Home-brewed drinks and strange cordials from nature
The article surveys various rural beverages including Violet cordial made from fresh violets and aged by farmers, sloe wine popular in Durham, cowslip wine, and traditional herb teas. It notes strawberry and currant plant leaves drinks, mint and dandelion brews, and even unusual recipes like sawdust liquor and palm wine from palm and cocoa tree sap. It also mentions a Natal molasses drink Isushimiyawa, described as a deadly intoxicant stronger than known alcohol.
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Durham
India
China
France
Natal
Careful Growth of Flounders Reveals Surprising Eye Shifts
The article explains flounder development from vertical hatchling to bottom-dwelling adults. It details how eyes migrate around the head, causing body tilt and eventual underside swimming. Right and left sided forms exist, with rare mixed populations in some species. St. Nicholas reports this remarkable transformation.
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St. Nicholas
Big Game Hunting Risks in Elephants and Rhinos
The excerpt ranks elephant, seladang, rhino, tiger, and lion by danger, noting elephant’s brute strength and difficult vital spots, seladang’s fierce vitality, rhino’s hard-to-reach brain, and big cats’ lightning ferocity. It emphasizes close, precise aiming and the peril of wounded beasts in dense jungle settings.
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Inala
Old Pirate Dreams and Red Blood on the Sea
Stephen Chalmers in New York Times recalls a coastguard tale of war and ships. The pirate legend centers on the flag red as blood and the Spider with deadly fangs as the sailor drinks and recalls Morgan Kidd and Janes.
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Yesternight
Morgan
Kidd
Janes
Stephen Chalmers
New York Times
Prodigal Son Play Tease Ends With Fatted Calf
In North Baltimore a boastful young man named Charles Sapp is pranked by a note asking him to join a student play. He replies with arrogance, then the next morning receives the punch line The fatted calf. through a witty exchange reported by the Baltimore Herald.
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Baltimore
Mr. Sapp
the Prodigal Son
Wagner Too Strenuous Threatens Nome Piano
In Nome Alaska the lone pianist Oscar plays an automatic piano brought from Dawson City. Dick Dawson, owner of a combined saloon and gambling hall, reacts with alarm when the Ride of the Valkyries crashes from the instrument. A bystander explains the music is Wagner. Dawson threatens to kill the pianist.
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Nome
Alaska
Dick Dawson
Dawson City
Oscar
The
Valkyries
Dawson
Wagner
New York Sun
How He Meant to Reform
A reminiscence attributed to Dick Wintersmith recounts a friend John Wires dying from a whisky beard fire after trying to blow out a candle. The tale leads Wintersmith to resolve never to blow out another candle, framed as a reform lesson.
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Dick Wintersmith
Washington
Phil Thompson
John Wires
John
Joe Blackburn
New York Times
Take Your Pillow Along
Vice President Knowlton of Raymond & Whitcomb urges travelers to bring their own pillow for better sleep in any bed. He claims comfort depends on the pillow, not the bed, citing years of travel and a belief that pillow preference should be learned in childhood.
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Marty
Knowlton
Raymond & Whitcomb Company
Revered Dougherty Recalls St Louis Exposition Tale
The Rev James T Dougherty rector of St Marys Canandaigua recounts visiting the St Louis exposition He recalls an Irish exhibitor displaying relics including a tree stump with deer antlers embedded The Irishman jokes that the deer must have been buttin in offering a homely explanation for the unusual find.
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James T. Dougherty
St. Mary’s Church
Canandaigua
St. Louis Exposition
New York Times
Freshman Remembered by Prof Luther at Trinity Hartford
An anecdote from Trinity College Hartford recalls the inauguration of Dr Luther as president. A freshman’s books split open on a rainy day near Northam Hall, and the professor quietly teased him with a smile and the remark I never can, you know.
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Luther
Trinity College
Hartford
Northam Hall
Prof
New York Times
Azure realms and a lover's gaze in New Orleans Times-Democrat
The poem speaks of finding heaven in a beloved's eyes, contrasting idealized azure realms with intimate reality. Ralph E. Fassett expresses joyous longing and the shift from distant dreams to a personal, intimate happiness.
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Ralph E. Fassett
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Eastern Coffee History and Global Spread to Java and Beyond
The account traces coffee from Arabia to Java under the island’s governor-general, then to Surinam in 1718 and to the West Indies within a decade. It explains ideal growing altitudes, bean variation by region, and compares Eastern coffee to Central and South American varieties. It notes plant height, leaf type, and the cherry like fruit with a purple ripe color.
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Arabia
Java
Botanical Gardens
Amsterdam
Surinam
West Indies
Tropics
Siberia
Perjury in Courts Revealed by City Restoration Case
The Brooklyn Citizen discusses a Polish church priest returning $550 to a street railway company on behalf of a woman who admitted false testimony in a damages suit. The piece argues widespread perjury harms, aided by lawyer advice and lax enforcing authorities, urging reform.
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Manhattan
Brooklyn
Forester Captures Large Trout in Red Vale Stream
In Harper's Weekly Robert W. Chambers recalls a polite head forester using a bamboo pole and rope line to catch a five pound twelve ounce trout, twenty one inches long from a fast swollen stream. The angler notes the fish’s improbable fate and muses on morals.
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Robert W. Chambers
Harper's Weekly
Big Head Forester
Jess
Future State and the Problem of Afterlife
The author questions immortality and argues conscience guides us beyond this life. He ponders the social state if vice evades justice, contrasts moral instincts with physical science, and notes the materialist must account for “something” beyond mere evolution in the inquiry. New York Sun.
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Lazarus
New York
Schopenhauer
New York Sun
Lament of Uncle Hiram on War, Weapons, and Independence
A regional voice laments weaponry and national glory from past wars to modern times. The speaker Iran aims at veterans, recalls 1812 and Mexican battles, questions progress, and imagines simpler tactics like oars winning against foe. The piece blends humor with pointed critique.
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Azure
State of Man
Hiram
Wren
Wren Rifles
Mexico
Spain
Joo-an
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