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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1879
Page
6
A newspaper fashion feature notes fashion is fickle and details the latest hats, cloaks, and embroideries. It highlights Paris hats like the blue bird, Alsatian neck bows, and white muslin cravat bows, plus embroidered dresses in silk gauze, tulle, and brocade with lilies of the valley motifs.
Victoria’s tastes reveal a reading habit heavy on Walter Scott Wilkie Collins and Dickens, with a strong turn toward history and theology. The queen’s daily routine spans breakfast at nine, lunch at two, and state business evenings, while she maintains Protestant leanings and a sentimental Stuarts sympathy.
A description of children's winter dresses and hats. It notes two dress patterns one garnet-red faille and the same style in another fabric two options for necklines including a white foulard chemisette. Hats are large with velvet lining and feathers. Berets and Russian caps in fur velvet or sesiskin are fashionable.
A Philadelphia Record item recounts a chaotic scene near the state house where a boy's slippery slide causes a chain of comic mishaps. A maidens’ hairpin concern, a reformer’s taxes remark, and a beer barrel mishap punctuate the accidental melee amid crowd commentary.
The text notes Canada sends about 30 million pounds of butter and cheese to the United Kingdom while the United States and Canada produce vast dairy surpluses. It cites 14 million cows in the United States producing 1.5 billion pounds of butter and 850 million pounds of cheese annually. Cheese exports may reach 130,000,000 pounds and butter 25,000,000 this year, with ocean freight costs over a million dollars and rail earnings over five million dollars. It concludes America has roughly six times Britain’s vaccine wealth and more than double France or Germany.
In Boston on January 30, 1879, a letter from Eli Perkins recounts a comical yet strained journey chasing Levi identity through New York. The correspondent narrates travel woes, a tense meeting with Perkins, and family updates amid politics and retrenchment while detailing finances, misread letters, and hopes for Levi’s fate.
A letter from Parson Dodge mocks Melvina Stubbs family fashion spending and moral aims, noting Solomon’s glory fades beside Melvina’s dresses. Abigail Perkins writes of planned dinner with the parson and hints at libel issues and selling butter cheaply.
Boston correspondent denounces Revered Joseph Cook after a Tremont Temple lecture that mockingly claimed Providence built the Northern Pacific, denounced unions and strikes, and praised merciless acts against British India. The piece likens Cook to Dennis Kearney and warns of future discussions on social science, criticizing both speakers as dangerous to workers and capitalists.
A Washington correspondent recalls a Senate prank where pages seized the chamber during the Henry Memorial night. They staged a mock senate, electing a page president and reading a spoof message from the president about funds for pen piotations for Dr Mary Walker amid gallery cheers. The scene endures in memory as the most amusing display witnessed, drawing interest from those in the galleries.
Charles Warren Stoddard notes that Italian marriage requires both church and state steps. The church demands public announcements and checks on kinship and impediments, while officials schedule a civil rite. He calls the process a burdensome obstacle masked as preventing illegal unions, yet Cupid outpaces every law.
A Pender county man reports two farm hands John Pauls and Dale Pickett killed a peculiar animal on New Year’s Day during a fox hunt. The beast resembled a young tiger, later deemed genuine by witnesses, after a fierce fight with hounds in a thick forest near their plantation.
The London Figaro interviews Mis. Victoria C. Woodhull, now in South Kensington with sister Tennie Claflin, denying hush money rumors from Vanderbilt and recounting her English exile. She asserts self-made wealth, spiritual guidance, and plans to continue reform work via publications after lectures. She praises English support and pledges lifelong commitment to her mission.
A Dublin letter reports that the Empress Elizabeth planned a hunting visit to Ireland with a residence in Kildare or Meath and a steamer for her suite. Queen Victoria, fearing Catholic demonstrations, urged postponement and the Emperor Francis Joseph reportedly opposed the trip from the start, while Elizabeth pressed ahead hoping for a private hunting tour without demonstrations.
A Chambers journal tale recounts a strolling troupe performing La Tour de Nesil where russet boots passed between actors as a joke. In Agen a year later the same play provoked a riot over the boots, benches ripped, lights out, and the mayor halted the scene blaming the manager for mutilating a masterpiece and asking where the boots were.
A collage of odd clippings and comic vignettes from the St Louis Times and Virginia City Chronicle. Bits include light verse about Louise and a lovelorn suitor, carnival sled calamities, misadventures of a Rochester boy, a bow street magistrate quip, and a New York prank with castor oil. Also items on the Punchy self mockery of slang and a humorous insurance scene.
A Rochester Democrat note ponders why women’s ears rarely frost and seem more delicate than men’s. It suggests men tolerate cold poorly while women do not cover ears with hair, hats sit high, and questions a scientific explanation for this apparent gender difference in ear sensitivity.
The frost has seriously reduced flax supplies in the markets of the north of Ireland. In the linen trade, there had been an expectation of improved business with the start of 157% year, but the cold season has dampened those prospects.
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