Curious notes and travels through distant waters
A collage of travel anecdotes and cultural curiosities from New York and abroad. A sailor describes an extreme Persian Gulf locale called Kabrin with underwater fresh water springs and water-diving customs. Other items touch on fashion, glassmaking history, and social commentary with brief sketches of notable figures and inventions.
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Babrin
New York
el Ben Gormley
Persian Gulf
Kabrin
Yella
The Allure and Fear of Sugar in Historical Diets
A reflective piece on sugar's rise from rare luxury to common staple. It contrasts ancient tastes with modern abundance, noting future generations may distrust sweetness while children remain drawn to desserts and confections. It laments artificial diets and celebrates natural fruit sweetness as a test of edibility.
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Cventill Mageasion
Horace
Virgil
Anis Socrates
Plater
Paris
Tavana's Amusements Mix Of Bullfights and Spanish Picnic
A fragmented account describes bullfights at Picca de Tors in Kigia with six bulls killed amid a militant band and cheering mobs. In the evening a Koimoria Asturians Spanish picnic features dances, booths, arches, costumed participants, and a lively fairground with games, foods, and electric lights.
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Tavana
Picca de Tors
Kigia
Posture as Related to the Iraim In Medical Journal
The article reports M Delaunay's investigations on posture in sitting and limb arrangement. It notes left brain develops before the right and details various cross-arm and leg patterns among different groups including Chinese Europeans robust children Tivus Sho panneak women dancers infants under three and adults, with reversals by age.
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M. Delaunay
Tivus Sho Panneak
Valuable metals and iridium noted in ancient record
The fragment describes nineteen known metals with Tar and Phigh values, saying iridium is the sole one widely valued and used, at about $1,000 per pound, occasionally in electrical experiments, while others are rarely considered valuable.
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George Mednab
United States
Winter Logging Camps and Odd Tales From The Woods
A Cleveland Herald excerpt describes frontier wood camps where loggers aged 17 to 65 live in simple, smoky camps built of logs and earth. They eat beans and pork, sleep on boughs, and pass evenings with yarns and songs as wages drop. The piece notes low pay, large labor inflows from New England, and the rough but wholesome routine of winter lumbering.
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Hart Wek
Sieky Times
Biowrerie Coe
Gamle
Boston
Cleveland Herald
Jackson
Hye
Far West
Ancient Cowboy Ropework and Harsh Customs in Hrande
The article describes a brutal rope and saddle routine used to train bucking horses, detailing tack, lariats, blindfolds, and mounting methods amidst harsh handling. It then contrasts this with old French land sale customs and various curiosities on topics like public song, vocal physiology, honesty in Naples, Arab coffee grinding, and snail consumption.
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New York
Jess Iruull
Spee
Cementtic
Agai
Hrande
France
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