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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1891
Page
2
A memoir recalls cadet life around 1860s West Point training with yearling drills, harsh drillmasters, and pranks amid cadet oppression and spectacle. It moves into a Sunday Globe feature on teaching children animal drawing, outlining three steps: animal frame construction, surface outline, and animal actions.
The text explains a figure labeled Fig 4 showing the backbone in a horizontal plan. It divides the frame into three parts: neck body and tail. The neck line slants upward, the tail downward, and the head may be a low egg-shaped oval attached to the large end.
The text details the animal skeleton from neck to tail, describing the rib section as a half oval under the body, the hip behind the ribs, and the shoulder blade at the chest front. It contrasts foreleg and hind leg divisions with human anatomy and mentions the collar bone and wishbone in birds.
The head sits atop the spine with the face oriented vertically. The human head is shorter than the animal's, the jaw smaller relative to the brain. The human forearm and hand are much longer than in the foreleg of animals, a distinct human proportion. Upper and lower limbs do not form a y section in the human frame.
Queen Victoria favors a private Osborne garden near her castle where she may plant and tend trees without official oversight. The area hosts a family museum, a wooden playhouse built by the Prince of Wales and Duke of Edinburgh, and a fort-like toy fortress preserved since childhood. Trees mark royal memories, marriages, and foreign ties, with Prussian royals also represented.
A catalog-like notice announces the work Giovanni and the Other by Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of Little Lord Fauntleroy, indicating a chapter or section reference and the author’s name in a brief bibliographic entry.
Giovanni recalls a gifted boy whose voice cracked under strain and vanished. The girl in black notes a wealthy signora’s advances and a hermit-like fate for the singer’s brother as brigands, peasants, and fashion intersect in a tale of art, poverty, and rumor.
Brigitta climbs the steep, narrow passages of the old city. Archways span between walls as the ancient houses loom, creating a maze of passages that define Citta Vecchia and offer protection against ruin from earthquakes.
Captain Charles King recalls harsh plebe discipline at West Point in earlier years. He contrasts then and now noting tougher times, brutal drill sessions, and the strange custom of using a surname handle. He reflects on evolving academy practices and the enduring culture.
A fragmented reminiscence contrasts the old citys charming ruins seen by forestiers during water season with the social codes of West Point Cadets. It notes visitors wandering stone stairways and arches while plebes endure the strict, unwritten rule of being mis tered until their year ends.
In 1874 D A A Buck of Worcester Mass built a perfect steam engine of microscopic size. The device occupied seven sixteenths of an inch diameter and five eighths of an inch height, with 148 parts mostly silver and gold. It used 52 screws the smallest 0.01 inch long, weighed 15 grains, cylinder diameter 1/16 inch and stroke 3 652 ds of an inch, with three drops of water in the boiler.
A Chicago Tribune clipping compares two railway lines with passenger agents urging travelers to choose their routes. One agent claims saving 16 hours by using the X Y Z line, while the other promotes the A B C route promising a shorter journey and longer distance on certain segments. The fragment includes garbled text mid-sentence ending without a clear conclusion.
Reports of rains of blood stones fish and reptiles span centuries and regions. Observations attribute these events to windborne animalcules mineral dust volcanic ejecta and forest fire soot with scientific explanations noting common precipitate sources and atmospheric transport.
A traveling mountain in the Cascades of the Columbia is described as a six to eight mile long triple peak basalt mass rising about 2000 feet above the water and gradually moving toward the river. The base forests are submerged, stumps stand in the water, and rails are shifted eight to ten feet over years. Geologists cite the soft substratum beneath the basalt yielding to river erosion and the weight of the mountain above.
M Fatio reported to the Geneva Physical Society on birds treating wounds. A snipe used its beak and feathers to apply dressings, splints, and even fix a broken leg with ligatures. In one instance a snipe scavenged by misrouting feathers, starving after entangling its beak, illustrating limits of avian field medicine.
An observer witnessed a flyer with a broken iron being moved to a parallel position. Upper fragments extended to the knee and were secured by a feather moss band. A ligature on the limb, flat-leaf wrass style, used glue to fix the arrangement, drawing careful attention from observers.
The Washington Star notes a standout display at the international congress of geologists, a near-complete collection of fossil insects preserved in rock. The finds show diverse, now-vanished species from the tertiary epoch, including mosquitoes, gnats, beetles, flies, moths, and gallflies, preserved in volcanic sand and ash near Pike's Peak.
The piece argues that the U S government educates many boys for naval service, but few become shipmen. It notes high desertion before age 21, limited gunnery advancement, and many apprentices leaving for electrical work with big power firms. It cites low gunner pay, political pulls for berths, and stalled Annapolis paths.
A historical outline traces firearms from 1364 hand cannons at Perouse to 1853 percussion caps, detailing hand held tubes called scorpions, arquebusiers, wheellock pistols, light firearms at Pavia, muskets with Alva, and later percussion ignition, caps, and continued improvements in both worlds.
A Rehoboth Sunday Herald discussion notes photographs showing a full moon with an egglike outline. A writer argues that gravity would shape the moon into a globe, while earth’s attraction would pull matter toward the side facing Earth, challenging the idea of a perfect sphere.
A promotional notice offers subscriptions to The Weekly Globe and combined magazine deals. It lists numerous titles with prices and notes that only one magazine per address can be sent, request beginning issue details, and directs readers to write to THE WEEKLY GLOBE for combination pricing.
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