Curious Debtor Leverage Across Trades and Ships
The Glacier naval ship in Sydney was seized for a 8250 debt after a tradesman obtained a judgment and a sheriff attached a warrant. Across anecdotes, levies on diners, a Malay orang utan, wigs of a traveling company, an engine, or a boarding house bill show creditors seizing varied property. The stories illustrate unusual debt collection methods.
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Glacier
Navy
Sydney
Mesa
Chicago
Bost
England
Yarmouth
Birmingham
Richard II
London and Northwestern Railway Company
Corbett
New York
Chicago Chronicle
Some vicious brutes. Deliberate murders by animals described
The article recounts cases from England of animals killing humans on purpose. A Lincolnshire bull killed a sleeping farmer after latching a gate, a monkey murdered a corporal in India with a razor, a 13 year old was killed by a race horse that disliked him, and elephants elsewhere murdered their keepers.
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Lincolnshire
Ife
Orphaned Child Inherits From Distant Benefactor
A terse exchange reveals an orphaned youth named Urchin and Bloomer Antetait discussing a bequest left by the boy’s deceased parents. The dialogue hints at an inheritance connected to the child’s lineage and guardianship.
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Bloomer
Quotability Among Great Writers Compared
The piece weighs quotability of Scott Dickens and George Eliot noting Eliot is more quotable than either while maxims writers fail without usable tags. It cites Swift Pascal La Rochefoucauld Horace and Horace again as commonplace yet successful and concludes with a remark on hypocrisy described as homage to virtue.
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Scott
Dickens
George Eliot
Swift
Pascal
la Rocchefoucauld
Horace
Saturday Review
An Actor’s Craft Compared to Precious Gems
Richard Mansfeld argues that true actors are born, polished, and valued like diamonds or rubies while much admired material is mere glass. He condemns idle lecturing by actors and says universities offer free shows but teach little about art.
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Richard Mansfeld
Everybody's Magazine
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