Riding for Chinamen in a Chinese City Scene
Thomas G. Allen Jr and William L. Sachtleben recount the chaotic reception as they entered Urumtsi on two bicycles. A mob blocked doors, forced entry, and a viceroy could do little as soldiers cleared a path for a staged bicycle exhibition amid gifts, etiquette debates, and public curiosity. Celery growing in America follows.
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Thomas G. Allen, Jr
William L. Sachtleben
Asia
New World
Tsogtu
Viceroy's Palace
Marco
Questiou
Palace
Ferrets in England Used for Hunting Rabbits
Ferrets are utilized for driving rabbits from burrows with little training. White ferrets are preferred for visibility and handling, especially by poachers and gamekeepers. The article notes humane muzzling methods, risks of line entanglement, and winter ferreting practices.
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England
Seeds Sown With Artillery On a Rocky Crag
Alexander Nasmyth devised a method to plant trees on a sheer Dunkeld rock by firing seeded canisters from small cannons. Tinsmiths filled canisters with tree seeds, shells were launched up the cliff, bursting to scatter seeds into rock crevices. Years later the trees thrived along the cliff faces.
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Alexander Nasmyth
Ways of the Pompano in Florida Waters
A New York Herald reader describes pompano behavior near Lake Worth Florida noting their edge swimming leaps and golden scales. The writer details mass jumps around a dredge boat and an injury to a boatman. Since ice factories on Indian River and Lake Worth allow year round shipping, pompano supply northern markets, with peak eating in winter.
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Tropics
Lake Worth
Florida
New York Herald
Ben Able
Indian River
A New Geographical Apparatus Demonstrates Ocean Currents
A glass marine globe acts as a demonstration device to visualize sea currents. It features a contoured interior globe with submerged basins filled with water and stearine particles to show movement. The device aims to aid geography studies by simulating real ocean currents.
Stories From the Sky and Meteorite Showers Through History
The article recounts ancient and modern tales of stones falling from the heavens. It cites Levi’s chronicle of a 64 BCE shower near Rome, Aeogostami’s 467 BCE stone, and Pliny’s note of a wagon-sized “air-stone” on the Hellespont. It then notes 1803 France’s L Aigle meteorite shower, 1860 New Concordia stones, and up to 1894 about 300–350 recorded meteorite events including multi-stone showers and stones ranging from orange-sized to hundreds of tons.
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Pliny
Hellespont
L’aigle
France
New Concordia
Getting Acclimated to Marriage on the Installment Plan
Jim, a Detroit factory teamster, married a much older woman with a fiery temper. After four days of wedded life he admits to the policeman he is “getting used to her on the installment plan” as domestic bliss proves challenging.
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Jim
Detroit
Detroit Free Press
A Wizard's Feast Spoof on Chinese Hostelry Guests
Walter F. Logan of Sacramento recalls a La Clede party joke in which oranges with unbroken skins hid jelly, and eggs with whole shells contained bats and candy. Hosts refused to explain the tricks, leaving guests mystified by the culinary pranks.
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Aswell
Walter F. Logan
Sacramento
Cal
la Clede
Woman’s life in India exposed as intolerable plight
A historical critique condemns Rajputana native women’s sequestered zenana lives. It describes isolation from education and society, child guardianship by men, and mothers deemed unfit, asserting severe degradation of women’s affections and rights. The piece also notes French soldiers as exemplary marchers, detailing an 1892 infantry drill pace of 120 paces per minute.
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Rajputana
Europe
Peculiar Phase of Fashion for Middle-Aged Women
The writer surveys a new fashion phase labeled the middle-aged girl. Seams vanish in the seamless skirt, ball gowns refresh with lace and jet, and pockets appear in inside seams. Silk, velvet, and camel hair blend with blue, oyster, and Bengaline tones. Capes, furs, and tailored suits reshape daywear into practical, stylish statements.
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New York
Paris
Europe
DovaneLie
Court schedule notice for Seventh Judicial District 1895
Official certification from Athens and Scioto counties lists the times of holding the courts of Common Pleas across the Seventh Judicial District for 1895. D. A. R. McKinstry and W. F. Whitney attest to the copies and the dates October 16 and October 18 1894 or 1804, with a final line noting Oct 25 to Nov 8 for related terms.
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Courts of Common Pleas
Seventh Judicial District
Ohio
Athens County
Wm. F. Whitney
Court of Common Pleas
Scioto County
Seventh Studio District
Fortamca’s
Caponer
A. D. W. F. Witttney
D. A. R. McKinstry
Seventh Judicial District of
Athens
A. R. McKinstry
Noda-Wa
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Fairfield County
Gallia County
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