Royalty in the Buffalo Bill Show at Rome
In Rome Buffalo Bill's Wild West arrives beneath the walls of the Eternal City. An usher mumbles about royal seats as a confused Italian crowd seeks boxes and a box mix up leads to comic exchanges with a street of witty observations andImports.
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Scotch Humor and Scotch Impenetrability in Mock Debate
The piece surveys Max ORe ll and Marty Furniss arguing Scotch humor exceeds English, contrasting Sydney Smiths view that Scots lack humor. It cites Mrs Sellars reminiscences supporting ORe ll while noting Smiths doubt, and hints at a clerical remark on rumor.
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Max O'Rell
Marty Furniss
Not to Be Wasted in Swamp Mosquito Fight
Neighbors urge Ben Cury to spray a swamp near his home that bred man eating mosquitoes. Ben refuses exclaiming he and Miss Cary spent 32 on sealing the pits and plans to keep the pests.
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Horse reversible Disc plow on the market
The greatest thing for farmers on the market is the horse reversible Disc plow sold by Carrollton How Co.
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Widow Woman Expression Through Century Old Usage
Essay traces the term widow woman from Old English widuwe to its modern form, noting linguistic evolution and gendered suffix changes. It cites biblical usage in Tekoah, the Wycliffe Bible, and Dickens Barnaby Rudge to illustrate persisting yet evolving phrase.
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Pather and the Peach: God Makes Things for Our Convenience
In a New York Times excerpt a child asks why God places stones in peaches and nuts inside shells. The parent explains divine design follows utility, noting God structures outward fruit while placing inner stones for our convenience.
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New York Times
Bismarck Romance Ends in Tyrol For Bitter End
The young Bismarck, then a university student, fell in love with a Tyrolean peasant girl near Altenthal. He offered marriage and to stay in the Tyrol, renouncing his country, but the girl's Catholic parents objected to a Prussian Protestant, ending the romance as he returned to Berlin-St. James' Ga obi.
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St. James
Gaobi
The I’s and Y’s in Words of English History
The note discusses how endings with y after a vowel change to i or ey in old spellings, with examples like donkey and chimney. It notes earlier times had little distinction between ey and ie and questions the monstrous idea of standardizing ey to ie in various forms.
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