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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1890
Page
6
Poem explores longing love and endurance with a speaker recalling lonely days and the quest for a loving woman. The verse weighs virtue and faithfulness, ending that true loving requires mutual trust and openness between lovers. Attributed to Fannie A. Mathews in Pittsburgh Bulletin.
Blount recounts a perilous solo escape during the 1879 Zulu war. After slipping from a surrounding camp, he uses a ravine and cliff shelter to evade a party of Zulu attackers, ending with rescue by Sir Evelyn Wood’s reconnaissance cavalry and news of the Isandula massacre.
A traveler laments Indian hotel conditions describing lizards dropping on beds and a dangerous barking reptile. The author notes tame birds roaming streets and yards, observing harmony among poultry and the absence of bird killing outside hunting valleys.
The New York Journal reports the death of Carl Eulenstein. In 1827 under the patronage of the Duke of Gordon he astonished London with sixteen jews harps performances and produced beautiful effects. Enamel wore from his teeth, he toured Scotland and settled in Bath to teach guitar and concertina.
A collage of jokes and quips from various periodicals. The piece pokes at marriage, love letters, and social foibles with snippets about bachelor life, family banter, and light humor from a range of outlets like Epoch and Boston Herald.
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