The Flowery Alchemist and Great Earthquake Tales
A rambling fragment blends a pretend aquarium of eccentric names with a seaquake tale told aboard a ship near Arica Peru. The narrator recalls Sam Baxter and a tidal wave that drives them to cling to a bowsprit while a newspaper reader aboard a distant vessel drops a line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Swiddler
William Swiddler
Calaveras
Arica
Peru
Chili
Sam Baxter
San Francisco
Sam
Wamen Cody
Oman
Bam
Saaw
William
Niagara
Upas Tree tale traced to Shakespearean fabricator
The piece credits George Steevens, the Shakespearean commentator, with forging fanciful notes to trap rivals like Malone. It mentions Collins and Aimner planting false extracts in the press and cites two invented stories, including the deadly upas tree tale from a So fairy tales of science source.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Steevens
Shakespeare
Malone
Collins
Aimner
Odd
Milton
Guarini
Italy
Devs
Three Skull Fragments Hint at Paleolithic Remains in Delaware Valley
Washington Letter notes three skulls found in Trenton gravel within Washington museum. Size and oval shape mark them as a distinct paleo type suggesting extinct or admixed palaeolithic man in the Delaware valley after centuries. Also references Ischia discovery of an unharmed old woman and a Cornhill Magazine anecdote about an elderly woman seeking her hen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Museum
Trenton
Delaware Valley
Washington
Ischia
Aho
Anxiouly
Cornhill
A Test of Endurance and Oddities in Irish Legend
A collage of notes on endurance feats by ponies trained in harsh hunts, Irish legends of islands of life and death, a towering tupelo tree in Georgia with a two-story hollow, Vienna’s upcoming postal congress details, and curious glimpses from caves near Tuena Vista full of large spiders, plus a comic exchange on charms and a note on a lens from Nineveh in the British Museum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ireland
Munster
Isand
Erin
Atlantis
America
Tuena Vista
Gal
Earnest Lon
Layard
Nineveh
British Museum
London
Lichfield Cathedral student and Tolstoy debate remarks
A boy of 10 entering the Roman Catholic church, a clergyman's son from the Church of England, is noted for intellectual vigor and humor beneath a cold exterior. The piece discusses Newman era responses, Tolstoy’s English reception, and rogues gallery of diplomats, plus a Bristol trial where a wife testifies of 2000 beatings over 23 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lichfield Cathedral
Church of England
Cardina
Newman
Lithedale
Church of Home
Holybaxton
Civilization Kills the Body and Pawnee Death Toll
A harsh critique notes higher death rates among Indians adopting white ways versus remaining semi wild. It asserts Pawnee losses to lung disease in ten years exceed their battlefield deaths in the prior thirty, underscoring harsh health disparities and cultural conflict.
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the Flowery
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Nancy Tucker
Savi
Father
Carl Protzel
Ennriso
Labbard
Speetch
Detroit Pree Press
Mersurya
Mastang
Ruggers
California
Ocmulges River
Abbeville
Vienna
Austrian Ministry of Trade
International Postal Congress
Society For Garden
Hitter von Obentrant
Austrian Postoffice and Telegraph
Day Hawk
Joy Hawk
Mima
Lume
Alcidé Vadoro
Castle Aberdeen
Greece
Tolstel
New York City
Tolstal
Fersian
Scotchman
Spain
Celt. MacMahon
France
Parla
Berlin
Feet
England
Bristol
Aeap
Flo Syrup CO
Ban Francisco
Cal
Louisville
Wow York
Mmi
John Diemer
Napoleon Mest
Eaeer
Sider and Pelle Fur Sale
Thoma Eivebishop
Eine Parry Street
Jase Danoran
Cahill & Donovan
Bapoleon
de Ceaver
E. F. Shumaker
Jas. P. Ragan
F. Shumaker
WM. Tietjeden
Tyler Block
Baprienn
C.F. Beard
Otend
Napoleon
Ohio
J. W. Talbott
Kebler
Joseph Shaff
Thadd
C. H. Gidley
Iid & Neneral Peuranny
Rapoleon
Aino
Aceleur
Geo
Baum
J. Overmeyer
Thursen
Katerine Mair
Walt Hotnen
Albiserol Foundation
Thiesen, Hildred & Co
John G. Melain & Son
Oms
Martin Knupp
J. M. Haag
Lim
Cora Wi
Varker Wook
Bassome
Jette Mole Tyler
Tyler
Tiler Block
Bapuleon
J. W. Cuff
Prastieeia Hate
United State Courte
Lvuan— Sr
Philip C. Schwab
Justice of the Peace
Puasant Torello
New
Bavaria
Joseph Weible
Florida
Menry County
Dinmormeens Nas
Geal Riford
Sian
Yopiey
Matoel
Peofatit Association
Nesrville
H. A. Meyerholtz
Pegs Perratreet
Coast House
Haly
Oblo
Es Sitend
Countey
Abe
Fisk & Co
Philip Webb
Geo. W. Valentine
Fink & Co
Seitz & Rowland
Muclure
CE. F. Cardes
Lyi Hakery Mast Af Meune Hans
Kimberlin
Tukow
Belek
Dalltire
Omticity Meetinge
W. L. Taylor
McClure
OFMKO
Liberty House
W.C. Rogers
Liberty Center
McClare
E. Reynolds
Ina
Lessea
Omovover
Henry Moyer'nolothixentore
Oppe Court House
Nepoleon
Pitchers Castorin
Castorin
Childron
Thors Castorin
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