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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1880
Page
6
This item presents the entire untold history of the celebrated Curtain Lectures. It promises a fresh, comprehensive recounting of the events, figures, and cultural impact surrounding the famed oration series.
In an 1800s household tale, Mrs Caudle pushes for summer clothes for the children, while Mr Caudle resists fashion excess. He worries Sunday dress warps worship and morals, stressing inner virtue over outward finery and urging modest, home-centered attire.
John Heffner of Reading describes a staggering family history from 1840 to 1565, claiming forty-one biological children across three wives. Born in Germany in 1815, he immigrated in 1854 and notes nine more offspring with his third wife, with only five of the later-born children surviving.
Mrs Lucy A Still of Potter County walked into Darney swamp to visit her son and became trapped in mire for seven days. Stranded without food, she survived by clinging to a hemlock tree and drinking snow and swamp water. Rescued by hunters, she reached her son’s home with the ordeal leaving her with worsened mental powers. Bears, deer, and a panther were sighted during her captivity.
Stephen Joseph Meany reports from Dublin on the city’s contrasts between ancient monuments and modern decay under union with England. He outlines land movement prospects, government moves affecting Parnell and allies, and calls for parliamentary response to trials and liberties. He plans to travel to Clare for further details.
A San Francisco Chronicle report tells of a whaling crew discovering a hill in Alaska rich in silver. A captain and mate found a rock that assay shows $6000 per ton in silver while loose rocks nearby yield up to $275 per ton. An Oakland investor plans a multi crew voyage to exploit the find with a seven month provisioning and shared proceeds, aiming to leave in April.
A correspondent recalls Thomas Carlyle discussing the destruction of the French Revolution manuscript. In 1880 Chambers Journal claimed Carlyle said the second edition was better than the first, which Carlyle later contradicted in a Chelsea drawing room conversation about destroying the manuscript before printing.
Paris despatch reports a deadly duel between Auguste and Andre Berni, glass factory workers, fought over Adele Vergeri a La Villette cook. They drank rum until Andre collapsed and died from brain concussion, Auguste vanished and the woman showed little concern.
A London paper reports a Paris society double baptism by two Miles sisters, French diplomatists’ daughters, who wed into noble and wealthy stockbroker families. The elder’s baby appeared in a coffin-like cradle with a deadly motif, prompting the priest to protest while the devout mother linked mortality and France’s religion. The younger’s child appeared in a rainbow-colored portable cradle, drawing Paris chatter as both ceremonies unfolded last week.
Amos Biggs narrates a comic misadventure buying a five dollar spring bed from Mrs Lunkerman of Harlem. The unwieldy contraption and rough handling on the street, then at home, cause a crowd, a police interruption, jams with tools, and a suffocating struggle before finally fitting the bed in a wobbly secondhand state. The tale ends with the narrator vowing never to sleep on it again.
A Brooklyn clergyman recounts a personal dispute on Livingston Street with two deacons as principal actors. He notes a heated struggle with no clear record of who started or landed the first blow, describing both sides as locked in a violent embrace and the deacon of one church prevailing overall.
In Paris a former Paris Commune leader Parmentier, condemned to death in contumaciam after 1871, hid for years with his wife Mme Parmentier in a Rue Popincourt garret. When found with the bodies of both, suffocation by charcoal fumes explained their deaths, the wife driven by poverty and despair to end their lives.
The Elmira Free Press notes the tree planted near the Binghamton jail death site of philologist Ruloff became a symbol of confinement. Two inmates used a branch to escape the yard. the tree was cut down. The item also mentions fashion notes on hoop skirts with rear flaps for carrying market goods.
A multi-voiced miscellany of nautical farewells, city satire, and brief comic sketches. It blends martial memory with urban whimsy, tracing a sailor’s sendoff, a newsroom joke, courtroom yarns, and odd city observations across a mosaic of short pieces from the era.
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