A New Moses in Kansas Opposition and Ingalls on McKinley
An interview with John James Ingalls of Kansas discusses 1896 politics, free silver, and the coming presidency. Ingalls predicts a new Lincoln era leader will emerge, favors McKinley with broad support in the West and South, critiques silver plans, and reflects on religion, literature, and public speaking.
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John James Ingalls
Kansas
United States Senate
Mr. Ingalls
United States
Abraham Lincoln
Wendell Phillips
Lincoln
Jerusalem
Nazareth
South
Ingalls
Senate
Allison School
Harvey
Alabama
Mississippi
Georgia
Tennessee
Senator Tillman
Tillman
Cleveland
West
Major McKinley
Reed
New England
Morton
New York
Quay
Pennsylvania
William McKinley
Allison
Harrison
McKinley
Congress
House
Washington
Armenia
Salvation Army
America
Phillips Brooks
Dr. Swing
Booth
Thomas Hardy
Corot
Meissonier
Grant Hamilton
The Butterfly Emerges From Ugly Shells
A Boston Transcript passage recalls a milkweed caterpillar’s metamorphosis into a Nile green chrysalis with gold tones. The observer details the cocoon, emergence, the fragile wings, and the caterpillar’s sociable behavior after transformation, likening the change to a soul freed from its mortal shell.
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Piazza
Danais Archippus
Boston Transcript
Nativism in Paris Opera Sparks Long-Running Debate
Paris Grand Opera statistics show 38 French produced versus 6 foreign in the last 20 years, with Wagner and Verdi as exceptions. Expanded to 1800 to present, 109 French and 82 foreign composers. 5,934 French and 8,149 foreign performances. London News notes possible inclusion of Meyerbeer and Rossini as Parisian by adoption.
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Paris Grand Opera
Wagner
Verdi
M. Maurel
Meyerbeer
Rossini
London News
Reading as cultivation beyond profit and romance
The Brooklyn Eagle quotes Mrs Browning praising generous reading that transcends profit motives. It notes she was a profound scholar educated beyond many women of her era and could dive deeply into many books beyond sensational fiction.
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Saul
Brooklyn Eagle
Louis Napoleon's Pilot Plan To Return In Exile
Sir William Fraser records in a new reminiscence volume that Napoleon III, in exile at Chiselhurst, plotted to land on the French coast using a chartered private yacht once owned by the late James Aysbury. The plan envisioned him disguising to Chalons to reveal an army corps in maneuvers and seize Paris.
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William Fraser
Napoleon III
Chiselhurst
James Asbury
Chalons
Paris
Medicine sale promises cure for St. Vitus' dance
A humorous exchange notes buying a bottle marked down from 50 cents to 386 cents for a cure all, though neither speaker suffers St. Vitus' dance. The quip appears in the Philadelphia Record.
Misprint in London Paper On Peel Shooting Pheasants
A 20th century London newspaper allegedly claimed Sir Robert Peel and a party of friends were shooting peasants in Ireland. The error swapped friends for fiends and pheasants for peasants, illustrating a notorious misprint.
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London
Robert Peel
Ireland
The Roman stylus used for wax tablets
The Roman pen or stylus was an iron tool sharp at one end for writing and flat at the other for erasing on wax coated wood or ivory tablets.
Marble Heart Gifthaunts: Ossified Man Reflects on Fate
A distorted exchange quotes a visiting soul asking how he arrived in his condition. The ossified man explains a young woman once gave him a marble heart that altered his life, spreading through him. The Cincinnati Enquirer records the odd tale.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
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