Tom Dears to Take a Wife in a Roundabout Plan
Tom declares he will marry and offers a home to May under his aunt’s roof. A humorous family dispute follows as the widow mother weighs the idea, then discovers Tom’s intended bride is the narrator, May. The household ends in shared amusement at the revelation and plans.
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Tom
Mother
May
Tom Dean
Anne
Will Broomly
Will
Letty Walters
Letty
Mie
Aunt Anne
Solam
Curious Antipathies Across Historical Tales
The excerpt catalogs varied aversions from religious figures to artists and nobles, noting jeremiah verses triggering fainting, drumming causing death, and unique triggers like mutton smells, roses, hare, and water splashes. It cites Orfila and Vincenor case mentions alongside Tycho Brahe Henry II and Marshal d Albret, showing breadth of unusual sensory dislikes.
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Jeremiah
Orfila
Vincent
Hippocrates
Ong Vnicanor
Boyne
d’Epernay
Haefs Hare
Tycho Brahe
Henry II
Marshal d’Albret
Inference of Death At Funeral Procession Joke
A man leaning on a lamp post asks who is dead as a funeral procession passes. He replies he cannot say exactly but presumes it is the man in the coffin. The line plays on mistaken identity and deadpan humor.
Dory and to day are ours, results and futurity belong to God
The fragment quotes H. Gree ley on ownership of outcomes and divine will, reflecting a philosophical or religious sentiment without a concrete news event or identifiable individuals.
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Dory
God
H. Greeley
Difficulties as God’s errands prove His confidence
A reflective line suggests trials are divinely sent to test faith. The saying frames hardship as a sign of divine trust and purpose guiding believers through challenges.
Fine natures like fine poems hint at beauty to come
A reflective note compares natures to fine poems noting that a quick glance reveals the beauty awaiting discovery upon continued reading. The line invites readers to explore further and admire subtle qualities.
Expression Suggests Character Shown On Face
A celebrated writer claims that if readable, every person bears his life in the face and appears good looking or the opposite based on whether that life has been good or evil. This view links facial features to personal history and moral contour.
Hear Both Sipes and Sides of a Case
Advice urges listening to both defense and accusation before judging a neighbor. It warns that enemies may mislead and presses justice to consider all perspectives.
Final Hour of Belief in Universal Intelligence and Love
A Beecher meditation on love and wealth fading in distress. It asserts faith in universal intelligence and enduring divine care as comfort, guidance, and safety beyond human strength or riches. The passage emphasizes a perpetual, compassionate divine presence.
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Beecher
A True Gentleman From the Old World Standard
A portrayal calls for a man who shuns society with youth and relishes the old to hear a kindly voice. He pitys the deformed, covers faults with charity, and treats all with equal courtesy. He scorns libertinism and respects every woman in every class.
Thistle Seeds, Confession, and Scattered Rumors
A woman confesses to a priest who gives a moral lesson using ripe thistle tops. She disperses seeds as penance and returns, then must gather them, learning evil reports cannot be undone. The tale warns that careless words spread harm beyond recall.
The Great Mystery and the Silent Departure
The piece contemplates death as a vast boundary no traveller returns from. It notes the sun and moon offer no sign from beyond, while stars fail to reveal a passage. It honors a gentle friend who died joyful, with lips speechless yet a triumphant heart.
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Stricker
Power of Music as a Health Remedy in The Sages
The article argues music can act as a medicine to aid health and comfort dying patients. It claims music can capture attention, uplift spirits, and sustain life beyond exhaustion. Daily vocal practice might help invalids restore health and ward off lung disease.
Arm Length Thought Experiment Sparks Sage Debate
A quoted paper imagines a man with an arm reaching the sun who could never taste heat or cold due to a century delay in sensation. The author jokes about coat sleeves costs, shirt changing time, pocketing a handkerchief for centuries, and hair parting with one elbow, pondering arms growing longer for readers.
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dAfax Adeler
The Fixed Stars and Oceanic Combats
The article notes distant fixed stars like Centauri as luminosity anchors and explains immense light years, then shifts to sea battles between swordfish and whales. It describes tactics, combats, and dramatic in-water duels, ending with the whale’s final, fatal strike on the swordfish.
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Maccabseus
Taking Offence and the Virtue of Patience
An essay argues against taking offense at others and promotes forbearance. It cites Constantine and the Emperor as models of equanimity, urges broad charity, patience, and a genial temper to absorb world’s friction, and says only malicious injury or flattery should offend a person.
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Hannah Moore
Constantine
The Dangers of Drinking and Habit Forming
The passage argues that drinking starts small and becomes habitual, leading to widespread misery. It warns that preventing the first drink could halt a chain of destitution crime and premature death, leaving families free from mourning and social costs.
Tele pathic era and brain strain spark debate
A gentleman asks why many men suffer brain disease lately. A friend responds that in the telegraphic, high pressure age there are more distractions now than twenty years ago, but brains have not grown larger.
Home Friendship, Our Richest Treasure and Duty
The piece urges cherishing and strengthening home friendship as the fountain of happiness. It contrasts concealed friendship with open loyalty, stressing kindness, delicacy, and faithfulness among family members within the home circle as essential above earthly riches. It calls every member to be a faithful friend through words and deeds.
Talking About One's Health
An essay in a Victorian voice argues against obsessive focus on health and diet. It recalls a valetudinarian who deserts restrictive habits and enjoys a full meal, concluding wise living may be simple—eat and mind one’s affairs.
Sunshine in Human Kindness Brightens Everyone's Day
A call to uplift others by opening one's heart and offering kind words. Light dispels darkness as a cheerful phrase calms trouble, reassures the afflicted, guides the young, and softens anger with simple, thoughtful speech.
Lost Child Found After Years In Canadian Forest
In Quebec thirty years ago a three year old vanished from Richardson street St Roch Suburbs. A Montreal hatter named Richmond matched by birthmarks proves to be the missing child, raised by an Indian woman who stole him. The mother travels to confirm identity. Canadian Press calls it veracious and home grown.
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Canada
Quebec
Richardson Street
St. Roch
Quebéc
Montreal
Richard
Richmond
Hatter
Squaw
the Globe
Box
Cox
Anecdotes of Greeley Temperance Ethic
A Greeley anecdote recalls his lifelong temperance during campaigns. At public dinners wine flowed but he avoided liquor. An Irish waiter pressed him to drink. Greeley accepted only water saying, Let someone else have the brandy.
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Greeley
Dome of Capitol Declares Ambition and Scale
The Capitol dome in Washington rises 108 feet above the Washington Monument and weighs about 8 million pounds. Bronze America statue weighs 14 985 pounds. Dome pressure exceeds other monuments. 1 000 000 dollars for the dome with a new wing costing 6 500 000 and projected central rebuilding at 3 200 000.
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Washington
America
Washington Monument
Baltimore
Bunker Hill
Trinity Church Tower
New York
St. Peter
St. Genevieve
Paris
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