Miss Tanner and the Cat in a Country Romance
Miss Tanner, living on a Darbani farm, loves her fat bold cat. Mr Richards buys a bachelor farm next door and chaos erupts as his chickens fall prey to the cat. A comic chase ends with the lovers uniting in marriage aided by the cat.
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Miss Tanner
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Value of friends in sickness and recovery
A friend shares reflections on sickness teaching the value of friends. In illness they minister to needs, provide news, bring cheerful visits, and supply tempting foods for convalescence. Even a door inquiry from a distant acquaintance lifts the spirit, shaping the sick into a kinder, better friend.
Neighborly Borrowing and Frustrations with Tools
A speaker recounts neighbors borrowing a shovel and a saw, returning with damage or delays. One neighbor latched onto the well, causing strain for the wife as water collection proved difficult. the entry notes repeated improprieties and the speaker’s corrective efforts.
Borrowing From Neighbors A Fault Or Practical Aid
A North Western Farmer reflection argues borrowing from neighbors demeans self reliance and risks moral decline. It contrasts clumsy, greedy borrowers with honest neighbors and suggests borrowing be reserved for true necessity to preserve personal independence.
A Morven's Love
A writer celebrates a mother's unwavering role as a son's sole steadfast friend through misfortune and crime. The piece extols maternal affection as a pure, enduring fountain of hope that remains until eternity.
Stiff Dick the grim English schoolmaster portrait
An English schoolmaster nicknamed Stiff Dick is described as a severe, unyielding disciplinarian in a pen-picture from A Book about Dominics. His rigid dress, stern gaze, and iron rule produce fear and order, with little the boys can gainsay, as he enforces relentless learning and punished discipline.
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Dominics
Stiff Dick
Richard
Mr. A
Dominies
A Young Lapr's Ormiox on Cats
A fragmentary venting piece contrasts human faults with cats, describing felines as deceitful and untrustworthy yet capable of returning to a comfortable home after being mistreated, sharing a hypocritical purr and affectionate gestures regardless of past snarls.
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Loey
Constancy and Satire in a Fragmented Essay on Cats and Stomachs
The passage juxtaposes a bitter critique of cats with a naturalist discussion of animal digestion. It contrasts constancy and generosity in a human character with contempt for a cat, then explains how oxen horses and other animals digest food, noting differences in mastication and storage in specialized stomachs.
Borax Washing Use in Holland and Belgium
The piece describes using refined borax as a washing powder instead of soda, in a ratio of one large handful per ten gallons of boiling water, saving about half the soap. It notes borax softens hard water, improves lace and crinoline washing, can be used on hair, as a dentrifice, and even to soften tea water for brewing.
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Holland
Belgium
The Plowmaker Meets the Farmer in Fair Wit
A farmer challenges a clever artist on the value of books versus practice. The artist reveals he invented the favored plow and demonstrates its efficiency. The farmer, impressed, invites the inventor to live on his farm while he stays in the area.
Tea and tannin effects on skin and iron inks
A note from Herald of Health explains how tannates form when iron reacts with acids and how tannin mixed with iron or ink can create inks from iron filings. It cautions on tannin absorption through the stomach and skin and questions whether heavy tea drinking darkens skin, citing Russian, Chinese, and American tea drinkers.
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Russia
America
Protecting Cantelou Vines From Black Gnat and Bug Attacks
The article advises using whale oil soap as the best method to save young cantelou vines from black gnats and striped bugs. Apply after rain, repeat several times, and mix about one pound of soap to four gallons of water. Soap ends are sold at agricultural stores and some drug and grocery stores.
Occupation for Common Cause of Child Welfare
The habits of children prove occupation is a necessity. They love to be busy even about nothing and prefer useful tasks. Idleness in mothers leads to mischief. Teach children independence from others so they can prosper and endure fortune’s reverses.
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Cumorrn
Mischier
Polite Habits for Children Emphasize Easy Grace
The article argues gentle manners are natural not forced and define politeness as treating others as one wishes to be treated. It stresses that daughters should enter and exit rooms gracefully while avoiding offensive conduct and always considering others' pleasure.
Remarkable Longevity Amid Sporting Gossip
Captain Horatio Ross credits his vigor at sixty five to moderate training and daily routines. He claims to drink light claret, walk twelve miles daily, shoot regularly, and take cold water baths each morning, enabling a fifty mile walk at 3.5 mph without fatigue and maintaining top rifle-shooting skill in England.
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England
Mould In Rooms Warned By Builders Report
A Builder summary warns that mould in damp ill ventilated rooms harms health. Mildew covers walls and ceilings and can transfer to the human body causing painful symptoms. A weak lime hypochlorite solution is recommended to destroy moulds as a practical remedy.
A Beautiful Trovent in Dickens Words
Dickens writes that there is nothing beautiful and good that dies and is forgotten. An infant dying in the cradle will live again in the thoughts of those who loved it and its part endures though the body is burned or drowned. The text muses on how good deeds of humans could make death seem beautiful if traced to their source.
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Dickens
Whitefield Anecdotes From a New English Book
A new English book on Whitefield provides two anecdotes. Lord Clare sought Whitefield's influence at Bristol in an upcoming general election. Whitefield replied he never interferes in general elections and urged Clare to ensure his own calling and election.
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Whitefield
England
Lord Clare
Bin
Bristol
Trollope Names Mud Scare Donnelly After House Debates
White Anthony Trollope in Washington meets a muddy horse incident. Trollope asks to name the horse and bestows the name Donnelly. The tale links to a House debate where two members hurled mud in a so called foosenose clash.
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Anthony Trollope
Washington
Trollope
Donnelly
House of Representatives
Remark on Prisoner Websters Trial Echoes
The text notes Professor Webster awaiting trial for murder facing imagined taunts from fellow prisoners through his cell walls. On examination the charge is declared groundless and the accusing voices are described as echoes of a guilty conscience. It ponders the soul’s capacity to judge itself.
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Webster
Twelve Apostles Melted for Money in Blaster’s Decree
A tale describes Napotxom entering a cathedral where twelve silver statues of the apostles are melted into coins to do good as their Blaster did. A quip links sunbeams in breezy weather to borrowed rays and raising the wind.
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Napotxom
Twelve Apostles
Elephant in the Menagerie Shocks O Leany
The observer O Leany stares in astonishment at a visiting elephant in the menagerie and asks the keeper about the creature’s unusual haste and behavior in the enclosure.
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O'Leany
Reflection on the Press as Enchanted Ground by Bayard Taylor
The excerpt praises editors defending right and aiding sadness or hope, then contemplates whether a writer’s words endure after death. It recalls personal change, readers gone, and whether a sentiment survives the author, ending with immortality via a lasting line.
Two Worlds of Time and Entering the Afterlife
The passage reflects on two realms of existence a world we linger in briefly and depart from and a second world we will soon enter which we never leave it.
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Tusare
Amendment for Senators in Congress and court actions in Rhode Island
A long legislative text outlines how Rhode Island shall elect U S Senators by viva voce vote in two houses, then in joint session if needed, with vacancy rules and governor certification. It also amends civil action rules for Providence County courts and sets effective dates and repeal of inconsistent provisions.
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Viva Voce
Conyrers
Congress of the United States
Senate
United States
Legislatire
Sénate
Supreme Court
Court of Common Pleas
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Becton
County of Providences
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