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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1882
Page
2
A fragmentary dialogue about a four leaf clover and wishes unfolds in Houghton’s Niagara and Other Poems. The excerpt presents a kneeling Mong and a demure response as the clover's reply becomes a magical moment.
In Cherryfield a bashful bachelor Theodore Piper falls for Mollie Danvers, while Mollie schemes to push him toward her aunt Miss Marcia Parmlee. A birthday misread confession leads to a comic mix-up and a quiet wedding as Mollie ends with her fiancé Jack Morris’s friend.
The excerpt traces origins of common sayings and terms. It cites Tusser on rolling stones and moss, Euclid’s no royal road to geometry, The Nine Worthies, The Bed of Procrustes, City of Magnificent Distances, Sleeveless Errand, Drawn and Quartered, We Recognize a Hercules from the Size of the Foot, and Prairie Schooner with attributions to Tusser, Heywood, Milton, Chaucer, and Train, as reported by the Louis Globe-Democrat.
A collage of profiles and anecdotes on John Bell of London Bell's Weekly Messenger who helped shape modern letter forms, Jay Gould's private conservatory and Irvington grounds, James Thomson's tragic youth, and the Cary family with Annie Louise Cary poised for a professional singing career.
The London Telegraph notes a United States gathering in Indiana of about 5,000 Dunkards, not drunkards, a correction prompted by a cable error that added an r. to misstate the group.
A collage of humorous clippings noting oar skill prizes and a Gloucester girl's mischief, dental wealth and a molar mansion, a Glasgow grandmotherly warning, piano-impulse devices, a No 12 impulse, Paris cane fashion, Nellie’s luncheon joke, and a rustic aunt praising the wedding clergyman for beauty and grammar.
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