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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1888
Page
5
A historical survey explains how to assemble or adapt a magic lantern or stereopticon for lectures, stressing the lecturer’s need to understand optical principles, the risks of relying on an assistant, and the practicalities of equipment, operation, and safety during demonstrations.
The text describes Kircher’s luminous arrangement to illuminate a gas flame image. It details light L, a reflector MM1, a short focus convex lens, a condenser CU1, and a slide PP1 with a transparency, enabling a bright, erect image on screen Ss. It explains optimal positions relative to the condenser and mirror, and suggests practical experiments to determine LL1 placement for a clear screen image.
Describes positioning a lens system to produce a sharp inverted image of a film filament on a card. Specifies holding a card at a defined distance from the lens and notes the lens distance from a picture to achieve a clear image on a screen ten feet away.
The article describes the arrangement of light sources including lime and oxy hydrogen flames in magic lanterns, the role of mirrors and condensers, and how lighting choices affect image quality. It discusses inverse imaging, screen placement, safety notes on gas and lime lights, and practical tips for lecture halls and demonstrations.
A sprawling column offers scattered curiosities: Wallack owns 200 suits. seed yields 10,000 asparagus stalks per pound. Kentucky river runs 210 miles with no islands. belief of reviving a dead child. Amana Taylor teaching in Owen county Ky at age 11. railroads cost 250000 yearly for car cleaning. a Missouri oak yields 420 fence posts and nine cords of wood. many odd stats on immigrants, peanuts marketing in Norfolk, and Burns relics. anecdotes span pennies to long rope lengths and a New York child rescue bill.
A melting pot of brief notes from across the nation, mentioning a Florida gardener grafting citrus on one stock, a blind Pensacola physician navigating streets unaided, a Georgia mayor turned trainman, and peculiar anecdotes from New York, Chicago, and Savannah. Names, places, dates, and quirky facts populate the column with scattered humor and human interest.
Oliver Ditson & Co offers light piano pieces such as Arabian March by R Coverly and Paquerette after Dansy Paul Beaumont, affordable at 26 to 35 cents. Vocal selections include Sparkling Gems songs, My Southern Home, Ching-a-Ringa, Faithless Love, and others from various composers, with prices ranging from 25 to 50 cents.
A domestic exchange between a mother and daughter centers on remarks about gloves and the daughter’s new engagement ring. The dialogue emphasizes clothing, modesty, and social presentation as they prepare for an outing.
Commercial matters report prices and receipts across New York Chicago and St Louis. Cotton ranges from low middling to middling with varied quotes. flour and wheat values move as receipts rise. oats rye barley and corn show mixed shifts. Notes on beef pork lard and butter accompany sugar coffee tea and tobacco markets with weekly shipment and stock figures.
The dry goods scene last week featured weakness in first hands for cotton fabrics while the jobbing trade improved. Brown, bleached, and colored cottons held due to limited stocks and upcoming fall demand. cotton flannels sold ahead of production with firm prices. The Boston Journal notes fair to moderate activity in woollens and coatings, with back orders absorbing much production and only modest new business in most lines.
Market notes show firm flour and steady butter and egg prices with large arrivals. Beef and mutton supplies are ample with high prices, pork and potatoes weak, and fresh fish and vegetables in good supply though some items price varying. Florida oranges near end of season. apples quiet. dried fruits steady with varying prices.
In Boston on Monday April 23 the butter market shows fair demand with prices about 2c lower. Creamery and packed butter are quiet and lower. Quotes list Northern extra 26 27c, Western extra 20 27c, Franklin Co extra 26c, New York and Vermont aids steady, cheese market steady with small overpool demand and quotes for New York and Vermont varieties.
The Checker Editor announces correspondence address for the department at lock drawer 6220 Boston New England chess and checker rooms 767 Washington street open 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Readers are welcome. Catalogues list Schaefer and Kelly Paisley 25 cents single corner 25 cents Ayrshire Lassie part 1 25 cents Ayrshire Lassie part II 26 cents Baker and Reed Alma 1.25 dollars and black diagrams for recording positions 30 seats per 100.
Boston reports on checker and draughts positions, solutions, and problems with miniature game notes. It includes White to play and win analyses, problem references, arrivals in Brighton livestock, and local club matches led by Grover and Parrow with Dakin and Busley.
A letter from a draughts enthusiast proposes a compiled volume of British and American gems. The writer discusses publishing a 36 page book at Od. per copy and solicits subscriber support, noting a large exchange list and potential public interest.
In Mexico Missouri a band of organized black burglars has raided homes and businesses nightly. Last night most suspects were arrested, with goods recovered. George Mortimer led the gang. he confessed Cy Faucett fired the shot that killed Samuel Apgar on his doorstep last Tuesday. Faucett remains at large. $200 reward offered. A separate early morning theft at Botts & Quisberry in Mimoc county saw a safe blown open with $600 in cash and $7000 in notes stolen.
A wealthy widower Charles Norwood, once a Bonn trained mining engineer, recalls his wife who died at sea thirty years ago. He now owns a Sonora ranch and is worth about $2 million. Each night at the hour of her death he visits her grave in solitude in memory of his loss.
A London scene promises a curious apparition show with a fat, solid lady who dissolves to vapor. An unseen globe in the center becomes the stage for mystic words and a pale figure that solidifies, then returns to air as the audience views the performance.
A Chicago household encounters a mix up as a messenger presents a package containing a $5 item instead of the $10 French kid shoes the lady of the house claims she ordered, triggering polite but tense exchange over the misdelivered footwear.
A statis correspondent notes U S senators are predominantly large men with an average weight near 1890 pounds. Their combined weight approaches fourteen thousand pounds, highlighting the imposing physical profile of the Senate.
A Mount Vernon New York man who conducted the trial asserts the commission writes and speaks comedy over the next month.
The Craftman notes their press rooms both old and new are not fully loaded yet but can handle more work. They invite customers to visit and see the wheels go around while offering to take on additional orders for a dollar.
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