16 Nov 1892
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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1892
Page
1
A playful collection of maxims and aphorisms on virtue, industry, love, and life. Witty quips touch on bakers, dentists, honesty, patience, and happiness, delivering compact moral reflections with humor and period voice.
A Sunday stroll reveals a purification of color as a grand autumnal sunset unfolds. The sky becomes a vivid gallery of molten gold lakes, amethyst banks, topaz islets, and sapphire rocks. Sunset yields to night as stars blaze, casting a tranquil, heavenly glow over the world.
The Bible stands as an unparalleled source of literary inspiration and sacred truth. It spans vast styles and forms, shaping rhetoric, poetry, history, and philosophy, influencing writers from Homer to Milton, and guiding judges, theologians, and scholars alike in thought and expression.
A meditation on appearances masking truth and danger. The text contrasts calming natural scenes with hidden turmoil in waters and minds, using vivid imagery of water, rainbows, and a radiant maiden to warn that surface beauty conceals inner anxiety.
A fragmentary verse expresses longing for shared days and love. The speaker imagines joy if the beloved were mine and vows to endure sorrow, seeking reunion and life together despite waiting and loss.
A vivid portrait of Eddie’s soothing, sweet voice soothing anxious listeners. The narration humorously contrasts expectations with his soft tones and a nasal singing moment, closing with a dark ironic note that pure peace arrives as readers feel akin to dying.
The piece extols female friendship and marriage as pure and exalted. It contrasts women’s generosity with men’s businesslike friendships and lauds a husband’s true companion as the crown of her life, strengthened by her virtuous, queenly nature.
A reflective passage describes love's enduring memory and temptation. It contrasts a man’s past joy with present ruin, noting how the scent of a flower’s bloom lingers despite downfall. The prose explores the pull of fortune and memory in a moral frame.
A devotional meditation extols truth as a divine ministering spirit guiding life and glory. It images truth enduring beyond wealth talent and power, ascending through nature’s funeral pyre to the eternal source in God's bosom. The piece invokes a universal, unchanging truth beyond temporal upheaval.
A reflective piece on burial grounds elevating the human heart. It argues that sacred cemetery atmospheres calm envy and revenge, guiding the soul toward remorse and tranquil, peaceful resolve. The grave is a purifier that quiets passion like a calm sea after a storm.
A narrator describes two goats locking horns in a comic scene. He asks bystanders to help and jokes about unbuttoning the animals horns. The exchange includes a jab at the youth and the elderly observer Mr Blount.
The piece extols hearty laughter as healthful for the body and mind, praising genuine mirth that brightens gatherings when people set aside worries and share cheerful discourse, in contrast to crude or foolish laughter.
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