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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1895
Page
7
The text hints at a historic church scene and personal memory from the narrator's childhood. It contrasts a pure axe image with a tourist and a native claim about the church's long-standing presence. The fragment suggests local heritage and sentiment.
The New York Sun notes a government inquiry into Mr. Page's restaurant expenses claiming $8,000 yearly for ice and lights plus $11,000 kitchen remodel costs paid years ago. It describes carpet purchases for the restaurant, questioned beef prices, and adds that senators view the affair with mixed skepticism about profits and management.
The London Christie’s record shows a dull 1894 season with 20 pictures sold for 7000 or more, down from 26 in 1893. Prices for Reynold’s Lady Betty Delme were inflated by rumor, while Lord Carlingford’s sale of The Ladies Waldegrave reached 70000 privately. British masters led gains as Dutch works faded. A Rossetti sold for 2156 after costing 4315 in 1892 and Leighton works missed earlier peaks, signaling a general modern decline.
Captain James Oliver recounts an incident when the Prince of Wales visited the clipper Louisiana in Dublin. The prince reportedly tipped his hat to the American flag after the captain’s son challenged him, sparking cheers from the party aboard the ship in triumph.
The piece recalls how amadou is produced and used in surgery, notes the fading use of flint and steel, tinder boxes, rushlights, dips, and mold candles, and reflects on the rare emergence of gas, railways, and lucifer matches, citing London Telegraph.
A venerable Cambridge fellow leaves seclusion after fifty years to visit a country house. At dinner he learns of a shower bath and, upon discovery, withdraws in embarrassment. He next meets the hostess and apologizes to the young woman for intruding during her morning hygienic routine.
An excerpt notes ecclesiastical casuistry in medieval times. Clergy banned from bloodshed yet used the mace to defend, with Bishop Otho, half brother to William, fighting at Hastings alongside his conqueror brother. The phrase calls them a “pair of nut trackers” in a vivid historic image.
A San Francisco Argonaut remark recalls Rubinstein claiming descent from a crusader who joined Richard I to Palestine. He reportedly joked his prowess was in music, not lineage, as a companion to a pianist.
A Chicago Record summary explains the turpentine trade detailing how workers carve boxes in pine trees to collect sap, the roles of hackers and dippers, and the process from sap to spirits of turpentine. It notes the labor force including Negro and white workers, the season length, and safety with fires and barrels, all set in North and South Carolina and toward the Gulf.
The Washington correspondent for the New York Sun reports Reed presenting a broad platform. He pledges equal rights, civil service reform, tariff revisions, pensions, prompt government payments, and labor peace. He vows to please all Republicans Democrats and Mugwumps and aims for a unanimous nomination.
The New York Tribune explains nominal horsepower as a maker favored, assumed value for engine size. Indicated horsepower is derived from the indicator diagram calculations. Effective horsepower measures actual work, equal to indicated power minus the load needed to turn the engine when unloaded.
Two Glasgow teens aged 21 and 18, sons of a Singer sewing machine works mechanic, unveil a primary battery said to slow zinc decomposition and boost strength with cheap chemicals. Lord Kelvin is rumored to have offered 50 000 dollars for the patent rights. Experts doubt a revolution in electricity, though the device reportedly passed harsh tests.
General Thomas W Hyde of Bath translated Horace in his leisure and after reading Gladstone wrote to the English author. He received an autographic note from W. E. Guaberonn at Hawarden Castle praising the fellow laborer and wishing him great success. The exchange was dated December 1, 1804 from Augusta Maine.
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