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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1885
Page
6
The piece riffs on earth age and poles with humor and science amplication. A mock reader letter style ponders Proctor versus a duke, Arctic expeditions, and the earth’s solidity while joking about a future Oxford poetry professorship for Palgrave and the press’s view of academic pretensions.
Thad camps near the Platte forks and wakes to a circling herd of 129 wild horses. A jet black stallion leads a precise, evolving formation around his camp as the herd answers his signals. The scene ends with the leader drawing near, then galloping off in a formed line.
A humorous list titled The Seven Wonders of a Young Lady offers lighthearted social rules. It satirizes fashionable behavior, from keeping accounts to avoid an album, to praising rivals, and avoiding constant changes in dress. It quips about reading, postscript letters, wine at dinner, and failing to notice a baby’s greeting.
On a Tucson hotel piazza three bald men sit in the sun when a stranger enters with a revolver. He asks how much to pawn the weapon, misreading a pawnbroker’s sign of three balls. The three men react by donning hats, signaling the comical misunderstanding.
A Milwaukee and St Paul railroad halt beyond Madison named Liberty sits in a desolate stretch. A brakeman shouts Liberty to announce the stop, prompting a skeptical passenger to ask if this is Liberty or Death, reflecting the town’s isolation and the speaker’s wry misgivings.
A Washington Republic essay highlights bravery of Confederate women including Miss F, Belle Boyd, and Mrs Greenhow, plus unsung heroines aiding nurses and hospitals. It recalls Stuart’s spy, Forrest’s bridge rescue, and the steadfast care by Sisters of Charity amid siege as Civil War excerpts.
A reflective piece on Greenoughs Washington statue fronting the Capitol, noting its poignant, pleading gaze and dramatic backstory. The author recalls the marble figure as both eloquent and humbling, contrasting initial disappointment with a profound empathy that moves viewers to linger and reflect.
James M. Nixon discusses circus life focusing on wagon shows and traveling troupes. Performers and crew eat late after night shows, prioritize nourishment and cleanliness, and rarely rely on medicine. He notes better food and pay for top teams, strict self care, and growing health provisions improving traveling circuses.
A tribute to Little Jake, the small elevator boy in a large dry goods store, who brightened customers with a sunlit smile. He fell ill and died, leaving the store and town to mourn a beloved, cheerful presence who filled hearts more than money. Flowers and memories testified to his impact.
A weary prospector climbs into a sunlit valley in eastern Nevada and encounters a lively ranch household. The welcoming host, a weathered Missouri-born rancher, insists the stranger stay the night, ordering kin to prepare food, beds, and chores while narrating family chatter. The scene blends frontier hospitality with vivid regional dialect.
A Minneapolis editor counsels sub editors on proper obituary lead wording. He stresses starting with foreshadowing and integrating the death of Vice President Hendricks as a preambled event, warning that abrupt phrases lack the correct newspaper tone.
The Lime-Kiln Club holds a satirical meeting where Brother Gardner opines on study and prudence while a Toronto trip reveals the downfall of the Colored Cauliflower Society. A humorous charter and a biting anti Ireland resolution provoke a sharp rebuke, ending with a lighthearted farewell and a claim on a cloakroom umbrella.
A San Franciscan clergyman recently honored as Father of Twins shows off parental pride. A parishioner challenges his boast by asking which child is which, and a mix up in the nursery reveals that even greatness can suffer a humbling misidentification.
A Sun reporter recounts marriage customs worldwide from Australia where a suitor may kidnap with a cudgel to Asia where cattle gifts settle unions, to Central Asia bridal theft, Nordic rites in Sweden and Norway with ceremonial lamps, crowns, and cradle taxes, and Swedish weddings featuring public commentary and lavish feasts.
A Paris prison tale describes a thief’s sweetheart sending a lock of hair hidden on a book leaf. The jailer matched twenty six hairs to the page lines to spell a warning in slang, revealing a planned rescue. The governors countered, trapping the would be rescuers who then failed.
A lone baseball figure browses a winter scene as a magnate calls for a forty front nine. The piece highlights absence of crowds, ceremony, and public fanfare while Burdette signs his name in a quiet, solitary moment in Brooklyn.
The speaker recounts prolonged revelry and rejoicing leading to a Sunday wedding, noting that the couple are deemed properly married. The narrative includes a personal claim of having married in Norway and participating in the complete ceremonial program.
A jumbled page from Pack's Annual features playful verse and prose spoofs. It includes mock poems and lampooned captions, with excerpts from various newspapers, quips about a polar scene, and a comic aside about a fall from a window.
A nostalgic verse recalls a vanished performance in San Francisco. The speaker muses on a waltz with quadzille rhythm, then envisions dancers in silk and gold, white skirts, and jeweled trains, moving in a fleeting, enchanting fairy dance that lingers in memory.
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