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Newspaper
The Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1885
Page
4
A survey of wedding taboos and fortunes across Europe and beyond. English brides avoid May and February unions and fear the 14th, while Scottish lore deems the year's last day lucky for brides. France, Sweden, Ireland, and England offer varied customs on roads, slips, tears, and final looks.
In a city dry goods store two women debate silk origin as a saleswoman touts French silks while denigrating American varieties. An American-made gray flowered silk from New York is defended, arguing domestic quality and durability despite prejudice, prompting reflections on consumer bias and national industry.
The passage reflects on gossip and the harm of unrestrained words. It cautions that spoken words reveal inner thoughts, while urges taming the heart to speak in harmony with God and fellow humans, making speech helpful and dear.
Plush is restored to favor with trims on velvet bonnets and cloth mantles. jackets and wraps in cloth, wool, and felt rise in demand. New margins include metallic millinery, bead decorations, chenille fringes, and fine stitching on felt bonnets. Dark cloths and flannels suit inclement weather amid evolving silhouettes.
A German paper recounts Patti the prima donna who sang at a private Paris entertainment. She received a priceless 8000 franc diamond earrings gift but claimed 3000 francs as her fee. The host answered with a lesser pair of earrings and a check, prompting Patti to return the diamonds in shame.
Fragmentary notes recall Vitellius nicknamed The Glutton for praising a dead foe’s body as perfume after a Gaulish battle. Charles IX allegedly mocked Coligny’s gibbet with cruel doggerel. A seventeenth century chronicler condemns appetites and waste involving apothecaries and starving diners.
A Yukon native Orloff Kamanski, described as 35 with three arms, gains attention in Butte after arriving from Alaska. He explains the extra limb aids daily tasks from fanning to driving, and notes Yukon women with three arms are sought after, though he would not marry one. He plans return to Yukon fields via San Francisco.
A Bradford Penn situation notes natural gas as a cheap substitute for coal and wood, sparking widespread heating and lighting. Gas lights dots on hills near derrick-studded oil towns and Pittsburg area veins boost steel and glass industries. Bradford city gas costs two cents monthly for streets and city hall.
Deputy Sheriff Johnny Crowley recounts his trip to Rio Bonito country in pursuit of cattle thieves. He details desolate canyons and cliff dwellings carved into granite, with ancient one room homes and ventilation holes. The piece notes curiosity about how such dwellings were formed without explosives. A garbled postscript mentions New York Chinese fondness for roasted dogs.
A Washington letter in the Cleveland Leader surveys the hair of U S Presidents from Washington to Cleveland. It notes Washington’s fine hair, Jefferson’s red hair, Adams wigs, Jackson’s quill like hair, and Lincoln’s long dark hair, among other details, linking hair to personal appearance rather than presidential success.
A Normandy letter to the Memphis Avalanche describes Etretat’s washerwomen using a subterranean stream that fills cisterns at high tide and runs dry at low tide. They fetch water by digging a hole with a wooden shovel and wash linen on the beach, then dry it weighted with stones. The note also muses on French Canada’s population growth and other curiosities, including distant Chinese missions.
Boston to Winthrop Junction Cottage Hill and Point Shirley service starts Sept 20 in narrow gauge division. Station stops include Atlantic Avenue and Shirley Street with multiple departure times each evening and limited Cottage Hill service. Returns from Cottage Hill and Point Shirley listed with specific times. Sundays show daytime departures from Boston and Point Shirley. Officials J H Berrrick president and A P Buaxe manager.
Trains depart Boston to Winthrop Junction at 6 50 7 30 8 00 8 30 9 00 10 00 11 00 12 00 1 00 2 00 3 00 3 30 4 00 4 30 5 00 5 30 6 00 6 30 7 30 9 30 11 10. Return trains from Winthrop Junction to Boston at 6 25 7 08 7 38 8 08 8 38 9 18 10 16 11 16 12 18 1 16 2 16 3 03 3 33 4 03 4 33 5 03 5 33 6 03 6 48 9 03 10 32. Sundays every hour from 10 A M to 10 P M. Workingmen s train.
The notice lists coach departure times from Winthrop and Pleasant streets for Winthrop Junction and Magee’s store Main Street on weekdays and weekends. It notes connections to Boston Revere Beach trains and frequent hourly Sunday service from 10 AM to 10 PM. George & Collins offer coaches at reasonable rates.
Fragments describe marital tensions of a American woman in England, a boy with a heavy goat cart, a reform school case for a Westminster girl, a club talk on real estate, a steam bicycle exhibit in Newark, remarks by Col. Lettler on spurious butter, and a quip about a wife and her physician in a humorous anecdote.
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