Here She Goes There She Goes Clock Prank Ends in Swindle
A English family runs a hotel on an island. Two Yankee jokers visit, bet the landlord he cannot swing his clock’s pendulum for an hour while shouting Here she goes there she goes. The landlord wins the wager but is swindled when the pair steal his pocketbook and flee, leaving him injured after a wagon mishap. The tale circulates locally.
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Momus
Botte
Martin Haywood
Jersey
Wms
Toronto
Upper Canada
Clayton
New Orleans
Bayou St. John
Metaire Road
A Silent Meeting Amid Rome's Colosseum Ruins
An aged man and a young girl enter Rome's Colosseum during Passover and seek a solitary seat among the arches. A mysterious, graceful stranger appears, speaks Italian softly, and reveals the old man is blind as the girl recalls their unspoken question about the ruin.
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Rome
Vatican
Coliseum
Forum
Carealla
Clamys
Antinous
Daugter
Helen
Father
Vast ruins reveal a forested ancient temple or theater
A dialogue describes vast arches and shattered capitals amid ivy and weeds in ruined masonry. Light fills high windows as blue sky and moon beams pierce the gaps, while moss and clover grow in the interstices. The scene blends wild nature and monumental ruin with philosophical awe.
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Father
Alps
Savoy
Pigeons Return Sound in Quiet Orchard Tale
An exchange portrays a soundscape of wild pigeons returning to their young, described as murmur of brooding birds in a pruned EYP past. The scene evokes a language of happiness through natural imagery.
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Helen
Ondon Atheneum
The Alphabet of Requisites for a Wife
An elderly bachelor lists a long set of ideal traits for a wife including amiable affectionate artless accomplished and beautiful, concluding he will marry only a woman possessing all these requisites.
Value of Durham cattle and breeding profits
A Franklin Farmer report argues that investing in a thoroughbred bull yields substantial returns. Fifty cows from one bull can produce calves worth far more, with half-blood Durhams fetching higher prices at two years old. The piece notes graziers pay premium for superior offspring. It also touches Pennsylvania liquor retail suppression and a Louisville murder trial update.
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Kennebec Co. Ag
Durham Catitle
Fayette, Clarke
Bourbon
Franklin
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R. M. Hennig
Clever P. Blair
Saevish
Wood Street
Pittsburgh
Goopery & Wow
Pittsburg
Liberty Street
A. Fahnestock
B. L. Fahnestock
B. A. Fahnestock & CO
Emholesale Druggists
GC. H. Bay & CO Booksellers
Corner of Wood
3D Streets
John Lee Boston Harvey Childs
Pittsb
Vibe Rib & Ossiliuids
A. G. Osburn
M. Hogan
Osbun & Hogan
Wood and
Fourth Streets
J. Dougherty
Onnevs
N. See
Philadelphia
Johns. Dike
Nathaniel Dike
W. Dougherty
Presh ‘Teas
Pouchong
Rohn Kell
Tim
Ccll T.& G. Johnson
N. Dike
RESS
Kentucky Tobacco
Kentucky
J. S. Dike
Brandreth
Genatoe
J.s.scot
T & CO
Steubenville
Means & Hooker
Clinton
Hanna & Turnbull
Market Street
John K. Sutherland
J. C. Spencer
Cook Streets
UTA Crib
Leigh Hunt
Heaven
England
the Coliseum
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Shelley
Mellerie
Ilinois
House of Representatives
The
New York Courier and Enquirer
Caldwell’s Point
North Pole
Prince
Windsor
Charleston Mercury
Union
Maine
Michigan
Wisconsin
Congress
District of Columbia
Memphis Enquirer
Mississippi
Memphis
Se Grenada Bulletin
Union Bank
Mullen
Noah
London
Thames
Buckingham
David Hume
Blount County
Tenn
Springfield
Mass
Henry Leger
Martin
Mansfield
Ohio
Adam Eskfeldt
Washington
United States Mint
United States District Court
New York
Daggett
Seekonk
WA Ulb
Durham
Pennsylvania
Arden Spirits
Wilkinson
Mie Murdough
Louisville
Hyrodsburg
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