Caudle's Soliloquies on France Travel and Family
In this satirical Victorian excerpt, Mrs. Caudle demands five hundred pounds to travel to France with the children, while Mr. Caudle frets over foreign travel and his son Timothy pledges restraint. The scene shifts between Caudle's lectures on travel hypocrisy and a siblings-in-law style lecture, revealing the era’s domestic tensions and satirical tone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Candle
France
Ell
Caudle
Miss Prettyman
Mercy
Mr. Caudle
Job Caudle
England
Meland
Margaret Candle
Providence
Cambria
Len
Irades Bank
Impromptu Speech Anecdotes From Wood Williams
The Indianapolis Herald recounts Wood Williams describing his lack of grace in public speaking. He recalls a brief but intense moment on stage, followed by a long return of ideas after sitting, and a humorous tale about addressing Zion children with a misguided Salvation firearms lesson.
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Lindianapolis Herald
Woodrick Williams
Homer
Kids of
Zion
Salvation
Ephraim
Entomologist Edwards a man of art and science
The New York Sun recounts Henry Edwards, famed actor and avid entomologist, who built a vast 250 000 specimen collection in two rooms. His Lepidoptera focus, with Papilio magazine, links to notable members like Bertholf Neumoegen and A R Grote. The club’s aim, exchanges across continents, and Edwards unique method turn his hobby into a scholarly enterprise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Edwards
Boston Theatre
New York Sun
New York Entomological Club
Bertholf Neumoegen
West Forty-seventh Street
Henry Edwards
Wallack
Hertolf Neumoegen
Exchange Place
A. R. Grote
Staten Isiand
Theodore L. Mead
Linton
Albany
A. 8. Packard, Jr
Providence
C. V. Riley
Washington
Alfred Russell Wallace
H.W. Hates
Amazon
Lord Walsingham
England
Baron Ostensaken
Heidelberg
Arthur G. Butler
British Museum
Cancree
Texas
Neumoegen
Eawardsia
Pleasant House
One Hundred and Sixteenth Street
Wallack's
Mr. Edwards
Sardou
Ochsenheimer
Vienna
Treitschiske
Berlin
Edwards
United States
Australia
New Zealand
van Dieman's Land
New Ireland
California
Greenland
Labrador
Patagonia
Lapland
Cape of Good Hope
Falkland Islands
New Guinea
Turkestan
Africa
Alaska
South America
Yukon River
Parnassius Hor
Astor
Edwards’ Wright
Gim Heng
Arizona
Colorado
Escaped convict John Clark eludes San Quentin visit
A San Francisco Examiner report recalls John Clark a famed stage robber who escaped from San Quentin on Friday January 21. He slipped into citizen clothes amid a legislative committee tour, ducked detection, and vanished after lunch with Warden Ames. Authorities offer rewards for his recapture as the escape provokes renewed pursuit across California counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco Examiner
John Clark
San Quentin
Clark
Shorty Hayes
Butte County
Aihwick
Sonoma
Shasta
Heath
MacGregor
Placer
Legislative Committee
Joan Clark
Sacramento
Wells, Fargo & Co
Ames
Solar storms and the sun’s shifting visage attract attention
The article discusses a stormy sun month with large sunspots and fierce activity. Astronomers note a relation between solar conditions and Earth weather, with careful records kept and a new spot period beginning. It mentions historical ideas and ongoing discoveries about the sun’s dynamics and observers’ impressions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herschel
Salvini's Quick Wit Saves The Gladiator Scene Fiasco
During a New York performance of The Gladiator Salvini avoided a stage fiasco by closing the central door to block a planned tiger spectacle. He maintained control and resumed his lines, turning potential disaster into a seamless continuation as the audience watched the prison scene unfold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hiow Salvini
Faustina
Shea Ia
Salvini Fewl
Man Slashes Throat in Saloon Tragedy
In Chicago last Tuesday night Joseph Stearna a Brunswick billiard factory workman entered a west side saloon ordered beer. He drew a pocket knife opened it laid the blade to his throat and cut from ear to ear spilling blood across the table before collapsing dead. No motive given.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Joseph Stearna
Brunswick Billiard Factory
Farmer seeks Gould at Stock Exchange in mistaken identity
A Hempstead area farmer visits the New York Stock Exchange and questions a waiting citizen about Jay Gould. After a trail of deception, he learns a fraud and impostor misled him about Gould, offering land money and an orphan asylum tale before fleeing.
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Hempstead
Stock Exchange
New York
Jay Gould
Gould
Quote on deceit and competition in business gains
A speaker warns that rivals will imitate and beat him to a claim of being a Russell Sage. He vows aggressive business tactics to crush challengers, predicting a payoff of about 60 percent on his investment.
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Theological Seminary
Galveston
Bob Kinney
Sam Spitler
Sam
Bob
A Terrible Resolve to Spend and Then Die in Drink
A Bohemian immigrant John Skala, resident of Linn county Iowa, abandoned farming and family life after his wife died. He spent years in a liquor-filled debauch using his fortune for drink, then killed himself by swallowing a poison in a carefully planned act. His death ended a tragic ascent into delirium tremens and immense despair.
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Sun
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
John Skala
Bohemia
Rapids Township
Linn County
Skala
St Pd
Rats Death by Drums Ravage New Castle Barn
In New Castle second ward a crowd of boys lured rats from holes with drum rolls then released dogs to kill them. Over the afternoon and into evening a stable floor yielded 479 rat carcasses, leaving the mill’s grain pests exterminated.
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New Castle
Penn
Pearson
Seance Farce Sparks Skepticism and Applause onstage
In an uptown parlor a seance unfolds with a mixed crowd of men and women. The medium’s trance leads to foggy figures and dramatic curtain shakes as spirits appear, including a Mr Wilson and a Polish grandmother, while skeptical observers rail at stagecraft and question authenticity.
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Ghost
E. ¥. Wilson
Mr. Wilson
N. K
N. P
Aps
N. B
Cleopatra
Cleo
Eighth Avenue
Tobacco Moralized and City Anecdotes Across a Page
An illustrated miscellany blends quatrains on tobacco with humorous tales set in a late 19th century city. Vignettes describe a waiter’s suspicious drink, a grandiloquent divorce petition, a feud over a dog, a street brawl recount, and sketches of a New School Primer and Marian Evans aka George Eliot, all in a bustling newspaper tone.
Prussia’s gymnasia and pupils in 1879 detailed
A Berlin published return shows Prussia in 1879 operated 245 gymnasiums for 73,279 pupils with 61,102 Protes tant, 14,360 Roman Catholic, 9, Dissenting Lutherans and 7,819 Jews. Lower forms held 10,631 pupils. Provinces by gymnasium count listed. 4 progymnasia taught by 284 masters with 30,991 pupils. 102 realschulen with 1,846 masters and 29,291 pupils.
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Berlin
Prussia
Silesia
Brandenburg
Rhenish Prussia
Saxony
Westphalia
Hanover
Pomerania
Eastern Prussia
Posen
Western Prussia
Hesse Nassiu
Schleswig Holstein
Hohenzollern
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Soliloquies
Job Candle
Martel Marmont
Caudie
Theu
Rome
Florence
Paris
London
Solomon Singleman
Europe
Holy Land
Aeaing
Tishbinham Theological Seminary
Jesus
Tishbinham
Carmel Heights
Eieharn
Tenriffi
Lichtus “Mackenzie
Dupugtien
Huchanan
Huchanan’s Poetry of the Planetary World,” “Medley
Dr. Egotism
Minor
Darwin
Pagenbach
Franme
Penneberg
Diver
Saladin
Iexsay
Dr. Dandelein
Speckie
Hammersby
Windbag
Vanes Brower
Condenser
Dr Contfection
Timothy
Judge Ames
Amer
Jude
Mr. Neumoegen
Iat
Doenmoegen
Vennor
Sarah Bernhardt
St. Louis
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Adrienne Lecouvreur
India
Prince of Wales
Milo
Bernhardt
Princess of Wales
Milos Bernhardt
Berpbarut
Speyer
Kate
New
Castle
Prentice Malford
Houston
Cotton Exchange
Darkey
Darky
Jess
Connecticut
William Stuart
New London
Uktrasoup
New London Star
Stuart
Star
Ruddock
Okra!’ Poor Mr. Ruddock
Burlington
Kentucky
Iman
Seorch
Genta
Mazourka Lim
Congress
Porter
George Eliot
The
Christian Union
Noah Porter
Marian Evans
John Cnaenens
Strand
Strauss
Christ
Gymovasiuas
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