Merino Sheep and Funny Folds in Farm Life Lore
The piece humorously reflects on merino sheep and wool habits. It notes folded appearances from misused hides, jokes about de-wooling quirks, and contrasts merinos with Southdown Oxforddown and Shropshire breeds. It mentions Brookings state college raising fat-rumped sheep with a trailer-like build.
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Strickland Gillilan
Southdown
Oxforddown
Shropshire Lown
State College
Brookings
S. D
Daniel Boones Long Swing Legend Revisited
Niksah notes a mountain tale about Daniel Boone escaping pursuing natives by swinging on a grapevine. In western Maryland and eastern West Virginia youths still cut vines to create long treetop swings and launch across creeks, proving the stunt real to those who test it with nerve and distance.
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Daniel Boone
Kentucky
Niksah
Alleghany Mountains
Daniel
Maryland
West Virginia
Woyper Potomac
Cats Guarding Chickens The Poultryman Praises Cats
An article extols cats as valuable allies for poultrymen, arguing cats protect chicken yards by preying on rats and deterring hawks. It notes past attempts to curb cat predation, including tying a dead chicken to a cat to instill fear of poultry, a method described as problematic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ats
Chicken Yard
WIFEY SPENDS DUMKOPFF'S Winnings IN QUIRKY TALE
The Detroit Free Press recounts Adolph Dumkopff winning a poker pot and a humorous caper where his wife pockets the cash, plans house prizes, and jokes about a rainy day. Separate note recalls Gen. Fred Grant inviting Mark Twain to lecture for the Robert Fulton Monument. Twain declined pay, preferring to speak for instruction and moral upheaval.
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Adolph Dumkopf
Detroit Free Press
Adolph
Mr. Dumkopff
Snoozenmacher's
Dumkopff
Mrs. Dumkopff
Fred Grant
Mark Twain
Robert Fulton Monument Association
Twain
Grant
Robert Fulton
Ted Me
Pan Jones
Horace Porter
Porter
Virginian Reflects on Flag Salute and Global Perspectives
A Virginian who has lived abroad for ten years discusses why Americans salute the flag and recalls how people in London and Paris respond to regimental colors. He argues for at least removing hats as colors pass and notes the patriotic duty he expects for the coming year. The passage shifts to Switzerland’s water power and a mountain restaurant served by hydroelectricity, then to ancient iron smelting and meteorite iron theories with C F Zimmer proposing large iron yields from meteoritic sources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. O. Outgault
Washington Post
Washington
London
Paris
France
Switzerland
Jungfrau
C.F. Zimmer
Goldfish Market of Japan Koriyama Exalted Across Nation
A Tokyo ranked market in Koriyama is famed as the great goldfish market with waters around the former city ideal for breeding many varieties. Eggs hatch in four to five days in April with early feeding of boiled yolk suspensions, then mosquito larvae. The prized Lion Head fetches 5 to 20 dollars in three-year-old stock kept in glass bowls.
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Koriyama
Japan
Tokyo
Monks Bring Silk from China to Europe in 552
In 552 two Persian monks secretly left China with silk eggs hidden in a bamboo cane. They traveled to Constantinople, tended the silkworms there, and produced the first silk in Europe, a craft China had guarded for centuries.
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China
Europe
Constantinople
Tennyson and Browning Share Old Hats and Boots
William Allingham notes Browning dined with Tennyson who wore a greenish wide brim hat and Inverness cloak belted to aging attire. Browning praised the boots tenaciously kept, joking the boot sole proves immortality while Tennyson boasted a forty year old pair of dress boots.
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Robert Browning
Tennyson
William Allingham
Explaining the Universe and Sudden Illumination
The fragment imagines moments of sudden insight that supposedly explain the universe as both true and false. M. Crothers in the Atlantic notes such thoughts illuminate and collapse reality, leaving the mind in chaos and later questioning what was explained.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Crothers
Atlantic
Lacustral settlements mark dawn of civilization
The lacustral settlements offered refuge to pastoral and agricultural communities with dry, light dwellings signaling a move toward permanent homes. Early advances include spinning and weaving, agriculture, animal domestication, and the discovery of metals ushering in the iron age. Similar sites appeared in the East Indies and Amazonian Maracaibo, and Lake Prasias in Thrace during Herodotus era.
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East Indies
Maracaibo
Lake Prasias
Thrace
Herodotus
Lake dwellings of Bronze Age built on lake piles
The article describes ancient lake villages built on piles sunk into the mud of a lake. Timber was felled and sharpened, platforms formed with pegs, and huts of wattle and clay erected with hearthstones and grain mills. A long causeway with drawbridges connected the village to shore.
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Man
Strange Adoptions by Cats
A cat and a female fox terrier swapped their newborn litters in a remarkable cross species exchange. Both animals raised the other’s offspring to a healthy weaning age, leaving observers baffled by the unusual bond between feline and canine caregivers.
Our Other Selves and the Pursuit of Happiness
The author argues wisdom comes from leisure and urges sanctifying small Sabbaths when long rest is unavailable. He stresses recognizing our inner selves beyond wage work and cites the Declaration of Independence right to pursue happiness.
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M. Crothers
The
Atlantic
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