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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1894
Page
6
The speaker laments a lost beloved echoing Victor Hugo's mood of despair. A door remains open yet the heart, certain the return is futile, gazes toward stars while memories of a sweet歌heart haunt the night. The stanza conveys longing and resignation.
In Vitiev and Vanua Levu a prince Ratu Tanito seeks Ekesa daughter of Savenaka. The king sets three tests on obedience and wisdom. Tanito answers with restraint and action, sparking a clash over gender roles. Ekesa proclaims lasting union producing King Ratu Cakau and Tunivalu.
An excerpt discusses Eastern sherbet fantasies held by a schoolboy and contrasts them with the simple truth of a cold glass of water with sugar. It notes how fruit flavors and coldness alter perception, while noting the costly sherbets tied to distilled flowers and willow in higher circles.
Napoleon Sarony writes in the New York Herald about Edwin Booth Edwin Forrest Richard Mansfield and Chauncey M Depew as sitters in his studio He notes Booths genial nature and dislike of his pipe Forrests magnetism Mansfield realism and preference for authentic portrayal Depews self consciousness and rare chance to capture the real man in a candid moment
The article notes Jerusalem near 40 000 people with a Jewish majority in a segregated city landscape. Poverty is evident among Jews despite some quarters for Christians Armenians Greeks and Protestants. Poor food, squalid shops, and lack of visible industry contrast with charitable aid for pauper Jews.
The Geneva library holds an old collection of Egyptian papyri examined by M. Nicole. Highlights include a Euripides Orestes fragment older than any known copy, Iliad portions with variant readings, and a Jupiter and Leda idyl with an elegy on the stars. A monastery letter requests three months of horses, notes they are orthodox.
The skull claimed to be Sophocles is studied by Professor Virchow after discovery in a tumulus near Dekeleia. The aged skeleton, found with a cane and alabaster vase, matches Sophocles' 90 year age at death in 406 B C. The skull shows long type features, asymmetry between hemispheres, obliterated left temporal suture, broad forehead, narrow face, high features, slight prognathism, and a cranial capacity of 1 840 cubic centimeters.
A Sorosis gathering recalls a late opera singer who refused to perform without her accompanist. After a tense debate led by Mrs. Lozier, the pianist stayed and played, while the Italian musician finally left in anger before the crowd. The incident ended with a defiant exit as voices cooled.
Ingersoll visited Phillips Brooks in Boston to pay respects but was admitted after a servant reported Brooks was in and declined other preachers. Brooks explained the distinction by noting that if preachers die they will meet again in heaven, while a living Ingersoll risks eternal separation.
Vice President Crocker of the Southern Pacific says the company will not fight the passing tramps on freight trains. He argues unloading them is useless as they reboard, risking bloodshed. No formal proclamation yet. trains to avoid molestation unless in self defense. other lines may follow.
Miss Charlotte Robinson of London, designer of ceiling and panel decorations aboard the steamships Lucania and Campania, earns the title decorator to the queen and has now been decorated herself.
A shoemaker warns that shoes will creak if the bill remains unpaid after 80 days. The exchange portrays debt tension and payment delay in a short theatrical vignette from the New York Herald.
A sermon outlining Genesis creation days, the creation of man in God’s image, and the divine blessing and rest. It links the six days of creation to future hope, notes the Trinity in Let Us, and urges believers to rest in God’s work for salvation and service.
The project on Strawberry Hill nears completion with a two tier 60 foot cascade. Water will descend to basins mid hillside and base before entering a lake, creating a grand artificial waterfall rivaling Yosemite’s Vernal Falls in scale.
A new attendant at a Turkish bath steals five gold watches, diamond rings, and scarf pins after a manager warns him to rob without mercy. The manager realizes the thefts occurred from patrons’ property and recalls the instruction as the thief boasts of his act.
A London News opinion cites a Buddhist legend of an early pupil who abandons dancing in his palace to follow Buddha. The piece argues Buddhism equates unselfish kindness with other faiths yet judges its austerities and deathward ideals as unsuitable for temperate climates, suggesting Gotama preaching in Greece would not convert athletes at the Olympics.
Lieutenant W H Bradbury of the Champion City Guards plans a two year Arctic voyage prompted by A Symmes of Louisville. The party expects a Greenland sail, sled journeys with dogs, then a foot trek to trace wild animals to Symsonia. The aim is to locate a mysterious home inspiring a new world.
On a recent City of Paris voyage a demure seamstress Miss Maud Branscombe stitched on plain work while a quiet gentlemanly youth read Little Dorrit. The reader, Burge the lightweight, travels to contend with Mr. McAuliffe.
The sloop Wasp, undergoing repairs at Morgan's ways in New London Connecticut, is one of the oldest afloat. It won a decisive 1812 victory over the British brig Frolic and later captured the sloop-of-war Reindeer. There is talk of exhibiting the Wasp at the World's fair.
State residents oppose using the symbol for the state and favor Wh. as a unified and satisfactory abbreviation.
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