26 Apr 1877
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Times
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1877
Page
1
The diary recounts entering a city hotel with paper walls and native hospitality. Guests dine on a shockingly unfamiliar menu and learn to use chopsticks, while a police visit precedes a late-night bath and onward exploration. The experience ends with a rooftop breakfast and a total cost of 1.75 dollars for two.
A London science piece reports on an expedition idea to locate Buriad cities in Central Asia and possible treasures in Mongolia. It cites legends of Genghis Khan, Mangels stories from Colonel Prejevalsky, and prophecies of hidden burials under Gobi sands guarded by spirits. Dr. Bellows notes such buried cities may be revealed naturally.
A fire in St Louis exposed a tale of a heiress daughter of Henry P. Flow who wed a Russian count. After the blaze a letter showed the husband’s wealth claims were false and he was an utter imposter. The Natchel sister warned of deceit by flashy foreign suitors seeking wealth.
Mandarin Mang, head of the Chinese Embassy in Paris, encounters an American on a train who pretends to own a rain loco locomo and a carriage. He offers to sell both devices for ten thousand francs, Mang pays, receives a receipt, and the American disappears at the next stop.
A playful scene features a young colored stamp turned arithmetical prodigy who solves a riddle about multiplying to seven. After mock anger and urban scolding, the boy calmly asks how many is seven times fine, prompting a remembered Boston Traveler letter from Wassau.
Lippincotts Magazine May presents Lady Blanche Murphy on Down the Rhine with engravings and Alsatian peasant scenes, Parisian Club Life by C T Harding, Schliemann notes, Walter Mitchell on Burials, theatrical gossip, The Marquis of Lossier instalment, Abbess of Ischia, A Superfluity of Nobleness, A Queen of Burlesque, poems by Emma Lazarus and Mary K Dodge, and Monthly Gossip on Bulgarian Rose Harvests and house selling.
Professor Loomis predicts wireless aerial telegraphy soon replacing wires, citing a 12 mile test via kite string and ground receiver. Congress debates funding Captain Howgate’s Arctic expedition, proposing a copperfastened 618ton vessel for three years and a total project cost near 860,000, excluding explorer compensation.
A London examiner cites a hyperbolic Zonron piece lampooning U S political and social chaos. It claims unelected candidates roam Capitol gardens, juries are bought, Boston runs riot, and Congress bans telegraph use with tea and coffee levies. It references connections from New York to Yosemite via Marmoth Cave Kentucky.
An offering extols Trostetter's Stomach Bitters as a universal strengthener reversing pebbling caused debility. It claims to vitalize the body and regulate organs, with thousands of cited cases across liver disease dyspepsia nervous ailments and rheumatic issues.
A historical proposal outlines moving Cleopatra's Needle from Alexandria to the Thames and erecting the monolith in Paris's Place de la Concorde. The plan suggests towing the obelisk on a barge after a wooden casing is fitted, with estimated costs around £7,000 and debate over a suitable site near Orléans.
A curious calculation argues mankind is a vast cemetery with every square rood burial. Tecumseh Sherman Jr., ten, is shy yet military minded, drawing forts and soldiers and reading the Army Register. West Point ignites his hopes as cousins clash over northern troubles.
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