Maritime Duel With Sharks Ends in Sailor’s Funeral Oration
On a voyage from Vera Cruz to Europe a tall Mexican warrior named Manuel faced two sharks circling the vessel. He dived and cut one shark open with a blade, winning cheers, while a second sailor’s failed attempt ended with a deadly encounter as sharks closed in. Manuel’s bravery earned him praise, but the sailor died, prompting a grave funeral oration.
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Bodily Exercise Beneficial for Health in Open Air
The piece urges regular bodily exercise for health, noting its influence on respiration and blood circulation. It warns that sedentary living leads to indigestion, constipation, and headaches, worsened by worry, and recommends outdoor activity combined with amusement.
Disease Defenses Through Occupations Mentioned by a Writer
A writer cites occupations as disease remedies noting shepherds enjoy unusual health due to sheep odor and open air. Lavender workers rarely suffer neuralgia, lavender distillers calm the system. Brewery, tannery, and printing workers reportedly resist consumption. turpentine and rape works guard against rheumatism. copper miners supposedly immune to typhoid.
Fine Scotch Grossets And A Blue Hotel Misadventure
A Scot in Paris loses his way and buys gooseberries shouting Fine Scotch grossets A penny a pun until a fellow Scot asks if he seeks a Glaswegian street The tale shifts to a military etiquette vignette where a sentry bars a general’s wife from crossing grass claiming only the cows may trespass
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Iiis Hotel
Glesca
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Wealth Worshiped or Despised How Society Views Riches
A social philosopher notes reverence for wealth but argues respect stems from frugality, industry, and ability. Generosity boosts esteem, while meanness invites contempt, and the living memory of mean individuals is often scorned by followers and dependents alike.
Riddles and wordplay from a quirky dialogue
A playful collection of pun riddles about a jester, grasshoppers, thoughts, jockeys, authors, and a burglar. The jokes hinge on wordplay about springs, reflections, weighing before starting, and head humor.
Athletic to the Last
A medical enthusiast who is also an athlete argues that age should not end a man’s favorite sport. He says continued activity keeps fitness and life, warning against hastening decline by quitting sports early.
Gained Through Thrift and French Wealth Recovery
After defeat by Germany France paid a war indemnity but soon rebuilt its economy. A observer notes France shows thrift in food and waste reduction, with women turning scraps into meals and industrial classes saving heavily in government and other stocks. A French financier cites vast accumulations of capital seeking new investments.
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The Art of Listening and the Question of Wed
A voice discusses why listening is essential for women, noting it as a key to making men feel at ease. It argues that men prefer to talk and be met with admiring silence, shaping choices about marriage and singleness as a central life question with wit and irony.
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Victoria
When He Dissembled and village humor
The fragment recounts a wife’s plea to Augustus about deceit and a confession of half truths. It recalls a theatre manager denying rotten eggs at a Royal Theatre performance and a Devonshire village exchange about distances and the road winding, with a grimly comic yokel reply.
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