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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1882
Page
6
The article retells the Civil War saga of Charleston, the defense of Fort Sumter, and the 500 day siege by Union forces. It contrasts Charleston’s steadfastness with Federal bombardment, detailing shelling, casualties, destruction, and the city’s resilience amid the Gilmore siege efforts.
Narration extols Gibraltar as a grand strategic rock linking continents and guarding the western Mediterranean. It covers the rock’s geology, fortifications, caverns, bay life at Algeciras, population mix, water and drainage, religious tolerance, and the long history from Phoenician to British control, including the 1779 siege and Lord Heathfield.
A Chicago observer records folk beliefs about weather indications from frost burns to corn pain, rooster crowing at night, tea kettles, crickets, and moon halos. The piece recounts Danish bird sellers, sailor proverbs, and popular urban myths such as umbrellas indoors predicting death.
Washington Star describes painters scaling the Capitol dome 200 feet above ground. Workers cling by toes and fingers on narrow ledges while gusts of autumn wind threaten fall. The pedestal of the Goddess of Liberty requires a special outside ascent, with one fearless veteran from Capitol Hill tasked with the dangerous duty.
A historic proclamation decries European inequality. It rails against wealth disparity, declares workers must seize what they earn, and threatens royal rulers with force if they refuse to share power. The call to action frames a revolutionary demand for protective government.
The narrator visits Vittoria and encounters a shoemaker with a beggarlike look who dismisses work over a small purse. The piece cites The London Lancet noting hair as not linked to strength, citing Samson, Esau, and various figures to argue baldness among philosophers and leaders.
The piece notes London shop clerks number about 820000 with at least 30000 shops employing roughly a third of the population. Workers endure twelve to fourteen hour days with few breaks, a shift pattern dating back centuries. It traces overtime to gas, steam, and growing competition, warning thousands of workers break down yearly.
Paris will install signal posts with eight buttons atop each post to alert police offices. Pulling the buttons transmits telegraphic signals for fire, great fire, accident, riot, robbery, violent crime, self-inflicted death, and great catastrophe. A nearby officer will provide verbal guidance when needed.
Veteran Gus Lee recounts a life in circuses from 1859 with the Great Western Circus to Barnum and Hengler. He describes salaries, roles of principal and pantomime clowns, notorious antics, and vivid memories of life on tour and in New York.
A Paris actress asserts each perfume carries a distinct moral and physical quality. Musk enhances sensibility and amiability, rose sparks audacity, avarice and pride cling to it, geranium softens to tenderness, violet inspires mysticism and piety, benzoin channels dreams and inconstancy, faint and verbena favor beauty arts, camphor leads to sleep and brutality, Russia leather breeds indolence, and ylangylang is the most dangerous of all.
The voice in Forney's Progress extols the girly girl as the true girl who shuns women rights debates. She rejects politics and business talk, embraces traditional gender roles, and remains content to be seen as a girl rather than a vote seeking, war pondering adult.
Dick Hargraves, famed gambler, long a colorful figure, moves through Denver era gossip. Once rich and admired, he battles consumption in Colorado with Red Jack at his side. Although past wealth waned, Hargraves remains a genteel, generous fighter who once aided a Mobile family and earned a reputation for fair play.
In a biting critique the author dismisses the stage bald head as a delusion. notes that real actors like Dunstan Kirke wear their own hair while only Some shows use wigs. He mocks bad fit and maintenance, compares baldness to fame, and lampoons stage beards as искус.
The Guardsmen returned from Egypt and Zululand bring a wild look and marked unquiet to London streets. Privation etched their bodies while mental anguish shows in their gaze. Officers warn frontier veterans never regain their former youth after war, echoing General Custeree on Rosebud river.
In Danish farming districts where smoking is common, distance is often measured by pipes of tobacco rather than miles. Travelers are surprised to learn that a steady pull and gait equates to about two English miles, or half a Danish mile, per pipe.
A Virginia City Enterprise item recalls a lawyer famed for repartee who, returning from Salina after a case, dealt with a tardy ticket by joking he would not pay the Southern Pacific. The conductor taunts, the lawyer responds that he will pay fare directly to the conductor, not at the office.
A Burlington Hawkeye piece satirizes English riding as graceful yet hard on horses, describing the stance and banana-peel fall. It then presents humorist Ellen Wheeler and Puck excerpts on longing for the new and the enduring charm of fresh passions and ideas.
A compact sequence of French epigrams on marriage and gender contrasts. It argues that heroism boosts a heroine’s courage, women’s acts reveal inconsistencies, affection turns to contempt after marriage, and widows seek second marriages to avenge past spouses. It notes wives’ secrets reflect husbands’ hate and marriage can alter perceptions of women broadly.
A dramatic volley targets Oscar Wilde for his dislike of Niagara Falls as clumsy and overly grand. The writer mocks Wilde as egotistical and effervescent, suggesting drastic measures to curb his vanity, while noting some admire self-satisfaction above all.
In a Texas tale Gilhooly recalls his father being hypersensitive to cold drafts. He recounts a moment in a friend’s office where continuous sneezing pointed to a hidden draft—an envelope on the table containing three dollars and forty cents.
A Detroit Free Press note quotes a paper remarking White was drunk then recounts his measured, tame return to the editorial rooms to meet staff with calm bearing. He jokes about spring plans, promising to wait and then threaten action, yet prefers orderly terms over violence. The piece satirically contrasts poverty, power, and propriety.
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