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Newspaper
Barre Evening Enterprise
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1898
Page
2
Readers lament the need for a city sewer in Barre Vermont and urge prompt construction. The piece recalls troops in Port Ethone Allen and calls for subscriptions to aid the soldiers, noting civic duty and lingering loyalty to Company B. It also mentions Maine governor funding war efforts and critiques on political leaders and figures like William Bryan.
A description of the rabbit snare technique using a gad and pad to extract a rabbit from a hollow stump. The account notes the risks of tearing skin, and cites a rare humane moment when a clever youth retrieves a long tailed, white-coated rabbit without suffering.
In 18th century Stuttgart a clash between Duke Eberhard Ludwig and town magistrates over street lighting led to intermittent illumination. The duke ordered lanterns, magistrates feared crime in darkness, and Duke Carl ultimately asserted the right to light while officials kept streets mostly dark. Iron lantern pillars and sporadic flame practices marked the era.
A famed musician with a notoriously unreadable hand sends a cryptic note to a friend. The friend replies with a legible correction, prompting the musician to assume a dinner invitation is being extended, illustrating a humorous mix up in communication as reported by Chicago News.
A lyric about the sun vanishing and nights hurt the speaker as thoughts of a lost love deepen. The speaker mourns the fading light of their beloved and the endless darkness it brings. The verse captures longing, sorrow, and the ache for the beloved's return.
Ernest Ingersoll argues in St Nicholas that Greater New York formed from uniting New York, Brooklyn, Staten Island and nearby towns. The 841 square mile metropolis now holds about 8.4 million people with New Jersey’s nearby dwellers raising total to roughly 4.5 million. Since 1628 the city has grown without pause, shaped by its initial meeting point of commerce and later pleasure.
Two women in a crowded department store elevator advise holding one's breath during a descent to avoid the queasy feeling. The car sinks and the passengers fall silent until the ground floor is reached, after which they resume chatter. The anecdote from the New York Sun notes the plan’s claimed effectiveness.
A collage of quotes and snippets from historical papers features a debated physics puzzle about a monkey and a stone, a sphinx riddle answer, medieval helmet ornaments, a Warsaw cellar famed for fungi, a flirtatious exchange, a threatened marriage injunction, and notes on Japanese sake as an ancient drink spanning over two millennia.
The North American Review excerpt recalls Tennyson’s lifelong fascination with the sea from the Isle of Wight downs. It notes his ambivalent view of the south coast sea, describes winds, gulls, ships, and weather as he observed from the downs, and credits the landscape with inspiring many of his poems.
A Chicago Times-Herald humorous piece recalls a father amused by his daughters schemes to see young men, aided by a family dog acting as Cupid. The dog’s clever escape reveals covert courtship plans and the father’s wary watch over Miss Kate and Miss Sue in the park.
The article contrasts the royal Irish constabulary with civilian police, noting their military footing, drill, and discipline. It also references a dialogue about carriage and twins, and mentions Noro’s eyeglass, an emerald lens, in a playful aside reflecting the era’s tone.
The article explains the rarity of attar of roses with prices about 86 shillings an ounce and £55 per pound. It notes ten thousand pounds of roses yield one pound of oil, and geranium oil can supplement distillation. It warns of shipboard swindles where fake bottles contain scentless oil masquerading as attar to deceive buyers.
A New York Sun quotation recalls London hansom cabs with red rear lamps. The observer notes the picturesque effect of red disks at night, especially in lines along the Strand. He wonders why New York cabs rarely show the red lights, appreciating their gaiety when present.
The piece notes that in battles horses suffer heavily alongside soldiers. It cites the Light Brigade at Balaklava with 288 men killed and 860 horses shot, and references German and French actions at Vionville Mars-la-Tour with thousands of horse and gun losses, including Gravelotte and artillery fights where horses outnumbered artillery casualties.
In Pearson's Weekly a blunt man argues that a woman should share attention to the game only if she is intellectually qualified. He tests fitness by asking her to remember what the trumps are, noting his irritation with courtly distraction at the table.
In a witty exchange from New York Weekly a small daughter asks for geography help as school begins. The cultured mother offers to write the lesson after the child reveals the topic, joking that the lakes of Africa can be found with a simple search.
A London Punch joke contrasts convex and concave with an umbrella image while noting medieval armor heavy enough to deform soldiers. The piece cites factory worker totals: United Kingdom 1 700 000, France 1 780 000, Germany 1 480 000, United States 2 750 000.
A Italian traveling wild beast menagerie tale features a separated couple. The wife starts her own wild beastling venture as the husband counters with a Bologna arrival and a placard announcing, in vague terms, that the rival’s stock of wild beasts has intensified in this town.
Max O'Rell extols Jersey in the North American Review, praising its tax-free trade, cheap living, fertile soil, and pleasant climate. He describes a beehive island with spotless cottages, a potato boom, and a tourism boom, claiming poverty is almost unknown and calling Jersey the 21 Dorado of the world.
A column discusses women’s conversational skill, likening it to “making bricks without straw,” and traces gloves’ historical use from Homer to the sixteenth century, noting gloves signaling occupation and virtue, with patronage hints to Saint Anne and old glove makers.
A fragment captures exchanges about marriage harmony and clever wives. It cites London Tit-Bits on a wife teaching braces fastening with a hair pin and a London Echo note on moral thinking, plus a remark from a financial editor about expectations and appearances from English women and Germans.
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