positions, fear, breathing issues, or heart interference can trigger dream scenarios such as enemies, monsters, or flying. It notes the role of subjective sensations, memories, and the persistence of the dead in dreams, with the belief that the dead continue intercourse with the living at night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wundt
Desert tradition on arranged marriages and midnight abductions
The passage describes Arab custom where girls have little say in choosing husbands. A bold warrior abducts a beloved girl at night from another tribe, placing her before him on his horse and riding away. If caught he is shot. otherwise he may later regret not having abducted her during skirmishes after the paregoric battle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arabia
Extravagant New York Dinners And Pricey Dinner Cards
Aged New York society dinners reveal costly luxuries. At a Madison Square banker’s event dinner cards priced at 1200 dollars each featured rib bons painted in colors with fringed edges and rings above the chandelier. Delmonte’s table displayed a central pond with two white swans. guests fed them from bread crumbs. On Fifth Avenue eleven guests dined with large square painted dinner cards costing 100 dollars each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Madison square
Delmont co’se
neal
Fifth avenue
Mississippi preacher fakes ordination to dodge road duty
In Madison County Mississippi a man named Dick Barnes tried to use a forged ministers certificate to claim exemption from road duty. A youth produced a Marsden pills diploma, placed in an envelope, and Barnes presented it to the clerk who labeled it a doctor’s certificate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi
Madison county
Dick Barnes
Brother Barnes
Uncle Dick
Jedge
Mystery Well at Yakutsk Deep Freeze Puzzle
Scientific men have puzzled over Yakutsk Siberia. A Russian merchant began digging in 1828 but only reached 30 feet before the ground froze solid. The Academy halted at 383 feet with frozen ground like rock. By 1844, estimates put frozen depth at 512 feet. Geologists say the valley is from the glacial Lenn formation and has never thawed since.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yakutsk
Siberia
Russian Academy of Science
academy
Lennisn
Hugging societies in Missouri spark cautionary prices
A Missouri newspaper lists absurd pricing for hugs ranging from 3 cents for old maids to 75 cents for ages 20 to 25, with women labeled by status and time limits. It notes preachers not charged and editors paying only in advertisements, barred from participation until others finish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
thurel treasury
Taking the Oath of Love and Society’s Veil
The speaker recalls a flirtatious exchange prompting an oath and a kiss the book. It compares society to a lawn, where roughness is smoothed and a velvet surface pleases the eye. It argues true character lies between an upper and lower crust, amid wild nature’s call.
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