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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1896
Page
6
A quoted excerpt from Youth's Companion features F. L. Sargent describing a stroll among plant species. It mentions Trifolium and Trillium, hints at Umbel and Labiate groups, and notes European names such as king's candle. The tone blends curiosity with caution, illustrating botanical fascination.
Everard Deane confesses his life split between art and money after Morrison Parker entices him into stock speculation. He recalls a midnight test with manuscript and share certificates, choosing neither, and declares he is a failure despite success. He longs for his earlier artistic joy, now crushed by greed and worry. He plans a Riviera trip with Parker but doubts its value.
The article contrasts views on freckles, noting doctors blame sun exposure and iron in blood while Vienna professor Hebra argues freckles do not appear in children under six or eight and questions sunlight alone as the cause.
A narrator recalls fossil hunting in an abandoned quarry where the owner questions their find and jokes fossils are for fishing bait. The tale moves to the Helderberg mountains where a native mislabels crooked shells as petrified cows’ horns.
A Cortland County resident Sally Righter recalls a woods chase by panthers near her father’s clearing. She defends herself with a club, killing four panthers in under ten minutes, then spares two cubs and later marries Jim Scofield, with Darius born years afterward.
Charles Pars, known as a plains hunter, promotes jackrabbit drives. Farmers’ boys with fog horns and drums surround two nets across a field. Rabbits mob toward the net and many are killed or captured, with others dying of fright. The drives are popular prairie sport with a generous spread for helpers.
In Boston, a physician famed in Dorchester is said to be improving patients through a joke about his fear of heights. While visiting the top of Bunker Hill Monument, he fled in fright as a sun warp gag amused relatives, then recounted the tale to his patients who now laugh their way to better health.
A English solicitor general touring Berlin on holiday was mistaken for a military officer and invited to a review where he rode a charger. Similar scene with Marshall Bidwell in Paris in the fifties when told the emperor was at a review and a dragoon would join him to the Champs de Mars. The remark, Not a soldier and a marshal, drew bemused commentary on America.
A 19th century moral reflection notes that revenge consumes the killer from within. The quote by J. M. Mason warns that seeking vengeance depresses the soul, while satisfied revenge may worsen the afterlife for a malicious, temperamental person.
In several towns in Holland a birth is announced by exposing at the door a silk pincushion edged with lace, the color indicating the infant's sex with red for a boy and white for a girl.
The passage notes real satisfaction comes when praise spoken aloud aligns with inner conscience whispers, attributed to Johnson.
The Animal Training club in Brooklyn consists of boys who each hold an officer post for two months. Members keep pets such as rabbits birds turtles cats and a silver fish. They meet in backyards to share tricks and exchange experiences aided by a weekly five cent dues fund for entertainments.
The poem recounts Wynken Blynken and Nod sailing in a wooden shoe across a misty sea to fish for silver and gold herring. The old moon, stars, and gentle wind frame their journey while a mother’s lullaby invites children to dream of magical seas and beauty. Eugene Field presents a fanciful bedtime ballad about imagination and comforting imagery.
A daughter of the Princess of Battenberg grew puzzled by Italian phrases taught by her governess. The little English princess, already fluent in French and German, wondered why she must say please and thank you in Italian, noting the shifts from Merci to Ich danke Ihnen. She mused on the many ways to talk.
A simple table game uses a large chalked cloth or stitched lines for a football field. Players blow a blown egg or head egg between points rather than kicking. New balls are needed each match and traditional touchdowns or five yard limits do not apply.
The chess tournament results and entrants for Janae Kaanburg are provided with attached lists and standings. Details include participant names and match outcomes as recorded by local organizers.
James Mullineaux of near Gallipolis Ohio reports his apple tree produced a golden russet then sheep nose apples and an early sweet crop in successive years. This year the tree bore a large red winter apple of unknown name and he expects grapes or peaches next year. The phenomenon is unexplained according to the New York Recorder.
The fights are planned just north of El Paso near No Man's Land disputed between Texas and New Mexico. Bill Bradburn of Chicago will serve as special referee for Dan Stuart, assisting with timekeeping, seconds, and keeping spectators within rules while the ring official watches the bout.
Workmen in the imperial navy yard at Halifax uncovered what are believed to be the remains of an old fashioned British man of war. The oak timbers about four inches thick remain well preserved after likely a century underwater. How the hull ended up in the yard remains a mystery.
The First Congregational Church society of Old Saybrook Connecticut announces its two hundred fifty fifth anniversary to be celebrated next spring. The church is identified as the mother of Yale College and of many notable Congregational churches in New England.
Students at Freeport High School took the human skeleton from the school display and raised it up the flagpole on the public common during a prank. The incident occurred late at night and prompted calls for the return of the skeleton and possible discipline.
W Q Ludge Ill says the man known as a noted western theosophist sought medical care for a disease. He was headed to a clinic, and his treatment details remain limited in the report.
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