Senate Debates Extradition Treaty Amid Calls for Extra Session
Senate discussions push toward recommitting the British extradition treaty while lawmakers forecast an extra session of the Fifty first Congress. House moves include Oklahoma land rights and agriculture funding, as highlights of a day filled with treaty amendments and contested clauses.
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Watches without hands attract attention in Household Monthly
The Household Monthly describes a new type of watch using digits on openings in the dial instead of hands. Two wheels track minutes and ten minute steps, while a separate wheel shows hours and a standard seconds hand. An audible click marks each minute, promising precise time reading and night interval measurement.
Can Animals Count
Popular Science Monthly recounts Houzeau de la Haie describing a pelican living with a fisherman in Santo Domingo. The bird learned to anticipate Sundays by observing the family routine, displaying basic temporal understanding and associative learning.
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Old Circus Tricks Revealed by Former Ticket Seller
A former circus hand recalls a common scam used to draw crowds in small towns. Sellers shared fake red tickets placed in hats to signal marks, who then faced relentless hawkers and pickpocket risks after paying for admission with money they may not have.
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Plain Direction to Heaven by the Bishop Joke
A Bishop of Litchfield visits a country house with a menagerie scented staircase. A sharp critic challenges him to name a plain direction to heaven. The Bishop replies with a simple path, turn right and keep straight. Humorous exchange from Harper's Magazine.
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Friday Wedding Dare Sparks Dramatic Swoon
Alfonse de Beriat challenges Miss Gushington about a Friday wedding. She gasps at the idea, then declares the date as Friday. He swoons, showing surprise and delight in a quick, playful dialogue from a social scene.
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Practical household hints and medical notes from New York Medical Journal
A compilation of home remedies and etiquette guidance covering napkin use, cleaning methods, sewing supplies, eating posture, toothache relief with chloroform and laudanum, egg preservation, teething comfort, lemon soda remedy for headaches, and notes on phthisis and breathing rates. Includes a remark on vocal pedagogy and anatomy for music instructors.
How to Clean Shawls Like New with Soap and Turpentine
Scrape one pound of soap, boil with water until jelly forms, beat smooth, add three tablespoons turpentine and one hartshorn spirit. Soak and wash articles, rinse cold water until soap rinses off, then rinse in salt water. Fold between two sheets, iron softly. Salt only for delicate colors that may run.
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Five Ways to Stop a Cold
Five home remedies are listed to combat a cold including hot foot baths hot drinks salt water gargles hot face baths frequent rinses ammonia or menthol inhalation and four hours of outdoor exercise. A ten grain quinine dose may break a cold early and if severe consult a physician.
When John Took to Washing in America
A San Francisco Call excerpt notes that in China laundry work is done by female servants and starching is unknown. It explains how Chinese immigrants, driven by railroad job losses, adopted laundry service, becoming common across cities. The piece highlights rapid skill gain and economic success driving the trend.
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Vocal Music as a Preventive of Phthisis
Dr C E Busey of Lynchburg presented before the Medical Society of Virginia advocating daily vocal music in schools as a health measure. He argued singing strengthens lungs and physical vigor, comparing civilized sedentary lifestyles to free-ranging livestock to illustrate decreased lung development.
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Breath Holding and Cough Suppression in Hospital Ward
A physician at a large child institution reports success using a reward punishments approach to make patients hold their breath to reduce coughing. He compares constant coughing to reopening a wound and credits breath control with soothing airways, aided by a nitrogen-based refinement and supportive medicine to aid recovery.
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Howdy Do and Then Good Bye Song Mood Note
Lyrics text reflecting contrasts between laughter and tears, joys and sorrows, linking greetings and farewells with references to funerals and weddings. The fragment evokes a nostalgic, rhymed cadence without a clear narrative or factual event.
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The Danger of Fast Living and Sudden Death
A long discussion on aging, heart disease, apoplexy, and the hazards of modern fast living. It explains how overwork, mental shock, and lifestyle choices accelerate decline, with detail on apoplexy, aneurysm, and heart failure, and ends with a tale of a bold Alpine guide who warned his captain before tragedy.
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Perils of Society Girls in Washington by Gail Hamilton
The essay argues society’s peril for young Washington women lies in scarce suitable young men, social overindulgence, and the lure of society life. It contrasts busy, early mature men outside Washington with few in the capital, warning girls to avoid frivolous tea feasts and to seek steady work.
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A Useful Caution From The Sanitary News
The Sanitary News warns that postage stamps and money can transfer disease germs through saliva or contaminated surfaces. It notes a stamp moistened by a diseased person and money handle exposure as risk factors, urging caution in handling currency and stamps to prevent infection.
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Fight With a Lion in Philadelphia Barn
In Lowande's barn on Frankfort Street a hungry lion broke its cage and attacked a camel, while keeper Emil Rebichon and elephant Empress fought to subdue the beast. Empress hurled the lion, Rebichon and the elephant saved each other, the lion was lassoed, and the camel’s carcass was skinned for the animals. The Senate rejected the British extradition treaty.
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Ode to Winter and a Wry Toronto Household
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