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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1884
Page
6
A firsthand Civil War account describes a hurried withdrawal after a cavalry charge near Winchester. The narrator details dodging blue coated horsemen, crossing a creek under fire, and a bold escape aided by comrades before being captured by Indiana and Ohio soldiers and later reunited with Union troops.
Berlin astronomer Professor Blendmann reports a dramatic Moon finding after darkening the telescope to reduce glare. A sun microscope image allegedly shows verdant plains, deserts, towns, and signs of industry on the Moon, challenging prior beliefs and promising further lunar revelations.
Burlington Hawkeye reports Julian Arnold’s claim that his father Edwin Arnold wrote most of Light of Asia on his cuff during commutes. The piece mocks the tale as journalism bravado, recalling a reporter with cuff notes and urging readers to doubt such sources.
William Reynolds, a Cecil paper mills machinist, fell into a large iron tank known as the stuff chest. Pulp circulated by the rotating arms. the machine started while he was inside. He struggled as pulp rose to waist level and covered him, until cries for help were heard and the machinery stopped.
A Vassar College girl told her professor that a fish has no lungs but breathes with its fins, which allegedly caused the professor to convulse and resign. The episode, recounted in Peck's Sun, suggests the professor should have given her another chance.
In Ulster County a six year old boy, Mickey Finn Jr., rode a tethered nanny goat along a quarry edge after dark. He fell but was saved by Phelim O Rourke whose rope lowered him to safety. Father Michael Finn carried his son home, joking for the picture cards he bought earlier.
In a Georgia court the judge questions an older negro man about his relationship to a youth. The man insists the boy is his whole son, not a stepson, asserting that the boy’s mother was married to him before she bore the child. The exchange reveals the complex, humorous insistence on blood and status in a domestic dispute.
A Leipsie correspondent notes in the San Francisco Chronicle that in public houses the host or waiter cheerfully says Mahizeit meaning mealtime. The phrase survives as both greeting and farewell, though the contracted form of I wish you a pleasant mealtime remains less common.
The text notes etiquette in Leipzig about saying mealtime greetings and bidding farewell. It explains that saying mealie is common when leaving a table and that the contraction implies wishing others enjoyed their meal. The practice is described as a local German etiquette rule.
The piece lampoons amateur carpentry as a path to independence and wife bragging. It details misadventures with an ice chest and other home projects, noting faulty builds, stubborn humor, and a call for practical self reliance amid family banter. It ends with directions to visit the author in his studio, hinting at a humorous, local flavor.
A Detroit Free Press humorous tale shows Mrs. Sawyer and Mrs. Jones clashing over gossip and neighborhood politics. The scene centers on a pie crust and a boy’s odd request, ending with the remark that the fence between Jones and Sawyer remains unbroken, tougher than pastry.
The Kansas City Star recalls a seductive bunko scheme based on an eight figure lottery system. A green painted safe and flashy posters fooled spectators while Bunko operators moved locations after each game. Dr Baggs featured as a legendary figure who saved a small safe from a Deadwood fire.
A long passage notes John R. Sykes of Hood County born 1815 reaching nearly seventy and visiting Colorado then riding a railroad train for the first time at his son’s visit. The piece contrasts progress with aging as he travels toward life’s end.
The Philadelphia Times notes that all purchasable giraffes come from the Soudan. A six-giraffe herd at the city zoo dwindled to one vigorous remaining animal. The others died of bronchitis, all sick at once, leaving a spectacle described as thirty eight feet of bandaged sore throat.
A New York Times article recounts broaching cargo on long sea voyages and a popular tale of Liverpool Tom, a deceitful crew member who starved the ship by stealing wines and canned goods. It also details his rumored ghost haunting Melbourne bound sailors and the crew’s reactions to the superstition aboard.
Empty wine and brandy bottles litter the scene as broken grocery cases lie toppled. A captain notes a supposed healthy ghost feasting on the premises for some time. Hours later police pursue Liverpool Tom, charged with breaching cargo to a notable extent.
A Detroit Free Press humor piece follows Bones as he battles a DIY spring door device. He fumbles through unclear instructions, improvises with tools, and ends with a misused burglar alarm joke, leaving the door off and the house intact. Mrs. Bones quips at his effort, highlighting the comic misadventure of home repairs.
A humorous vignette from Texas Siftings shows a young lady requesting thread in a dry goods shop. The polite salesman persists with questions about white or black thread, two spools, and color choices, ending with the customer paying a dime and the clerk exhausted by the exchange.
A Philadelphia Times veteran recounts a brutal Brazil escapade. He and a party sought gold, were captured by tribes, and after months of captivity he feigned death to escape burial alive in a flower bed. Relieved Indians tended him, but the suffocating scent and exposure left him ill for years.
In a humorous note from Houston, the Willis Index man recalls attending services in warm weather and facing awkward moments as the pews creak and threaten to tilt. He laments how the church setting clashes with his devout mood and the need to balance decorum with practicality.
A dialogue shows one man seeking a cure for a bad headache and foul taste in the mouth. The other warns against drunkenness, urging caution and seeking a remedy rather than intoxication. The fragment hints at a humorous or cautionary exchange.
A collage of jokes poems and quips from a 19th century paper. It catalogs humorous exchanges from Harvard lampoon style and Yonkers Statesman verses, cartoons, and skits. brief scenes include a pithy exchange about monistic theory a bread and butter remark and a painterly jest with a concierge.
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