Little Elizabeth and Squeaky Mouse Tales for Young Readers
A collage of children’s vignettes from St Nicholas featuring Elizabeth’s luncheon quandaries, a birthday cue to “Toodles,” and Mr. and Mrs. Squeaky the mice in a cellar tale. The pieces mix folk whimsy with a final moral on government responsibility and poverty’s grip.
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Elizabeth
Sarah Josephine Albright
St. Nicholas
Squeaky
Johnnie
Maggie
Mr. Squeaky
Mrs. Squeaky
Papa Mouse
Mamma Mouse
What the Opening of the Panama Canal May Mean
The Hamburg shipowners publish a statement on savings in travel distances once the canal opens. Key figures show routes shortened by thousands of miles, linking Europe with San Francisco, Valparaiso, Australia, and Asia. The canal will reshape global currents, pairing Europe with China and Japan in new maritime terms.
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Panama Canal
Hamburg
Europe
San Francisco
Montreal
Sydney
Valparaiso
England
Australia
New Zealand
New York
Shanghai
China
Japan
Reading Character by Teeth
A Berlin physiognomist argues mouth and teeth reveal disposition. Protruding upper teeth signal deceitful, disagreeable traits, more common in women. too many teeth suggests chatter and bore. eye tooth shape supposedly predicts faithfulness or temperament. tooth spacing and alignment allegedly indicate business prudence, energy, and legal aptitude.
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Berlin
Delayed appreciation of Corot works tops New York sale
A Corot painting titled Lake Nemi sold at a New York auction for £17000, the highest price yet paid at a picture sale for a Barbison school masterwork. The article recalls Millet’s hardship and fame, and traces past prices of The Angelus and other Millet works, noting evolving valuations and patronage through collectors and dealers.
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Corot
Lake Nemi
New York
Barbison, School
Theodore Rosseau
Rousseau
Millet
Angelus
Feydeau
AAG
M. Secretan
Antonin Proust
New and Interesting World Facts Collated From Various Studies
A compilation of curious statistics and oddities about health, industry, geography, and culture. Notes include Gibraltar tunnels, Niagara water flow, German female workforce, London income tax, Japanese time divisions, Munich beer, and the potential for resuscitation after lightning. Also mentions a Pecos Texas Bible reading, ambergris from whales, and Siam water tests for truth.
Fishing with a steam pump in France shocks ponds
A France discovered steam pump method drains ponds to harvest fish and crawfish in hours. Each piston stroke lifts twenty five gallons drawing water and stock with mud and fish, spreading to neighboring ponds. Local authorities halted the practice to prevent rapid extinction of fish.
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France
la Marlequatte
Automobile jack lifts entire car in one go
A new steel automobile jack lifts all four wheels at once. It uses two angled frames connected by heavy chain and strengthened by cross bars. The differential screw shifts the car backward to align frames under the axles, elevating both front and rear axles simultaneously.
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Siam
Customs of English Gypsy Marriage and Beliefs
Traditional English gypsy marriage often involved jumping a besom and minimal ceremony, with early marriages and flight of brides to avoid parental control. Reports recount brutal ancient punishments for immorality, frequent baptisms in Germany, and strong food rules. Funeral customs include burning belongings to prevent haunting, with vessels and relics discarded or sunk, and oaths sworn by kin.
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England
Wales
Hearnes
Germany
Mr. Thompson
Mersey
Tyne
Wind upon the Hill Beyond the World Poem Fragment
A fragment from Chambers’s Journal titled Mayberkeley recounts a dreamlike scene of wind over hills beyond the world. The speaker hears hidden dancers among rustling leaves and glimpses the Wee Folk bearing the scent of dying blossoms. The vision ends as the wind rests and the leaves fade into the opal west.
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Loenea
Mayberkeley
Mm ‘'Chambers
Napoleon’s Maxims in a Selec tion from the Emperor’s Sayings
A published selection of Napoleon Bonaparte maxims is presented, with varied reflections on war, leadership, society, and human nature. Notable lines address diplomacy, danger, courage, usefulness of fear, and governance, alongside literary opinions and social critique.
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Napoleon
M. Bertant
Caesar
Hannibal
Turenne
Prince Eugene
Frederick the Creat
Never hold anyone by the button to be heard
Ethical adage attributed to Chesterfield cautions against forcing attention by physical enticement. The maxim suggests restraint when others resist listening, preferring to stay silent rather than press or manipulate a listener. It reflects thoughtful communication over coercion.
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Chesterfield
The Green Sun of Egypt
In Egypt the setting sun often appears green as it nears the horizon and enlarges, then the sky hues shift to blue toward the zenith. The phenomenon occurs at sunrise too, and ancient Egyptians linked the green sun to Osiris and death, as seen in priestly coffins and funeral deities colored green.
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Egypt
Osiris
Ouiris
Ammon
Court Language for Russian Sovereigns Reflected in Speech
The text explains how rulers are addressed in Russian history and church usage. It contrasts formal court terms Gosudar and Gosudarimys with common speech that avoids Czarevitch and Czars, noting the Empress is called Gosudarinya and similar titles.
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Myssiang
Czaritea
Czarevitch
Gosudar
Gosudar Imperator
Crariten
Gosudarimys
Gosudarinya Inpperatritza
Magnifying power beyond the spectroscope unveiled
A new instrument surpasses the spectroscope by unimaginable magnification. At Cambridge Sir J J Thomson tests a device combining a spectroscope and camera, claiming to reveal chemical combinations existing only in a fraction of a second and to revolutionize fundamental matter science.
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Earth
J J Thomson
Derivation of United States Names
A compact review of state name origins citing Alabama Arkansas California Carolina Colorado Connecticut Dakota Delaware Florida Georgia Georgia connects to English, Spanish, and Indian sources. It notes Louis XIV Louisiana Maryland Maine and Massachusetts with brief etymologies and references historic figures and regions.
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Alabama
Ala
Arkanas
Kansas
Arkansas
California
Cal
East Indies
Carolina
N.C
Carolinas
Charles IX
France
Colorado
Colo
Connecticut
Conn
Long River
Connecticut River
Dakota
South
Delaware
Del
Bay
Lord de la Warr
Florida
Fla
Ponce de Leon
Georgia
George I
England
Union
Indiana
Ind
Iowa
Kans
Kentucky
Louisiana
Louis XIV
Maryland
Henriette Maria
Charles I
Maine
Henrietta Maria
Massachusetts
Mass
Great Hills
Michigan
Mich
Great Lake
Wise and Otherwise. The Turnstil's Salutations We gates
A collage of fragmented quips and dialogues from a bygone era. The snippets touch on weather, airships, jokes about shaving, music, memory, and petty domestic scenes, with a thread of social humor and mild satire. Several lines depict conversations about marriage, work, and daily folly in a quaint, period voice.
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Florence
Tee
Papa
Lide
John
Nie
Kitty
Mrs
Agus
Rocks of
Gibraltar
Niagara
Bram
Temperance Society
City of London
Munich
Austria
Oversea
America
Hansom
South America
Eugenie
Prince Imperial
Pecas
Texas
Nore
Briain
Chronicle
Tartuffe
Beaumarchais
Paris
Wisdon
CIAR
United States
North Dales
Winsband
Cs . Co
Monty
Jimesol
Eve
Bobby
Weill
Johnny
Li Clothier
Lydia
Army
Navy
Sambo
Mr.Woodly
Areia
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