The Night of the Overland Track Wreckers Tale
A sectionman recalls a stormy night guarding a railroad line when masked wreckers attacked a Snake River bridge. He frees himself, uses a bottle of oil to disrupt the train lights, averts disaster, and loses an arm after being hospitalized at S. company facilities.
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Summit Station
Ceven Miles
Brewerer's
Summit
Aeual
Bence
Eutside
Bearquarters
Snake River
Mindi
Saeed
Ben
Tom
Barman's Indifference to Death Described by Neville Morria
Neville Morria in New York Scar reports on a 19th century execution scene where three barmen face death with apparent apathy. The account notes their laughter and cigars, two prisoners convulsing with laughter after the volley, and a description of Burmese race traits including apathy in battle and cultural hair norms.
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Leushter
Neville Morria
New York
Scar
A Romance of Compressed Air at St Andrew's Cleareh
A celebrated organist, wandering the organ loft at St Andrew's Cleareh in New York, fell into a large diapason pipe. wed twelve feet from the top, he faced suffocation as air ran low. He squeezed his coat to block air but managed to shout for help. Air was later pumped in, lifting him upward until he escaped with a triumphant shout of Saved.
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St Andrew's Cleareh
New York
Diapsson
Ged Bieser
Navigability of Hudson Straits Report from Cap Martham
Ottawa May 23 A private government report by Cap Martham on the Hudson Bay expedition concludes there is annual navigation for at least five months and possibly all year. The ice is light and steamers built for these waters can easily break it, though shore observers’ testimony is deemed unreliable as they cannot see current flow in the open channel.
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Ottawa
Cap Martham
Hudson's Bay
Monitor and Vesuvian warcrafts spark naval revolution
A long-ago account details the Monitor’s impact on maritime warfare and introduces the Vesuvias, a newer U S Navy Yard project praised for high speed and innovative armament. The Vesuvius is described with plans for a 20 knot speed and a three gun explosive delivery system.
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United States
American Navy Yard
Tae
Tyr
Strik
Week's News Highlights From North America and Europe
A digest of varied items: railway access to Toronto debated. Newfoundland Premier Thorburn signals Ottawa talks on Confederation. Wellington Assizes in Guelph sees a true bill for nuisance at the county courthouse. Other notes cover a New York blizzard fund, harbor dredging, stock exchange acts, and incidents from Mexico to Paris with political and social commentary.
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Salvation Army Eeeeres Snes
Toronto
Thorburn
Newfoundland
Ottawa
Confederation
Wellington
Guelph
Justice Rose
Howlan
Prince Wiward Island
Hughes Bros
Bank of Commerce
St. Lawrence
Longueuil
Point St. Charlies
Missisquoi
Dominion
Ontario
Montreal Board of Trade
Cornwall Canal
Reformed Church of England
Ussher
Reformed Episcopal Church
Montreal Harbour
Cap la Roche
Messrs
Lacoste
Macdougall
L. B. Osler
Blake and
MacMaster
Q C
Abbott
She Got Him Home From The Grog Bazar
A St Helena wife in the Astoria Pioneer recounts how she disciplined her husband who frequented a liquor shop. She grabbed and released a skunk from his tail and tossed it into the saloon crowd, prompting him to come home. The saloon closed for repairs as the keeper visited relatives.
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St. Helen's
Astoria
Netkuok
Papa
Habits of the Ostrich Debunk Common Myths
The ostrich lays many eggs yearly and all birds share one nest. The male incubates for about thirty days while the females feed him. He defends the nest fiercely during incubation and, once hatched, mothers and flock divide the brood. Some eggs stray to pampas via chase or misfortune.
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Pampas
Talk Like Water Under Niagara's Shower
A fragmentary prose piece explores speech as water that should be sparing and revitalizing. The speaker imagines language blooming like flowers after dew, then questions whether talk can survive a deluge of relentless praise or criticism.
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Niagara
European unrest and imperial health rumors noted
Reports describe a growing popular movement to strengthen the army and navy amid govt economy criticism. Parliament calls on the War Secretary as public meetings loom. Emperor’s health is cautiously reported improving though with fever and sleeplessness. Empress attends him daily as Prince Bismarck guards against false peace expectations.
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Lord Wolseley
Secretary of State For War
Prince Bismarck
Schurz
Cockroach Letter Carriers Helped Convicts Escape Plan
A roach trained to carry notes linked convicts William Rodifer and Starlight Jack Ryan in Southern Indiana Penitentiary. Rodifer tied a note to the insect, it crawled between cells, and Jack read it, enabling months of covert communication before wardens uncovered the scheme and the two men finished their sentences.
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William Rodifer
Starlight Jack ’ Ryan
Southern
Indiana
Rodifer
Jack
Starlight Jack
Sid C. McUure
Capt
Craig
Frank Martins Silver Mine and a Quick Fortune
Frank Martins Silver Mine in Era Territory rises from poverty to wealth after a single ore find. He earns three to five thousand dollars in a month, marries a restaurant waiter after a celebratory meal, then sells the mine about six months later. Moral: wealth can be a blessing or a curse.
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Altaras County
Frank
Frank Martin
Houston
Blackfoot
Hailey
Salt Lake
Martin
Authors and their characters weep with a deadline’s sting
A reflective piece on authors forming bonds with fictional figures. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s family cried at Little Eva’s death, Thackeray mourned Colonel Newcome, and Dickens shared grief over beloved characters. The speaker recalls writing a lighthearted scene and being heartbroken when the editor killed off Mr Bilderback and others. The editor warned the writer never to return with such material.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Little Eva
Thackeray
Colonel Newcome
Charles Dickens
Mr. Bilderback
Mr. Bilderbeck
Boardetie
The Loss of Temper
A compact reflection from London Spectator on losing temper. It argues that genuine loss of temper can end disputes, despite the cost of apologies or compensation, by delivering a decisive, unconscious forward motion.
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London Spectator
Swift Justice on a City Policeman Turned Convict
The New York Herald reports that yesterday morning Charles Rickerd was a city police officer and by evening a Sing Sing convict. He was arrested at 4 PM while stealing and sent on the 230 train to Sing Sing. Indicted by the grand jury and sentenced to ten years on a plea, the case illustrates the law’s vigorous operation.
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The
New York Herald
Charles Rickerd
Sing Sing
Onions
Ahem: The Hemp Eater and Africa’s Continental Drive
A writer recalls an Indian hemp hallucination in wartime Washington with disorienting time and space effects. The piece segues into a sweeping 19th century imperial panorama: Britain, Germany, France, Portugal, and the Congo State carve Africa coast to interior, with railroads from Loanda to Ambaca, riverine trade boom, and growing colonial plantations.
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Termeni
Angola
Zanzibar
Liberia
France
Spain
Morocco
Indian Ocean
Equator
England
Germany
Portugal
Congo
Lunda
French Congo
Central Africa
Congo Rapids
Cenaern Highlands
Critive
Africa
One Armed Pianist Count Zichy Captivates Audiences
Count Zichy of Hungary, famed for two handed skill with one arm, recounts his survival after a shooting accident that led to amputation. He mastered piano with the left hand within a year, astonishing listeners who hear what seems like two or four hands at work.
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Count Zichy
London
Advice to Young Writers From Miss Alcott
A St Nicholas letter quotes Miss Alcott urging young writers to write and improve, read great books, learn from speakers, and persevere for twenty years to find a personal style and place. It warns selfishness harms happiness and friendships, and promotes helping others as the path to good spirits. The Ottawa government plans to aid Crofters migrating from Scotland to the North West, proposing $60,100 for the effort, with hopeful outlook despite criticism.
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St. Nicholas
Miss Alcott
Ottawa
Scotland
North
Penetare
Sanitary lessons from historic sickness and death data
The Statistical Congress of England summarized Farr and Edmunds data showing that among one thousand thirty year olds about ten die yearly, ten become permanently invalid, and twenty fall sick. For seventy year olds about one hundred die and three hundred are sick or chronically invalid. Across nations sickness averages range from fifty-three to ninety-four per thousand, with Ireland the healthiest. The U S averages fourteen point two days of sickness per adult yearly and two point nine percent income lost to sickness, compared with higher rates in England France and Russia.
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Statistical Congress
England
Farr
Edmunds
Scotland
Ireland
France
Germany
Austria
Italy
Spain
Holland
Denmark
United States
Russia
Why the Year 1900 Will Not be Counted Among Leap Years
The text explains the calendar's 365 day year with extra time kept by leap years. It traces Julius Caesar’s system, the correction by Pope Gregory, and how omitting leap years every 100 years and adding one every 400 years keeps the calendar aligned, balancing eleven minutes yearly to net one day every 400 years.
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Julius Cesar
Pope Gregory III
Casar
Gregory
Do You Bank Reckoning Safest Ways to Handle Checks
Do you bank Sunday or on holidays? Indorse checks you mail and specify payee. If a check is lost or forged, the careless party bears the loss. Notify all endorsers or the last holder if protest is needed. For bank drafts, make payable to your own order and indorse on the back. If a draft is lost, you may request a duplicate. If checks fail to return, notify the bank with the check number and the drawee.
Rara Avis. A Cryptic Note From a Silent Age
A fragmentary message seeks out a reader with deep knowledge to engage in a puzzle or critique. The text hints at hidden meanings and demands of careful parsing to uncover a hidden plea or acknowledgment from a figure of obscure reputation.
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