19 Sep 1894
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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1894
Page
1
A youthful narrator watches the Prince pass and longs to play a princely part. He dreams of feasts and joyous status but feels oppression and unrest. The reflection ends with wistful admission that youth cannot return.
Dr Murray visits a poor couple in Millwall where James Temple, a devoted husband, cares for his paralytic wife Lucy. The doctor sees daily sacrifice, shared faith, and a looming wedding as Norah returns his affection. Temple defines true love as service and fidelity in sickness and health. The tale closes with Temple declaring himself the happiest man in London.
The Detroit Free Press quote extols self discipline as the highest form of leadership. It claims the greatest general is he who conquers himself and the greatest king governs his own spirit under all conditions. It concludes that true command begins with obedience and self governance.
Mignard, once a practicing doctor, abandons patient boxes to pursue painting. The former physician shifts to the arts, embracing the palette and brushes as his new vocation.
A broad survey of science, travel, politics and culture from 1903 reports on cycling records, ocean cables, French theater density, U S land laws, Arctic weather, Mars observations, electric communication hopes, and a bicycle mail service in San Francisco. It notes population gender ratios, shipping debts, and global affairs with a busy, panoramic style.
A report from Natal and Maritzburg describes huge pythons pushing natives to drive them from bush to a prepared pit. A 32 foot long specimen, caught after a burn and chase, is kept in Maritzburg in a barred cage and fed twice weekly with goats. A local owner exhibits a long fasting python that has not eaten in thirteen months.
A collage of jokes and sketches featuring a wet landlady, a college boy, fashion gossip, dream sequences, and moral quips. Notable lines drift through family dialogues and social situational humor, with a running thread of light satire on education, labor, and romance. The tone mimics a weekly humor page with quick quips and sketches.
The article lists woods with varying elasticity and specific gravity. It notes nutmeg hickory as strong, tamarick as elastic, and fiscal aurea as least elastic. It gives tensile strengths for species such as ash, beech, cedar, mahogany, and more, plus weight per square foot for numerous woods. It cites 413 species across states, with high-density woods mainly in the arid Southwest.
An American Colonel Joseph Johnston Captain Hamilton of Britain and a German scientist plan a four year horseback journey from Nogales to Central America via Mexico with stops in Culiacan Mazatlan Tepic Guadalajara and Guerrero Oaxaca Chiapas. The scientific voyage costs about 150000 dollars. Johnston has traveled in Japan China Australia and British India while Hamilton spent fifteen years exploring Africa and fought with the British in the Zulu campaign.
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