Bryant Sketches the Spaniards in Madrid Life
Wm Cullen Bryant, now in Madrid, offers a vivid portrait of Madrid life. He describes the Prado and its promenades, fashion, social rituals, hospitality, and the late-night evenings favored by Spaniards and the court. He notes introductions without formality, courthouse and political discourse, and the queen’s late dinners and dawn drives.
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Neptune
Madrid
Casa de Alcala
Calla de Atocha
Cybele
Spain
Iirst
Liberal Party
Absolutus
de Prado
Italy
Larena la Rena
Sporting Scenes Amongst the Kaffira of South Africa
A British officer cites Captain A W Drayson new book on Kaffir life in South Africa. He describes baboon behavior and frontier Kaffira women, then a South African dinner scene and a Gaika chief returning home, ending with a humorous hoop incident involving young Albany ladies.
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Africa
England
A. W. Drayson
Royal Artillery
South Africa
Livingstone
Tenga
Fort Beaufort
Albany
Rattlesnake Poison Tale Across Generations in Pennsylvania Boots
A curious Pennsylvania tale recounts how a rattlesnake venom lingered in a pair of boots, causing fatal effects to four men across generations. A doctor opened the boot tip to reveal the fang, and a dog bitten by the venom died soon after, supporting the deadly legend.
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Gigihe
Pennsylvania
Agdithon
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Repoe Goaner
Buti Dockerman
Dover
Del
AVING
Waurus
Atter
Lerchants, &E. T
Tara
Seaford
Wilmington
JAS. Cowgill & Son
Ang
BM. Co. Conwhelie
North End
State House
S. M Harrington
M. W. Bates
J P. Comegys
Geo. P. Fisher
E. Ridgely
N. B. Smithers
Esq’ra
Gove Saulsbury
Isaac Jump
J. C. Bird
R. W. Reynolds
Henry Todd
A.j.taylor
John K. Jarvis
J.T. Heald's
Market Street
Delaware
J. Primrose
Jones
Second and
Pine Streets
Pine St
Philadephia
Lemon & Aikin
Wilmington, Delaware
Eres Grain and Liquor Bealers
Tebe
National Safety Trus. Company
Y Alnut Street
Third
Philadelphia
Henry L. Bennet
Wu. J. Reap
Ap2t
T. HE Bald
Meer
Chesnut and
Ninth Streets
D. Chatterton
N. W. Cor
9Th and Chestnut
Girard House
St.upflr & i
T Ley
ELAY
Philadelphia Watch and Jewelry
North Second St
Stauffer & Harley
P.R
Cuba
Imperial
AIKIN
Umington
Daz
N. O. Molasses
P.R. & Trin
Olard
Dupoy& Co
Castillon & Co
Hennessy
Seignette
Monsext
Mrazly
J. Cowgill & Son
Lawa
J. T. Haald
Market St
Janlite
JAS
Cowgill, & Sox
Ruggists
del Tecéth
Kent
Sussex Counties
Caroline County
Maryland
Smyrna
James Collins
Clark’s Corner
Delaware Railroad
Dovar
Greensboro
Joshua M.gonigal
Murderkiln
Kent County
Willow Grove
Camden
Maryland and Delaware
D. T. Rickards
Dover del
Little Creek Neck
Willingbrook
John Cowgill
Dover Leipsic
Dona
Little Creek Landing
Port Mahon
Cowgill’s Corner
George Graham
D. T. Rickards Land
Sussex County
Brigeville
Nanticoke
Vernon
Richard N. Merriken
D. T. Richards
Waitman Jones
Vernon, del
Armitage
Murput
del. Com
Brooklyn Heights
New York
Quebec
Champlain Canal
Whitehall
Graham's
Sundilla
Anta
Kaftrand
Graham’s
Boniface
West
Berlin
Newark
Monnday
Friga
Seater
Tie
Michigan
Detroit
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