War costs and new notes from a restless world
Heir Von Schaffel warns that a France Germany war would cost about 3.2 billion dollars and Austria Russia could raise the bill to 6 billion, while Grant Allen flags migratory pests and bad grains in England. A Chicago judge cites lack of common honesty as society’s chief evil, and a congress idea contours woodcut portraits at $20 each. Public works worry about rotten telegraph poles and wires. Woolworth notes postal cards rise, and western oil finds boost railroads. Wedding extravagance spreads beyond Dutch generosity, and Balboa’s Pacific view prompts San Francisco wave powered power experiments.
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Balboa
Pacific
Panama
Great Ocean
California
San Francisco
Cliff House
Voices From Eternity Poem Echoes Of Death And Judgment
A dramatic verse piece unfolds as old voices claim wisdom and crowns while a hand from darkness interrupts with grim prophecies and funerary imagery. The dialogue contrasts earthly glory with eternal fate, ending in visions of heavenly rewards and the final judgment.
A Joke Indeed
Adrian Mosscroft sinks into despair after a pickpocket steals his gold watch and savings. Out of work and in debt he plans a loan to his Aunt Tam as a last resort, imagining pawning his overcoat and dress suit to raise funds. He resolves to salvage pride and help his aunt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adrian Mosscroft
Lfadt
Adrian
Ethel
Tamaain
Tipma
Tamasin
Mwamasin Brock
Pippintown
R. 1
Jim Turner
Halhal
Tam
Ko One
Desperate Courage in Mutiny Era Letters and Siege
A Detroit Free Press piece recounts an 1886 tale of a wary aunt funding a nephew after a suspicious note. It shifts to a dramatic 1857 mutiny episode where a magistrate confronts a Nawab, seizing him to quell a mob and escape to Futtehpoor, riding away unharmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Bank
Pippintown
Detroit Free Press
All India
Leevin
Dain
Banda
Futtehpoor
Nearen
Amison
Bananas May Be Grown In California Says San Francisco Call
A San Francisco Call report notes that bananas, native to tropical regions, could be successfully cultivated in California. An example near Los Gatos shows plants thriving, with expectations of abundant fruit and potential local sale, reducing imports and high prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tropics
Hawaiian Islands
Los Gatos
Santa Clara County
Captain Lucky
Pacific Towboat Company
California
San Francisco
Earthquakes in this Century Overview
Summary of principal quakes this century with casualty counts. Naples 1805 six thousand killed. Aleppo 1822 twenty thousand. Murcia 1829 six thousand. Canton 1830 six thousand. Capa Hayden 1842 four thousand. Calabria 1837 ten thousand. Quito 1859 five thousand. Mendoza 1860 seven thousand. Peru and Ecuador towns 1808 ninety five thousand. San Jose de Cuenta Colombia fourteen thousand. Seto 1881 four thousand. Charleston 1886 ninety six. Southern France and Northern Italy 1887 seven hundred.
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Naples
Aleppo
Murcia
Canton
Capa Hayden
Calabria
Quito
Mendoza
South America
Peru
Ecuador
San Jose de Cuenta
Columbia
Seto
Charleston
France
Italy
Chinook Wind Shapes North West Cattle Drives
A late 19th century description explains the Chinook Wind as a sudden warm aerial current from the Pacific that sweeps over the Rocky Mountains into Montana Wyoming and nearby regions. It thaws ice, forms and breaks river gorges, and helps northern cattle ranges recover after blizzards before returning to Arctic conditions. The account blends meteorology with dramatic scenes of ice jams on the Missouri and the peril faced by cattle during breakups and renewals of feed.
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Joseph Nimmo, Jr
Pacific Ocean
Rocky Mountains
Montana
Wyoming
Colorado
Dakota
Neckies
Quebec
Key West
Missouri
Coulees
Frank
Leslie
A Young Soldier Fights Through Fire to Fells Telegraph Pole
A young soldier named Maurice Thompson braves heavy fire from 400 dismounted troopers to cut down a telegraph pole under open ground. Bullets rip the pole while a nearby brick chimney and a twelve-pound shot crumble bricks. He remains steady, axes in hand, then returns to his unit as cheers erupt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maurice Thompson
A Concord Gentleman Recalls Gov Andrews Late Hours
A Concord resident recounts telegraphing for the Civil War era, visiting Gov Andrew at midnight and learning that the governor kept a late office routine at the State House, with his wife noting he would be found there until two in the morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord
Boston
Andrew
State House
Monitor
Ancient coroner duties on treasure trove evolve with new rules
The article notes the historic coroner duty to investigate treasure trove under Edward I and hints at shifting practices with new regulations. It cites a case near Luton where a workman found English gold coins and the treasury paid the finder according to the coins’ value as old gold, with some returned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward I
Aomooll Onk Benim
Luton
Treasury
Chamber's Journal
The Religion of Chranon and Chinese Worship
A San Francisco Chronicle excerpt argues that Chinese religious practice is devoted to appeasing demons rather than benevolent gods. It describes ceremonies offering pigs and chickens and firecrackers to ward off evil spirits, portraying Chinese religion as rooted in fear and mischief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco Chronicle
Cause for Absence at Church Reported
Layman tells minister bad weather kept many away, but minister adds weather isn’t the only reason the church was short of funds. he contrasts attendance with contributions, noting the box suffered as a larger factor.
Corfee and Tea. A Glance at the Wholesale Trade in New York
A New York Sun piece surveys the tea coffee and molasses market around Front and Water streets noting traders in bulk, auction practice, and foreign origins. It contrasts home shopping by households with Wall Street style dealing and public auctions in Padang and Brooklyn warehouses.
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Wall
Wall Street
China
Java
Brazil
Cuba
New York
Brooklyn
Iba
Central Avenue
Padang
New Yorker
Mirk Twain
Water Street
Apo
Chicago
New York Sun
Fishermen discuss fish intelligence and leadership
W Augustus Carter writes in Ameri can Angler about a Croydon lecture on fish subservience to leaders and collective movement. He notes trout following an elder, carp shoals guided by a congener, and concludes fish can communicate by sound or motion to influence each other.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W Augustus Carter
Croydon Talladed
Shind
Tata
Transparency of Molten Iron in Casting Process
A Chemical News correspondent reports observing several tons of molten pig iron during a casting. The stream ran as a regular flow resembling a waterfall, with the metal appearing yellowish yet fairly transparent. Two bystanders noted the apparent transparency and seek opinions from frequent observers of such casting operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Chemical News
Divided Skirt Fashion And Royal Ladies In Newsitems
A fashion note questions Tosina Vokes as the alleged inventor of the divided skirt while London’s Lady Hatherton is credited as its true originator. Other items cover royalwomen talents, jewelled royal collections, and fashion hints alongside notes on Punjab trade, India box memories, and Russia’s drainage projects.
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Tosina Vokes
Lady Hatherton
London
Philadelphia
Scientific Scraps From The Era Of Fossil Fields And Skies
Notes on volcanic ash enriching soils in New Zealand and milk safety in warm vans. Timber fragments from a Virginia City mine show deep brown wood with fine polish. Insects survive freezing, late winter butterflies near the North Pole. A fossil meteorite mass from Austria appears. Pennsylvania anthracite reserves and ages of supply are calculated. A London paper questions a blue sun with Langley’s experiment cited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia City
Negr
Lower Austria
The Skin of My Teeth in Bible Phrase Origin
A note discusses the expression hang on by the skin of one’s teeth as rooted in Job nine-twenty and contrasts popular sayings said to originate in the Bible. It cites Notes and Queries on the high authority behind the phrase and its usage.
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Job
GraphoPhone graf phonograph sketched by famed inventors
A talking machine called the grapho phone or phonograph is described as a simple device by Sumner Taintor Alexander Bell and Chichester Bell. It records sound waves on a wax paraffin cylinder via a diaphragm point and can reproduce songs laughter or speeches. Prospects include mail delivery of the wax cylinder and widespread affordability enabling distant converse.
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Sumner Taintor
Alexander G. Bell
Bell Telephone
Chichester A. Bell
Persian Jewelry and the Persian Goldsmiths
The Persian jewelers are skilled and affordable, often working for two shillings daily. Customers order pieces cast or cut from their own supplied metal, then inspected, weighed, assembled at home or under a servant, weighed again, finished, and credited for waste.
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Chicago Tribune
Conscience and Reason in Moral Choice
The text urges that conscience can dull in one direction by neglect while quickened in another by exercise. It stresses discovering the right course before acting and argues for cultivating reason, strengthening judgment, and probing conclusions. Also notes John Atkin’s fog theory that dust underpins fogs and rain, with an apparatus for filtering air.
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Philadelphia Ledger
British Royal Society
John Atkin
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von Schaffel
Germany
Austria
Russia
Grant Allen
England
Scotland
Europe
John van Buren
Washington
Gory
Congress
Isc—C
C. C. Woolworth
Albany
Castleton
Chicago Ets
Oita
Toledo, St. Louis and
Kansas City Railroad
Indiana
Toledo
Georgeous
Philadelphia Press
Soma
Artie Clea
Beaven
Margaret Evtinge
Chinoge
Northwest
Brizant_Astrick
Wild Bill
Dave Tutt
Dave
Bill
Tutt
Miguel
Rebas
Gerona
Pyrenees
Ri Premistes
Sonia Lissi
Treasure
Punjab
Bokhara
Thibet
Kashgar
Persia
Amritsar
Delhi
Kirman
India
Paris
John Mackay
Siepsens
Portugal
Brunswick
Colonna
Mackay
Eclectic Gazette
Oon
Roumania
Carman
Sylva
Christina
Spain
Margaret of
Savoy
Prince of
West End
Mme. de Pompadour
Indies
London Life
Fashion Notes
Chantilly
Velvet
Pinsk Marshes
Treland
Ireland
Pinsk
Tassia
Chambers
Etna
Vesuvius
New Zealand
Pennsylvania
Langley
Royal Institution
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