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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1896
Page
6
Satirical verse critiques the bicycle as a vile invention. It mocks the rider’s pride and the machine’s dangerous, unpredictable nature, detailing numerous spills and mechanical woes across repeated lines and stanzas. The piece concludes noting Japan Mail.
On a summer evening at Hotel Castor in St Pyx a notary and Brabon observe a strange robed figure with a button crown. A calm gray woman beside him carries an ordered gravity as Cesaire Moisson’s smallpox era mill tale begins.
Zephrin, a miller's son, after family tragedy and his isolation at the mill, longs for grandiose power. Colette Dion, a widow’s eldest daughter, admires him as he dreams of becoming a king of the mill. Their courtship unfolds amid village gossip and Zephrin's theatrical fantasies, culminating in continued courting as they await a future marriage.
Aitchison Globe quotes a saying warning a man should not lose his temper as anger leads to telling friends the truth. The brief phrase is attributed to the Aitchison Globe.
A Raleigh era column describes how various animals care for their offspring from cats and wasps to turtles, frogs, crabs, kingfishers and more. It notes the mother cat rescuing a kitten on a beam, explains tadpole development and frog metamorphosis, and observes crabs living under stones and birds feeding their young.
A floating pumice barrier 19 miles long and over 1 000 yards wide closed the Telok Retnug port in Sunda straits in a few hours, an effect as dramatic as a boom. Pumice from Lipari islands is heavy once water logged, and European supplies come from Monte Chirica, Monte Pelata, and Forgix Vecchia where 1 000 men labor in narrow tunnels lit by antique clay lamps.
A Dutchman shaving in shirt sleeves cuts his nose and foot with a razor. He swaps the severed toe and nose, binds them, and only later discovers the swap. The tale notes the French republic era dates from Sept 22 1792 to Dec 31 1805 and mentions patenting inventions.
Ernest Ingersoll in St Nicholas compares torpedo boats to sea scouts, the cavalry of the navy, designed to spy, hover along flanks, and warn the fleet. They are small, swift craft carried on larger ships, with aluminium hull ideas yielding buoyancy but raising doubts on strength and corrosion.
The London Spectator notes Scilly Islands have an unusually even British climate with average 40 to 60 degrees, three seasons of four months each, and no high terrain. It highlights Bryher’s 188 foot peak and St Mary’s telegraph tower, praising dramatic rock scenery with names like Mainder Bower, Mincarlo, Shipman's Head, and Penninis peninsula features resembling primeval sea creatures.
Temple Bar notes argue modern readers seek vent for anger by writing to papers while suggesting ancestors likely vented through harsher language. The piece contrasts contemporary civility with past behavior and hints at evolving social mores. It ends with a factual remark that ancient civilizations started their year in autumn.
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