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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1897
Page
2
A Philadelphia beggar painter earns well by selling dramatic, grim portraits to charity patrons in a basement studio. He creates lurid scenes such as a powder blast and a burning ship for 3 to 12 dollars, completing pieces in about 1.5 hours, and prefers beggar painting to any higher art.
The Watchman notes a quip about the Greek preposition eis meaning into. A Rochester university professor told students that eis always means into, prompting a pupil to joke that another college professor has slipped up on eis.
The first colonial bricks for building in Virginia were made in 1612 and used for a Jamestown church and the governor's residence. A portion of the church remains, showing early colonists forged durable bricks to withstand weather. James Crichton, the Admirable Crichton, died at 23 and mastered many sciences, languages, and crafts.
A Contemporary Review profile of Abdul Hamid II describing his insomnia and paranoia. The sultan avoids sleep, keeps surveillance, uses many beds in the palace, and relies on armed guards and dogs to feel secure while suspecting conspiracies against him.
General Horace Porter recalls a staff officer nicknamed Colonel B who carried a saddlebag full of novels during battle. He read Victor Hugo's Les Miserables in English while under fire, sparking a running joke. He mispronounced the title to a passerby who retorted the books were better than Grants Miserables.
In a humorous quip from a Yorks Statesman column women are likened to ostriches hiding behind bonnets. A gambler named Jim Faro brags of winning $500 on an ace of hearts while Cracksey Joe references a jewelry heist earning five thousand. A proverb links cheerfulness to physical health, and a note mentions Japanese orange wood toothpicks carved by hand, with a worker whittling up to twenty dozen daily.
J W McDonald of Stoneham pleads for state aid to education, contending towns vary in wealth and tax capacity. He cites Boston Milton Brookline Quincy and Fitchburg and proposes a one third state funding via a $1 per $1000 tax to be redistributed by average attendance. The talk urges passage before opposition from wealthier towns grows.
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