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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1885
Page
7
A correspondent recalls a voyage from Salvia to Antwerp when he bought a large rabbit in Malta. Firemen hid the pet to avoid sailors’ superstitions, then a steward named Tommy asked if it was white. After the rabbit’s fate, the crew claimed the weather improved and the men smiled, saying they suspected the rabbit’s role.
A vivid, compact sketch of Holland seen as a thin ribbon of color in the dawn. The author describes windmills, cows, steeples, and cottages as the view sharpens through a glass, praising Dutch tidiness and bright tones while noting it as a familiar, non-unique foreign shoreline.
John George of Lambeth died in 1791 and left his wife Elizabeth a single shilling. He cites her torment during marriage and estrangement from his son, noting he has weighed the factors and provides the nominal legacy to be paid within six months of his death.
True taste is an economical collector who chooses a few objects and creates great effects with small means. False taste pursues novelty and rarity, likened to Apelles’ scholar who could not paint Helen, yet sought to make her fine.
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