Mutiny on the Cherokee Foiled by Quick Action
A mutiny plot aboard the barque Cherokee near Nukunau is thwarted when aboard crewman Abraham Cobbett and accomplices attempt to run the ship ashore on a coral reef. The narrator, hiding in a quarter boat, signals the mate and helps overpower mutineers. Cobbett is wounded and later identified as Captain Averill, former master of the Falkland. The rescued crew remain aboard as the ship rests at Onoatoa for burial and disposition of the conspirators.
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The Hero of the Horr and the Suez Canal Dream
Ferdinand de Lesseps emerges as the driving figure behind the canal linking the Nile and Red Sea. The piece traces his early idea in 1831, diplomatic career, 1854 return to Egypt, and initial Western skepticism before international support and progress.
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M de Lesseps
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Shakespeare and Napoleon echoed in a conflicted mind
The passage muses on Napoleon's collapse and the emotional extremes of retreat, humiliation, and distorted grandeur. It contrasts imperial pride with fear, tracing the moment his fortunes turn and the mind wrestles with losses and elusive purpose.
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Doe Pradt
Warsaw
Ginyate
Bo Channing
Teach Your Children to Love the Beautiful Home Life
A reflective piece urges gentle upbringing shaping children through beauty and environment. It extols a masculine and feminine influence and stresses nurturing scenes, flowers, sunset views, and pretty pictures to develop self-reliant, practical individuals.
Beattiein Answers From Abbe Seward Pupil
A pupil of the Abbe Seward offers charming definitions on gratitude hope eternity time and God in concise paradox like aphorisms. He describes gratitude as the memory of the heart hope as happiness blossoming time as a line from cradle to grave and God as a necessary being and the machinist of nature.
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Seward
God
The Common House Fly at the Center of Size Scale
A passage from Little Things of Nature argues that if all known species lined up by size with the smallest at one end and the largest at the other, the creature in the middle would be the common house fly. It likens this to a vast optical instrument capable of seeing minute differences.
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People’s Literary Companion
Mai
F.C Allen &Co
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Maine
Janaway
Agandae
Parker & Co
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Mass
Raxee
Farmer and Seamstress Difference
A pun contrasts a farmer who gathers what he sows with a seamstress who sows what she gathers. It plays on gendered craft roles and inversion of expectations.
Verbarium Games Stimulate Language Talent At Home
A parlor pastime called Verbarium engages many players with pencils and a chosen word. They race to write words starting with each letter, earn credits for unique terms, and the player with the most credits wins. The game sparks laughter and cleverness as participants consult dictionaries and chase tricky letter sequences.
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Atmerican Butler
Wide Awake Minds Spark Great Inventions From Everyday Things
A reflective piece urges constant awakeness to daily moments as seeds of discovery. It cites Galileo and Sir Samuel Brown, Brunel, Watt, and Watt’s spider, showing how simple observations inspired pendulum precision, Thames bridge ideas, and water-tube concepts. It urges diligence, curiosity, and industrious thought in all readers.
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Pisa
Galileo
Samuel Brown
Thames
Brunel
Thames Tunnel
Jana Watt
River Clyde
Court Refuses Book Reference in Heated Exchange
A court and counsel clashed when the attorney tried to refer to a Blackstone volume to support a point. The judge angrily forbade any book reference, insisting the point was decided. The attorney pressed, saying Blackstone would differ, prompting the judge to retort with sharp, dismissive comments.
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Blackstone
Exceedingly good thing leads to Don Quizole tale
An anecdote recalls Tom Corwin in the Cabinet facing a persistent seeker for a foreign post. After being asked if he reads Spanish, Corwin urges learning Spanish to access the “excedinly good thing” named Don Quizole, a tale of wit and ambition.
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Tom Corwin
Corwin
Don Quizole
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