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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1891
Page
3
An eyewitness account describes Czar Nicolas I touring Fredensborg while Danish royals converse with visiting children. A photographer’s attempt to shoot the czar nearly startled him, prompting a dramatic retreat and a later return to Copenhagen.
Fragmentary notes describe excavations at a site linked to Gaston Le Breton revealing debris and relics. A Venus Anadyomene sculpture is mentioned among finds, while references to a masked ancient temple suggest long buried history.
In Indiana settlers lore a yarn from the Indianapolis News tells Noah Grisholm’s tale of a newlyweds’ log house and a kitchen trap door. A midnight floor racket proves to be two hens clucking beneath the meal room as the couple confronts imagined specters and panthers.
The scene depicts a spy of marital satire where a young man declares love during an interrupted opera moment. A chorus of comic visions follows with a wife who snores and fails to cook breakfast, leading to the husband and his family punishing him for unmet duties.
Dr. Arabell Kenealy argues that more women than men will remain spinsters, urging professions for women to support themselves. She says the rising surplus of women creates an intensified push toward a broader, independent life beyond domestic work.
A survey traces legends and evidence of vanished settlements like Tanewla Romarin and Calicut, noting seas swallowing ports and legends of bells from submerged cities. It references Ptolemy, De Peyster, and poets who wove these ruins into myth and verse.
A Massachusetts gentleman owns a large cross between an English mastiff and a St Bernard that kills cats weekly. The groom digs graves and the dog carries the cat to the site, then bites and drops it in. Afterward the dog is whipped, yet resumes preying on the next cat brought to the stables.
Robert W. Hebbard of the Cha Organization Society discusses beggars in New York claiming they can earn 10 to 15 dollars daily with some raking in fortunes. He notes blind, older beggars as most lucrative and says Fifth Avenue ladies often fund such activity, arguing public charity sustains a race of parasites.
The Rev. Russell H. Conwell of the Baptist Temple recounts how he seized a young man with a dramatic warning Satan hath hold of thee. The description, told to his congregation, elicited a perceptible titter from onlookers as he described the humorous moment.
The Boston Scientific Society held a late evening meeting at its Washington Street rooms with about fifty in attendance. Dr Perrin presided and Secretary Norton read the call. Chandler presented a Cambridge based paper claiming Earth's pole traces a 30 foot radius path in 427 days, a finding said to clarify long standing astronomical discrepancies supported by observations in England France Germany and America.
The noted star Sarah Bernhardt speaks of money and fame in her career saying she keeps no accounts and never worries about late payments. She claims she has enough and cannot calculate her earnings or value.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt recalls a man who tried a holiday at home yet spent the day on chores for his wife. He cleaned and aired rooms, burned yard debris, repotted plants, fetched coal and kindling, chopped tomatoes for piccalilli, and cared for the baby, finishing tired rather than rested.
Two New York girls who visited the Salviati glass works in Vienna received identical glass eyes in boxes later. The note said the eyes would be a great convenience if needed, as a precaution against emergencies.
A clergyman’s letters recount a joke about marrying a widow with six children causing family stir. The piece also presents a humor exchange between burglars discussing spoons as imitation silver, with a punchline about the theft triggering detectives.
A miscommunication at Eureka Medicine Co leads to a dramatic exchange with an excited citizen who protests a testimonial in his name. The manager apologizes, stating they believed the man was dead and orders the signature under sworn testimonials No 41144 to be changed before the next edition.
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