Humor in Mourning Tales by William Winter
Winter recalls pallbearer moments with Joseph Jefferson at McCulloughs funeral and Edwin Booth at John Broughams burial. He notes Jefferson’s quip about so many walking gentlemen in their profession and Booth and he observing graveyard comedy under a tree with Hamlet like rueful smiles and the last recall.
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Joseph Jefferson
McCullough
Philadelphia
Mr. Winter
John Brougham
Edwin Booth
Booth
Hamlet
Horatio
Trouble making is an older industry than steel
An essay contrasts imaginary, borrowed, and real trouble from ancient times to modern life. It cites Cain and Eve and the boiler makers while urging endurance and a path of happiness through philosophy, physical culture, and diet as guidance.
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Tubal Cain
Eve
Adam
Boilermakers’ Union
Puck
De Pachmanns Odd Buckingham Palace Ordeal
The pianist De Pachmann refused a summons from Queen Alexandra at Buckingham Palace citing anarchist beliefs. Persuaded to behave, he was sent home by cab after a long night in London, his location forgotten except that his home lay in a square containing a church. He wandered the city seeking his residence.
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de Pachmann
Queen Alexandra
Buckingham Palace
de Pachmannu
Palace
London
Glasgow chess boastker humbled by a clerk’s retort
In a Glasgow club a bragging youth boasted equal skill to Wyllie the champion. James Moir recalls the moment as the elder player asked him to remove his hat and then replaced it with a large one that covered the youth’s nose. He challenged the youth with That’s his measure prompting a quick exit.
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Wiilie
Glasgow
John Barleycorn
Wyllie
The Servant and the Factory Woman
A London Woman Worker essay contrasts factory life with sculpture shops and kitchens. It laments confinement and deprivation of workers, noting women meet varied humanity in factories yet suffer bondage in domestic roles.
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London
Permit Prices for African Game and Animal Limits
In German African possessions a $200 permit covers shooting. Special permission needed to kill more than two giraffes four rhinoceroses and six zebras. For elephants one task from each animal killed must be reported. Hunters get small payments for lion panther wild boar or hyena. Gazelles antelopes and monkeys permit costs ten dollars.
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Africa
Higher Power and the Bend of Kings and Czars
A quotation notes that all power bends to a higher power and that a czar typically has a czarina nearby, reflecting the way authority yields to greater authority in political life.
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Richmond Times ‘Dispatch
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