A Charm of Birds by Jane Welsh Carlyle
Jane Welsh Carlyle extols a bird for its instinct and freedom, praising its life of flight and fortitude. The speaker admires the bird’s skill with wing and beak, wishing to emulate its resolve and contentment.
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Newspaper
Mays Landing Record
Location
Mays Landing, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1906
Page
1
Jane Welsh Carlyle extols a bird for its instinct and freedom, praising its life of flight and fortitude. The speaker admires the bird’s skill with wing and beak, wishing to emulate its resolve and contentment.
Mrs M S South of Orange writes that after considering dropping insurance your representative explained death’s unpredictability and kept payments going. She notes a check for 2.00.10 arrived within an hour after the paper in connection with her son's death was forwarded to your office.
A chaotic late afternoon streetcar collision near Fulton Street between Church Street and Broadway shows a three horse team faltering as the middle horse balks. The driver speaks softly to the animal and the others share the load, while riders recount a bitter cold day and a fondness for grave-digging work. The piece also includes urban reminiscences and a portrait of ex Mayor James D. Phelan’s leadership in San Francisco reconstruction efforts.
A compact reflective line compares the effort required for strenuous activity with the ascent to the presidency, implying higher difficulty in attaining the top political office than enduring strenuous effort.
A tale of a man who moves into a cottage near Seton Keywood and discovers a neighbor with a white dressed girl and broad shady hats. The hedge line and a white cloth on an afternoon tea set ignite tensions as a maidservant resents the intrusion and bees flee the scene.
Keywood discovers a tortoise beside a hedge and returns it to a girl in white. A playful chase ensues as multiple tortoises appear in odd places and the pair exchange banter about ownership. The tale ends with tea and an uneasy, amused accord.
The Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, a Hamburg American liner built at Stettin, debuts as the largest passenger ship yet. At 700 feet long and 77 feet beam, it houses 3,500 guests with nine decks and onboard luxuries including a kosher kitchen, palm garden, library, music room, and daily newspapers.
A New Yorker reads the Atlantic voyage as opening a stretch of change and regret. The piece contrasts New York bustle with European life, notes skyscrapers and the deck steward’s advice, and traces the voyage from Liberty Statue to Cadiz and Gibraltar. It recalls Fulton’s 1807 steamboat and the safety of modern ships.
The slopes of Vesuvius support 80 000 to 100 000 residents plus Naples' half million as fertile soil and volcanic ejecta enrich the land. Even with danger, the region prospers from alumina silica magnesia lime potash and iron deposits aiding abundant vines and cultivation.
A National Magazine report details 676 government clerks aged 70 or older, most in the Interior and Treasury departments, with 174 in the Interior alone. It notes 76 veteran printers in the government printing office, and lists departments including Agriculture and War. The piece ends by questioning why long-serving workers remain on duty.
A brief, fragmented meditation notes that the phrase the picture of despair is rarely realized and questions whether such an ideal exists, mentioning doubt and uncertainty about understanding emotions.
A collage of light jokes and anecdotes from household banter to campus humor. A tale of elopement gossip, a witty professor’s moot court quip, and a garage scene with workaday chatter. The snippets showcase cheerful, everyday humor.
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