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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1896
Page
7
A French inventor creates an acrophile a strong umbrella framed kite with a cloth cover and long ribbon tail. It folds into a handbag and resists tearing when near buildings or trees. Ballast pockets in the tail adjust lift, and the kite rises easily with wind, capable of lifting a rider if scaled up.
A Chicago Record note explains how without clocks people in China use a cat’s eye to tell time, and Pacific islanders use a coconut shell fountain clock. It humorously imagines children awakening to shells after sunrise and quirky timekeeping across cultures.
A New York Dispatch account describes a magical ruby worn in a gold ring foretelling danger. The gem allegedly darkened during misfortune, then brightened after tragedy, with a German witness recounting the 1600 episode near Stuttgart to Cadena involving Catharine Adelmannie.
In Piscataway New Jersey an old brown tombstone bears a grisly inscription about two boys who died after eating wild mushrooms. The verse notes ages ten and five with a grim warning to passersby and recalls a popular 18th century couplet about mortality and final rest.
An extract from Blackwood's Magazine argues that among old world apes the canines act as primary weapons for defense and mating contests. It claims jaw strength and facial muscles drive warlike behavior and that human social methods have not erased these evolutionary traits.
Historical geology dismisses crustal cracking as the main cause of mountains and explains table mountains like at the Cape of Good Hope as due to differential sinking and earlier cooling. Denudation continues around higher sections, preserving their elevation relative to surroundings.
A Bath physician tried to make a sick boy take his prescribed medicine by offering 5 cents. The child accepted and took the medicine, then kept the payment. When urged to thank the doctor, the boy replied he does not thank people for paying him what he earns.
A condensed sermon outline reviews Solomon's anointing as king and divine oversight of his reign, the theme of wisdom through Solomon and Sotonion, temple building and dedication, obedience and blessing, Solomon’s fame and sin, cautions against intemperance, and the Birth of Christ with emphasis on living for God and spreading good tidings to all people.
The piece surveys changing epitaph fashions from concise memorial lines to fuller histories, with quotes on memory and death, then shifts to light social notes about baby remarks from an English magazine and ends with Tom Reed’s witty capital punishment argument from Bowdoin.
An old tale about Mr. Chamberlain’s youthfulness circulates, recalling a Gladstone era sea crossing where a private secretary slept on the floor due to crowding. A Gray's Inn Road screener now teaches Tamil script and language basics on the pavement, turning footpath art into a practical language school for passersby.
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