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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1885
Page
4
TRE GLOBE announces a new enterprise by humorist Bill Nye. He spent weeks gathering material for essays on Boston institutions to be illustrated by noted artist C. W. five. The project targets broad audience appeal across classes.
The Globe seeks young men or boys to canvass towns with no agent or small subscriber clubs. New agents may operate without interfering with regular work. Posters and sample copies are provided on application to promote subscriptions.
A June 16 1885 item mentions Epison drawing a sum from electricity for New York World's Barnrudtor pedestal fund and notes such galvanic shocks are welcome. It also critiques Philadelphia appraisers obeying laws and jokes about jurors in New York dining clubs.
Investigation needed as officials refuse reappointment while asserting the state can govern itself and the city cannot. The remark highlights governance tensions and calls for scrutiny of municipal leadership decisions.
A British political analysis argues the Liberal defeat stems from failed policy and internal strife. It credits Charles Stuart Parnell with steering English politics from the shadows, while pondering Gladstone's successor and Ireland's rising leverage over Britain.
A local discussion laments the mystifying birth of a new planetoid and its astronomical data. The piece jokes about needing a $600 telescope and suggests simple sky-watching methods for common folk, urging clearer guidance to avoid late nights on the Common.
Ohio State Convention opens the 1885 political campaign with full county representation and a partisan speech from the chairman. The piece criticizes the Republican stance as backward looking and lacking progressive policy on trade, commerce, and state welfare, predicting a strong Democratic challenge with better governance.
The speaker urges the Democrats to govern with steadfast integrity rather than rely on Republican blunders. He warns against borrowed ideas from the past and stresses the importance of faithful governance to prove the party’s capability and win public confidence.
After years of labor amid misfortune and illness General Grant prepares his memoir. Early extracts reveal a warmer, more human portrait than expected, highlighting kindness and personal reflections. The book’s appeal rests as much on the author’s character as on his wartime exploits.
An official union army losses summary by J W Kirkland under General Drum reports total deaths of 359496, including 9853 officers and 349913 enlisted men. It breaks down deaths by cause with figures for killed in action and died of disease among officers and men, noting New England's share.
By comparing this aggregate with the grand aggregate for the country it will be seen that about one ninth of the Union graves are filled by New England men.
The piece argues the Alaska boundary dispute stems from vague treaty language dating to 1867, with a line following mountain summits versus a coastal parallel. It notes the Alaska coast’s irregularity and that precise demarcation would require costly surveying, highlighting the dispute’s impractical ambiguity.
The text asks how miners and settlers can tell whether the gold they find is from British or United States possessions, noting that scientists cannot distinguish. It mentions protection being sought from the United States after interference by subjects of the neighboring power and warns how such disputes can lead to international quarrels.
In a Bay State Club speech Hon. Joan FitzGeranp lauds President Cleveland’s three months in office. He cites unity, equal rights, and honest, economical government, arguing reforms require time and broad support beyond local interests. War and India notes follow, ending with a derisive remark about Riev.
An inventor in Philadelphia with four patents on a cheap aluminium production method faces a theft attempt by an engineer he employed. The intruder stole $250 of acids before being arrested. The piece argues patents protect inventors and that securing a patent is often easier than inventing the breakthrough itself.
A desultory survey of post peace signs shows no disarmament. Armies remain reinforced, war industries run at full tilt, and dockyards demand workers as Navy and private yards rush to build ironclads and torpedo boats. Admiral Hornsby commands a powerful squadron preparing for a lengthy cruise despite peace rhetoric.
The article riffs on politics and personalities from the era, noting Ohio’s GOP identity as a crank claim and lampooning figures like Lord Salisbury. It contrasts Republican inevitability with satirical anecdotes about pretenders to sovereignty, Postmaster meddling, and Boston expropriations in Paso del Norte context.
The first child born in the White House is a Post Office Department clerk in Washington. She is the daughter of ex-President Jacksons private secretary and later married a Texas congressman against her fathers wishes, eloping after Polk urged her to stay. The unhappy marriage ended, leaving her a widow and later a government clerk.
Philadelphia Ledger describes Professor Jenkin’s Telpherage system, a slow electric cartage method using a single suspended line to haul coal grain and minerals in buckets. Trains move four to five miles an hour with cross over sections enabling current to energize the motor.
A New York man harassed a respectable young woman on Madison Avenue, calling six evenings a week. He proposed, she rejected him sharply saying she would marry a monkey before him, and warned him to leave within a minute and a half or she would call her father who would confront him.
A Texas Siftings item ponders why women hail street cars at the wrong crossings. Conductors have abandoned the puzzle, yet women persist in the act, leaving the mystery unsolved after years of street car history.
A countryman visits a Boston drug store seeking relief for a stubborn toothache. The druggist offers remedies and, with a touch of humor, the man asks for a small bottle of Boston faith cure to knock the spots off everything.
Brief dialogue from a Philadelphia Call item features a Chicago girl boasting of her ancestral line, a Boston girl countering with two centuries of forefathers, and an Oxtengo girl dismissing it with four husbands in two years, highlighting class taunts in a light humorous exchange.
A scientifically inclined gentleman spent three months computing tips given to sleeping car porters in the United States and then abruptly stopped his work, reportedly after exhausting his figures.
A Pittsburg Dispatch opinion notes that if the world grows worse, Christians should pray for another flood to wipe out wickedness, sparing only a single righteous family to repopulate the earth.
Brooklyn June 14 Rev Henry Ward Beecher urged business men to grant a half holiday on Saturdays in summer. He argued evolution does not fix all questions and that faith, conscience, and moral law unfold in humans through divine presence and spiritual growth leading to personal communion with God. He discussed sin, conversion, and the potential of minds to rise above flesh through prayer and divine power.
A Montreal Gazette letter extols General Grant as superior to Sheridan and Sherman, praising his strategic genius, decisive judgment, and ability to unify plans. It claims Grant’s leadership outshines McPherson, Sheridan, and Sherman, placing him among Napoleon, Wellington, and Moltke as a premier modern commander.
Fragmentary verse reflects on astronomy praising the sun earth moon stars and cosmic design. The piece notes the moon cannot reflect law of physics and asserts watchful providence maintains grand design though the speaker prefers to say no more.
A Chicago Current item questions whether Colonel Wakeman or Professor Swing authored a stray humorous line. The piece notes Swing’s association with the Current and remarks on the ragged map showing erratic mo vility provoking astonishment and distress among its subscribers.
A poet dismisses a sensational claim about a wife allegedly waking from a narrow bed after a year of death. The piece argues such an unheard of event would have triggered full newspaper coverage with portraits and sketches, suggesting the tale is implausible.
A quirky overheard moment at the Hoffmann House highlights a child and a woman teasing a man with unusually large ears. The exchange captures playful city dining room banter and the era’s casual humor.
A Philadelphia Press critique portrays Jefferson Davis as bilious in intellect, paganroned in his principles and color blind in memory. The piece casts him as a dismal ghost five steps from a dawning epoch, signaling his departure.
A New York Times vignette recounts a host musically pleasing a Kentucky guest with a sonata like aside at a dinner, noting a light exchange about spelling and a coin of phrase “two on my way here.”
A Louisville Courier Journal item recalls Colonel Kennedy jailed ten days for contempt of court. He asks the jailer what the bars are for and the jailer replies they keep mosquitoes from the boarders.
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