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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1893
Page
7
The speaker seeks escape from looming storms and cares by descending from a windy hill to the Valley of Silence. Imagery contrasts nature and home as a chill house and radiant outdoors give way to solace, balm, and healing found in seclusion in the Valley of Prayer.
In a Bohemian tenement a painter uses mummy earth for color and is haunted by a lethal art. Richardson faces strange visions, a hypnotism tale unfolds at the Idler Club, and the artist Knowlton dies under mysterious circumstances linked to a carved dirk buried near his large brown coat portrait.
The article notes apples contain vegetable fibre, albumen, sugar, gum chlorophyl, malic and gallic acids, lime and water with high phosphorus, aiding brain and nerve function. It links apples to ancient gods, explains acids aid sedentary livers, and suggests pairing with rich foods while ripe fruits lessen stomach acidity.
Donzella, Bonifacio chief lighthouse keeper in Corsica, died. He swam the Moselle with sealed orders to Marshal Bazaine during the 1870 war, braving German outposts and fire. He surfaced like a porpoise for air, then returned to camp and later testified at Bazaine’s court-martial.
In a brief vignette Lotta Miller describes Teddy seeing his own reflection and laughing, turning a moment of scowls into joy as the imagined battle on his face dissolves. The scene captures a child’s quick shift from frowns to delight.
A farmer in Pennsylvania watches as a white cat protects a nest of wrens under the eaves. The cat spares a fledgling after briefly pouncing, then kills a approaching yellow snake to safeguard the young bird. The farmer finds the cat shielding the wrens and the snake carcass nearby.
A travel memory recounts a fearsome orangutan kept in a barred cage, furious when provoked, yet who loves a Portuguese keeper. The scene contrasts with a peaceful Javanese village in Plaisance with bamboo-made instruments, a four year old baboon named Claas, and a sorrowful funeral procession honoring a lost baby.
A vivid vignette describes a Java settlement at Plaisance with basket fence houses built from bamboo. The scene features colorful mosaics on walls, thatched roofs, coconut fiber lines, palm debris cleared by the workers, and palanquin bearers moving off the day’s odds and ends.
The New York Sun explains how a bronco is broken by a metal spade fixed to the bit. The rider uses sudden pulls and a restraining rein to drive the spade into the horse’s palate, teaching obedience with repeated, harsh discipline until the beast stays close and avoids moving with the rein over its head.
The cantonment lies outside the native town and houses British regiments in enclosed compounds. It features wide roads, grassy margins, trees, and a central club with a ladies’ wing, parade grounds, a polo field, and tennis courts. An English visitor might spend a week without seeing the native town unless drawn by curiosity.
The article notes that Osiris appeared as a pure white bull with a black eagle on the back and a black forehead with a white square center. Such bulls were worshipped during life and mummified after death, with the New York Historical Society owning a mummy from the Serapis temple as an example.
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