Entertaining Dog Studies in Naturalist Experiments
The article recounts George J. Romanes describing experiments with a Skye terrier mimicking life in a bone and a bubble. The dog reacted with astonishment, fear, and curiosity when an invisible thread moved a bone or a bubble, revealing the strong sense of the mysterious in animals.
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The London Dust Man and His Hidden Life
A St Nicholas piece notes London dust men handle vast coal waste and valuables. Contractors divide loads into six parts including soil for bricks and manure and rags bones and metals for traders. It portrays dustmen as industrious yet obscured by poverty, a multi generation trade with few escape routes.
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Origin of Kissing Explained by Trojan Legend
A correspondent recounts a comic origin of kissing from a Trojan exodus. Wives, seasick after landing, pressed their lips to their husbands to stop their abuse and to secure food for the journey, birthing the first kisses and easing temper. The tale is linked to Ben Johnson and debated as credible by some readers.
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