Fragmented Curiosities and Historical Snippets From a Late 19th Century Column
A collage of odd notes and anecdotes covers unemploy ment in Buffalo and Montreal, vast western titles investments, pricing in Grace Church New York, and reports of extinct fisheries. It includes reflections on Lincoln's emancipation, Balzac humor, Frederick the Great and a London electricity lecture anecdote with Terrestrial experiments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick the Great
Challenger
Frederick
London
Binsalf
Lawyers’ vast fees in famous will cases and practices
A veteran lawyer argues that lawyers set fees by the importance of interests, noting Dorsey paying Col Ingersoll 100000 in a star-coula case and Tilden’s fortune in railroad matters. He cites Vanderbilts, wills, patents, and corporate counsel as examples of large earnings, contending contingent fees and court-approved allowances shaped by case stakes and client wealth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portia Fald
Tangeteta
Dorsey
Col
Ingersoll
Star-Coula Caxea
Tilden
Henry L. Clinton
William H. Vanderbirt
Vanderbilt Will
Inivenetunll
Blg Lingere
Joseph H. Chonte
W. N. Bangs
John EB. Burrill
William Tullerton
J. K. Porter
D. D. Field
Charles O'Conor
Hardin
John K. Porwer
Henry Nicol
George Licknor Curtis
Prof
Morse
Hawyers
Boyarts
Court of Appeals
John
John H. Anthon
Haskin
Dillon
United States Court
Union Pacific Railway Company
Dudley Field
Erin Railway Company
Elevated Railways
Trinity Church
Equitable and Mutual Life
Standard Oilcomany
Ben Butler
Roscos Conkling
Benster Edmunds
Pia Tota Valiosa
Ap Todigna Railroad
Edna Ba
Poe
Enid
Henry Ly
Clinton
Arnoux
Malcomb Campbell
George
J. ©. Dangbein
Vanderbilt
Jeremias Black
la Ban
Scott Lord
Joseph H. Choate
Suma Pela
New York Sun
Art in Straw Figures at New Orleans Exposition
The New Orleans Picayune reports on Kansas exhibits at the World’s Fair. Straw and grain are crafted into a 12 foot statue of Ceres on a tall pedestal, clad in grain garments, with mosaic panels and decorative bounty. Prof A Roche guides state commission in this striking display.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Kansas
Ceres
A. Roche
Mrs Whitman and the Strange Beast at the Atheneum
Forty years ago Mrs Whitman reportedly encountered a strange beast in the Atheneum during a closed hours stretch. She claimed a large eyed, long-eared creature appeared before her, vanished after a startled scream, and was possibly mistaken for a tame rabbit that wandered in from a neighbor’s yard.
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Atheneum
Halley's comet seen through past fears and modern calm
A UK article surveys historical beliefs about Halley’s Comet, from witches and pestilence fears to later measured curiosity. It traces how 1680s to 1835 appearances shaped public mood, noting the 1911 return’s anticipation and the shift from superstition to rational interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ghaniges
Mach
Thess Coles
Encko
London Telegraph
Tondon
Enta
Westphalia
Lima
North America
Germany
Whitechapel
Tether
Europe
England
New Forest
Purkiss
Winchester Palace
Hig Kmihta
Holy Land
Bruce
William Wallace
Halsnes
Fugland
Tatone
Commonwealth
Whitehall
London
House of Hanover
Halley
Lancashire
Holiday Scenes in Naples on Christmas Eve Amid Cholera Grimness
A London Times correspondent reports Naples on December 24 as Christmas Eve. Despite recent cholera deaths, the city remains lively with holiday displays, street markets, and church processions. Vendors fill streets with bancarelli and wax-lighted Bambino altars attract crowds while pestilent danger and police power loom over celebrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Times
Naples
Madonna Immacolata
Newfoundland
Andhia
Toledo
Diverse Scientific Notes From Early 19th Century Text
A compilation notes Prof H Munk on dairy yield, Bessemer process purity, USGS Captain Dutton studying New Mexico basalt, electric light in Cleveland iron works, cocaine anesthetic action, Australian silver finds near Bathurst, new filters in Pasteur lab, Le Roux thermo electric inversion, historical glass making, Anglo German glass tech, diamond finds in Kimberley Mines with mineral associations and values.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ocnelositica
H. Munk
Henry Bessemer
C. Dutton
United States Geological Survey
New Mexico
Bio
Utah Plateau
Canon Country
England
Cleveland
M. Vulpian
Australia
Mitchell's Creek
Bathurst
Sunny’ Corner
Barrier Ranges
America
Journal de Pharmacie Et Chemie
Pasteur
V Pasteur
M. F. F. le Roux
Academy of Sciences
Paris
M. le Roux
Wilkinsonn-Hassan
Philosophical Society
Manchester
Kimberley
Also Mentioned on This Page
Tanen
Buffalo
New York
Ely
Tanern
Montreal
Coxxnorrous Sivings
Westearn
Grace Ohuteh
Niagara River
Falls
New England
New York Cremation Society
Mount Olivet
N. J
Petaluma
California
Carr
Nathan Avrleton
Panama Canal
Nicaragua
American Congress
Caine
Treopons Tilton
Paria
Sarah Bernhardt
Anna Droxinson
Claude Marnotte
Hamlet
Washington
Andrew Jackson
President Lincoln
Stanton
A. Lincoln
Baxzac
Eavy
Balzac
Mrs. Whitman and the Strange Beast
Imayo
Prseinean
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