Improvements That Made Anchors Stronger In History
The article traces anchor evolution from early straight flukes to curved arms after a Plymouth yard clerk named Per ing proposed changes at the start of the last century. It notes how holding power depends on surface area and vertical penetration, the shift to chain cables in 1831, the Admiralty pattern anchor after 1835 trials, and the impact of steam hammer welding on strength.
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Plymouth Naval Yard
Pering
Admiralty
Trattians
Uedeor
Anecdote From Massa Chief Justice's Fall
In Barnstable during a special session a capital case judges Merrick slipped on ice and slush, broke three ribs, and, amid pain, laughed at the janitor’s remark that it could have been the chief justice. George F. Hoar in Scribner's remarks on reverence for judges.
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Fhaw
Massachusetts
Merrick
George F. Hoar
Scribner’s
Fiji Hairdressing and the Grotesque Styles Described
The article notes that Fiji hairdressers create fearfully wonderful styles that are geometrical monumental pyramidal and trapezoidal. Hair color varies from blue black to reds and yellows, with blends sometimes giving a piebald effect and halves of hair showing contrasting colors.
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Fiji
Bargains Displayed by Floorwalkers in 25 Cent to $25 Range
A humorous exchange shows floorwalkers guiding a shopper to bargain vases and displays. The dialogue references bargains from 25 cents up and $25 up as items are located along aisles.
Bard Refuses Poverty Or Wealth Comfort in Coinage Tale
A brief literary exchange features a rich speaker urging contentment in poverty and a bard-delinquent responding that wealth would not guarantee happiness. The Chicago Record-Herald presents a concise, measured vignette on desire and satisfaction.
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Tman
Chicago Record-Herald
Man who brags of work forgets those who toil in silence
An Atchison Globe editorial notes that some people work so hard they have no time to boast about it, reminding readers that quiet labor often goes unseen despite strong effort.
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Atchison Globe
Old Time Surgeons and the Rise of Anesthesia
In former days surgeons shortened pain by rapid work and bold tactics, offering nonchalant trades like time limits for a patient’s life. Modern practice uses chloroform to render a patient unconscious, letting surgeons cut, file, and sew with the patient unaware, a shift from legendary speed to controlled anesthesia.
What They Pint
A survey of global eating habits notes how cultures prize different foods. It cites Arabs with dates, Greenlanders with whale and fat, Hindoos on rice and butter, English beef and bacon, Apennine chestnuts, Romans with peacock, birds nests and rats, and French delicacies like snail soup and frog legs.
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Apennines
Fashion notes on dress types and fabrics by Judic Chollet
The article outlines dress trends with embroidered collars and cuffs, hemstitched black and white monograms, wide lace cape collars, and longer fuller skirts. It highlights shirt waists in heavy linen, black crepe de chine waists, voiles in spots and stripes, triple skirt voiles, and decorative hems with ribbons. A gray panne hat with shaded feather and rosettes completes the look.
Language of the hand in affection and gesture
The piece surveys how hands express emotion in love and daily life. It catalogs signals from touching fingers to the pose of the hands and fingers, noting gestures of tenderness, anger, discretion, and fidelity, with classical and symbolic references.
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Venna
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Birds Sing On The Wing In Forest Music
An essay notes how birds’ songs gain beauty when performed aloft in flight. The oven bird and its aerial chorus are praised, with remarks on ground performances and the bird’s dignified stage presence as it shifts between chants and florid song. Lippincott's.
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Bia
Lippincott’s
The Face of an Engine in the London Saturday Review
A writer argues engines possess facial expressions reflecting character. He notes noble strength, brute force, and various tempers from supercilious to gentle. He concludes the key to physiognomy lies in the funnel as the seat of expression.
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London Saturday Review
Wisdom of Fools Exposed in Ancient Satire and Court Life
The piece contrasts fools praised by rulers with Seneca’s remark that a fool can be found in any mirror. It recalls Emperor Maximilian gifting the dullest counselor the badge of king of fools and an exchange where a prosy adviser longs to be king of fools with the emperor as a subject.
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Seneca
Maximilian
Could Keep a Secret
Smith asks confidant Jones for £10. Jones promises silence and secrecy. Smith explains need, Jones reassures trust and discretion. The exchange ends with Jones offering financial aid, claiming complete silence.
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Smith
Jones
His Thrifty Way
A brief note from the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune highlights frugality in dining choices, contrasting cash versus card payments and focusing on keeping costs low through price awareness.
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Learning without the reht is labor lost
Thought without learning is per ilous. Cafucius quote misrendered appears as a brief aphorism about the value of learning.
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Cafucius
Sound and hearing in animals show surprising range
The article explains how moles hear sounds inaudible to humans using a sound register, while a weasel, thrush, and starling reveal diverse hearing abilities. It notes mice and death's head moths emit faint or non vocal sounds, and thrushes stalk lobworms by listening underground, a skill thwarted by birds that imitate or steal prey.
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Phopautograph
Vigorous Old Age in Classical Figures
The passage notes longevity among ancient scholars and leaders. It cites Plato dying in his eighty third year while still at work, Isocrates at ninety four, Varro near a hundred, Hiero at ninety, Masinissa older and ruling sixty years, Fabius as augur past middle age for sixty two years, Cato nearly ninety, Gorgias at 107, Chrysippus starting in his eightieth year, Cleanthes teaching till ninety nine, Sophocles near a hundred writing tragedy, Arganthonius ruling eighty years from age forty, and Asinius Pollio claiming over one hundred thirty years.
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Plato
Isocrates
Terestius Varro
Hiero
Sicily
Masinissa
Quintus Fabius
Cato Censorius
Gorgias Leontium
Chrysippus
Cleanthes
Sophocles
Arganthonius
Asinius V Pollio
Blistering Beetles in Early Medical Practice
The text notes blistering beetles or cantharides as highly valued in materia medica for their potent corrosive action. Collected beetles can inflame and excoriate the hands, yet their medicinal virtue lies in their external use. They are commonly applied in plasters or ointments to treat violent visceral inflammation when needed.
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Materia Medica
Curious Turtle Catching Method in West Indies
A remora fish with a ring and a line hooks onto turtles in the West Indies. The fish attaches firmly by suction at the head and surges toward the first turtle spotted, allowing the fisherman to haul in both turtle and fish.
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West Indies
Economical in Theory and Practice Dialogue
A fragmentary dialogue notes a man praising his wife as economical. He and Hill discuss whether she actually saves money by redirecting it, but the pair admit they have not tested the principle in practice. The exchange captures a humorous view of thrift from the Boston Transcript.
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Dale
Hiill
Hill
Boston Transcript
Dinner Party Quip Timely Note From Parry Noo
A brief exchange in the Cleveland Plain Dealer shows Mr. Parry Noo insisting he must leave despite an invitation to stay for the feast of reason and the flow of soul. He quips that he has already eaten and drunk all that’s good for him.
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Parry
Cleveland Plain Dovier
Hunter’s Advice On Encounters With Wild Animals
An old hunter recalls practical tips for dangerous animal encounters. He counsels remaining still against snakes, using a knife against dogs, and breathing out during bee swarms, then flips the logic at sea with sharks. When cornered by a cinnamon bear, he suggests praying.
The Dancing Rat On The Roof Mystery
Mrs. Burton and Sir Richard Burton watched a rat on a roof during a village dance drive by Trieste. The creature appeared spellbound by the music causing head and tail motion. Inquiry revealed the rat was fixed and painted to the roof.
Canadian Sabbatarian and Scottish Castle Encounter
A Canadian university man touring Scotland last summer carries a pocket hammer as an amateur zoologist. He breaks stones on a hillside when a mouve questions him about breaking the Sabbath. He laughs and puts away the hammer, then learns a castle lies ahead with a stern line about the day.
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Scotland
The New Cult of Bacchus in Home Regimens
A Table Talk writer extols grapes as a health regimen replacing medicines for anemia. The text urges abundant fresh grapes at breakfast, light meals, outdoor exercise, and grape-based dishes with minimal sugar, claiming benefits for children and adults and suggesting home grape preserves for winter. It advocates substituting grape juice for drugs, coffee, tea, and some milk.
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Bacchus
A Simple Rubber Lockbox Under the Back Stair
A Good Housekeeping reader describes a clever hideaway under a kitchen stair. She built a hinged top and a back to create a covered box where her four children store and protect their rubbers, preventing loss and mismatch.
Mashed Turnips and Pee Turnips Recipe Fragments
A fragmented cooking note describes boiling and mashing turnips until tender then adding hot milk or cream butter and seasonings to taste. It also mentions cut up turnips and bell peppers as part of the preparation.
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Hunter
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