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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1892
Page
3
The preacher urges bringing Christian faith into daily conduct including eating and drinking, work, and conversation. He argues holiness cannot be confined to Sundays, stresses small trials shape character, and calls for gratitude and consistent faith in ordinary life.
Senator Gordon recounts a brush with a Sharpsburg wound in which he reflects on life and thought after being struck by a six pound shot. He describes his mental process proving he was not dead as he watches his leg move, then awakens to find his head still attached and continues his work.
During Empress Eugenie’s 1869 Cairo visit Nubar Pasha received a diamond watch from Napoleon III. In a council meeting the electric light failed and the watch disappeared along with a jeweled inkstand. Despite all faces being scrutinized, neither item was ever recovered.
The piece describes a common illusion using three silver dollars set edge to edge. By shifting the central coin up to the point where the gap from its lower edge equals the gap between the outer coins, the eye deceives perception. The note calls the effect an old perversity of the eye.
The article notes France aligning with Russia and confronting Bulgaria after a French journalist was expelled for criticizing Bulgaria. It warns that France might escalate tension by pressuring Bulgaria near the Black Sea, risking a wider European disturbance.
Twenty inmates at the Michigan penitentiary will be freed as the nondeterminate sentences law, under which they were imprisoned, is ruled unconstitutional. The decision sparks debate over legal technicalities and mass releases.
The article marks the patent office’s 100th year and highlights the surge in issued patents. It cites cow-tail holders, bedstead clamps, combined ink stand pistol case burglar alarm, a Louisville inventor, a hand car for track maintenance, and other curious devices reflecting American ingenuity.
In Clarke County Georgia a contested will case promises a sensational early trial as attorney McCall from Americus investigates records to seek to set aside Miss Mary Harden’s will. He notes a missing original copy of Home Sweet Home and possible missing bonds and stocks.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis is elected Honorary Vice-President of the United States Daughters 1812. The widow of the Confederate president thanks President-General Flora Adams Darling and the association, hoping to preserve memories and records of patriotic ancestors and heroic deeds tied to New Orleans.
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