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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1896
Page
6
A verse from London Tit-Bits extols smiling as a cure for trials and urges aiding worthy causes. It praises comforting heavy hearts, guiding youth with sympathy, and opening the heart to let sunshine in.
The piece recalls how France rebuilt after the war and Bismarck's drive to curb French revival. It notes May 1875 actions by Prince Hohenlohe in Paris, the fear of a new conflict, and how the Grand Duke of Baden and his daughter influenced Kaiser Wilhelm to seek peace, averting war.
A London Standard critique explores Welsh linguistic and literary influence from Cymric origins to Arthurian legend. It surveys Myvyrian Archaeology, Taliesin attributions, Renan on Cymric golden age, and Geoffrey of Monmouth while noting Latin works by a Welsh bishop.
A historical note on how the yard length evolved from the Elizabethan rod to the 1824 act and the Royal Society led standard. It outlines the Exchequer procedures, the 1855 Parliament deposit, the 62 degree F condition, and the transfer of authenticated copies to U S government offices in Washington St Louis.
The Fortnightly Review notes in a Pers ian context that polygamy exists but women enjoy greater liberty than in Turkey. Monogamy is common among the middle classes, and mothers are respected autocrats at home while ambitious women engage in politics. A Shiraz noblewoman entices a mullah with a joke wedding and pays for it, only to see him humiliated before her guests.
A noted approach from Mr. May suggests using a ship’s motions to combat seasickness. By aligning a bed along the keel and lying on the left side with the head toward the engine room, longitudinal and rolling motions help keep food in the stomach and aid esophageal propulsion to the pyloric orifice. The method reportedly succeeded in rough seas and is proposed for further testing.
The London Lancet argues that advances in eye care place opticians under professional limits when prescribing glasses. Ophthalmic surgeons praise opticians for lens quality and mounting ideas, but warn that atropine and medical judgment are essential to decide when those measures are appropriate.
The piece notes a social event where eminent professionals mingle. Questions identify Dr Lenser the oculist, Dr Tympan the aurist with a speaking trumpet, and Dr Eppa Glattis the throat specialist. It also mentions Mary Whittemore and Mary Grover on the First National Bank of Nephi board and an artist’s suggestion about landscape art.
A New York Home Journal writer asserts humming birds can be tamed and kept as pets. Reports describe living specimens in Broadway window displays, tame after two months, feeding on honey and sugar water, with nests in lace curtains and daily floral gifts.
Recollections describe Laurence Oliphant employing M de Blowitz to attend Versailles sittings and report proceedings with accuracy and mimicry. Baron de Hirsch, amid a midcareer pause, offered 50 million francs to educate Russia but was rebuffed. Mme Adam critiques musicales harming conversation and plans a Paris circle of women to "talk" at gatherings.
Judge Prowse counters the view that only French Spanish and Portuguese fished Newfoundland in the early 16th century. He shows the English fleet was strong from Elizabethan times and dominated the colony, with Devonshire seamen ruling the trade while other nations had substantial presence on the banks.
R F Barnett recalls a train encounter with a white haired lady whose son is in a penitentiary. She visits Louisville after receiving a letter from him promising a good job and a new home in Frankfort, leading to her prolonged collapse and a physician’s aid.
The passage reflects on human fixation with future, eternal life, and the allure of a next world. It contemplates how knowledge of immortality could diminish worldy pomps and fleeting joys, imagining a theater of saints and heroes to come after mortal life.
A fox in a Connecticut Massachusetts border wood is chased by a car wheel at dusk. The fox outruns briefly but the front wheel overtakes him. the fox vaults a ditch and escapes to a grassy bank. The incident ends with the astonished fox watching the wheel disappear.
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