Kit and Madeline a comic love triangle play
Jack Cardrew navigates a staged romance between Kit and Madeline at a dance. Misread signals, a pink with blue dots programme, and a possessive love letter drive a comic pursuit of rightful lovers while a deputy peace envoy scheme unfolds.
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Angel
Madeline
Damien Corcelving
Oll Jack
Alem
Kit P. & Mey
Jack
Kit
Jack Cardrew
Madeline Nelthorpe
Kits
Nelthorpe
Cupid
Miss Nelthorpe
Paradise
Cardrew
Mr. Cardrew
Li Hung Chang and the bank promoter tale
A story about Li Hung Chang mocking a European promoter seeking a China bank to civilize and save souls. The promoter insists it is a pure commercial venture, while Li questions Western motives and notes many claim moral aims but seek profit. The dialogue contrasts cynicism and diplomacy in late Qing reform discourse.
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Li Wang Chang
Eugene Stanislas Kostzka de Mitkiewicz
Li Hung Chang
Mitkiewicz
Earl Li
China
Remarkable Cosmic Travel Time Comparisons
An article presents playful calculations: a train at forty mph would take eight months to reach the moon and many years to reach Venus or the sun. Light travels much faster, taking under a second moon to earth and about eight minutes sun to earth. The piece notes even larger scales for the fixed stars.
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Earth
Moon
Venus
On Different Tacks James Forster and William Robinson
In a Yarmouth inn tale of two captains from brig Jane and Sally, both skippers rail at crew issues and blame changes in the sea service. They boast of tricks to feed crews while mutiny brews, culminating in rival schemes over herrings and delicates, with Sunderland as the voyage end and a wad of victuals saved or squandered.
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James Forster
Jane
William Robinson
Sally
Yarmouth
Garden O' Eden
Sea Service
Fale
Board of Trade
Robinson
Sun'erland
Forster
Feinberg
Saniora
Herrin
Tierrin’s
Beg Pardin
Pardin
Sunderland
North Sea
Tolstoy Defies Minister with Private House Stand
Private recounts Tolstoy facing General Loris Melikoff who held vast powers against nihilists. Melikoff visited Tolstoy’s country home unannounced and Tolstoy ordered him removed, declaring the visit unofficial. Two servants ejected Melikoff, who could not seek redress.
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Tolstoi
Loris Melikoff
Melikoff
Turning the Tables on the Church
A Bridgton yeoman with no religious preference pays a preaching tax then bills back the church for a pump he sold. He explains he has been making pumps for years, implying the church overreached by charging for sermons and pumps alike.
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Bridgton
Maine
Infinite debt paid by halving each day paradox
A man owes 4 cents and pays 2, then 1, then half a cent, continuing to halve each day. By the fourth day only a quarter of a cent remains, and even with immortality the payments would never finish, always leaving half of the previous day’s balance unless the counters grew infinitesimally small.
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Dack
Miss Nelihomps
Gayety
Kite
Mixa Nelthorpe
Misa Nelthorpe
George
King
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