Rex Allston’s Apology and a Love Reveal on Moonlit Beach
In a seaside hotel parlor Florence Alden and Miss Osborne discuss Rex Allston’s apparent flirtation with Mrs Selby. Rex confesses to Miss Osborne on a moonlit row that his half-sister, Mrs Selby, is the woman in question, and that he seeks to protect her from scandal. Miss Osborne’s jealousy softens as Rex defends her, leading to Rex and Miss Osborne’s prospects shifting as Florence learns she will marry Rex.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Leslie
Don
Miss Osborne
Florence Alden
Florence
Rex
Ides
Mises Osborne
Kate Osborne
Iss Osborne
Mrs. Iby
Mr. Ailston
Paris
Ston
Allston
Mrs. Selby
Mr. Allston
Charlie
Nice
Laura
Don Clarke
Miss Ose
David Brabant
Selby
Rex Allston
Pneumonia Facts and Disease Stages Explored
The article explains pneumonia as inflammation of lung tissue with air cell solidification due to fluid exudate. It contrasts pleurisy bronchitis and lobar pneumonia, notes primary and secondary forms, typical onset with chills and nipple pain, and describes three stages: congestion with exudation, solidification, then liquefaction and absorption. It cites severe outcomes in the elderly and frequent attacks in some individuals.
Missionaries blamed for Hawaii decay, letter argues
A Honolulu letter to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat rebuts the charge that missionaries caused rapid extinction of Hawaiians at the Sandwich Islands. It claims disease seeds were sown before arrival, predicting doom unless a miracle occurs, and notes leprosy and other ailments spreading among natives, worsened by foreign contact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honolulu
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Sandwich Islands
Artemus Ward last joke recalled in naval officer tale
The piece recounts Admiral De Rohan narrating Artemus Ward’s dying bedside scene in Southampton 1866. Ward’s humor surfaces as he asks for someone to take his medicine, and the admiral notes his death two hours later. The passage also notes Ward’s lively lectures and his era’s social excesses.
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Artemus Ward
Admiral de Rohan
Radford’s
Southampton
England
Browne
Hartemus Ward
Ward
Mr. Hingston
Hingston
James Parton
New England
California
London
Charles Browne
Maine
Busy Woman Middy Morgan Guards Park Row and Tracks
New York Times staffer Middy Morgan, a formidable Park Row figure, works the cattle market beat for a high salary and extra pay from the Pennsylvania Railroad. The tall, financially independent woman, about fifty, is known for masculine attire, a revolver, and a habit of patrolling late at night along New Jersey tracks. She is said to have amassed around $60,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Boston Herald
Miss Morgan
Park Row
Middy Morgan
New Jersey
Middy
Magnificent Fifth Avenue Flower Show Aids Hospitals
Private parlors on Fifth Avenue New York host a grand flower show for German hospitals with promoters including Mrs. Astor and Mrs. Van derbilt. The Catherine Mermet rose and Sunset rose attract praise, while Douglas and numerous ferns lilies and bulbs display stunning variety. Estimated total value of blooms reaches $150000 with orchids alone at $100000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fifth Avenue
New York
Astor
Vanderbilt
Mail and Express
Catherine Mermet
Douglas
Cannibalism of Pishes According to a Magazine Note
A historical account describes a codfish stomach containing two full grown herrings a large whiting a codling seven flounders a small sole and a small skate all newly swallowed with a live worm issuing from the whiting’s mouth. It notes large mouthed fishes are voracious cannibals and gives anecdotes of eels swallowing smaller eels and two John Dorys used to illustrate mouth capacity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Dorys
Gentleman’s Magazine
French Drama After Caen Officer Death Shocks City
A Parisian actress in Caen provokes controversy after a chasseur sub lieutenant, enraged by a denied liaison, shoots himself. The actress performs amid boos as a black wreath reading To my lover is hurled at her feet, and she withdraws from the stage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Telegraph
Caen
The Widow Garfield in Cincinnati Enquirer
Garfield spoke of his wife noting her discretion and composure under pressure. He recalled teaching her Latin and her current role teaching their children. Cleveland reportedly entertained Garfield’s orphaned children at Easter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati Enquirer
Garfield
Exeter
Cleveland
The Late Commodore Garrizon in a Narrow Escape
The New York Tribune recounts Captain Garrizon, master of the steamboat Convoy, fending off a pistol threat from a quarrelsome passenger. The attacker failed to fire twice as Capt. Garrizon coolly offered new percussion caps, prompting a pardon and a lasting friendship.
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Commodore Garrizon
New York Tribune
Convoy
Garrison
The Orange Tree and Its Long Lifespan
Correspondence from Troy discusses orange tree longevity and cultivation. It notes trees in the Orient may exceed two thousand years, frost spares trees though fruit may fail, and productivity rises to 3000 oranges on a single tree yearly. It explains drying, wrapping, and moisture control for shipping, and contrasts bitter sour oranges seen in Florida with cultivated sweet varieties.
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Goa
Bombay
Ireland
Ulster
Troy
Orient
Florida
Texas
New Orleans
United States
Europe
Dowdy Bride and Torn Kinship Tale of Love and War
An English peerage romance recounts the Earl of Cadogan arranging a match between his daughter and the Duke of Richmonds son, the Earl of March. The elopement of fortune led to a curious marriage, a quick European tour, and a later reunion as the couple briefly prospered before the wife died. A New Orleans notice praises St Jacobs Oil for curing a physician’s severe sciatica.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl of Cadogan
Duke of Richmond
Earl of March
Lord March
Europe
London
Lady March
New Orleans
T. Posey
Canal Street
St Jacobs
Amazing Hindu clock uses animated limbs to strike hours
A Boston Herald correspondent describes a Hindu Rajah’s clock in Upper India. A gong, artificial limbs, and twelve figures rise to form the hour’s frame and strike the gong. At 12, all return to heap and reset. Texas rises in population and size, from 11th in 1880 to a vast frontier with vast growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Herald
Upper
India
Favorite Prescription Promises Relief for Debilitated Women
A fragment argues that women suffer melancholy and nervous ailments tied to household life, but such woes can be lifted by Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a safe pleasant tonic and nervine. The ad-like claim portrays the remedy as a great healer of women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierce
Frank Wilson
Peabody, Bass
Sam L Hodges
Williamstown
W. Va
Lyman T. Abell
Georgis
Treas
C. P. Brown
Westport
N. Y
Phillip C. Ballou
M. D
Monkton
Henry Ward
Col. Goth
N. G.S
Jersey City
N.J
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Josiah
Rex Allstov
Mrs. Denison
Mexico
Great Britain
Girard
Guatemala
San Jose
Pacific Coast
Escuintla
Palm
Coldstream Guards
The
Pennsylvania Railroad
Rudolph W. Krey
Waconia
Albert Burandt
Burandt
Krey
Chaska
Miller
John L. Sullivan
Jack Burke
Chicago
Quebec
Town Council of
Levis
World's Dispensary Medical Association
Main Street
Buffalo
McClure
Junction City
Kaw
Washington
Kansas
G. W. Baker
Bradford (VI) Paper Manufacturing Company
H. 8. Strong
Bronx
Grand Union Hotel
Grand Cent
Times
W.C. Parker
Tipton
Ind
Hay
Grave
F. Comietlen
Caswell, Hazanp & Co
Laurences
Charles A. Vodeler CO
Werste
A. Vooller Soo
Baltimore
U.S. A
Perry Davis
Africa
China
Tippecanoe
Anteed
JH. H. Warner & CO
Rochester
N.Y
H. H. Warner & CO
Rochester, W. Y
Rancis Gilliat
Art Vt
Rochester, WY
Mra
Spencer Macclellan
Gow Mich
Warner
Best
CoTrcuna
Resow- Vent
Potres Cave and Cagemical Co
Boston
Specie
Rsons
Detroit
Mich
Noyes Bros
Minneapolis, Cor
Tipenses
Standard Silver Ware Co
Washington St
Mass
Strowbridge
Agriculture Collees
U.S
C.W. Dorr
Racine Seeder CO
Des Moines
Iowa
Swift
Cme
Peter E
la Augusta
W. C. Burlow
Sumter Co
M. DD. Wilson
Gainesville
Swift Specific Co
Atlanta
Tutt’s
Tutt
Ucel
Murray St
Express
Uranteea
Valentine Bros
Jamesville
Wise
A-J-Tower
C.D
T. J. Anderson
J. D. Walker
Buckner, Mo
Australia
France
Germany
Belgium
Canada
U. S
C. D. Warner
Mia Saaieeus
Wireani Farm
L. G. Kniffen
West Water St
Milwaukee
Wis
W. Rouse & Son
Ds. J. Si Kvaens
Lebanon
Ghia
Dikes Beard
Perse
Ararad
Whee Bere
Bewde
Neimjery
Panta
R. U
Lorillard
Drs. Whittier
Fastth Street
St. Pac Nn
Icians
America
Peter Cover
Burexa Silk CO
Chicago, I
Northwest
J.B. Ames Ational
Minneapolis
Minn
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lynn
Wells,richardson & CO
Burlington
Vermont
U.S.A
Montreal
P. Q
Lonton
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