Night Habits and Borrowed Things From Daily Life
A fragmented old piece discusses night habits and comfort positions in bed, then shifts to etiquette like returning borrowed items and avoiding ink stains. It mentions a Portuguese match with Japan and a legend about a beheading, followed by notes on don river fishing and a town labeled “town of mothers” in Württemberg.
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Nothes
Leonberg
Wurttemberg
Ers
Schiller
Kepler
Remarkable Mold Veined Cheese Sparks Cavern Ripening Boom
An ancient cheese stored in caves owned by a joint stock company to age. workers, mostly women, tend racks and shelves with over 65 000 square yards of storage. The discovery of rich creamy texture with greenish blue mold altered local cheese production. The report also recalls tales of bull and cow behavior and a Lancashire marriage tax anecdote, plus a note on a porcelain vendor and a Cossack whip.
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Theie
The Artist, the Professor, and a Youthful Revelation
An artist nears recognition as a professor misreads him as a fraud while fortune and glory enter with a theatrical entry. Other items recount witty exchanges about kings and goldfish, pepper’s color changes, salad plants, and humorous bar banter amid a collage of curious vignettes and curiosities.
Felling a Horse's Age Wrinkles Blacked Teeth and Eyelids
A quirky 19th century medley explains age in horses by teeth and a rising set of wrinkles on the lower eyelid after age eight. It also notes shooting stars as iron and carbon bodies and oddly mixes in domestic scenes, humor, and observations about strawberries, a brain on fire, and polite dining exchanges.
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Earth
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AU Atlantic
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Hamilton
Steamboat Express
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