Many Old World and American Notes Mixed in Digest
A compilation of brief items touches on Harvard president remarks, English law trade, Newfoundland fishing rights, and danger from inquest death counts. It cites Alabama oyster beds taxed for revenue, an ocean cable plan from British Columbia to Australia, and Cyrus W Field’s cable route. Also noted are fish preservation risks, Elkton monument plans, New York City disease maps, press influence on politics, Chicago fire insurance trends, and farm wage stability per Boston Cultivator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Ming
Tantalus
Gatble
Dlscomfort
Thortes
New York Telegram
Poem Fragment From Atlantic Monthly Pages
A compact excerpt presents a philosophical verse by Thomas 8 Collier in Atlantic Monthly. It contrasts the gross body and white soul as divergent zones and suggests both must prevail in a heavenly struggle or endure shadowed paths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas
Collier
Atlantic Monthly
Five Friends and a Bohemian Christmas Dinner
A wry Harper’s Weekly vignette follows five linked friends, the First and Second Mediums, Mameello, the Artist, and the Youth, who roam New York dining at German and American eateries.amid romantic tension, jealousy, and a round robin of letter writing at a brace of meals culminating in an announced June wedding between the Youth and Mameello.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mansello
Mameello
Mamaello
eLa
Las Watt
Bramselle
Mariselle
Mameelie
Paris
Mumecilo
Fan Shah
la France
Mamunello
Thesuo
Marisello
Thieco
Mamcello
Miameello
Mamsehe
Derole
Mameclo
Ale
Marisella
Shoothora
Harper'a Weekly
Coffee cherries yield edible fruit from beans
Captain J D Merrick of Trin comalee Ceylon reports experiments suggesting coffee cherry can be shaped into a fruit closely resembling an edible cherry. This could nearly double plantation value by transforming the pulpy coffee bean coverings into a marketable fruit, mirroring how persimmons have been cultivated in Northern China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. D. Merrick
Trincomalee
Ceylon
China
Ordingey
New York
Art and uses of artesian wells across lands and seas
A comprehensive survey of artesian wells explains how natural springs rise through artificial openings, with examples in France and the United States. It covers water pressures, depths, and daily yields, noting prominent wells in Louisville, St. Louis, Charleston, and Iroquois County, and mentions irrigation potential and Sahara attempts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Artois
France
Clinton
Franca
Vemerica
Airo
Sillere
Virginia
United States
Sahara
Texas
Waco
Louisville
St. Louis
Charleston
D. C
Iroquois County
Iinois
Lake Michigan
St. Louia Republic
Fashion and social notes mix in 19th century column
Broad miscellany covers renting false hair accessories and salons, fashion notes on skirts and hats, a Kansas woman sending hair for subscription offers, a Georgia woman guiding railroad recovery, and church dress debates. Also includes wedding customs, schooling praise, and a Milanlike fashion primer plus a curious printing roller tale.
Scientific Scraps Spotlight Wide Range Of Research
The article surveys varied scientific notes from natural light comparisons and camera pace claims to Brazil’s 11,800 pound acrolite and innovations in shipbuilding rivets and flood-light alarms. It covers influenza research by Professor Tessier in Russia, Wisconsin animal mounds and their possible uses, plus industrial notes on ink production from cotton waste oil and ramie cultivation in California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Museum of
Brazil
Murray
Royal Society At
Edinburgh
Globe
New York
Berlin
Florida
Ramio
Ita Fibro
California
California Ramic Company
Kitchen Shelves Save Steps and Cooks Praise Ease
In a practical article, Kate Carrington extols compact kitchen shelving to keep tools near the stove. Two nails hold pots, a box and curtain serve as a prep table, and small shelves organize coffee, tea, spices, salt and lard. A porch shelf gathers vegetables, improving workflow and reducing walking. Cooks prefer the system, even at lower wages. Recipes cover mashed potatoes Auparagua rice and cabbage grain, plus a stuffed eggs method and an English milking machine with rubber-tipped horns for dairy efficiency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kate Carrington
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Harvard College
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The
Washington Star
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British Columbia
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Pacific
Cyrus W. Field
First Ocean
San Francisco
Japan
Sandwich Islands
London
Immei Iato
Feo
Atlanta Constitution
Elkton
George “Tohnston
Hoe
Fahigt DS
Bis County
Coat’ County
New York City
Health Department
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Tageblatt
Boston
Georgy I. Putnam
Europe
Terra
Gold
Argonauts
Cape Towns
Panama
Nicaragua
Mexico
Whio
New England
Alsc
Mount St. Elias
Armph Theater
Tombstone
Warner of
Brunswick
Enna
Ed Schif
Sud
Rocky Mountain News
Abe Ja
Third Avenue
Charles Hancock
Neva
Kansas
Angel
Republic
Bnainosa
Shelbyville Democrat
Lucky
Falta
San Francisco Examiner
Georgia
N. S. Gould
Machon
Covington & Macon
Itfa
Middle Georgia & Atlantic Railroad
Macon (Go
India
Indies
New Orleans
Edith S. Tupper
Bruncetto
Sarah
New India
Eea
John White
Benjamin Brooke
Hammer Hollow
Valley Forge
Pennsylvania
White
Brooke
Germany
Lawrence
Amnas
State Board of Health
Tessier
Lyons
Russia
Teasier
Baccilli
la Grippe
Wisconsin Mounds
Secarcely
Frederick Starr
New York Academy of Sciences
Wisconsin
Ohio
Mississippi
Minnesota
Iowa
Lapham
Stephen D. Peet
Renton
Auparagua
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