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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1891
Page
6
Peggy Hildreth, an 18 year old beauty with many suitors, hosts a ballroom night sparking rivalries with Howarth Overalle and Jack Leslie. Amid gossip and schemes, a wager on a mirror trick tests pride, deception, and the social maneuvering of a small-town debutante.
A magician recalls his most famed trick restoring a shattered mirror. He describes performing before the Czar of Russia, when a billiard shot shattered a floor to ceiling plate-glass mirror. The scene drew astonishment and the court’s dismay yet the performance continued on the regular bill.
A naturalist Mr Hornaby recounts capturing a baby orang from a dead mother for science. The infant orang bites, clings, and mimics human behavior showing pain rage affection. It learns to eat bananas rice meat and bread but avoids alcohol. It dies after struggles and a second young orang is spared and placed with straw pile called Old Man.
In this Popular Science Monthly piece, the author describes a personal synesthesia of letters and colors. He notes green for R, yellow for 8, and scarlet for X, arguing colors arise from concept rather than print form and emphasize how dominant letters shape a word’s perceived hue.
Annie R. King contrasts Spanish Creoles with American women, noting the Spanish woman seeks no social scale and accepts domestic life, while the American woman pursues a visible mission. The piece contrasts social roles and gender expectations, highlighting harmony through distinct destinies and mutual respect.
The Princess Louise of Schleswig Holstein brides in July with grand ceremony and her royal trousseau features exquisitely fashioned corsets in gall silk coutil with plush binding and silk fincing. Each piece uses matching colors, with pink and blue ensembles featuring flounces lace veiling and silk bouillon beads.
A New Yorker, aged about sixty, says he never wears a watch. He trusts regular habits and can tell the time by feeling his face. He notes the beard beam grows with the hour and needs a watch only for travel by train or boat.
A brief report notes an incident at a dinner last night involving Miss Palisade and a spill on her gown. The chatter mentions Billy reacting to the event, with casual remarks about the episode.
The article describes bronco busting as a violent sport practiced by professional riders and cowpunchers alike. It details two-man roping, snubbing posts, hacks like hackamores, and long rides to tire the pony, noting risks and the flashy regalia worn by riders.
The article explains woollen yarns are soft fluffy with tangled fibers and free felting, while worsted yarns are hard and strong with parallel, elongated fibers. It notes English combing wools gave worsted manufacture prominence and mentions machinery reducing distinctions between woollen and worsted processes.
Edmund Collins recounts observations on how certain fish endure winter by remaining motionless without food. German carp in a Newcastle Ontario hatchery held position for months under glass, an eel kept its curling shape, and a hospital fish survived ice entombment to resume activity.
A New York Recorder piece notes men cross legs mainly when minds are relaxed. In business or active writing, legs stay straight. crossers often uncross and lean toward others when truly engaged or frustrated. Some gifted individuals exhibit distinctive leg gestures while thinking.
A reader overhears a pair discussing platonic friendship between a man and woman in a Chicago restaurant. The speaker recounts a man sharing a past engagement and expresses dismay at presumed romantic missteps and jealousy, arguing that friendship should not obligate romance.
A St Paul Pioneer Press reader asked how many dollar bills equal the weight of a twenty dollar gold piece. Answers ranged from 600 to 1200 bills, with a final note that the count could be 30 or 31 depending on dirt and age of the bills. The discussion also considered using ten dollar bills for a similar test.
The Manila port, pivotal in the Philippine islands, lags one day behind others of its size due to a historic calendar quirk. Spaniards who discovered the islands sailed from America and did not adjust the calendar when crossing the date line, leaving Manila perpetually a day behind modern time.
A Chicago Tribune excerpt presents a humorous scene with Penelope, an 83-year-old Boston aunt and the dining table setting. Penelope declines the high chair in favor of a regular chair and a copy of Aristotle, delivering a poised response that underscores her unusual maturity.
Washington Star reports Miss Willing discussing an alleged kiss attempt by Harry Smartleigh. Miss Ethel questions the event, while Miss Willing defends herself, noting he did not try hard enough.
A survey of North American Indian beliefs about thunder, gods, and spirits. Tales from the Sioux, Chippewa, Passamaquoddy, and others describe the thunder bird, Unk-ta-he, Wachowsen, and Glooskap battling storm forces. Myths link wind, rain, and lightning to divine actions and sacred heroes.
The passage outlines strict monastic duties for the half butler and frater, detailing table care, bread provision, cleanliness, and candle logistics. It describes conduct at meals, napkin norms, and rules for descanso, nones, vespers, supper, and compline, plus the dorter’s quiet, dress, and behavior.
A humorous piece notes how women entering downtown offices are overwhelmed by confusing bulletins, floors, and signs. It observes their bewilderment locating people, offices, and information while men appear to know less about neighbors. It contrasts instinctive drawer searches with blind reliance on signs.
An old clerk at the general delivery window recounts years ago a man named Mike McGinnis who refused to pay 24 cents on a letter from the old country after the clerk read it aloud. Later the same McGinnis returned, received the same letter, and paid the 24 cents to collect it.
A Detroit Free Press snippet describes a drummer visiting a Grand Rapids merchant’s store asking if anyone else helps. The merchant replies that his wife is the silent partner, noting no co-owner is listed on the sign.
Featherstone and Ringway pieces reveal Mr Dashaway and Miss Swansdown vanished during a picnic. Ringway notes Dashaway stopped to tie Miss Swansdown's necktie, then they disappeared about 15 minutes earlier. Officials suspect a simple delay or prank.
Conversation reveals social tensions as Henderson shows no sentiment about marriage. Marie questions his feelings while Aunt Mary from Chicago refuses a drive due to an uncle’s firm no. Ethel from Boston asks for meaning behind "naw."
A survey of macaronic poetry across ages from Shakespeare to Mezzofanti. It highlights burlesque shifts, notable examples by Swift Johnson Holmes and Drummond, and modern limits, with notes on German and Italian student songs and the famed cardinal Mezzofanti testing tongues.
A playful stage scene titled Place Seminary celebrates graduating sweet girls with gowns of fluff and a matched bouquet essay. The act centers on a gowned graduate, a ribbon tied essay, and a hopeful address to teachers and schoolmates as they transition from schoolgirls to women.
A playful dialogue from Percy aged five questions family ties between parents and grandparents. The boy asks whose child he would be if marriages were different as his father mocks coughing and encourages him to go out to play.
A Plymouth man faced a court over love letters read aloud, with a postscript promising to deliver one trillion kisses. The affair highlights the risks of extravagant promises in romantic correspondences and the impractical scope of such contracts.
Fragmentary passage advises writers of love letters against undertakings of large magnitude noting undelivered payments and cancer concerns. No clear individuals organizations or concrete events are identifiable from the readable text.
Florence Scollard Brown presents a medley of verse and prose from classic writers, weaving reflections on youth memory love and fate. The selection features quotes from Henry Collins Mary E Wilkins Ella Wheeler Wilcox and others, framed as a literary stroll through gardens seas and time, ending with a call to inner strength and faith in the eternal self.
A housemaid, tall and slim, neat in dress and duties, is blamed for a minor fault leaving a dustpan on the stairs. Doctors are summoned, Sir Andrew Clarke is brought, yet the master dies. The tale ends with the maid in Colney Hatch haunted by a ghostly dustpan.
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