19 Apr 1893
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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1893
Page
1
A fragment from Henry Blount presents aphorisms on charity pride and virtue. It includes reflections on marriage fidelity, honesty, ambition, and resilience with poetic lines about tears, prayer, and adored affection. The piece blends moral maxims with sentimental proverbs.
The piece argues light and education fuel mental power like sunlit growth in plants. It extols Byron Scott and Milton as monuments of thought and praises music poetry science and religion as sources of intellectual illumination guiding virtue, taste, and noble aspiration.
The piece argues that contrasts between light and dark enhance beauty. It compares the rainbow and painterly colors to shadows and night, claiming darkness reveals richer tones and brighter glories in nature and art.
A reflective essay compares conscience to an alarm clock that dulls with repeated vice. It urges removing temptations and living righteously, using parable of a muffled bell to warn against silencing conscience and drifting toward ruin. The piece blends moral exhortation with vivid imagery and biblical refrain.
A schoolgirl at Wilson Collegiate Institute asks the cook to fetch herrings for breakfast using grandiose language. The flustered cook flees to the mother, who scolds the girl for overeducation and mocks book learning.
A playful note from the St Paul Herald recalls the first thimble made in 1684 and muses on sewing puns and light humor about threading the subject.
The editor of the Gazette extols kind words that lift and inspire, praising the Mirror's eleventh volume and Henry Blount. It lauds Blount as a gifted North State figure whose lectures charm audiences with ornamented speech, wit, and eloquence, likening him to a psalmist and a rainbow.
Last Wednesday night in Wilmington the crowd missed Henry Watterson but found delight in Mr Barnes and his daughters. They then visited the Orton Hotel run by Montague with breezy verandas and comfortable rooms, ending in a peaceful night of dreamlike slumber.
An Observer report recalls two humorous incidents in Charlotte churches. In one, Rev. Dr. Pritchard, mid sermon on Sampson, prompted a surprise kneel and unplanned pause that made him end the sermon early. A later tale describes a stranger kneeling in the aisle during hymn time, thinking prayers had begun, creating a comic scene.
A humorous remark about the editor of the Wilson Mirror is quoted by a lady admirer. The Durham Tobacco Plant notes his entertaining conversation and witty writing, praising his appearance but joking he leans toward a playful, odd sound.
A man asks what to call four children born at the same time after boasting about twins and triplets. The onlookers joke that if they had finished lunch the term would be a quarteat as two gentlemen onlookers laugh and cry at the pun.
A young man escorts the hostess’s pretty country niece to supper. He asks about etchings and is drawn to her frank gaze. She answers yes but declines further talk, noting it is late, and requests only a small jelly.
A playful verse describes a sunlight strand of hair found in a huckleberry pie awakening heartache and grief with a wry, light hearted turn. The speaker hints at a surprising yet whimsical discovery within dessert.
George and his best girl discuss trees, she declares the pine her favorite for its grandness and nobility, asks George for his choice, he affirms, and she suddenly begins to cut a pine as a token.
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