Caudle's Soliloquies on joining the Freemasons
An extended narrative reveals Job Caudle, once hostile to secret societies, becoming a Mason. His wife Mrs Caudle confronts the secrecy, while Caudle defends the order's benevolence, noting Masonry’s care for the sick and poor. His inner monologue defends concealment as a virtue, and Caudle dies a respected Mason with church and community ties.
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Job Caudle
Mr. Caudie
Civen
Royal Brotherhood of Free and Accepted Mason
Mr. Caudle
Job
The
Free Masons
Mrs. Caudle
Dr. Benson
Ieee
Lodge
Masons
Tom Sykes
Dr. Bensom
Odd Fellows
Laplan
Labrador
Beeret Cocettes
Umphis
Caudle
Mr. Candle
Mrs. Candie
Wegman’s Wonderful Clock A Frostburg Tanner’s Grand Ideal
Frostburg Maryland tanner B W Wegman finished a remarkable clock begun in 1869. The ash body with walnut trim features an astronomical dial, moving figures, and carved scenes including Washington, Liberty and Justice. It stands twelve feet tall with intricately carved tableaux celebrating American history and spirit.
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Frostburg
B. W. Wegman
Wegman
Baltimore American
Trace
Alleghany County
Washington
Uncle Sam
Mars
United States
America
Lafayette
Bunker Hill Monument
Boston
Johnny Bull
Scott
Taylor
Lincoln
Jumping Grasshopper Match Stuns Mackay in Carson
Mining millionaire John Mackay enlists Maurice Hoetlich’s grasshopper challenge. Hoetlich’s hopper supposedly jumps beyond eighteen feet but uses a chloroformed ammonia trick. The contest ends with Hoetlich’s hopper measured at thirty feet, a staged deception revealed as Mackay’s party observes.
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John Mackay
Carson, Nev
Maurice Hoetlich
Mackay
Hoeflich
Carson Valley
Vanderbilt
Hoetjich
Hoeijich
Hoetlich
Hoellich
Tana
Monstrosity in Cincinnati A Donkey Headed Man
A Cincinnati couple on Freeman Avenue care for their son George Volz who was born with a head resembling a donkey. An Emira reporter describes George living at home, his appearance, movements, and the parents defense of their care, noting his limited speech, his need for nourishment, and the family’s long residence past Camp Washington.
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Freeman Avenue
Bank Street
Philip Volz
Volz
Camp Washington
Freeman and Bank
Cincinnati
Emirer
George
Furether
George Volz
Ra Ey
Free Press
Liboula
Finishing the verses with a Brooklyn editor’s print pact
A Brooklyn Eagle exchange editor helps a young fair poetess finish verses and print them. He guides her through lines with humorous edits and quips, using shipboard in jokes about rhymes and originality, until she leaves in tears after charging him as a nasty brute.
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Brooklyn Exchange
Exchange
Beecher and Ingersoll Compared as Top Public Actors
The Louisville Courier Journal assesses Beecher and Ingersoll as the era’s leading speakers, both stage like dramatists. Beecher excels as orator while Ingersoll acts, each shaping a one or two hour melodrama with precise stage business. Public joint appearances may seem natural but risk exposing a sham or a shared core of beliefs.
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Beecher
Ingersoll
Louisville Courier-Journal
Booth
McCullough
Mr. Beecher
Mr. Ingersoll
Portrait talk on beauty across nations by Mrs Siddons
Mrs. Scott Siddons tells a Toronto World reporter she prefers regularity with expression and contrasts English, American, Canadian, Australian women. She praises Countess of Lonsdale and the Princess of Wales, notes American vitality, and finds Canadians freer and friendlier in demeanor.
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Scott Siddons
Toronto World
Miss Nelison
Countess of Lonsdale
Princess of Wales
Immortal Mars City Tour Inspires Curious Narrator
A fragmented manuscript recounts a sleep voyage to Mars revealing a utopian city ruled by scholars, no strife, no police, and a council of seven. The narrator, recalling America and earthly finance, explores temples of learning, free trade of ideas, and a world free from coercion, while praising Mars life and doubting Earthly limits.
Ruskin in a New Field The Great Critic on Drama and Education
The Manchester Guardian previews two Ruskin letters to John Stuart Bogg about making theatre educational not commercial. He argues money making must not drive theatre and suggests English actors be taught by English gentlemen. He also notes Paris reviews of Folies and operas, praising some pieces while criticizing others for decor, music, and style.
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Mars
Temple of
Learning
Book of the Immortals
Nessary
Council of Seven
Mara
Bowmie
Earth
America
Arma
Immortals
Letieve
Extra
Daily
Mercury
The
Manchester Guardian
Ruskin
John Stuart Bogg
Dramatic Reform Association
Amiens
Paris
Punch
Tom Hughes
Atlantic
Tennessee
Stars and the Stripes
New Haven
Curious miscellany spans folly and science in old paper
A collage of tidbits: satirical notes from Punch on English and French fads, a light jab at public figures, a Paris cafe critique on coffee, a grotesque juror patent spoof, a blushing bonnet mischief, moralizing vignettes, and a Petersburg marvel of memory and arithmetic.
Supreme Court to rule on Chong Lins capture case
A San Francisco special to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat reports that Chong Ling, a Chinese nun, was seized by Ah Hee and companions from a Ningpo area nunnery for Burnett a U.S. surveyor. The Shanghai trial found Burnett guilty but two assessors dissented prompting a retrial in Ningpo before a larger panel. The foreign community blames Lord and the case may reach the U.S. Supreme Court under consular regulations governing China and Japan.
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San Francisco
St. Louis Globe- Democrat
China
J. H. Burnett
Uinchow
Ah Hee
Chong Ling
Burnett
Shanghai
United States Naval
Lord
United States
Ningpo
Ave
Seward
Lim
United States Supreme Court
Japan
Secret King Leopold marriage tale shocks German book
A new German book claims to reveal a secret marriage between Leopold I of Belgium and a titled lady around 1827. The author alleges the union was conditional, null if Leopold became king, and now provides details of the arrangement and her life with him.
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Germany
Leopold
Belgium
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Chapter
Grasshopper
Cincinnati Enquirer
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Shears
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Twilight
the Immortals
Earth 18
Ars
Sara
Sara Slim
Ashmead Bartlett
London
Hastings
Yankees
Voltaire
Fontenelle
Europe
Turkey
France
Berlin
Sarah Bernhardt
London Telegraph
Medico-Surgical Academy
St. Petersburg
Merjevsky
Eow F
Ayanore
Chong Linc
Court
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