Here are some assorted news items from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle for October 10, 1868 ["Miscellaneous News Items," p.1] - from the trivial to the slightly less trivial.If any of these Victorian-breaking-news items prove worthy of special treatment (i.e., if I can find out anything more about them, and the anything-more is interesting) I'll post updates. In the meantime, you ought to know that:
There is an Astor House at Shanghai, China.
St. Cloud, Minnesota has an organ manufactory.
Kennedy, the vocalist, is delighting the Montrealers.
Richard the Third has been burlesqued in London.
There are 210 miles of paved streets in New York City.
The latest item about that item-famous man Bismarck, is that he is very fond of cats.
The planet Venus was visible during the earlier part of the day, at Wilmington, N.C., on the 25th.
Pouffe bonnets in the style of Henry the Fourth are much in vogue in Paris, and something entirely new.
The bronze doors for the Capitol at Washington, after four years hard labor, are at length finished.
The Madison avenue people have bought off the sacrilegious Frenchman who purposed establishing a restaurant on that aristocratic street.
I couldn't find a picture of pouffe bonnets - or Bismarck with a cat - but the German operetta singer Charlotte Kelly posed with a cat in 1875, and they are today's image, thanks to Picture History.
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Coming up (some sooner, some later) at The Virtual Dime Museum:
A Wraith's Progress: The Story of Joe Gould and His Secret
Tomorrow, something theatrical or cinematic, possibly silent (apropos of Wordless Wednesday)
Madame Tournaire's Beautiful Performance
The Man Who Kidnapped Himself (my great grandfather's first cousin, in fact...)
Electric Cigarettes
The Methodist Ghost
6 comments:
I have long coveted a pouffe bonnet to compliment my imaginary replica of Lord Nelson's Naval cap. Now there was a man of fashion. I think Henry used to drape a sort of scarf over his pouffe though. Otherwise, just make due with Shriner's fez, without the fez. And, poof, a pouffe.
Or, alternatively, make "do".
Mark Twain loved cats. He even once tried to buy some kittens off a kid, but she wouldn't sell. I'm not sure the relevance of that little tidbit, although I think he once met Bismark, I think.
Max - I was wondering why Henry was wearing a pouffe bonnet, because I'm not sure it goes with whatever else he's wearing (or does it??)Who among us could resist a fez, though - especially since it is the one sort of headgear immortalized by Steely Dan.
Mark Twain was a fun guy, on paper anyway (I think he might have been a bit tricky to live with, though). I like his comic essays like "The Awful German Language." It both encouraged and discouraged me while I was studying German, if you know what I mean.
So hard to pick just one but the Pouffe bonnets definitely have me curious.
Bearded Lady - Oh, me too! I found a few references to them in Google Books but no pictures, unfortunately. Though I do suspect they were, you know, pouffy.
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