tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68779753545933030902012-01-31T13:52:17.004-08:00Antique ClippingsAntique humor and clippings, randomly discovered ephemera and interesting things! A lot of the things here are from before 1950, maybe way before. There will be things not politically correct today, ethnic humor, and enemies called names. The past is very messy.Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.comBlogger38511100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-27608018721043116652008-09-18T05:40:00.006-07:002008-09-18T05:41:59.037-07:00Beards, Snuff and the English Bar.1895Forty years ago an Old Bailey practitioner who wore a beard was summoned to attend a meeting of the bar and charged with "violating the honorable traditions of the profession." He sought acquittal on the ground that a serious affection of the throat compelled his transgression of the unwritten ordinances of the bar, but his judges declined to accept his defense and sent him to Coventry. TimesClippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-32284026573484850652008-09-18T05:40:00.005-07:002008-09-18T05:41:26.970-07:00Sir Henry Layard.1895The late Sir Henry Layard was a man to whose abilities, achievements and personal qualities but scant justice was done in the obituary notices which appeared at the time of his death.He did not "wear his heart upon his sleeve," and those who had only a slight acquaintance with him may perhaps be excused for not perceiving the stanch and genuine kindness of that heart — a kindness which none Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-73123293203290359132008-09-18T05:40:00.004-07:002008-09-18T05:41:04.870-07:00Where Love Is Secondary.1895A conspicuous difference between the English and Chinese dramas is explained by the fact that, whereas in the former love holds a leading part, in the latter it is relegated to a secondary place. In England it is a passion, in China a sentiment only; hence the thousand intrigues love gives rise to are, in the latter country, either thrown into the shade or tabooed entirely. Without their Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-78086846672802384892008-09-18T05:40:00.003-07:002008-09-18T05:40:43.534-07:00The Deep Breath Habit.1895Cultivate the habit of breathing through the nose and taking deep breaths. If this habit was universal, there is little doubt that pulmonary affections would be decreased one-half. An English physician calls attention to the fact that deep and forced respiration will keep the entire body in a glow in the coldest weather, no matter how thinly one may be clad. He was himself half frozen to Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-32105562338955172762008-09-18T05:40:00.001-07:002008-09-18T05:40:22.160-07:00Ownership of Farms.1895The statistics show that Ohio has the largest number of farms of any state in the Union, 256,264; Illinois comes second, 252,953; then Missouri, 250,832; Texas, 248,782; New York, 226,632; Pennsylvania, 211,472; Iowa, 205,435; Indiana, 205,331. No other state has more than 200,000. The percentage of ownership in farms is largest in the north and west, as is the percentage of homes also.Like Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-91327078052430798012008-09-16T04:03:00.002-07:002008-09-16T04:04:09.007-07:00TROLLOPE'S RAPID WRITING.1895His Work Produced With Astonishing Speed Regardless of His Surroundings.I remember a characteristic discussion about their mode of writing between Trollope and George Eliot at a little dinner party at her house."Why," said Anthony, "I sit down every morning at 5:30, with my watch on my desk, and for three hours I regularly produce 250 words every quarter of an hour."George Eliot positively Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-25310130690426107492008-09-16T04:03:00.001-07:002008-09-16T04:03:40.381-07:00HORSE TORTURE.1895Slitting the Nostrils Still Practiced In Some Parts of the World.Slitting a horse's nostrils is still practiced in some parts of the world, as in Persia, Mongolia and even in northern Africa, and ponies with slit nostrils are often seen in the Himalayas and in Afghanistan. This mutilation is resorted to in the erroneous belief that the horse can inhale more air when going at a fast pace, and Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-82494158076470033722008-09-16T04:02:00.002-07:002008-09-16T04:03:12.270-07:00A Wonder of Relationship.1895In an old scrapbook which contains a number of clippings without date I find the following: "William Harman, who committed suicide at Titusville, Pa., a short time since, did so because some one had convinced him that he was his own grandfather! Here is a copy of the singular letter he left: 'I married a widow who had a grownup daughter. My father visited us often, fell in love with my Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-30843469306328298322008-09-16T04:02:00.001-07:002008-09-16T04:02:37.779-07:00The Still, Small Voice.1895The mother and grandmother of small Susan were "talking her over," and in small Susan's presence. "Have you taught her anything yet about the still, small voice?" asked the grandmother. "No," replied the mother, "she is too young. I'll teach her about the still, small voice when she's able to understand it." A day or two after this small Susan's mother heard the most dreadful howls and yells Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-19758778855842337752008-09-16T04:01:00.001-07:002008-09-16T04:01:54.586-07:00Ismail and Ferry.1895On one occasion, the late Ismail Pasha was advised by Jules Ferry, the prime minister, to visit London in order to enlist the support of the British government in his scheme to oust his son Tewfik at Cairo. He showed a new high hat to a friend, with the remark: "Ferry says I should not go to London in a fez; it's too oriental. He recommended me to his hatter, and the pig has charged me 40 Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-65630891219760714882008-09-14T19:11:00.001-07:002008-09-14T19:11:50.248-07:00Reward for Stolen Clothing.New York, 1895John Quincy Adams, of Riverhead, whose daughters, Nettie and Sadie, aged 19 and 16, respectively, had their clothes stolen while bathing at Wildwood lake, posted the following notice:$100 reward is offered for evidence that will lead to the arrest and conviction of the party who stole clothing belonging to my children while in bathing at the great pond, Riverhead, June 1895. JOHN Q.Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-42504437738211217822008-09-14T19:10:00.000-07:002008-09-14T19:11:08.415-07:00Upset the Dinner Table.New York, 1895James Hall, of Flushing, invited Michael Edwards, a neighbor, to his house Sunday morning to play cards. Several pints of ale were disposed of. Edwards accused Hall of cheating. Hall put Edwards out and then sat down to read. In a few minutes Edwards returned and commenced throwing stones through Hall's windows. Hall escaped, and Edwards entered the house, found the table set for Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-36680049672631077602008-09-14T19:09:00.002-07:002008-09-14T19:10:08.559-07:00MAY BE A MURDER.New York, 1895Poles and Germans Fight and Two Get Stabbed.A stabbing affray occurred at Flushing at an early hour Monday morning in which one man was seriously injured and another wounded so badly that his life is despaired of. One of them is lying in the Flushing hospital, and he may die. A number of Poles, who are employed on various farms at Blackstump, on the Jamaica road, Monday decided to Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-13571497915144004302008-09-14T19:09:00.001-07:002008-09-14T19:09:33.129-07:00THE BODGES IN COURT.New York, 1895No Refusal on the Part of the Husband to Support His Wife.Yesterday Judge Hendrickson, of Jamaica, heard testimony in the case of the people against John J. Bodge, of Dunton, who is charged by his wife with failing to support her. Mrs. Bodge came to court attended by Mrs. Benemiller, who seems to exercise an hypnotic influence over her. Counselors Stanford of Jamaica and Mahoney of Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-85296665019659973142008-09-14T19:08:00.003-07:002008-09-14T19:08:58.805-07:00Fire at Hicksville.New York, 1895The cottage of the Rev. Henry Grandleinard at Hicksville caught fire Saturday night and was damaged $500. The family claim that the fire was started by rats and matches.—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, July 5, 1895, p. 1.Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-71537600802501293532008-09-14T19:08:00.001-07:002008-09-14T19:08:26.777-07:00A Seven Foot Adder.New York, 1895John G. Barker, a painter of Northport, went into his woodshed to secure his basket that he takes with him fishing, and was startled to find a large snake coiled up in the basket asleep. He killed the snake, which proved to be a flat-headed adder measuring seven feet long.—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, July 5, 1895, p. 1.Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-49342356151748640542008-09-14T19:07:00.002-07:002008-09-14T19:08:06.550-07:00Beer, but No Drinkers.New York, 1895New York's dry Sunday did not increase the usual crowd who seek pleasure and beer in Long Island Sunday resorts. The crowd was smaller Sunday than it has been for many Sundays. Few people went to Rockaway Beach, and there was a big falling off in the usual gathering at North Beach. Trains of empty cars were run on the Steinway electric hallway in Long Island City waiting for the Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-4152639393448323392008-09-14T19:07:00.001-07:002008-09-14T19:07:44.720-07:00The First Train to Montauk.New York, 1895The first passenger train for Montauk passed over the new track across Napeague Beach Friday evening with President Corbin's son and a party bound for Montauk Point.The last spike was driven at 6:45 o'clock Friday evening and a few minutes later an engine, drawing a special car, which had reached Amagansett attached to the 6 o'clock express, passed over the newly laid rails. WilliamClippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-58233535495238078362008-09-14T19:01:00.002-07:002008-09-14T19:02:06.865-07:00Graves Only Two Feet Deep.New York, 1895The town trustees of Flushing, who have been inquiring into the condition of the town cemetery have at last decided to put John Turner in charge. Mr. Turner was before the board and swore that he saw two dogs scampering about the cemetery. He watched them for a while and they commenced to dig. He saw them uncover a coffin, the lid of which had been broken, and eat the remains of a Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-70808271451454549472008-09-14T19:01:00.001-07:002008-09-14T19:01:40.858-07:00Schwab with Burglars' ToolsNew York, 1895Newtown News Notes.Karl Schwab has been held for the grand jury on a charge of having burglars' tools in his possession.Justice Monteverde held John and William Beckman for the grand jury for carting garbage into the town.The woman's Christian temperance union of Maspeth is about to erect a trough and drinking fountain at Flushing avenue and Grand street.Judge Garretson has reversedClippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-28670876307627875552008-09-12T15:23:00.001-07:002008-09-12T15:23:28.392-07:00Four-Year-Old Sets Fire to HouseNew York, 1895News in Brief.The Long Island railroad company has opened the new station called Edgemere between Far Rockaway and Arverne.President Corbin of the Long Island railroad visited Montauk on Tuesday and inspected his recent purchase of 4,000 acres of land.A 4 year old grandson of William T. Rider of East Rockaway set fire to the house Tuesday through playing with matches. The interior Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-47747366755294554372008-09-12T15:22:00.001-07:002008-09-12T15:22:55.950-07:00Was He from Baltimore?New York, 1895The body of a man was found floating in Flushing Creek Monday afternoon. It is so badly decomposed that it is unrecognizable and had evidently been in the water about six months. The body was in dark clothes of good material. In the pockets were found a match box with the name "J. G. McShane" engraved on it, and a business card with the name "R. Stuart Littlepage, with Henry McShaneClippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-32862507966371376452008-09-10T04:40:00.001-07:002008-09-10T04:40:27.307-07:00McKenna Gets His Liberty.New York, 1895John McKenna, in jail at Riverhead awaiting the action of the grand jury on a charge of abducting Agnes McGraw, 15 years old, of Bayport, was discharged from custody by Judge Smith on a writ of certiorari. The evidence was insufficient to warrant holding the defendant.Hicksville Odd-Fellows' Election.The semi-annual election of officers of Primrose lodge, I. O. O. F., of Hicksville,Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-84325031902862547442008-09-10T04:38:00.004-07:002008-09-10T04:39:23.870-07:00Married to Escape the Jail.New York, 1895John Kaissen, a Bohemian, who has been wanted at Islip for some time to answer to the charge of breach of promise preferred against him by Mary Stranarce, a Bohemian lass, was arrested and brought before Justice Griffith on Saturday. The couple left the court room man and wife.Sold to Satisfy Judgments.The property of the Amityville agricultural fair and driving park association wasClippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-91943925978409918882008-09-10T04:38:00.003-07:002008-09-10T04:38:48.933-07:00Bicycle Races at the Fair.New York, 1895The board of managers of the Agricultural society are going to make bicycle racing a prominent feature of the fall fair. The one mile novice race, open to class A residents of Long Island, prizes worth $25, $15 and $10, will take place on Wednesday, September 25. The one mile handicap, open only to residents of Queens county, prizes worth $25, $15 and $10, will be run on Thursday, Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-6593537516457538732008-09-10T04:38:00.001-07:002008-09-10T04:38:21.708-07:00UPSET IN LITTLE HELL GATE.New York, 1895One of Four Persons Drowned — Another Swam Ashore.Edward Doehn and William Madden of New York went out rowing in the sound Sunday with Thomas Dalton and James Smith, who live on an ice boat. Their boat had two sets of oars, and each took one oar. On their return through Little Hell Gate the tide was against them. When they were in the second eddy their boat drifted against a rock Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-50702189145798550882008-09-10T04:37:00.001-07:002008-09-10T04:37:50.266-07:00THE DEVIL AMONG THEM.New York, 1895Big Row in the Temperance Division at Bay Side.The Bay Side division of Sons of Temperance is about to disband. Several of the chief officers have been doing wrong. One of the most active members made a speech at the meeting Thursday night, in which he charged drunkenness and immorality, and said it was no credit to belong to such an organization.The Bayside chapter is one of the Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-48386281391842854032008-09-10T04:36:00.001-07:002008-09-10T04:36:56.637-07:00PUSHED OVERBOARD AND DROWNED.New York, 1895Charles Davis the Victim of an Unmerciful Captain.William Adamson, Captain of a barge owned by William A. Price of New York, is locked up in the Town Hall at Flushing, charged with responsibility for the death of Charles Davis, 18 years old, who was drowned from the barge Monday afternoon.Capt. Adamson tied up at the dye works dock Monday morning with a load of coal for the dye Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-59125159758806462482008-09-10T04:32:00.000-07:002008-09-10T04:33:19.223-07:00No Picnics at Whitestone.New York, 1895Everything was as quiet as a graveyard at Whitestone on Sunday. Three men patrolled the shore all day on the lookout for picnic parties, but none attempted to land. The crusade of the Good Government club has had its effect. Since the arrest on Monday of Proprietor Stimmel of one of the picnic pavilions there has been a great change. It is said that Proprietor Knabb, of another Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-15664263836048615362008-09-10T04:31:00.001-07:002008-09-10T04:31:34.505-07:00She Paid Damages and Costs.New York, 1895Mrs. John Kelly, stepmother of Post-Master John Kelly, Jr., of Kings Park, who was arrested for destroying his property at midnight on June 5, was called for trial at Northport before Justice Strawson Thursday afternoon. She decided to settle, paying damages and costs, amounting to about $150.Woodside Florists Losing Heavily.The dry weather is causing great damage to florists in Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-52406843318875749162008-09-08T05:15:00.002-07:002008-09-08T05:16:25.708-07:00King Lobengula's House.1895Of Lobengula's house nothing but a low heap of bricks remains. It is very pathetic to see the great deserted kraal, once so populous and now tenanted only by a few screaming plovers flying round and round over it. One or two miserable looking blacks were squatted among the ashes, grubbing for a few glass beads. Far away — the only thing that breaks the monotony of the horizon — you see ThabasClippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-58877144688968900782008-09-08T05:15:00.001-07:002008-09-08T05:15:46.447-07:00ELECTRIC FIRE ALARMS.1895Their Advantage In the Time When Immediate Help Is Most Needed.The first few moments after the outbreak of a fire is the critical time in deciding whether or not it can be got under control, and upon the prompt arrival of the apparatus often depends the salvation or the destruction of the entire plant. While a watchman may be thoroughly conscientious and alert and do everything in his power Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-21664795393413841042008-09-08T05:14:00.002-07:002008-09-08T05:15:17.400-07:00No Reduction Accepted.1895The count came near and whispered softly."I am ready," he said, "to make a sacrifice for you."She gestured deprecatingly."Sacrifice?" she repeated. "No, Reginald, I am able to pay the regular price."She smiled, as in the consciousness of power. — Detroit Tribune.TriviaAn unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-68119871430262454522008-09-08T05:14:00.001-07:002008-09-08T05:14:42.076-07:00A Puzzled Husband.1895Patient Man — Suppose a woman makes it so hot for her husband that he can't live with her and he leaves her. What can she do?Lawyer — Sue him for support."Suppose she has run him so heavily into debt that he can't support her, because his creditors grab every penny as quick as he gets it?""If for any reason he fails to pay her the amount ordered, he will be sent to jail for contempt of court.Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-9201847907890898042008-09-06T08:57:00.003-07:002008-09-06T08:57:49.767-07:00Pleasures of the Table.1895Heliogabalus surpassed Vitellius as far as Vitellius surpassed Lucullus in the art of expending vast sums upon the pleasures of the table. According to Lampridius, he cost the government for each of his dinners more than $180,000 in our money! This statement almost transcends belief. At one of his banquets was served an entree consisting of the brains of 600,000 ostriches, quickly followed byClippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-16243126025703098452008-09-06T08:57:00.001-07:002008-09-06T08:57:26.972-07:00A DEAL IN CUT RATE TICKETS.1895Two Theater Goers of Unequal Purses Accommodated by a Broker.A young man entered a shop which displayed the sign, "Theater tickets at cut rates," on a Saturday afternoon about 2 o'clock and said to the ticket broker:"What have you for matinee at Palmer's?""Dollar an 'af orchestry for $1," replied the proprietor, a sharp looking man, with a large diamond stud in his shirt."Haven't you a 50 Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-63402601200363931862008-09-06T08:56:00.003-07:002008-09-06T08:56:56.579-07:00Glassmaking.1895Much mystery has in times past attached to the art of glassmaking. It was formerly the custom for the workmen, in setting pots in the glass furnace, to protect themselves from the heat by dressing in the skins of wild animals from head to foot. To this queer garb were added glass goggle eyes, and thus the most hideous looking monsters were readily presented to the eye. Show was made of Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-60770542872269127832008-09-06T08:56:00.001-07:002008-09-06T08:56:26.972-07:00Ages.1895Isn't it odd what a fascination the subject of ages has for one's elderly relatives?Not that you are seeking to conceal any facts, but once during each call or visit having discussed the matter and resigned yourself to having even the servants know that you were 29 or 31 last March, it does seem that the theme might he dropped.No matter how craftily the conversation is veered off, back the Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-78142169642059287802008-09-06T08:55:00.000-07:002008-09-06T08:56:06.737-07:00The British Crown.1895The crown which was used in the ceremonies attending the coronation of Queen Victoria was made by Rundell & Bridge, and is said to represent a money value of about £300,000. It weighs a fraction less than two pounds and is almost covered with the 3,000 precious stones which adorn it. The headband of this gorgeous insignia of royalty is made of gold, covered with a row of 129 pearls along its Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-82817196384369371682008-09-05T08:11:00.001-07:002008-09-05T08:11:31.507-07:00BISMARCK'S TRAITS.1895How the Old Chancellor Came Out Ahead of a Stupid Hotel Keeper.Perhaps the chief trait of Bismarck's genius is to be found in his entire freedom from the preconceived notions, and in the limpidness of his mind, which refused to submit to accepted fallacies. This tendency in early age earned for him, of the dull pedantry and prime Philistines around him, the sobriquet of "Tolle Bismarck" — theClippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-4739247209367002802008-09-05T08:10:00.002-07:002008-09-05T08:11:02.644-07:00Origin of "Viz."1895The contraction "viz" is a curious instance of the universality of arbitrary signs. There are few writers who do not appreciate the fact that the little contraction may be used in "good form" writing of all kinds, but there are probably even fewer persons who have any idea of its origin. It is a corruption of the word videlicet, the terminal letter of which was formerly made in the shape of aClippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-21013862800947465812008-09-05T08:10:00.001-07:002008-09-05T08:10:32.311-07:00Dean Stanley's Bad Handwriting.1895Dean Stanley's bad handwriting is a matter of common notoriety, and I have often been asked if it was true that the printers refused to set it up. The fact is, that when the "copy" for the "History of the Jewish Church" was sent in the printers reported that they would have to charge a special rate for composition, as no man could set up such manuscript on the ordinary terms. we accordingly Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-13350607150162129452008-09-05T08:09:00.000-07:002008-09-05T08:10:06.857-07:00Dictionary of Discontent.1895Science, dear Lady Betty, has diminished hope, knowledge has destroyed our illusions, and experience has deprived us of interest. Here, then, is the authorized dictionary of discontent:What is creation? A failure.What is life? A bore.What is man? A fraud.What is woman? Both a fraud and a bore.What is beauty? A deception.What is love? A disease.What is marriage? A mistake.What is a wife? A Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-43428445944883806302008-09-03T05:01:00.001-07:002008-09-03T05:01:49.750-07:00Eight Years for Postmaster Hegeman.New York, 1895Ex-Postmaster Joseph Hegeman, of Bayville, was on Friday sentenced by Judge Benedict, in the United States court, to eight years' imprisonment in the Kings county penitentiary. Hegeman was convicted of embezzling the funds of his office, and the amounts of his embezzling were found to be $1,291, which amount was placed against him as a fine, in addition to the Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-57041652630789515412008-09-03T05:00:00.002-07:002008-09-03T05:01:08.206-07:00Getting Even With Their Rival.New York, 1895A big crowd of hack drivers helped Road Commissioner Pearsall's men to tear up the tracks of the horse car line near the depot at Far Rockaway. The horse car line to the beach ruined the hackmen's business. This year the line has not been running, and an examination of its franchise shows that it had no right to lay its tracks on the block connecting it with the depot. The hackmen, Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-27507214350065850022008-09-03T05:00:00.001-07:002008-09-03T05:00:38.226-07:00Jolly Coterie Boys Getting Ready.New York, 1895The jolly boys of the Springfield Coterie are getting ready for their annual festival. August 7th is the day fixed upon, and Phillips' Sea Side Pavilion is the place. Get your bibs and tuckers ready, girls. Special train and clambake, dancing all day, and a moonlight ride. Make a note of the date — August 7.Militiamen on Bicycles.Capt. Frank N. Bell, of the Seventeenth Separate Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-90407187858832135482008-09-03T04:59:00.003-07:002008-09-03T05:00:07.903-07:00Stole the Girls' Clothing.New York, 1895Three young and pretty girls went out to Wildwood lake, Riverhead, Tuesday afternoon to bathe. After they had taken their dip they found that some person had stolen their clothing. After waiting until dark they walked through the woods in their bathing suits to the house of Benjamin Terrell, about a mile and a quarter distant. As Mr. Terrell has no girls in his family the Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-79523090624556210252008-09-03T04:59:00.001-07:002008-09-03T04:59:27.782-07:00Accident to Mr. De Bevoise.New York, 1895Charles De Bevoise, of New York avenue, Jamaica, when returning home from market on Friday stopped in Brooklyn to make some purchases. While he was in the store his team started to run away. He caught them by the head and was thrown down, one of the animals stepping on his right hand and breaking the finger bones.Locust Post Thieves Sentenced.August Weibker was sentenced by Justice Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-1029015647820933902008-09-03T04:58:00.001-07:002008-09-03T04:58:54.934-07:00Knocked His Wagon to Pieces.New York, 1895William Carey, the express driver of the Long Island railroad company at Southold, narrowly escaped being killed Tuesday night by a locomotive running extra to Greenport. Carey was driving across the track when the locomotive struck the wagon and smashed it into a hundred pieces. Carey jumped from the back of the wagon and escaped injury. The horse was not injured.Ten Thousand Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-45926850625447748032008-09-03T04:57:00.002-07:002008-09-03T04:58:19.355-07:00Brush Bitten By DogNew York, 1895Jamaica Brevities.Charles Brush of Union avenue was on Monday bitten several times on the left hand by his pet dog.The Bailey property on Union avenue has been purchased by Mr. Hogan, of New York City, for $4,500.The cellar has been dug for the house for Dr. Flynn on Hardenbrook avenue. Valentine Bangert has the contract.James McNamara, for several years conductor on the Atlantic Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-18617640043282384392008-09-03T04:57:00.001-07:002008-09-03T04:57:50.797-07:00KILLED BY AN ELEVATOR.New York, 1895Reckenbach Caught Under a Descending Car and Crushed.Charles Reckenbach, a 19 year-old boy, who worked in the Lalance & Grosjean factory at Woodhaven, was crushed to death in the elevator shaft on Friday. Reckenbach wanted to go to an upper story and leaned over a guard rail to see if the car was coming up. The elevator was coming down at the time and struck Reckenbach upon the Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-2201182299541968332008-09-01T05:16:00.001-07:002008-09-01T05:16:24.494-07:00Fire at Brooklyn Hills.New York, 1895Shortly after midnight Sunday fire broke out in the large three story building of H. W. Lange, corner of Union Place and the Jamaica road, Brooklyn Hills. The fire was discovered on the second floor, which was unoccupied. Lange occupies the lower floor for a grocery, and a family resided on the top floor. The firemen, after an hour's hard work, extinguished the flames. The damage toClippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-28797014172031030592008-09-01T05:14:00.000-07:002008-09-01T05:16:00.124-07:00Trestle Fire Case EndedNew York, 1895Justice Hendrickson's Court.Lucien Huadberg, of Woodhaven, aged 15, who was arrested for setting fire to the trestle work of the Long Island railroad at Woodhaven Junction, was discharged by Justice Hendrickson on Friday. He came to the conclusion that the boy had no intention of setting fire to the structure.August Bycott and Henry Miller were arrested on Sunday by Game Constable Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-90954290888655318932008-09-01T05:13:00.001-07:002008-09-01T05:13:27.972-07:00Keep Your Horses off the Streets.New York, 1895Officer Fogarty, of Jamaica, found three horses roaming over the highways Saturday morning and put them in the pound. Louis Palo claimed two of the animals. Appearing before the police justice he was fined $10 for having his horses loose. He demurred at paying the $10, but thought better of it in the evening, and tendered the fine to the justice. But three meals for the two animals,Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-15301187492735029952008-09-01T05:12:00.001-07:002008-09-01T05:12:59.818-07:00Burglars Raid Four Houses.New York, 1895Burglars paid a visit to the village of Jamaica Tuesday night. They effected an entrance to the residence of George Crawford, corner of Ray and Grove streets, where they were disturbed in their operations and made their escape, securing only a silk waist.At the residence of Henry S. Midgley, on Shelton avenue, Mrs. Midgley saw the two burglars in her room and gave an alarm. They Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-7390980131454016182008-09-01T05:11:00.001-07:002008-09-01T05:11:19.860-07:00Mrs. Golder IllNew York, 1895News from Springfield.Mrs. Daniel Golder is very ill at the home of Smith Watts.The seven-year-old child of Mrs. John Stehler died on Wednesday from convulsions.Rev. Mr. Bowdish of the M. E. Church preached a sermon on temperance last Sunday evening.Ephraim Baylis, who has been ill has so far recovered as to be able to attend to his business.Samuel Jennings of Hoboken spent a few Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-68576295456521329012008-09-01T05:10:00.001-07:002008-09-01T05:10:47.691-07:00Hoople's EstateNew York, 1895The News of Queens.The late William H. Hoople left an estate valued at $442,500.Miss Phebe Hendrickson gave a sociable to her friends on Wednesday evening.The Queens bicycle club had their initial run of the season on Sunday to Rockaway Beach.Highway Commissioner Frank J. Lott gave a supper to The Penochle club at Barb's hotel on Wednesday evening.The Queens field club and the Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-71563538589221979192008-08-29T04:47:00.002-07:002008-08-29T04:49:54.089-07:00PESTS OF THE PLAINS.1895The Rattlesnake's Sting and the Bite of the Hydrophobia Skunk.Major Wilcox, a veteran surgeon from Fort Huachuca, told the other day of the red racer snake, a deadly foe of the rattlesnake and who fights the latter on every occasion. He cannot kill the rattler by a poisonous sting, but awaiting an opportunity seizes his victim behind the head and gives it a crushing squeeze in his powerful Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-85025354208356604322008-08-29T04:47:00.001-07:002008-08-29T04:47:47.714-07:00A Novel Watch.1895A watch has been invented which measures distance by sound. The inventor, a French officer named Thouvenin, has called the instrument a phonotelemeter. To operate it a little button is pressed at the instant of the flash and again at the sound. In the meantime a needle traverses a dial, registering time to the one-tenth part of a second. The rest is a mere matter of calculation.TriviaThe trueClippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-22047272462310377712008-08-29T04:46:00.002-07:002008-08-29T04:47:15.942-07:00Shoes and Gloves.1895As a rule, that old fashioned word "tidy" is reserved rigidly for commendation of a housegirl or housewife in the lowlier walks of life. Your fine lady would scorn to be called "tidy," why, no one can exactly say. But she is in no danger of earning the appellation so long as it is the fashion to wear dirt white gloves with the handsomest street toilets.A woman can never be pronounced Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-12925396416015243972008-08-29T04:46:00.001-07:002008-08-29T04:46:48.375-07:00New at the Business.1895Scene in a dry goods store which has lately added a cigar department:Salesman (transferred from linen stock, to customer, an old smoker, — Ah, good morning, sir! What can I show you today? Here are some lovely Henry Clay perfectos — from the same house, sir, that sends us the Clay worsteds, which you will find at the cloth counter.(Customer looks surprised.)"Yes, sir, and just look at this Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-29637232977644325902008-08-29T04:45:00.000-07:002008-08-29T04:46:17.068-07:00A Bit of Human Nature.1895"Did you see that, mister?" said an elevated railroad guard to a man who stood with him on the rear platform of the first car the other night."Yes.""Well, then," added the guard, "you saw my three little children. They were kneeling at a trunk in front of the window of that house we passed. Over them stood their mother. She was about sending them to bed, but before they go she teaches 'em to Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-83145889001908060262008-08-28T05:22:00.002-07:002008-08-28T05:23:10.119-07:00Color In the Home.1895The modern scientific decorator assures us that while yellows are all right for a hall or vestibule they should not be used in rooms where one reads or works. The reason assigned is that yellow does not absorb light, but is a strong reflector, and those reflected rays are trying to the eyes, but, more than that, are distinct brain disturbers. For the library or workroom the most soothing or Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-9574758236171466352008-08-28T05:22:00.001-07:002008-08-28T05:22:39.997-07:00The Metal of the Standards.1895There are no products of human skill on which a greater degree of care is expended than the standards of weight and measure in use among the civilized nations of the globe. Two things in particular have to be considered — accuracy and durability. Nature does not furnish any single metal or mineral which exactly answers the requirements for a standard of measure or weight that shall be, as Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-59250448680793404202008-08-28T05:21:00.002-07:002008-08-28T05:22:17.876-07:00MRS. BROWNING'S SONNETS.1895Edmund Gosse Tells an Interesting Story of How They Were Named.Edmund Gosse tells in his late essay on Mrs. Browning's sonnets how her volume of "Sonnets From the Portuguese" was christened, as follows: "During the months of their brief courtship, closing, as all the world knows, in the clandestine flight and romantic wedding of Sept. 12, 1846, neither poet showed any verses to the other. Mr.Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-2877696732136279152008-08-28T05:21:00.001-07:002008-08-28T05:21:49.313-07:00Eating to Live.1895Dr. Pavy, perhaps the most eminent authority upon diet, says that the average man in a state of absolute rest can live on 16 ounces of food a day. A man doing ordinary light work can live on 23 ounces, and a man doing laborious work needs from 26¾ to 30 ounces.This is food absolutely free from water, and it must be remembered that everything we eat contains more or less water, so that from 48Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-81114395179683378512008-08-28T05:20:00.002-07:002008-08-28T05:21:19.697-07:00Made Her Warm.1895When measles once ran riot in a girls' boarding school, the physician in charge had great difficulty in persuading his skittish patients to remain in bed and so induce the perspiration absolutely necessary to recovery. Every means was tried, but to no avail. The girls found it impossible not to just hop out from the blankets in order to run in and tell their next door neighbors that it was Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-47923476943152497962008-08-28T05:20:00.001-07:002008-08-28T05:20:45.349-07:00HEREDITARY NEEDLES.1895A Case That May Arouse Some Apprehension In the Rearing of Families.Needles have never been supposed to be hereditary, but a recent case reported by a physician of eminence offers undoubted evidence to the contrary. A lady accidentally ran a needle into her foot 80 years ago, and it lay apparently dormant in her system for so many years that its existence was almost forgotten.In 1878 she was Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-43477022854374879652008-08-28T05:19:00.001-07:002008-08-28T05:19:51.925-07:00THE SIZE OF THE UNIVERSE.1895Miles Are Too Insignificant to Be Used In Its Computation.While it is interesting to know the distance of some of the stars in miles, when stated in that way the numbers are so large that they frequently convey very indistinct conceptions to the mind. For this reason it is customary to estimate stars' distances in "light years." A light year is the distance that light, moving at the rate of Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-34793032285223958322008-08-27T10:39:00.001-07:002008-08-27T10:41:29.711-07:00New Fire Proof Safe InstalledNew York, 1895Jamaica Brevities.The Jamaica public schools will close for the summer vacation on Friday, June 28th.A new fire proof safe for keeping the town maps was placed in the town clerk's office on Wednesday.William Wright, superintendent of streets, has been appointed truant officer by the board of education.Children's Lawn Party.A children's lawn party was held at the residence of Alfred Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-47639314388339762472008-08-27T10:35:00.001-07:002008-08-27T10:35:46.762-07:00Police Court Business.New York, 1895Thomas Kehoe was brought before Justice Hendrickson on a charge of being drunk and disorderly, and sentence was suspended.Annie J. Bronson, of Ozone Park, who was arrested on Fulton street, Jamaica, on Monday afternoon, was arraigned before Justice Hendrickson on Tuesday on a charge of intoxication and disorderly conduct. She was sent to the county jail for thirty days.Curtis Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-21228712324399183342008-08-27T10:34:00.000-07:002008-08-27T10:35:19.383-07:00J. TYLER WATTS HONORED.New York, 1895Engrossed Resolutions Which Express Public Opinion of the Man.The board of trustees of the village of Jamaica surprised ex-President J. Tyler Watts at his home on Union avenue last Friday evening, and presented him a handsomely engrossed copy of resolutions that the board and the other village officers had adopted at the time of Mr. Watts' retirement from office. The document Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-17232600085094807452008-08-26T04:40:00.002-07:002008-08-26T04:41:17.514-07:00Insanity Contagious.1895A Malady That May Be Acquired by Association With One Afflicted.An interesting discussion upon the subject of communicated insanity was brought out at the meeting of the Association of Asylum Superintendents in 1887 by the reading of the history of the Pocassett letter carrier, Freeman, who, with the consent of his wife, who had become possessed of the same fanatical ideas, offered up their Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-78444866125512939342008-08-26T04:40:00.001-07:002008-08-26T04:40:48.974-07:00Hard Case.1895It was said of Hiram Wilson's conversational powers that they were "enough to turn the most knowledgeable folks scatter witted for the time being," and when he began to tell a story groups of men melted away as if by magic."I was goin by the Widder Follet's this mornin," he began one day as he joined the group around the new village pump, "at least I say goin by, an I dunno why I say goin by,Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-57107037038826565982008-08-25T04:45:00.002-07:002008-08-25T04:46:19.221-07:00BANK CASHIER WOOD.New York, 1895The Man Who Handles the Money of Jamaica People.William L. Wood, cashier of the Bank of Jamaica, is widely known as a brisk, though cautious, business man, with a reputation for probity that is bombproof. He was born in Brooklyn in 1857, his father being the Hon. Alfred M. Wood, ex-mayor of that city and colonel of the fighting Fourteenth regiment, when it was doing its splendid Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-71453568537976222782008-08-25T04:45:00.001-07:002008-08-25T04:45:43.740-07:00Sneak Thief at Levi Lynch's HomeNew York, 1895Woodhaven and Ozone Park News.Harrison Tuttle is spending his vacation in Orange county.Sunday afternoon a sneak thief entered the home of Levi Lynch, on Hatch avenue, and stole $10.Charles Tucker is spending a week angling for weak fish. Charley has sent home some very nice ones.Martin Rilling of the Twenty-Sixth ward, Brooklyn, is preparing to open a bakery at Woodhaven Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-19015121127012627252008-08-25T04:44:00.000-07:002008-08-25T04:45:14.779-07:00Wrecked a Mineral Water Wagon.New York, 1895While on its way to Long Island City Tuesday morning the Sag Harbor express came into collision with a mineral water wagon driven by J. H. Skidmore at Springfield. The locomotive hit the wagon near the rear end and filled the air with mineral water and flying glass. The front of the engine was covered with broken bottles and the engineer was badly cut about the face by the flying Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-74622399625656797672008-08-22T08:05:00.001-07:002008-08-22T08:05:23.473-07:00Stole Mr. Van Siclen's Posts.New York, 1895For some time past Garret Van Siclen, residing on the Black Stump road, Jamaica, has been missing locust posts that had been cut and piled on his farm. Shortly after 1 o'clock Monday morning, as his son was preparing to go to market, he saw two men removing posts from the pile. Without disturbing the men in their work, he hurried to the village and notified Constable Ashmead. The Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-24984301717026023962008-08-22T08:04:00.000-07:002008-08-22T08:05:46.428-07:00Shipherd's Love Letters.New York, 1895The love letters that Shipherd wrote to Mrs. Crowell are a strong link in the scoundrelism of the whole case. Shipherd had had at least two wives before he became infatuated with Mrs. Crowell, or rather before he hypnotized her. One of these he divorced in Utah by a power of attorney, and then married the other, and it has always been a mooted question among lawyers whether he had Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-25835388161369546222008-08-22T08:02:00.001-07:002008-08-22T08:02:27.745-07:00Equality for Colored Persons.New York, 1895Governor Morton has signed Assemblyman Malby's bill to provide perfect equality for colored persons. The law not only makes it a misdemeanor to discriminate against colored persons in the matter of service at hotels, restaurants, theatres, and Turkish baths, but permits the complainant to recover from $100 to $500 from the offender. Not only the hotel waiter is liable, but the Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-68543193331103775792008-08-21T05:24:00.002-07:002008-08-21T05:25:17.267-07:00The Charm In Scotch1895I wonder if persons who can write Scotch are sufficiently aware of the great literary advantage they have over writers who are not born to that ability. It is no credit to them that they can do it. It is a gift to nature dropped in their lap. I never heard of any one who learned by artificial means to write Scotch. Scotch writers do it, and no one else. It has long been obvious that the Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-16222002775480468172008-08-21T05:24:00.001-07:002008-08-21T05:24:49.097-07:00Famous Banquets1895The hog played an important part in Roman civilization, and it had its influence on religion, too, in another corner of the world, for Buddha died of an overfeed of dried boar's flesh. In recent times there has been more hog at the table than upon it.Perhaps the best livers of olden times were the French noblemen of the middle ages. The modern world has never seen such luxuries and Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-32715918449087709312008-08-21T05:23:00.000-07:002008-08-21T05:24:20.232-07:00Fooled His Landlady1895Young Millingham's Heavy Correspondence Paid His Board For a Week.There is more than one way of beguiling a landlady.Mrs. Sunday, who keeps a very excellent establishment in Forty-third street, grew suspicious of young Millingham, one of her boarders. He had for three weeks neglected the trifling formality of paying her any money, and she had prepared to speak to him about it Saturday Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-1537510122914411742008-08-20T10:33:00.001-07:002008-08-20T10:33:46.644-07:00Wait Till the Summer Comes1895A good story is related of a small tradesman in a Welsh town. Last winter a large lake near the town became frozen over for the first time for many years, and large numbers of people from a neighboring city came over for the purpose of enjoying some skating. As this sport was a novelty to the residents they became also desirous of entering into it and besieged the local iron monger for Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-1396083658654004062008-08-20T10:32:00.002-07:002008-08-20T10:33:07.770-07:00Rapid Growth of Fungi1895The rapidity with which many, if not all, fungi grow baffles calculation. The great puffball, Lycoperdon giganteum, will grow as large as a peck measure in 48 hours, and 'specimens of Agaricus campestris have developed from the button — of the size of a pea — to a mushroom as large as a coffee saucer in a night. But this great increase is not actual growth. These species are many weeks Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-72808261579133421422008-08-20T10:32:00.001-07:002008-08-20T10:32:31.293-07:00An Unfortunate Present1895"No; I never see anything of him now," sighed the girl in blue, stirring her chocolate mournfully. "He hasn't been to see me since Christmas, and I don't understand it, for I sent him a lovely present.""What was it?" asked the girl in gray."I'll tell you all about it," said the first girl, with the air of one eager to impart confidences. "You know he writes poetry. He sends the girls he knowsClippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-33243794729619983782008-08-20T10:31:00.000-07:002008-08-20T10:32:02.289-07:00An Anecdote of General Scott1895After his retirement Scott passed the summer of 1862 at Cozzens' hotel, West Point, where every evening a party of gentlemen adjourned to the general's sitting room for their game. Being a good player, the host was usually victorious, but if he and his partner were ever beaten Scott's ire was made manifest. One night it happened that the usual party was missing. What was to be done? The Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-6279536323366957072008-08-20T10:30:00.000-07:002008-08-20T10:31:12.729-07:00The Spring Failed1895Lord Southey Had a Guillotine Erected In His Drawing Room For Suicide.Lord Southey once, in a fit of disgust with life, had a magnificent guillotine erected in the drawing room of his magnificently appointed house in the Rue de Luxembourg, at Paris. The machine was an elaborate affair, with ebony uprights inlaid with gold and silver. The framework was carved with great artistic skill, and theClippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-19171644929282695432008-08-20T10:29:00.000-07:002008-08-20T10:30:18.232-07:00Wanted It Out Anyway1895My friend, the major, tells me some good stories about the gallant men who inhabit the marine barracks at Charlestown. The latest incident involves a brave sergeant who was going the rounds one night to see that all the lights were out in the barracks rooms. Coming to a room where he thought he saw a lamp shining, he roared, "Put out that light there!""It's the moon, sergeant!" replied one ofClippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-55756445879153651032008-08-19T13:21:00.003-07:002008-08-19T13:21:55.400-07:00THE BODGES HAVE A DIFFERENCE.New York, 1895Arrest of the Husband on a Charge of Abandonment.Mrs. Elizabeth Bodge, the wife of John J. Bodge, of Dunton, has made complaint to Justice Hendrickson, of Jamaica, charging her husband with abandonment and non-support of herself and their child. Bodge was arraigned before the justice on Wednesday. Bodge claims that his wife is indolent, and that she is too intimate with one Mrs. Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-70581373137916688892008-08-19T13:21:00.001-07:002008-08-19T13:21:26.241-07:00Band of Youthful Till Tappers.New York, 1895George Bartley, 16 years old, of Long Island City, made a written confession in Justice Duffy's Court Wednesday, implicating eight Greenpoint boys in the organized gang of till tappers now under arrest. Justice Duffy held the youthful prisoners for examination.Found in the Nissequogue.A number of the papers belonging to the Presbyterian church at Smithtown, which were stolen three Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-82858125298921374562008-08-19T13:20:00.001-07:002008-08-19T13:20:56.398-07:00Took Possession of Barlow's Farm.New York, 1895A party of Brooklyn excursionists took possession of the Barlow farm on the Jamaica road Saturday and tried to run the place. They arrived in wagons and camped in a grove of cherry trees. They set up a keg of beer, and were having a good old time when Farmer Barlow appeared and ordered them off his premises. They dared him to put them out of the grove. He procured a warrant from Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-46759741060808057532008-08-18T14:58:00.002-07:002008-08-18T14:59:06.391-07:00Hermann's Horses Ran Away.New York, 1895A four in hand team of horses belonging to Professor Hermann were frightened by a train near the railroad station at Whitestone on Saturday, and ran away. All four horses were injured, and the carriage was badly damaged.Six Months for Theft.Philip Clark, of College Point, was on Friday arrested on the charge of stealing a silver watch belonging to John Finnegan. When arraigned Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-54790051277229095542008-08-18T14:58:00.001-07:002008-08-18T14:58:35.546-07:00Fire Panic in a Factory.New York, 1895The men and girls at work in Kleinert's rubber factory at College Point were startled just before noon Thursday by cries of fire. Smoke came in clouds from the second story and soon filled the whole building.The fire escapes of the factory were crowded with women scrambling to escape. Lillie Wurtz fell to the ground and broke her arm. Another young woman jumped from a second-story Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-49070872660621386632008-08-18T14:57:00.000-07:002008-08-18T14:58:03.297-07:00FIRED THE TRESTLE FOR FUN.New York, 1895A Boy Tries to Destroy Part of the Long Island Railway.Lucien Haurdberg, 15 years old, employed as a wiper in Lalance & Grosjean's agateware factory in Woodhaven, was held without bail by Justice Hendrickson Wednesday morning on a charge of setting fire to the Long Island railroad trestle at Woodhaven Junction. The fire was discovered in the trestle just before midnight Tuesday by Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-42265572906379450432008-08-16T05:24:00.001-07:002008-08-16T05:24:59.735-07:00Mustn't Ride Wheels to School.New York, 1895The teachers in the public schools at College Point, especially those who ride bicycles, are aroused over an order issued by The Board of Education forbidding them to ride their bicycles to school. The board declares that the minds of the teachers are concentrated more upon their wheels than upon their work at school. They further declare that wheeling tends to create Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-24539978097453890182008-08-16T05:11:00.001-07:002008-08-16T05:22:52.960-07:00JAKE SHIPHERD'S LOVE LETTERS.New York, 1895Three that He Wrote to Mrs. Crowell.SHE KNEW HOW TO LOVECalled Her His "Dainty One," "My Own, My Only Own," "Loveliest Love," "Love of Loves," "Lovie" and "Lamb," "Lovie Sweet" and "Sweetest.""HUSBAND" AND "WIFE."THE FARMER gave last week but an outline of one or two letters written by Jacob Rudd Shipherd of Richmond Hill to Mrs. Lydia S. Crowell. We lay before the reading public Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-68602315062863453092008-08-15T05:38:00.001-07:002008-08-15T05:39:07.446-07:00Mrs. Bergen Has Few Arrested.New York, 1895Frank H. Few, of Smithville, was arrested on Tuesday by Constable Ashmead, on the complaint of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Sarah Bergen, upon a charge of grand larceny. Mrs. Bergen says that several years ago she gave Few $2,500 with which to purchase a house and ten acres of land at Smithville South for her, Some time ago she engaged Counselor Stanford to make an abstract of the title Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-2055569769648661372008-08-15T05:37:00.000-07:002008-08-15T05:38:25.950-07:00Dickens' "Situations"1895The Similarity of His Methods In Winding Up His Plots.It is curious what a penchant Dickens had for certain melodramatic situations, which smiled to his fancy so telling that he repeated and reproduced them many times over. He had a lively dramatic turn, and I always thought would have had extraordinary success as a dramatist. I once asked him why he had not taken up this "line" seriously, Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6877975354593303090.post-90717388006506323472008-08-15T05:34:00.000-07:002008-08-15T05:37:16.006-07:00Kabo Corsets (1895 advertisement)If you appreciate a perfect fitting corset, give the Kabo 105 a trial. It's sure to please you. There is one DRESS STAY that won't melt apart, can't cut through the dress, don't stay bent. It is Ball's Peerless. A. SCHLANK, "Bee Hive," Fulton Street, Jamaica.—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, June 14, 1895, p. 3.Clippiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767613794421933597noreply@blogger.com0