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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1890
Page
3
Poem reflects solitary sorrow and inner weariness as the speaker laments separation and spiritual strain. It contrasts fleeting social noise with deep solitude and asks Christ to understand the hidden pain. The piece ends with an intimate plea about the soul’s burden.
A narrator recounts a near suicide plan at the Eiffel Tower lifts and a chance reunion with old friends including Tom Bullamys and Rear Admiral Flapdingle. Amid reflections on love, gambling losses, and a mistaken belief of a prior betrothal, the tale ends with a planned elopement and a wedding-hushed celebration at the Grand Hotel.
A Boston Courier excerpt features a quip about quitting smoking. Smith plans to give up cigarettes, Jones jokes about a pipe, and a plan to take pipes and tobacco to return them when smoking resumes. The exchange turns on humor about self-control and habit.
A Nicholson sportsman recalls a Canada trip with three halfbreed Indians who caught four barrels of herrings, bears invading the fish pile, and a day of hunting bears. They recover the bear carcasses, but no deer, ending with the hunters in good spirits from the day’s sport. The tale closes with a shift to a burglar tale from The Washington Post about a gentlemanly thief at a National box, using a hairpin and a dime to steal opera glasses before the box’s mechanism is warned by future devices.
A letter recalls winter skating on the Serpentine where a lens of ice lit pipes, noting earlier demonstrations by Dr. Scoresby in polar regions and Professor Tyndall at the Royal Institution. It explains how ice absorbs some light wavelengths while others pass, enabling the heating at the lens focus.
In a witty exchange from the New York Weekly a young woman laments missing a tragedy after the star’s illness delays its production. The scene turns humorous as she notes the audience endured a comedy instead, while the Scotch lord criticizes his purchase of theatre tickets expecting a tragedy.
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