Thackeray on humor and the pull of surprise
Samuel M. Crothers notes two humor ingredients love and wit with body and effervescence. Humor pleases by unexpected wit and by liking what surprises us, like meeting an old friend in an odd place. A detached mind and safe perspective deepen the amusement across generations.
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Thackeray
Samuel M. Crothers
Atlantic
Dr. Johnson
Bunyan
Ignorance
Samuel Johnson
Western
Superstitious Londoners Leave Homes Haunted Belief
Scores of London houses stand empty as residents fear they are haunted by lingering spirits. The superstition has emptied neighborhoods and unsettled tenants seeking safer, vacancy free streets.
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London
Miscellany of science and technology notes
A diverse set of curiosities covers cork buoyancy for a 154 pound vehicle, a timid internal use of Lyddite as febrifuge, Tin's ancient metal status, Chinese metalwork, Göttingen's Georgia Augusta University enrollments, eagle plume demand threatening turkey buzzards, color effects on battle fatalities, and new German postage stamps with ship imagery and district names.
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Gottingen
Georgia
Augusta
Volldampf Voraus
Man Swallows Chains and Pins in Museum Feat
New York man John Sasel aged 22 swallowed chains keys hairpins pins and nails to entertain museum visitors. He underwent surgery at St Johns Hospital Brooklyn after X rays showed foreign objects. Doctors removed multiple items and reported progress though final outcome depended on his recovery.
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New York
John Sase
Manhattan
George G. Hopkins
St. John’s Hospital
Brooklyn
Hopkins
Sasel
Dr. Hopkins
Eagle Carries Off a Baby Near Nice
A baby sleeping in a cradle in the village of Ilouse near Nice was seized by an eagle and carried off. The incident underscores dangers to infants in rural Europe as birds of prey threaten households and children.
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Europe
France
Ilouse
Nice
Blank Column Triggers Paper Confiscation in Austria
An Austrian provincial editor faced a lead-less issue after printing a blank column to avoid government trouble. The paper was confiscated by police for allegedly ridiculing imperial institutions by omitting the leading article, a move the editor claimed was innocent.
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Austria
Serr Redaktor
Kleine Zeitung
Wonderful Procession of Babies and a Well Known Statistician
A famous statistician reports that if infants of one year were lined in cradles they would circle the globe. He imagines babies carried past a point in mothers arms, nonstop for a year, at 20 per minute, yielding only a sixth seen. A late thought hits of a romping rearguard as the year ends. An Atchison man threatens to fire his cook for making meals so good he eats too much.
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Atchison
Atchison Globe
Taste and other senses heighten flavor perception
The article explains cross sensory enhancement where coldness boosts taste intensity. It notes cold coins feel heavier, cold solutions taste more sour or salty, and a mix can heighten sweetness. Cooks and perfumers add contrasting elements to lift senses, while excessive sweetness can dull taste. Louisvile Courier Journal.
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Milton
Louisville Courier- Journal
Wry Quotations Sparked by Modernities and Machinery
A collage of witty quips from 19th and early 20th century papers contrasts vanity and invention with social change. Observers joke on faces and fortunes, love and machinery, religion in commerce, gas meters, and global markets.
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Vail Serges
Ullman Brothers
Cowen, Goldman & CO
John F.cook
Noble Street
M.F
Doerings
Rt. P. Doering
the Jeweler
Southern
L. & N. Railways
A. G. Duke
West Fifteenth Street
Ireland
Henry Shepard
Northampton
Mass
Florida
Anniston
Globe Clothing CO
Elam Drug CO
Elite
China
Fou
Anniston Trading CO
Papa
L.h.carre
Chicago Chronicle
Philadelphia Bulletin
Omaha World-Herald
Pinkley
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Joax
Philadelphia
Boaster
Central
South America
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph
J.T. Chrisman
J. L. Yearmax
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