How Squire Jack's Chickens Scratch Parson's Peas
In Hickorytown a boastful lay preacher, Squire Jack, derides ministers as the apostles, keeping a famed game cock to scratch the Parson’s peas. A new pastor, Solomon Sly, visits with family, trades arrogance for humility, and discovers Jack’s mock sermon of equal status leads to his own downfall when the preacher abandons salary and parsonage. Moral: exegesis cuts both ways. roosts return.
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Squire Jack
Hickorytown
Hevyina Selery
Paul
Peter
Scripter Authority
Thomas
Philip
Solomon Sly
Jack
Solomon
Squires Jack
Ack
Our
Deacon Smith
Neighbor Boggs
Matthew
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Grumbling is a Poor Habit, Patience Brings Reward
A short miscellany saying grumbling harms profit while patience offers a golden return. The line emphasizes prudent restraint and steady effort over complaint. It casts patience as a practical virtue guiding daily work and finances.
Goop Word Shapes Silence and Speech harm
A concise reflection on the burden of speaking ill versus maintaining silence. The piece links word choice to ethics, noting silence can cost nothing yet implies a principled restraint in discourse.
God Made the Soul to Correspond with Truth
A short reflective line on truth and the soul noting truth as its own evidence likened to lightning and sunshine.
Sparrows and truth in the wire of belief
A poetic line contrasts men who fail to grasp truth with a sparrow that cannot seize a message carried by an electric wire, implying confusion and miscommunication among those who pretend understanding.
Tables set with china inspired table linen fashion
London notes say elegant dining now blends varied ceramics and linens. Guests mix Venetian goblets, old Marseilles dishes, and Japanese plates while avoiding clashes like Rouen with Delft. Even lavish porcelain with painted onions gains social acceptance, yet restraint remains key.
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Marseilles
Rouen
Delft
Serres
Saxony
London
Practical Kixpness and the Angel in the Store
A butcher shop scene shows a dust-covered worker who helps a poor girl Polly and her baby. The man buys beef, bacon, and vegetables for the hungry family, then leaves quietly, revealed as a divine messenger by the narrator. The tale ends with a moral on true charity beyond words.
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Chadbourne
Adam
Diogenes
Cassandra
America
Board of Education
New York Tribune
Polly
Trance Tale Ended in Death from Heart Disease
A Fort Edward NY tragedy shows Miss Anna Carter dying after a brief fainting spell during a Baptist sociable. Despite early signs of life and frantic tests, life did not return. The mother and friends kept vigil as hopes faded and the body delayed burial until decomposition appeared.
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Fort Edward
N. Y
Distinguishing for a while from for a time phrase usage
A compact note cites the Hartford Post example about the phrase for a while versus for a time. It discusses how a young man’s departure from work may blur the meaning until his return, highlighting linguistic distinction and implication.
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Hartford Post
Coakss clothes and humble fare reflect manhood failures
A concise critique argues integrity lies in simple living, while ostentation such as a linen duster in winter and lording over a free lunch table shows a lack of humanity and character.
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Coakss
Faith of a Prince and the boiling lead test
The Prince of Wales and Dr Lyon Playfair reportedly demonstrated faith in science by placing a hand into boiling lead at white heat. The doctor claimed the skin moisture protects the hand, a fact cited as evidence of science’s safety.
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Prince of Wales
Lyon Playfair
Immense beds of mineral wax found in the Southwest
The Engineering Journal notes a discovery of substantial mineral wax beds in southern Utah and Arizona. Experts compare its significance to the Pennsylvania petroleum discovery, naming the substance zietriskis ite or the Romanian mineral wax. It resists ether and differs from paraffin, with beds reportedly up to twenty feet thick and covering many square miles.
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Department of Enterprise
Grimes
Utah
Arizona
Etroleum
Pennsylvania
Henry Ortz
America
Titanum Flower Discovered by Beccari in Sumatra
The famed naturalist Odoardo Beccari reports a new giant flower in Sumatra surpassing Victoria regia and Rafflesia Arnoldi. He assigns it to Amorphophallus and names it Titanum. the fully opened bloom averages thirty three inches in diameter.
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Ulla
Victoria Regia
Odoardo Beccari
East Indian
Sumatra
Titanum
Culture Defines Dress: Refined Taste Shapes Style
A terse contemplation notes that dressing well stems from a cultivated sense of enduring appropriateness. It argues that style arises from judging timeless fit and harmony rather than fleeting trends.
Hop Bitters claimed cures for stomach bowels nerves and more
An advertisement offers a $500 reward if Hop Bitters fails to cure diseases of the stomach bowels blood liver nerves and urinary organs or for any impure or injurious contents. The ad invites readers to test it and mentions Truths or Proverbs as another column.
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God
Herod
Michigan State Board of Health
Kedzie
Boston Journal of Chemistry
Amsterdam Canals Shape City Life And Transport
In Amsterdam houses lean toward each other along canals with top hooks for hoisting goods. Boats serve as transport and homes, while street life remains quiet with stone paving and canal paths shaded by trees. Aristocrats walk the canal-side paths as a sign of breeding.
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Amsterdam
Boand
Tender Chickens Stirred Boarders Moral Dilemma
Two women at a New England farmhouse near a famous summer resort overhear a chicken seller and a landlord debating chickens for sale. The landlord, not lavish with money, declines the tender fowl saying they are a touch too delicate for boarders.
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New England
New York
Belief in Honest Goods: Dr. Pierce Remedies Endure
A printed essay extols popular trust in American goods and declares Dr. Pierce’s Family Remedies widely tested and superior. It lauds Golden Medical Discovery, Purgative Pellets, Favorite Prescription for female diseases, and Sage’s Catarrh Remedy as safe reliable cures proven by public use.
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Sage
Dr. Pierce
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