Good Night Poem Lines Stop to Fragrant Hand
A poetic farewell laments parting at night to a beloved hand and eyes. The speaker bids good night to delicate rings and the month’s sweetness, noting the snowy hand detains them before another farewell.
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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1885
Page
3
A poetic farewell laments parting at night to a beloved hand and eyes. The speaker bids good night to delicate rings and the month’s sweetness, noting the snowy hand detains them before another farewell.
Laura and Alfred Hillier settle hostilities after a day of pranks and friction. Laura tissues between pride and affection as Aunt Letty sprains her ankle. A mountain market trip softens the feud, yielding a budding friendship and a promised peace finale at Miss Southwell's.
The passage recounts cases where belief and suggestion produced cures or relief, such as a patient feeling warmth and a sense of boiling water during imagined treatment, a banker mistaken for a draft from a window, and a woman cured by a prescription tied to her neck. It notes faith cures in nervous disorders and make believe remedies like bread or sugar pills, as recorded in The Gentleman's Magazine.
Sailors spot a leaking scow drifting near Natchez with a man and wife aboard. The crew beg for passage to New Orleans, offering ten dollars, while the captain demands a hundred. The pair insist they are “as good as anybody” and ready to work their way downriver.
The Albuquerque Democrat reports Judge Hancock purchased a stylish suit and polished boots, appearing markedly fine while visiting a private residence at the city outskirts. A young daughter answered the door, misidentifying the visitor as God, causing the mother to question who was there.
A Detroit Free Press piece recounts a planter’s Mississippi night incident. A bear-trap captured a burly slave who pleaded to be freed after a chain groan and a brace of hogs were found. The colonel jokes about the man’s appetite returning if ever free.
California women adopt pistol and dirk as part of courtship style. A Hyde Street streetcar incident reveals a dirk dropping and a companion’s insistence on moving on. Also describes an electric counting machine by Chas. B. Pidgin that automates addition with a nine-dial census device powered by electricity.
Colonial geologists estimate tin deposits in New South Wales at 5 440 000 acres with potential for more as new finds appear. Richest mines lie on Vegetable Creek near Glen Innes in New England, a vast tableland of 10 100 square miles with mild climate and a population around 17 000. A railway to the Queensland border and shipping routes via Brisbane are noted. A mackerel shortage is reported with 14 000 000 fish remaining.
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