Fifty third Irish regiment leads bridge assault in bold rush
In the report the Fifty third Regiment, led by Major Payn later Sir William Wayn, charges a bridge after hearing Sir Colin’s men were summoned to the breach. The force routs the enemy, cavalry pursue and capture artillery. Sir Colin rebukes the volunteers, who cheer for him and General Mansfield.
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Lincoln's Logic and the Euclid Turning Point
A Norwich reader recalls Abraham Lincoln describing how discouragement sparked his method. He abandoned law study after questioning proof and found clarity in Euclid geometry, learning to demonstrate propositions and thus answer when a thing is proved. Exchange.
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Norwich
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Read the Bible and great authors for personal literary growth
The passage urges reading foundational works over modern critiques. It recommends studying the Bible to understand later writings and advises reading Shakespeare Scott Thackeray Dickens and George Eliot directly rather than through secondary controversies. It warns against relying on itinerant theorists or generic study guides and champions personal, intelligent reading that leads to further discovery.
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Shakespeare
Scott
Thackeray
Dickens
George Eliot
Sunbonnets for horses through the ages noted
The London Chronicle recalls sunbonnet like protection for horses in hot weather. A 1542 Italian print shows a gentleman riding with umbrellas over him and his horse. Parasol covered horses have appeared in Mexico and on Regent Street, but drew criticism from the public.
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Mexico
Regent Street
Langham Place
London Chronicle
Brain in a Jar and a War Office Berth
A London Vanity Fair item recounts a chance meeting in Piccadilly where a celebrated surgeon greets a young officer with surprise saying he has a portion of the officer brain in a jar at home. The officer replies he can spare it since he has a berth at the war office.
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Vanity Fair
Piccadilly
War Office
The Prolific Fly Insects Multiply Rapidly In Summer
The Lancet notes flies breed quickly when warm temperatures hatch eggs and food is abundant. A female lays about 120 eggs, potentially yielding up to 25 million descendants in a hot season. To curb a fly plague, dispose of organic refuse promptly, with burial as a preferred method, as oviposition begins at or before death in some cases.
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Linnwus
Samson
Virgil
Packard
Thirteen mistakes of life in an English paper
The piece lists common errors in living such as setting personal standards for others, judging youth by experience, insisting on perfect uniformity of opinion, and denying limits of one’s understanding. It urges restraint, compassion, and effort to improve what can be altered.
Inventor and Aeronaut of Old Times
A noted figure praised for inventiveness without scholarly schooling delivered remarks on the anaconda as the largest bird that ever flew and on the mind’s tendency to reduce complex ideas to a single point. He was a Walloonist leader, innovator, and early proponent of ironclad warships with slanted sides, inspiring experiments and naval architectural evolution.
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Ile
Baltimore Sun
Immense Bayonne Oil Tank Fire Produced Giant Smoke Column
In July 1900 during Standard Oil tank burning at Bayonne New Jersey a vast smoke plume rose to over two and a half miles high, its umbrella top visible for two days as the fire burned and clouds formed above the clear sky. Flames after tank explosions reached three thousand feet and heat was felt a mile and three quarters away, with observers noting the distant glow.
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Standard Oil Company
Bayonne
N. J
Barking Natural to Domesticated Dogs, Study Says
The text notes that wild or native dogs never bark and only whine, howl, or growl. It cites Columbus as observing domesticated dogs lose the barking tendency when left at large. Scientists claim barking is an effort by dogs to speak.
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Columbus
America
Dance Pair Dazzles as Heavyweight Miss Floats
A fragment notes Miss Heavy weight dancing with ethereal grace, her feet almost not touching the floor. The partner, still feeling the last polka, jokes that she cannot touch down as the act continues, a playful Punch moment.
Abstainer vows forty years with no water in Chicago News
A humorous exchange cites a woman’s claim of total abstinence, with a man confirming he has not touched water for forty years, as reported by Chicago News. The item reads like a quirky human-interest blurb from a city newspaper column.
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Blue Grass
Chicago News
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