First Teachers to China and the Taiping Rebellion
The 1845 permission for foreigners to teach Christianity in China followed the 1842 war with Britain. Missionaries flooded in but faced hostility. Emperor Taou-Kwang died in 1850, and his successor Hieng-Fung adopted a strict stance. In 1851 a rebel leader named Tien-teh proclaimed the true god Shang-ti worship and styled himself the bruised Jesus, with Taepings as his followers.
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China
Great Britain
Taou-Kwang
Hieng-Fung
Tien-teh
Shang-ti
Jesus
God
Taepings
Tale of a Lottery Manuscript Sells for 240 in Paris
The Jules Claretie library in a Drouot sale included Alexandre Dumas Fils manuscript of Tale of a Lottery. It spans sixteen pages and includes a letter from Dumas to Claretie stating the author was paid 240 for the pages. Dumas lamented that his La Dame aux Camellias sold for 80, yet yielded 100000 to Michel Levy.
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Drouot
Jules Clarette
Comedie Francaise
Alexandre Dumas Fils
Dumas
Jules Claretie
Michel Levy
Reclaiming Disabled Labor in War Age
A National League of American Pen Women talk by Ma Harry E Mack argues war exposes 60 000 disabled workers in the United States and the nation must reclaim their energy after victory to avert a labor shortage. Germany’s peace offensive and Solf critique frame Allied aims as labor needs rise with mass conscription and war production. A parable of giants and a plow farmer underlines the value of labor to sustenance.
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Harry E. Mack
National League of American Pen Women
United States
Germany
Doctor Solf
England
Near East
Russia
Doctor Self
Atlantic
Bug Contract Tales From Paris Barracks
In Louis Philippe era France Monsieur Terrat fought bedbugs in Paris barracks under a general Inspector order. Contracts in 1846 paid 90 centimes per sleeping room with a cheaper 50 centimes for reoccurring fights. He cleared bugs from arms racks guard houses police quarters and prisons. The old man offered to share his secret for indemnity but no buyer emerged and the bug battle continues.
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Louis-Philippe
Monsieur Terrat
Paris
le Cri de
A Real Compliment for Billy Sunday from Prison
In Philadelphia Billy Sunday visited Moyamensing prison and spoke with a housebreaker who pledged to live a Christian life after release. The criminal later told a guardian that Sunday had turned him inside out, calling him a winner and a one man reformer.
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Billy Sunday
Philadelphia
Sunday
Moyamensinog
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