Delights of Dining and the Diner’s Creed
A narrative on the philosophy of dining as a serious art. The speaker contrasts the diner with the diner out, recalls a partnerless business conflict over a vol-au-vent and port, and muses on soup devotion, dinner discipline, and social dinners with figures like Thomas Pigge and Macaulay.
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Charles Nutcomb
Charles
Nutcomb
Gorgburg & Pigge
Thomas Pigge
Fenslermakers
Henry Pain
London Illustrated News
Cinderella and Her Slipper Reconsidered by Translation
A critic argues the fairy tale’s slipper was originally a fur or felt pantoufle en vair not glass. The mistranslation pantonile en verre led readers to imagine a glass slipper, a notion the author deems anachronistic yet charming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis Republic
Virginia's Only Slave Becomes Bell Ringer Legend
The Richmond State notes Virginia's single enslaved person Ben, once called the Bell Ringer at the University of Virginia. Endowed with $200, the university bought him to serve as bell ringer. Ben, famed across campus, drank heavily from student fees and died in Albemarle poorhouse at an advanced age.
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Albemarle
Richmond State
Contagious Epilepsy Strikes Northamptonshire Volunteers
A Westminster Gazette corresp describes a curious case of contagious epilepsy among the Northamptonshire rifle volunteers at Wakefield Lawn. At 6:30 am during guard changes, a sergeant collapsed in an epileptic fit, followed by five more volunteers within two minutes. Ambulance aid arrived as the group halted duty. five remained unaffected, but the others were invalided after the episode.
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Northamptonshire Rifle
Wakefield Lawn
Northamptonshire
Duke of Grafton
Ambulance Corps
Westminster Gazette
Bicycles Restricted for War Use by French Minister
The London News reports that General Loizillon, France's war minister, bans military bicycle use to prepared ground only. Cyclists must stay for garrison duty and rear communications, with horses preferred in combat and maneuvers.
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France
Loizillon
Cyclist Corps
London News
A Ride on the Ferris Wheel in Sedalia Memoir
A Sedalia Missouri woman describes a Ferris wheel ride with the wind weaving through iron mesh. She likens the motion to a harp and imagines celestial music from the distant aeons as the ride carries travelers above the ground.
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Sedalia
Stuttering German Children In Schools Report
A late census shows 80000 stuttering children in German schools. The habit is rising as children imitate peers. School authorities have begun steps to reduce the number affected. Professor Garner continues his study of monkey language. A letter from his Fort Gorilla cage notes a collection of curiosities and animals sent from Fernandez Warz, Africa.
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Germany
New York Tribune
Garner
Fort Gorilla
England
Fernandez Warz
Africa
Barneys Double Bluff At Kentucky Delegation
In a debate at the Kentucky headquarters during a Democratic convention a scene erupts when Barney Biglin questions ex Judge Dittenhoefer of New York. Biglin challenges Dittenhoefer to prove his identity by wagering $20, exposing a political ruse and ending with both men remaining friends.
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Chicago
Ben
Dittenhoefer
Chi
Grant
Pei
Bernard Biglin
Biglin
Kentucky
New York
Judge Dittenhoefer
Barney
Diglin
Dakota
Dalrymple
New York Post
Humorous Congress Story and Vegetable Head Parable
A Detroit Free Press joke about a congressman recounts a friend buying and selling a jackass for 500 and 400 dollars as a cautionary tale of excess. The Boston Transcript then notes a French periodical comparing brain shapes to vegetables, citing walnuts as brain, and other organs to fruit and plants.
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Congress
Detroit Free Press
Boston Transcript
The Katydid Song Technique Described
The Washington Star explains how male katydids sing by elevating their wing covers and rubbing two membranous plates together at the base of the wings. The article notes this generates the sound, and suggests a human imitates the action by rubbing shoulder blades together.
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Washington Star
How full he is of his subject yet slow to empty
In a Paris salon, remarks about a famed lecturer circulate. One observer praises his breadth of topic while another quips he is slow to convey it, capturing a witty exchange in a cultured crowd.
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Macaulay
Eton
K.—Temple
Salle Des Capucines
Martin
A Poetic Irish Jaunt and a Chicago Theatre Pioneer
Besant’s Queens town trip includes Irish chatter and a joke about polite greetings. Also featured is Uncle Dick Hooley, a famed Chicago theatre manager regarded as generous and upright across his career from Brooklyn to Chicago. The Philadelphia zoo warns it may lose animals due to fundraising shortfalls.
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Dick Hooley
Richard M
Chicago
Hooley
Brooklyn
Joe Howard
New York Recorder
Woman’s health testimonials for Lydia E. Pinkham products
Readers Helen Smith of Chicago and E. Fox of Woodstown share relief from long standing womb trouble and leucorrhoea after using Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and Sonative Wash. They praise renewed energy and the ability to work, urging others to try the remedy sold by druggists with confidence.
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Belgium
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Nautical Magazine
Walter Besant
Ireland
Philadelphia Zoo
Helen Smith
Livia E
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Barber Soaps OF All
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Dresser
Maynard’s Block
Neil Currie & CO
Maynard, Mass
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Liberty Street
R. W. Geddes
W. D. Cross & CO
Concord
L. N. Fowler
A. D. Russel
Waynard
Augustus Fletcher
Marlboro Laundry
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Middlesex Institution For Savings
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Clark
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Hapgood
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Anterprise
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W. A. Cunningham
the Hartford Satelleg
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Acton
Stow
Boxboro
Littleton
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Jones and Wetherbes
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James Devane
West Acton, Mass
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Tuttle
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