A Panama Canal Scene Then Patti's Burning Admirer
The narrator recalls winter 1911 12 visits to Colon Panama and a melodramatic dockside incident as young Americans tour the canal. A mixed blood woman stalking a rival engineer draws a knife but a bystander intervenes, saving the rival. The tale ends with a joke about Patti and a courting admirer who sets his coat on fire.
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Patti
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Caruso Surprises Reporter At Knickerbocker Hotel
A World report recalls how Enrico Caruso answered a telephone interview by impersonating himself and waiting to speak with the caller after a tense exchange. The singer then appeared at his door, with a phonograph playing his own Celeste Aida.
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Every Day the Best
A short quotation notes the belief that every day is the best day in the year and that true learning comes when one realizes each day is dooms day per Emerson.
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Emerson
Chinese Sign Misread Sparks Laughing Protest
A storekeeper in the Australian colonies hired a Chinese painter to create a sign in Chinese but the translation in English offended the shopkeeper, eventually reading Dont buy anything here storekeeper is a rogue. The sign was removed quickly and the hunt for the painter followed.
Grammount and Charles Third England Dinner Jest
A tale recalls Grammount dining with Charles the Third of England. The king notes servants kneel as they serve, a sign of respect, but Grammont quips that they kneel to beg pardon for the poor dinner.
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England
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Grammont
The Curse of Mar Fulfilled Over Three Centuries
The New York Sun reports that the famed curse of Mar fulfilled all its prophecies over 300 years. In 1820 an ash sapling appeared on the old tower, George IV restored the earldom in 1822, and Queen Victoria later greeted the countess, ending the family’s long misfortune.
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Summer in the Arctic Mosquitoes and Heat Challenge Stefansson
Stefansson describes Arctic summer hardships in Harper's Magazine. July heat exceeded 100 degrees in the sun, no clouds for weeks, the midnight sun, and extreme mosquitoes causing dogs to go blind and lame from sores. The Coppermine River summer is portrayed as the group’s greatest suffering.
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Harper’s Magazine
Coppermine River
Scott and Thackeray on Historical Inaccuracies
A Westminster Gazette note discusses errors in Sir Walter Scott and Thackeray regarding historical details. It cites Wamba in Ivanhoe and Bedreddin Hassan in the Arabian Nights, plus Prince Charles Edward’s supposed dance in Rob Roy, concluding even famed authors may misstate facts.
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Good Salesmanship Rewarded in New York Bookstore
An elderly couple shopping in a New York City bookstore near closing time impressed a single clerk. The wife sought a specific book for a very particular friend, and the exchange highlighted the store’s attentive service as described by an American publisher quoted in the Bookseller.
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