Mohawk chubs described as graceful northern stream fish
Harper's Weekly excerpt by Robert W. Chambers portrays Mohawk chubs as elegant, pure silver fish with a darker dorsal ridge. The piece notes their presence in northern trout waters, their appeal to predators like pickerel and muskellunge, and their lively fight when fished with light tackle in cold swift waters. It also mentions birds such as herons and kingfishers frequenting the habitat and recounts an osprey catching a Mohawk chub weighing about a pound.
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Robert W. Chambers
Harper's Weekly
Bucharest’s carnival spirit and ancient craft mingle in the market scene
The piece paints Bucharest as a vibrant metropolis of pleasures and palaces where eastern market life meets western comforts. It describes street stalls, wooden cupboards, leather sandals, peppers and grain, and social scenes of workers and builders amid a carnival atmosphere. Also covered is a natural history note on ant colonies and a Russia regional practice on purchasing wives with prices cited.
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Herbert Vivian
Saturday Review
Early Japanese university in the eighth century
The article notes an eighth century Japanese university with divisions in medicine ethics mathematics and history. It cites texts on women diseases materia medica veterinary surgery, noting such textbooks appeared in Europe about a millennium later. It includes a comic exchange about conduct on a car and a Seneca quote on wealth and desire.
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Japan
Brave English Officer Tamed Hyde Park Rioters in 1866
In Hyde Park during the 1866 reform riots an English officer, summoned to deploy his regiment, faced a mob tearing fences for fires. After learning his men were coming, he walked to the crowd in uniform and asked for help to cross their improvised barrier. The leader and mob cooperated, allowing him to pass amid cheers.
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Atlantic Monthly
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Poker Chips and Card Handling Wisdom
The New York Herald weighs in on poker etiquette and risk. It warns that many knaves exist in games and warns players to beware of recoil in big hands. It cautions against careless bets and urges precise card cutting as the safe method.
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New York Herald
A Japanese Legend and a York Archbishop Tale
Readable fragments recount two historical anecdotes. One describes Marco Polo’s tale of Tartarian invasion and a Japanese army of 30 000 besieged in a tower with eight survivors wearing stone charms that prevent fatal wounds. The second shares Archbishop Thompson’s narcotic induced flight of illusion upon news of his York appointment.
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Tartary
Marble Bible of Burma A Vast Buddhist Ledger
The Kutho-daw near Mandalay boasts about 700 marble temples forming a square with a central dominating temple. Each marble slab bears over 8,000,000 syllables of a Pali language Buddhist Bible engraved on white marble. Erected in 1857 by Mindon-min, it is the world’s most remarkable sacred anthology.
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Burma
Mandalay
Mindon-min
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