Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 2, No 4

Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 2, No 4 cover
PublicationBassett's Scrap Book
Volume2
Issue4
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Articles in this issue

  • SCRAPS OF ORANGE BLOSSOMS.
    The June leader, noting that statisticians find more marriages occur in June than any other month and tracing the custom to the Roman goddess Juno, followed by humorous notes on weddings.
  • THE MAN WITH THE LAUGH.
    A dialect poem about Eph'm Diggs, whose contagious laugh makes even a weak or 'no-'count' joke funny to all who hear it.
  • HOME.
    A poem by James Montgomery praising one's native land and home as the spot of earth supremely blest above all others.
  • ANSWERS.
    The question-and-answer department, fielding reader queries on topics such as the 'Sabbatical Year,' trade winds, the Panama Canal, the origin of the word 'tip,' Buddha, and the speed of homing pigeons.
  • OFFICIAL DEPARTMENT.
    The League of American Wheelmen official section listing the League's objects and its officers, including President Geo. L. Cooke of Providence and Secretary-Treasurer Abbot Bassett of Boston, along with standing committees, dues and membership rules.
  • PASTORAL AND ELSE.
    An editorial cycling column reporting on League Day plans for June 29 at Norumbega Park and Revere Beach, a Cleveland wheel-revival run, Thomas W. Davis of Peoria who rode 100,000 miles by age seventy-five, and New York State exempting motorcycles from the automobile law.