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Newspaper
The Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1886
Page
2
A fragmentary verse recalls a weary fighter named Tam seeking rest after long struggle. The speaker laments endless conflict and calls for peace while acknowledging duties and the burden of striving to do right. The poem references nature imagery and a longing to end the mortal struggle.
A steamer romance unfolds from steerage memories to a Devonshire estate. The narrator, once ruined by banking scandal, reunites with Lily Dufour and weds Lucy, while a cousin’s black-tie world clashes with poverty and honor. The Persia voyage anchors a love betrayed then reclaimed.
A collection of curiosities and social observations ranging from animal anatomy to beggar craft in Spain, corruption in stock ledgers, Ottoman society, a New York pioneer anecdote, fashion hats in Corea, and a method to restore faded ink on parchment using sulphide or ammonia to reveal black sulphide formed from iron in ink.
A Virginia City letter to the New York Sun describes Duck Lake on the Pyramid branch of the Truckee River as a sheltered waterfowl haven during heavy winds from Pyramid Lake. It notes Indian duck drives with tule rafts and archers driving birds toward the lake, and warns that Thalvene do not welcome white hunters near the hunt area.
Congressman Houk of Tennessee told St Louis Globe-Democrat he quit tobacco last Monday after years of smoking and a prior long break since 1870. He cites tobacco as a strong addiction likening it to whisky and recalls a February river swim to cool off. He says he is done with the weed for good.
The record surveys tidal wave behavior, a German gun mounted at Wilhelmshaven, and Michelson Newcomb light speed estimates. It also notes acorn cocoa in Berlin hospitals, hog hair cleansing devices, plant insect barriers, and water transport in plants with dew-like leaf tips.
A series of maxims urges moderation in self judgment and value of prudence. It notes custom can mislead yet cannot justify error. It extols adaptability, industrious pursuit of goods, and virtue grown through sacrifice as the true wealth of a strong man.
A Washington letter in the Philadelphia Record portrays Isaac Bassett, longtime Senate aide and protégé of Daniel Webster, as the solemn guard of Senate dignity. The piece recalls his ritual bow to President pro tempore Pruden, his fifty years of service, and hints at a secretive reminiscence book he has been compiling.
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