Feigning Death Across Animals and Plants Across Species
The article discusses feigning death as a widespread survival tactic found in animals from microto macro scales and even in plants like the sensitive plant. It cites observations of rhizopods feigning death to avoid a water louse predator and questions how such tiny beings detect danger, noting uncertainty about sensory mechanisms and emphasizing that most carnivores seek fresh rather than tainted prey.
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Vegetable
Wissen
Alle
Toast to laughter and joy in Life sentiment
A quoted Life passage extols laughter as the sunshine of the soul and the privilege of purity. It declares humor dispels dejection, banishes blues, and mends melancholy, praising its power to brighten minds and souls across social strata.
Clothes and Seasons Describe Color Metaphorically in Verse
The excerpt likens personal mood to seasonal color shifts, comparing a desire to shed gray and assume greens and chrysoprase tones with clothing choices. It notes a reluctance to wear autumnal reds and oranges, while recognizing nature’s instinct to change hues. The language evokes a psychic revulsion against fixed color rules in autumn.
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Atlantic
Metaptor Bar Rister’s Bold Future Talk
A self confident young barrister boasted of future fame to Sir Henry Hawkins. The exchange ends with a witty remark about worldly success and ambition. The text includes fragmented references to an office and a day.
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Henry Hawkins
Sirse
J.T. Bradley
A Field and a Garden
A London Spectator passage contrasts fields and gardens, arguing that gardens allure quickly with color and scent while fields demand long, gritty work. It likens a field to a patient friend, whose true knowledge comes from plowed soil and crumbling furrows, unlike the cautious trespass of a garden.
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London Spectator
Poisoned Spring Gas Fumes In Auvergne Affects Animals
In the Auvergne region a large amount of carbonic acid gas emerges from soil fissures linked to former volcanic activity. Montpensier springs yield the gas, known as the poisoned spring, suffocating animals that drink or pass near the vents and staining vegetation where gas seeps rise across fields.
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Auvergne
France
Montpensier
Japanese dentist pulls teeth with one hand method
The piece notes a Japanese dentist who performs tooth extraction using only the forefinger and thumb, without metal tools. The skill takes long practice. once mastered, he can grasp several teeth in about thirty seconds without removing his fingers. It contrasts this with education starting from pulling pegs into wool to drawing hard pegs driven into oak.
This Life of Ours Life Ends in Nightly Weeping and Pity
The Atchison Globe reflects on sleepless children crying in the night and the sorrow of a life soon to be forgotten amid the woes of existence. It ponders whether dreams reveal a miserable future and if any person truly deserves pity for some reason.
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Atchison Globe
Timely Werning and the Revolver Dispatch
Mr H tested a revolver by firing blanks into the air when his daughter Natalie aged Bix appeared distressed. She cried Oh papa, you shoot at the sky, alarmed by the noisy display and the danger posed to those nearby.
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Natalie
Bix
Dyrill
Ainu Of Yezo Describe Hair, Tattoos And Legends
A Chicago News report outlines the Ainu of Yezo as hairier than other peoples with tattooed lips and foreheads for married women. It notes their copper skin, lack of written records, legends of pit dwellers, possible migrations from the north, and claims of no religion or belief in an afterlife.
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Yezo
Kurile Islands
Bering
Alaska
Bering Sea
Kamchatka
Kuriles
Bleing
Jiandor
Chicago News
The Old Masters Pay Rates in Ancient Times
A collector notes original wages of famed artists. Michael Angelo earned about $48 a month on his Pisa cartoons, Leonardo the same, Correggio under $10 for Christ In the Garden, Carracci less for Resurrection. Durer often received non cash rewards, Rembrandt under 500 for Night Watch, Velazquez mostly for Spanish government averaging $35 per painting.
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Michael Angelo
Pisa
Leonardo
Correggio
Garden
Carracci
Albert Durer
Rembrandt
Valesquez
Street car receipts in Mexico ward off fare theft and fraud
A New York Sun reader recalls street car conductors in the City of Mexico issuing numbered receipts to each fare. The vouchers double as monthly lottery tickets, prompting passengers to demand a proper receipt and acting as a check on fares collected.
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Cara
Mexico
New York Sun
Surprise Birthday Talk on Houston Post Quotation
A brief caption notes a birthday remark and a husband’s surprise. The exchange references a husband arriving home before midnight, framed as a light social line in the Houston Post.
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Houston Post
Dr Pierce Medicines Highlight Ongoing Popularity and Claims
A historical ad praising Dr Pierce medicines cites long standing popularity and superior merits. It extols Golden Medical Discovery for stomach, liver and blood issues, asserts honesty and full ingredient disclosure, warns against substitutes, promotes Favorite Proprietary and Pleasant Pellets as effective tonics and laxatives.
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Seren
Dr. Piercets
Dr. Pierce
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