Fishermen’s Year End Shares Stir Balladhoo Quay
In Peel harbor during a harvest of accounts the Balladhoo crew tallies three hundred pounds earned by the boat. The master takes four shares, the owner eight, each man two, plus a share for the boy and the boat. Christian protests his two shares for work, offerings half to the berth rival and half to Danny Fayle. Kisseck grumbles over a low take while provisioning costs rise. Wives gather as the reckoning closes with murmurs of Meailley and a night vow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peel Harbor
Tommy Bill-beg
Kerruish
Christian
Bailadhoo
Danny
Bridget
Kisseck
Balladhoo
Mylrea Balladhoo
Christan
Danny Fayle
Meailley
Bill Kisseck
Ruby Cregeen
Spanny
Ruby von
Lome
Chrristian
Jemmy Balladhoo
Cruel Nature and Fishers Meet at Peel Herring Supper
Danny and Ruby discuss life and nature while plotting a night gathering at the Jolly Herrings. Mona schemes to join a supper by hiding oil-skins. The Manx herring fleet gathers at Peel for a raucous feast presided over by Christian as tales of life, sport, and fate unfold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruby
Danny
Allis
Nathur
Mona
Christian
Bill
Bill Kisseck
Guzzlin
Christian Mylrea
Oxford College
Household hints on china closets and croquettes
Household hints describe wall built china closets with leaded panes, corks softened in boiling water for easy bottle sealing, and savory bean croquettes mixed with breadcrumbs butter eggs and parsley. It notes sweibach bread as a popular German loaf for dyspeptic lunches, toasted lightly then used with jam, milk, or plain.
The Jolly Herrings Night Chooses Mylrea Ballaadhoo
In a lively scene at the Jolly Herrings, Christian Mylrea, famed for his Oxfordian polish, faces friendly ribbing and flirtations with leadership as Bill Kisseck and Kis sec weigh his claim to the elder chair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oxford College
Bill Kisseck
Bill
Kisseck
Hisseck
Christian
Christian Mylrea Balladhoo
Miscellany of curiosities and oddities from diverse locales
A jaunty miscellany notes a German youth’s failed disguise to dodge service as a female cook, Duxbury Vermont’s liquor trade, San Diego’s growing guano port, and US dependence on the electric power industry. It also mentions Miss Overall in Kansas City, a Nashville Ferris wheel experiment, and a bed position fun fact about circulation. Travel tales report African skin oil to prevent chapping, with Nile winds and skin cracking dangers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Munchberg
Germany
Duxbury
Vermont
San Diego
Cal
United States
Kansas City
Miss Overall
Pants
Kansas
Nashville
Africa
Nile
A White Hangman Lesson at Fort Smith
An anecdotal tale recounts an American hangman visiting the Fort Smith guard-house to bid farewell to a condemned white man named Pete. The executioner urges resignation, boasts about past hangings, and promises a careful, first-class job, with plans to return the next day to shave Pete and rehearse the act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliver Wendell Holmes
New York Sun
Fort Smith
Pete
Peter
van Buren
December major literary notes from Harper & Brothers
Harper & Brothers will publish A Virginia Cavalier by Mollie Elliott Seawell The Relation of Literature to Life by Charles Dudley Warner In Bohemia with Du Maurier by Felix Moscheles illustrated with sixty three drawings Frances ardeaux by Rebecca Harding Davis In the January Har t s a paper Science at the Beginning of the Century by Henry Smith Williams will aid the history of nineteenth century civilization fully illustrated Also a Chicago Record snippet notes individual communion cups for church use sparking humorous exchange
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messrs. Harper & Brothers
Mollie Elliott Seawell
Charles Dudley Warner
Bohemia
du Maurier
Felix Moscheles
Frances Ardeaux
Rebecca Harding Davis
Hart
Henry Smith Williams
Oversight Noted On New Thousand-Dollar Notes
Facetious Farrington notes a New York World remark that thousand-dollar notes appear badly printed on bum paper. Ambling Anderson comments on the oversight and newspapers discuss the issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anderson
Farrington
New York World
Also Mentioned on This Page
BY Hall
Deemster
Manxman
Davy Celin
Davy Cain Kisseck
Tommy Billbeg
Peel
Indale
Scotland
Tommy
Black-eyed
Sue
Chicago
Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Lafayette
Frank J. Rezo
Gro, W. Hayruts
D. P. A. Indianapolis
J. M. McConneux
Dermatolo
La-Veque
Davis St
Syracuse
N.Y
American Association of Physicians
Eleanor Kendall
North 25Th St
South Omaha
R. Kay
Dr. B. Kay Medical Co
Omaha
Neb
W. T. Conover
Columbia, My
O Farrell
Wasaington
D.C
C. C. Snimer
Omaha, Neb
SG Lala
DR. Kay
J.l.stepre
IIU
Eer
Dragaiate
Ayer
Free
J. C. Ayer Co
Lowell
Mass
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