Art of Giorgione Impresses Colleagues in Venetian Bet
In Venice Giorgione wagers two hundred sequins with three young sculptors that he will render a four sided figure in one painting. He shows a warrior with back turned and a mirror reflecting all sides, proving painting can depict the whole figure. The sculptors pay and the wager is won by Giorgione as Venice crowds applaud.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Giorgione
Tithin
Titian
Venice
Andrea Verrocchio
Ali
Elen
Giorgionie
Montreal Star
Puhl
Jowett
Pies in France and the Calico Origin Tale
An American traveller notes France offered only two Paris pies during ninety two days, while a Detroit line mocks Puritan America by pie yet. A Montreal brief traces calico from Calicut, India, via a cock crowing at a temple, to British cotton goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Paris
America
Detroit Free Press
Malabar
Calicoda
Calicut
England
Montreal Star
Customer Grievance Over Shave Charge Sparks Quip
An exchange in a Boston Herald item features a customer accusing a barber of overcharging for a shave. The barber defends the charge by noting prior beard growth and claiming the shave covered that excess. The customer counters that the price felt like robbery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crowlin
Boston Herald
Lost purse tale from Florida reporter reads like caution
A Florida paper notes Cummins lost a one hundred dollar purse while traveling from New Smyrna to Daytona. He searched at dusk and near Suttons creek, found it by the roadside, lost it again in town, then recovered it near Rolfe's house. His wife tied the bag to the buggy seat and they brought it home safe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thakd
New York Sun
Tiago
Florida
Cummins
New Smyrna
Daytona
Port Orange
Sutton’s Creek
Rolfe
Detroit Free Press
Beggars thrive in the east amid many mendicant guilds
The piece notes widespread beggary and dervish communities in the east where families beg by choice. It recalls a Chief Beggar who married his daughter to a farmer, with a dowry of two freehold houses filled with dry bread used as cattle fodder. It highlights charitable Mussulmans and the absence of organized charity.
Indian Graves and Relics in Connecticut
Connecticut towns reveal extensive Indian burial grounds with well preserved bones and artifacts. Skulls, pipes, beads, and copper colored relics appear near Prospect Street Seaside Park Stratford and Lower Stratford. Local relic hunter Charles Gray reports graves with intact hair and tools, including a white stone tobacco pipe and a sitting skeleton. Three Indian mounds at Sandy Hook reportedly hold relics. owners refuse to allow excavation due to superstition. A Bridgeport cor net notes carp stocking does not feed directly on humans but sustains game fish populations through consumption by crappie bass and jack salmon.
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Connecticut
Prospect Street
Seaside Park
Golden Hill
Stratford
Lordering
Lower
Capt. Kidd
Southport
Westport
Gray
Tas
Fairfield
Arthur Bennett
Consolidated Railroad
New England
Sandy Hook
Bridgeport
Hadeopar Scientific Society
Conn
Cor
New York
Snr
Handsome foot in Detroit inspires lasting fashion tale
The New York Mail and Express writes of a Virginian cigar factory worker whose foot draws admiration in Detroit. Her Spanish instep and natural arch became a model for impressions during a winter, shaping a quirky note on Eastern shoes and the fascination of gallant knights of St Crispin who offer half price for worry and birth.
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Detroit
Knights of
St. Crispin
Virginia
New York Mail and Express
Old Jones Philosophy on Surplus and Decorum
A wry column notes how wasteful spending fools moral values. A speaker mocks charity and payoffs with a dime in the box, while humorously condemning excess with anecdotes about dogs, puppies, and a 20 year old gentleman. The sketch ends with a quip about a church chair for surplus girls in Brooklyn.
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Denton Journal
Howard Melvin
Eorror
Germany
Irpon
Royal Society
Robert Moray
Evelyn
Charles
Charles I
William C. Cahall
Popular Science Monthly
St. Louis
Globe-Democrat
Stracons Oil
THE
Charles A. Vogeler
Baltimore, Md
Kent County Mutual Insurance
Dover, del
Henny Strper
Joan D. Buntos
James Ponder
James J. Rosa
John W. Causey
Chas
Wm. Denney
Delaware City
Newark
Townsend
Panitvagera
W. R. Emerson & Bro
Baltimore St
Baltimore
Maryland Steamboat CO
Third Haven
Joppa
Ida
Light St
Easton
Double Mills
Oxford
Travers
Cambridge
Oyster Shell Point
Medford’s
Dover Bridge
Two Johns
Potter’s
Denton
Howard B. Ensign
M. Fixx
the Davis
Kinnamon & Shields
Reece
Becacor
DAVIS
Davis 8S. M. Company
Watertown, N. Y
T. W. Smith
Ridgely, Md
Druggist & Practical Watchmaker
Tuckahoe Flour Mills
Tuckahoe Neck
John W. Knotts
Ledger
A.C Yates
Phila
St Louis
F. L. Thomas
Hurlock’s Station
Hiram Windsor
Hurlock’s
John E.sard
John Covey
Allison Elliott
Abel
George Thomas
Greensboro
John Creamer
Princess Anne
Benjamin Fooks
Wheeler & Wilson
Royal St. John
South Bend
Baltimore Coal Tar and Manufacturing Company
W. Campen Street
Caroline
Yatronace Enmited
Richard Willis
Cambridge, Md
Miller Bros
Atlas! Bee
Markham
University
Katha
Miller Bros. Cutlery Co
Meriden
OP Steel
Express C. O. D
Alex McGomas
S. Calvert St
Balto
U. S
Washington
Actus
CG. A. Snow & CO
D. C
Old Jones’ Philosophy
Blifkins
Pete
Brooklyn
Mere
Pittsburg
Epps
Chit Service Gazette
James Epplw
M. J. Young
Bolton Bros
Dralers
Albany Greese, &c
E. Pratt ST
Searyland
E. D. Emory
W. Neavitt
Emory & Neavitt, —General
South Street
Maryland
W. D. Chabe & CO
Geneva
N. Y
H. mM. Vosmus
WM. A. Stewart
Moses Gottlieb
OUR Little Ones and the Nursery
Bromfield ST
Boston
Mass
Perms
Neary
Ste
Centennial Mig. Co
Caleaga, DL
Clociacatl, Oe
Hillsborough
Reynolds
FURS
Ellemy Siede
Furrier
W. Leth ST
45Th ST
Car
Extaacl
George & Redden
Alec
Baltimore City
Johnson & CO
South St
Francis Kelly & CO
Market St
Wilmington
DEL
Tonsorial
Richard Nichols
J. H. van Gesel
Main End
H. L. Meredith
WM. T. Tuff
Preston, Md
Tam
Caroline County
Upper Dorchester
Flaharty
Henry Irwin
Todd
Dover Street
Easton, Maryland
All Boura
U. WW. Fisher&Co. General Commission Merchants
Hurst, Purnell & Co
W. K. Carson & Co
Fisher, Caulk & Co
Manufacturer’s National Bank
J. W. Kerr
George W. Raughley
Pliny Fisher
Denton, Md
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