05/29/2026
“News of the Week of May 29, 1895, from The Jersey Shore Herald and the Jersey Shore Vidette.
Darwin was an inveterate smoker. At the age of 73 he declared that a cigarette rested him more after hard labor than anything else.
Samuel Staples, of Concord. Mass., was famous for his friends, among whom were Emerson, Thoreau, Alcott, and Bull, the inventor of the Concord grape.
Sergeant O’Keefe, who spent five years in the observatory on Pike’s Peak says the lowest temperature observed was fifty degrees below zero and the highest was sixty two degrees above.
The Arctic fox shows the greatest change in color of its coat throughout the year. Its summer coat is dark blue, and gradually lightens until the snow begins to fall, when it is pure white.
Women not called Professor-While Smith College has both men and women as members of the faculty it does not confer the well earned dignity of the professional title upon the latter, even when they fill positions as heads of departments in every respect as responsible and onerous as those held by the other s*x.
How to clean woodwork on doors, particularly near the handles.
The verb”to get” is one of the misused words; it means to acquire, win, obtain: and primarily it signifies the putting forth of effort to obtain something.
Monday- “News of the Week of June 6, 1895, from The Jersey Shore Herald and the Jersey Shore Vidette.
