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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1882
Page
2
The excerpt presents a Scots verse warning that youth fades and men fear loneliness without a wife. It contrasts lively days with lonely nights and suggests older men, cranky and gray, may be denied a wife, urging quick search for companionship as a heavenly boon.
Frederick Flushington, a shy Cambridge undergraduate, is surprised by his aunt from Australia and a procession of cousins visiting his room. Amid lunch with meager fare and awkward introductions, mistaken family ties unravel, leaving Flushington to dodge further female company and potential relatives while preserving his fragile dignity.
A collage of brief notes mentions W. C. Depauw of New Albany endowed with over 300000. Christine Nilsson meeting a young admirer in West Haven. Browning's forthcoming minor poems. Colonel Fornequet’s links to Hamilton Burr and Napoleon. L. J. Toohey's California judgeship. Hartford connections to Chase and Fremont. Portsmouth R. I. census notes on nonagenarians and long-lived locals.
In Jacksonville the Smithsonian agent Prof. Bell kept snakes in his room two weeks after shipping his latest collection. A coachwhip slithered from the blankets, prompting the professor to fling snakes to the floor and kick the lamp, then settle back to sleep with his reptile companions.
A collage of dated witticisms and snippets from various papers. Jokes about marriage, a 450 pound gold bar, Dr Jelker’s long talks, lines from the Philadelphia Bulletin, the Norristown Herald, the Commercial Advertiser, and a barber’s address from the Chicago Herald.
The piece compares returned soldiers from Egypt and old Indian fighters to General Custer who warned that a single night echo of war would age a man by two decades and rob him of youth. It notes soldiers’ disturbed glances and lingering fear of unseen attacks across eras.
The Indianapolis Journal hails sixteen year old Annie Wilt of Oil City as a coming musical wonder. Her bass voice holds a full round tone down to D flats on the bass clef.
A wealthy Austin resident tried to charge bitters to his account at a shop. The clerk refused cash and questioned a counterfeit dollar. The nabob bought no wood, confirming the line that wood has never been so dear.
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