Bachelors Known to Fame Across History
The most famous bachelors include Michelangelo Voltaire and Lord Kitchener. Painters Raphael Chopin and Beethoven achieved fame unmarried. Writers Lamb Pope Whitman Brooks James Whistler Swinburne Petrarch Rhodes remained single, with Buchanan noted as an exception among statesmen.
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Lord Kitchener
Sughind
Raphael
Chopin
Beethoven
Charles Lamb
Alexander Pope
Walt Whitman
Phillips Brooks
Henry James
Whittler
Swinburne
Petrarch
Cecil Rhodes
Buchanan
No Quarrel On That Point Tale of Two Foolish Aunts
An eminent divine and his two sisters Mary and Jane are depicted in a humorous exchange. A governess reports a child who said aunt Mary was a fool but stumbles over a feared phrase. The father discerns the difference, then approves the child’s correction. The tale ends with a wry note on intent and language.
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Mary
Jane
Hilen
Aunt Mary
Aunt Jane
London
Pain Points and Skin Nerve Sensitivity Testable
Article notes that the body has about four million pain points via nerves, with density highest at finger tips and sparse on the back. It suggests a simple at home test using two needles a quarter inch apart on cardboard to compare sensation on finger tips versus the small of the back, indicating nerve center distribution.
Be(e)s Eaten for Revenge Across Lands
A quirky note from Popular Science Monthly describes how tribes in Guiana and Ceylon use bee stings and bee venom. In Guiana, stung individuals allegedly capture ants and eat them in retaliation. In Ceylon, natives light torches under bee hives, sting trees, then boil and eat the bees.
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Guiana
Ceylon
Popular Science Monthly
Turned Down by Closeman in Boston Transcript
Closeman declines a loan offer saying his money prefers company. Burrows questions the remark as Closeman explains it cannot bear to be a loan.
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Closeman
Old Man
Burrows
Boston Transcript
NO SUBSTANCE TO DREAMS IN SLEEP MIND IDEAS AND WARNINGS
Marlon Molmes argues dreams reveal no prophetic power as the sleeping mind acts like a lively child. Reason fails asleep and wild capers lead to foolish acts such as missing shoes at church or marrying the wrong person. He notes people latch onto dream warnings yet they rarely prove accurate or repeated in real life.
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Marlon Molmes
Chicago Daily News
Peasol
Delaive
Thad
New Theory in Astronomy on Earth Tails and Meteors
A debate arises over a glowing patch opposite the sun attached to Earth. The idea suggests light atmospheric gases stream into space, with meteors possibly accompanying us about a million miles away. The notion expands to the possibility of planetary tails on Mercury, Venus, or Mars, though visibility would be greater for Earth.
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Earth
Space
Mercury
Venus
Mars
Beds of sponge and peacocks in ancient Athens
Athenaeus notes effeminate Greeks slept on sponge beds while fashionables used dressed peacock skin coverlets. Clearchus describes a Paphian prince’s bed with a Sardinian carpet, down coverlet, Amorginian purple counterpane, variegated cushions, and pale pink Dorian pillows, a scene designed to induce wakefulness.
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Athenaeus
Greece
Athens
Clearchus
Cure for Flat Feet Reader Tip
In a Popular Science Monthly story, readers are advised to diagnose flat feet by observing wet footprints in a bath showing entire sole rather than a narrow heel to toe imprint. It suggests strengthening exercises by curling toes to pick up marbles with feet, claiming muscle exercise improves foot strength.
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Popular Science Monthly
Dejected suitor hears cheer as door bell rings
In a Birmingham Age-Herald style remark a suitor faces rejection yet is urged to cheer up. The final twist shows the door bell ringing bringing another man into the scene, implying a reversal of the implied romance.
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Birmingham Age-Herald
Eee
Autumn Pleasures Along Paw-Paw Trail
The narrative vivid describes goldenrods and asters along a road in Paw-Paw country with sunflowers and daisies. Faded blooms drop seeds for gold finches while paw paw trees glow among elms oaks and cottonwoods. A rabbit darts by and crows call as ripe fruits tempt collectors in Indian summer.
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Christian Science Monitor
Blunders by Artists Across History in Minor Details
A survey of artistic slips highlights misdrawn hands, a lobster painted bright red, and a studio scene where laborers are doubled for a stone pull. It notes Albrecht Durer, Turn er, and others erring on small accuracy points.
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London
Goodall
Albrecht Durer
Peter
Christ
Turner
Airplanes of Little Value in Flight Novelties
A Scientific American critique describes small low powered planes as unstable and flimsy. They are called novelties with little practical use, unsuited for serious work, and unlikely to endure under adverse conditions.
Historic synagogue unearthed at Tiberias in excavations
A Jerusalem dispatch reports discovery of an ancient synagogue and many other historic artifacts in Tiberias Palestine. The finds, dating to the Talmudic period, were uncovered during excavations supervised by Professor Slustch.
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Tiberias
Palestine
Jerusalem
London
Slustch
Bride Requests Quick Coal Delivery for Turkey Dinner
A Louisville Courier Journal line humorously portrays a bride asking for coal at once to cook a turkey with the groom and mother in a domestic exchange. The quip reflects kitchen readiness and family involvement in home chores.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
King as constitutional monarch bound by will of people
The Montreal Herald discusses the king's theoretical prerogatives, noting he could veto laws, dissolve parliament, appoint officials, declare war, and even cede territories or disband forces. It argues an unwritten rule keeps these powers in check, and in practice the king reigns by the people's will and can be deposed by Parliament.
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Duchy of Cornwall
Montreal Herald
Joke on Amateur Farmer
A Washington federal official buys a summer farm and critiques crop care during strolls. He scolds a hired man for leaving cut grass in the field but learns the thin grass is the crop. The man clarifies with humor that “dribblings” are simply the crop.
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Washington
The Qualified Druggler
A playful dialogue extols a man described as a versatile worker with broad knowledge and skills. He is depicted as an expert photographer, film developer, sales expert, chemist, linguist, and courteous, capable of serving as a clerk in a drug store.
Documentary Evidence Wine Mother Cautions Daughter On Sailboat Excursions
A Washington mother questions her daughter Marie about outings with a young man from another city. The mother warns against going with him, doubting his sailing knowledge, while Marie cites a letter of recommendation praising his salesman abilities from a firm where he works.
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Washington
Marie
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Embroidery Work in Prison Mentioned by Bill Carlisle
A fragment notes bandit Bill Carlisle sewing and embroidery in prison, claiming knitting is a restful occupation. It contrasts with wood chopping and cites Sarah Grand's query about teaching irascible old gentlemen to knit in a San Francisco Bulletin tone.
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Bill Carlisle
Bill
What He Wanted to Know About Hostilities Ceased
A short anecdote recalls a boy named Tommy who stole jam and received harsh motherly correction. After tea the father asks if lessons were learned. The boy responds with a poignant question about when hostilities between parent and child end.
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Tommy
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