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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1881
Page
6
A detailed portrait of Harvard College Morning Prayers from dawn to completion, tracing the ritual’s origins, changes, and the lively student tricks that aimed to disrupt services. It notes penalties, discipline, and debates over making attendance voluntary, with vivid anecdotes from 18th and 19th century practices.
A set of humorous Carlyle anecdotes is shared from readers and correspondents. Highlights include his blunt refusals to noise or pretence, sharp retorts to critics, and plain speaking at home in Chelsea. The pieces sketch his genial frankness and dramatic one liners in social scenes and dinners.
A historian recalls the saying that a brave loyal man is “a brick” of Sparta. Agesilaus showed an ambassador the city’s walls by pointing to his army, declaring each soldier a brick in the defenses.
Joseph Sprague, born 1792 on Hollis street, recounts the last public hanging on Boston Common in 1798 and other vivid memories. He recalls Washington's visit, the whipping post, and wartime scenes, plus the Halifax sloop incident and Sprague family fortunes through the 1800s.
A Union Pacific express reached Hilliard Wyoming last Sunday to witness a lynching scene. A bound man stood tethered to a telegraph pole under guard while another group buried a dead man from a pole theft. Passengers rushed to intervene, learning the two alleged horse thieves were to be executed by Judge Lynch without trial. The miners reportedly freed their captive.
A Pall Mall Gazette tale describes a Northwest India snake-boy performer in scarlet headgear with a music pipe that allegedly conjures cobras. A narrator witnesses three snakes produced during a ritual dance, with the creature striking the observer before being replaced in baskets.
A Siamese royal cremation for Princess Suntarat and her infant daughter cost about 300000 dollars in decorations and gifts. The elaborate rite took place in a cross shaped hall 200 feet long, with fireworks and lotus dance entertainments for ten nights. The Buddhist priesthood gained about 100000 dollars in gifts, and the ashes were kept in jewel encrusted urns.
Washington Star details Commissioner Le Duc’s sorghum sugar project with underground salting of stalk residue for horse feed and an ambitious Virginia trial. Despite costly machinery and large scale, animals refused to eat the preserved stalks, and the sugar and feed experiments failed, leaving only vats of sorghum juice aging toward vinegar and an uncompleted compost idea.
A large lime pit near the barge-feed site shows stalks remaining hard and unreduced to rot. Word says Commissioner Le Duc produced brown sugar last session at a cost of 20 to 30 dollars per pound for the government, yet a city dealer sold it at five cents per pound.
The article notes a thriving second hand garment trade with cleaning and dyeing, alterations, and repairs. It describes renovators turning old coats into new fits, suits for boys, and stylish renewals at low cost, aided by steam rooms, dye tubs, and pressing shops, especially in autumn repairs. It highlights savings for owners and ubiquity of such shops as a public benefit.
Robert Chestnut, once a wagon-master in the plains, hid five thousand dollars in a jar in Mrs Chittenden's yard and, after years of drink and attempted reform, dug it up last Saturday night. The money was counted in Coffeyville, mostly hundred dollar bills, and Chestnut planned to use it for cattle purchases in the Territory starting Tuesday.
A Minneapolis girl answered an eastern ad and engaged to a Dubuque man after exchanging photos. On meeting, she rejected him for his plain appearance, but he kept up the chase. After letters and a second visit, she learned his trickery and they wed, making a fine Dubuque home.
A London to New York story shows General Badeau bringing stereotyped campaign plates for General Grant to press after Chicago nominating news. Duty was paid then plates removed. duty cannot be recovered on exported items. Prompt move suggests press readiness for immediate publication if needed.
London Truth reports the Queen has given a Buckingham Palace suite to the Duke and Duchess of Connaught for their London residence. Prince Leopold moves to a higher floor and a lift is built at about £2000 since the prince should avoid stairs, a decision critics call unnecessary given etiquette.
A Pittsfield Sun humor piece parodies Shakespeare with a ribald monologue on life's stages from infancy to old age, depicting drinking and revelry. It blends Victorian verse with satirical vignettes on social pretensions and later columns recount playful anecdotes about revival meetings, flirtation, and a comic payroll scene.
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