Leap Year Proposal Delivers Sudden Marriage Offer
A bachelor narrator recounts a leap year proposal from Miss Johnson. He attends her planned visit, weighs the risk of marriage on short notice, and accepts after hearing she is rich, beautiful, and amiable with a strong family, promising the marriage will occur that evening.
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Thomas Jefferson Jenkins
Mr. J
Miss Johnson
Mr Johnson
Mise Johnson
Mr. Jenkins
Jenkins
Deaf Wife and Melodramatic Marriage Tale From Old Town
A bachelor relates a bizarre wedding to a deaf bride Mary rich and clever yet unable to hear or read. The couple’s noisy household, neighbor intrusions, and a visit from Marys aunt drive him to despair before a stagecoach dream reveals he remains single.
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Rendineas
Miss Julingon
aKeeuoon
Tina Fix
Mary
Sabe
Bateey
Tam
Aunt
Aunt B
Betsey
Myerelf
Cunning Yan Kee and Jew Discuss Murthad Hanging Folly
A dueling exchange features a sly Yan kee asking a Jew about executions at Murthad where Jews and jackasses are said to hang together. The Jew responds that their absence spares them from such brutal fate.
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Murthad
No two minds react alike to truth in Christian growth
The writer compares personal spiritual change to germination and sunlight on a mountain, arguing that conversion can be instant but true character is formed slowly. A saint develops through steady effort, duty, and patient cultivation.
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Mount Blanc
Seta
Pennant
Iteasa
Jesus
The apprentice who started the fire
A carpenter shop fire is traced to a careless apprentice who lit a stove with a shaving outside the door. A puff of wind spread the flame to piles of shavings, consuming the shop and ruining the uninsured owner. The boy is scolded as the cause.
Horses At Pasture Instructive Hobby Advice
This article offers guidance on horse pasture management including gradual exposure to pasture, avoiding overfeeding, best hay mixes such as Timothy, Bluegrass, and Red Top, and using soft earth to prevent injuries. It stresses fresh pasture or grass and proper stall bedding with bark or clay to maintain hoof and general health.
General Logan and the Chicago depot seating clash
An eyewitness recounts Gen Logan and staff arriving at Chicago depot before Savannah relief. A porter refuses seating to the general’s party in a ladies carriage, prompting Logan to offer his staff a seat while joking about switching places and the windy car.
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Savannah
Logan
Chicago
Renin
Bene
The Country Parson on Fluent Speakers
The speaker compares skilled orators and scholars unfavorably to others who excel at one thing. He observes a great scholar stumbling on stage while others mock him, noting the irony of polished talk vs true knowledge and social graces.
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Ewan
A Strange Story The Odd Titles Of A Publisher Circular
A Rochester Democrat correspondent reviews a publisher circular titled Helios noting a parade of eccentric novel titles. The reader traces many phrases such as Alone in the World By the Sea Beneath the Surface and A Life for a Life, then remarks on the strange fashion in book branding.
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Rochester Democrat
Helios
Eleanor
Christian
Curry
Belial
Jin Chaina
The Great Western Express Speed Study
The article explains railroad train speeds near Exeter England, noting forty three mph with stops and sixty mph between stations, with experiments reaching seventy mph. It compares visual perception, relative motion, train length, locomotive wheel rotations, and steam exhaust puffs, concluding locomotive speed equals a quarter of a cannon ball’s momentum.
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Great Western Express
Exeter
England
Bniing
Yankee con artist fleeces tavern keeper in East
The Bangor Advertiser relays a tale of a Yankee barred from a tavern until he reveals his party. Boniface then greets him by the bell and the Yankee surveys the scene before declaring to the host that the night’s business is done with a farewell line about money and meals.
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Bangor Advertiser
Boniface
Munter
Lys
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