Lines on a Skeleton and a fallen age in verse
Fifty years ago the London Morning Chronicle published Lines on a Skeleton, an untimely poem about a skull found near a skeleton at the Royal College of Surgeons museum. The piece questions authorship and laments fame for those who seek wealth and power, contrasting business life with quiet domestic poetry, while notes on Texas law and a marriage close the portions.
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London Morning Chronicle
Royal College of Surgeons
Lincoln's Inn
London
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Richmond Times
Bank of England
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Melancthon
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Sterne
Scott
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J. R.T
Tay Hare
England
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British Museum
Richmond
Italy
Nero
Cyracalla
Parthenon
Athens
Pericles
Socrates
Peerlea
Mayard
Nineveh
Jonah
Egypt
Moses
Adam
Glowing Wealth of Britain's Museum Treasure Rediscovered
A Richmond letter describes the British Museum's vast library and historic artifacts. Autographs of Luther, Milton, Shakespeare, Nelson, and others fill shelves, with a reading room and catalogue system drawing researchers from around the globe. A Washington dispatch notes a postal treaty cutting transatlantic postage to twelve cents prepaid.
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Washington
Randall
Great Britain
Valley of Aosta described with beauty and misery
A correspondent portrays the Val d Aosta as a paradise of scenery and history while lamenting the inhabitants misery. She depicts locals as stunted, dirty, and degraded with goiter and ragged clothing, contrasting beauty with stark poverty and disease.
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Val d'Aoata
Val d'Aosta
Hannibal
Alps
Charlemagne
Napoleon
Marengo
St. Bernard
Apo
Bernard
Rome
Religion of Revolutionary France Demands God in History
The essay argues French atheism undercuts liberty, contrasting Washington and Franklin’s faith with revolutionary leaders like Mirabeau and Danton. It laments a Godless republic, claiming atheistic republicanism cannot be heroic and that France lacks a lasting conscience. It notes Mississsippi length, Illinois Central line, and Victoria Bridge as geographical facts.
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Lamartine
Europa
Europe
America
Asia
England
France
Washington
Franklin
Sydney
Tigh
Gironding
Marseillaive
Camille Desmoulins
Inez
Ileur Danton
Egurea
Mississippi
Sinois Central
Victoria
St. Lawrence
Montreal
Papacy suffers amid Austrian humiliation and European shifts
The Vatican faces a profound blow as Austria declines and Protestant nations rise. The world splits into six great states with France Voltaire leaning, Prussia Lutheran, Britain Calvinist, Russia Greek and anti papal, and Austria pope bound. The piece notes potential religious revival in Bohemia, Wingsry, and northern Italy, while cautioning that violence and injustice do not justify the events.
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Austria
Rome
Spain
Anatria
France
Italy
Aviatrin
Hug
Germany
Vatican
Prussia
Britain
Russia
Bohemia and
Wings
Papacy
Msnlves
Fattening Pigs Advised by Irish Farmers Club Speakers
At a recent Irish Farmers Club meeting, guidance on pig fattening was given. Recommendations include dry floors, fresh air, cleanliness, limited pigs per sty, and a fattening diet of boiled roots and grains mixed into a thick sour gruel fed three times daily.
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Lyadrs Og
Tobacco culture promises profits for western farms
A writer argues tobacco can be grown as successfully in the West as in the East with similar care. He details two acres yielding about two tons, valued at 14 to 16 cents per pound, estimating roughly five hundred dollars gross with modest labor and drying sheds. Frost risks are dismissed as manageable.
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Thia
Tobaccn
Phil. Homa
Humorous Anecdotes and Witty Exchanges Across Laughingtown
A collection of light quips and anecdotes featuring Charles Lamb, Artemus Ward, and others. Jocular dialogues about rabies, New York manners, lovers, and social foibles illuminate late 19th or early 20th century wit, with bouncy mishearings and sharp retorts.
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Texas
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Telegraph
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Valley OF Aosta
Switzerland
Louisville Journal
Serventane
Max
Enoch
Abraham
Paul
Joan
la Mancha
Mirabeau
Madam Roland
Cybila
Heaven
Earth
Col. Manlove
Vicksburg Herald
Mississippi State Press Association
Jackson
Butte
Tarantani
Mateo Bonnin
Macon
Br. Bly
Dr. Bushnell
Pied and Garden
New Albany
Ind
Falls
Ohio
Louisville
Jefersonville
Falla
Cincinnati
Charles Lamb
Lamb
Artemus Ward
New York
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Matin
Annie
Mia. Partington
Bob
Byer
Louisville and Nashville
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Fontenay
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Baxeo
Pat
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Millur
Fiveron
Brown
Sam
Hindenstan
Poreon
A. Jk. Boyd
Icco Homo
Boia
Richard IL Shalion
Hatton
Criterion
National Review
Brad Chucehinies
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