Saturday, April 11, 2015
SATURDAY INQUISITION
chastity belt. no wiping your ass, dear.
Friday, April 10, 2015
susuko's cat. i rarely buy art at sales. but this war bride did some funny looking cats. susuko grobschmidt. japanese or korean? i wish i had gotten 1 more or hers, but i only got her cats.
estate sale haul
4/2. house built 1964. a few pics to come. 2nd day of 3. mostly meh, but not bad. i have tested BOTH old mini stove top pots. the tall one is a early drip pot. faster than i expected. makes god coffee. the mini perc did bad my 1st try. too much grounds. i retried it tonight & it was batter than starburned.
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Thursday, April 09, 2015
ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA
FLEURY, ANDRE hercule de (1653-1743)- cardinal, celebrated minister of louis XV of france. b lodeve. educated by jesuits in paris. became almoner to marie therese, queen of louis XIV, 1698 bishop of frejus, 1715 preceptor of the prince + later louis XV. on the death of the king in 1723, fl advised his pupil to chose the duke of bourbon as minister + himself a member of the council. in 1726 at 73, he was made cardinal + made prime minister til death 1743. at the time fl was entrusted w/ the direction of affairs + the condition of france bad. frace was impoverished + worn out, + the exchequer emptied by the long wars of the grande monarche + the extravagances of the regent(georgee!). commerce was annihilated, public credit ruined(GEORGEE!), + the govt held in contempt, + the church internal dissections. fl immediately effected reforms. tho peaceful by nature, was twice driven by court intrigues to take part in foreign wars(cheeney!). in aid of polish father-in-law + the austrian succession. his economy, w/ bordered on avarice, was fatal to the french cause. navy neglected for costs. polish war half-assed(afghanistan/iWaq). POORLY EQUIPT pomeranian. one of his useful acts was completion of the french library w/ he enriched.
FLEURY, ANDRE hercule de (1653-1743)- cardinal, celebrated minister of louis XV of france. b lodeve. educated by jesuits in paris. became almoner to marie therese, queen of louis XIV, 1698 bishop of frejus, 1715 preceptor of the prince + later louis XV. on the death of the king in 1723, fl advised his pupil to chose the duke of bourbon as minister + himself a member of the council. in 1726 at 73, he was made cardinal + made prime minister til death 1743. at the time fl was entrusted w/ the direction of affairs + the condition of france bad. frace was impoverished + worn out, + the exchequer emptied by the long wars of the grande monarche + the extravagances of the regent(georgee!). commerce was annihilated, public credit ruined(GEORGEE!), + the govt held in contempt, + the church internal dissections. fl immediately effected reforms. tho peaceful by nature, was twice driven by court intrigues to take part in foreign wars(cheeney!). in aid of polish father-in-law + the austrian succession. his economy, w/ bordered on avarice, was fatal to the french cause. navy neglected for costs. polish war half-assed(afghanistan/iWaq). POORLY EQUIPT pomeranian. one of his useful acts was completion of the french library w/ he enriched.
antique TELEGRAPH set key sounder resonator cincinnati TRAIN STATION- $228
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In case you didn’t earn your Boy Scout merit badge for Morse Code, the message above simple says:
“On the day of his retirement after 30 years, the previous user of this set at Union Terminal in Cincinnati, it was gifted to him by his employer.” That is the story told to me by his heirs. I can’t prove it, but I enjoyed the story about how proud it made him. It's like a ball player having his number retired.
The maker is Foote, Pierson & Co., New York, and I believe it dates to around 1910, but I could be off on that a little in either direction.
While doing a few minutes of research on this item, I ran across something that tickled my funny bone. Compared to all the absurd warning labels of all kinds of products nowadays – such as “Don’t touch chainsaw blade to your tongue” – stupid stuff like that, I found the sign in the B&O section of Union Terminal quite refreshing. It said . . .
It reminded of a crudely painted sign I saw in a guy’s yard way up in the mountains of eastern Tennessee, which said: “BAD DOG – DON’T GIT BIT.”
