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1. "The Evening Standard-Did She or Didn't She?"
Posted by Kat on Jan-8th-02 at 1:28 AM

(Message last edited Jan-8th-02  1:32 AM.)

Thursday, June 15, 1893:

"Anything and Everything
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An English firm that has been selling manuscript sermons to indolent clergymen has decided hereafter to have them typewritten.
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The Congregationalist says that this is the season in which some churches examine the building for sufficient justification to announce:  'Church closed during the summer for repairs.'
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The origin of 'feather in his cap' is thus explained:  In Hungary, in 1599, it was decreed that he who had killed a Turk should wear a feather, and he was permitted to add a fresh feather to his cap for each Turk whom he had slain.
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The royal crown of Roumania is made of bronze, the metal having once done service in the shape of cannons.  Samples from 62 war tested guns, each of whom was captured from some enemy, are included in the makeup of this royal insignia.
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Excavations are now being made in the famous two headed hill mentioned by Virgil, about eight miles from Tunis.  Many interesting remains have already been unearthed, the largest being the famous temple of Baal Saturn, in which the Carthagenians worshipped.
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While the western movement of population in the United States for the century aggregates 505 miles, the extreme northern and southern variation is a little under 22 miles, and the finishing point of the line is only some 6 miles south of the starting point."


"What Others Are Saying
All over America the question has been asked 'Who will follow Edwin Booth?'
And only the melancholy answer has been returned that America has now not one great serious actor.  This condition seems to be more than the result of chance;  it is rather due to the tendencies of the modern drama.--{Portland Press."

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