World rail miles and curious counts top page
A miscellany recounts global rail totals by region, murder and execution figures, and vessel names in the U S shipping register. It notes Britain declining a 5000 pound Antarctic grant, Madame Vincenti’s lifesaving feat, and many ships bearing names of Grant Johnson and Lee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Shipping Register
Grant
Andrew Johnson
Benjamin F. Butler
Winfield
Hancock
Gen. McClellan
Robert FE
Lee
Jefferson Daviy
Boston
Grovers Cleveland
New Orleans
Innes G. Bilal
Chauncey M. Depew
John Sherman
Missing sailor boy and a tale of remorse in two pieces
A fragmentary verse recalls a missing sailor with blue eyes and sunny hair as a lover who vowed to return. The prose segment follows Eve planning poison after a failed relationship, depicting a treacherous suitor and a druggist’s calm, hopeful reply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sailor Boy
The Coat of Deceit and a Poisoned Fate
Eve Wilton discovers a belt of letters in her husband Tom's coat revealing his past love affair. Believing herself betrayed she contemplates suicide, but a poison scare ends when Tom fetches an antidote and the truth emerges. Eve realizes the letters were from his mother and she misinterpreted the situation, leading to a near tragedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
New York
Europe
France
Department
Washington
Dahomey
Tom
Eve
Eve Bo
Sol
Eva
Eve Wilton
Denar Tom
Nellie
Wea
Johnson
Uia
Mr. Hoffman
New York World
Germany
Barnstadt
Bismarck
San [Temo
A Deer With Snowshoe Hoofs In North American Range
A naturalist piece describes the caribou and the barren-ground deer in North America. It explains their adaptation to snow, with expanding hoofs acting as snow shoes, allowing travel on crusted or soft snow across forested and open ground from Maine to the Pacific and Newfoundland to the Arctic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Newfoundland
Pacific
Arctic Ocean
New Brunswick
Quebec
Gaspe
Crosse‘l
Munters
Lakas
Hudson Bay
New Brangwick
Gaspo
Anny
Seumapande
Europe
Slarper's Weekly
Caribou hunting tales and unrelated world notices
The fragment describes caribou behavior, hunting methods, and the landscape across northern regions with notes on females bearing horns, guides, and seasonal paths. It shifts to a colonial-era anecdote about Austrian burial rites, then discusses church dress, Arab views on women, and social clubs for working girls in cities.
Pearls of Thought and Practical Warnings
A compiled miscellany on self discipline and moral instruction, praising self control as the foundation of character and urging cheerful, serene expression. It includes musings on reading habits, peevishness as a life toxin, and a long digression on trammel net fishing, mail collection security, and a sketched moral exchange about marrying for love versus property.
Pearl in Ash Box Reported by Paris Jeweler
A Paris jeweler advertised a 128 gem pearl valued at $2000. A ragpicker later brought the box to the finder claiming she found the pearl after sorting wet contents outside the jeweler's shop. The item was recovered from the ashes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Sorosis Mentions Woman's Club Origins and Feuds
A historic note on Sorosis founded twenty years ago by Mrs. Croly and others after a perceived slight by the Press club. The piece recounts the organization’s early name change from The Woman's League, member withdrawals, and a trio of joint meetings that influenced social etiquette. It notes current membership exceeding 300 and monthly meeting cadence of first and third Mondays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercial Advertiser
Sorosla
Misa Wield
Press Club
Ravenge
Sorosis
Presa Club
Large Birds Vanishing From Earth Say Experts
A report notes the decline of large birds including the Lammergeyer or Alpine vulture. It claims the species may be extinct in Switzerland, citing a lone female specimen that dwelt on the Bietschhorn for twenty two years and finally died from a narcotic poison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lister
Queen Anne
Pall Mall Gazette
Switzerland
Bietchhorn
Nolron
Scientific scraps and frontier legends in a single tale
A collage of notes covers agricultural charms using lead acetate on seeds, Arctic mountains with Mount Marcy's height, electricity delivering medicine, frozen fish trade, zero sulfuric acid preservation, Italian navy power, glass blowing limits, a new mountain formation theory, boot oiling customs, and a Theodore Roosevelt excerpt on cowboys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Electrical Review
Far
Fence
Switzerland
Mediteranean
Atlantic
A. T. Mellard Reade
Hao
Also Mentioned on This Page
English Channel
Dover
Calais
America
Asia
Africa
Australia
Madame Vincenti
Daniel Pratt
Frank Vincent, Jr
San Francisco
Philadelphia
Regationalist
Harvard
Yale
Amherst
Williams
London
Guy's Hospital
Gloster Town
Ant Ho
James Roche
Independent
PLC
Czar
Empire
Frank Leslie
Farmer's Daughter
Harper's Bazar
American
Snow Belt
Empress
Brazil
Cannes
Profithpie
New Qricang
Burg
Capuching
Austria
Hungary
Tépites
Knoe
Francis
Exanmple
Indy
God
Kimball
Moody and Sankey
Hartford Re
Crown Princess
Besa
Riley of
Eliquette
Boston Journal
the Society of Sorosis
Women's Club
Anys the
Sie EP
Louise Thomas
Croly
Wilbur
Faille Francaise
Nan
Thia
le Kaw
Kansas City Star
THE
Yokohama
Japan
Charles Sumner
Clara Morris
Globe-Democrat
Esck
Reid
West Chester
Penn) Toons News
Ife
Ruasina
Kansas City Journal
Asin
Whiteface
Adirondacks
Seward
McIntyre
Mount Marcy
Theodore Roosevelt
the Contry
Colorado
Yriak
Houch Hil Bey
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