Rise of a Paris society to invert day and night habits
A Paris based society for keeping good hours plans to shift daily life toward early rising and daytime leisure. Members, drawn from wealth and leisure, aim to walk in parks at dawn, dine earlier, and schedule balls and performances at earlier hours, challenging current late-night customs and celebrating practical, economical living.
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Preservation of Caterri Nul Port on Smacks
The article discusses methods to preserve catch aboard smacks including three quantities shipped before leaving the city. It describes evisceration cleaning packing in hold and sea water circulation through a well formed by vessel design to keep fish in their natural element until offloading at Fulton Market New York.
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Proctor's Egotism Noted by Astronomer and Social Whims
The late Professor Proctor was described as egotistical and reserved. A friend recalled his contempt for flattery and the quick temper when confronted by nobility. Mrs Proctor kept to specific visiting hours and stayed by his side during a daily afternoon nap. Also mentioned, a Paris firm makes porous glass panes that allow ventilation without drafts.
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New York Graphic
Kansas City children show surprising literacy gains in Boston contrast
Two studies compared Kansas City and Boston school pupils showing far fewer children ignorant of common things in Kansas City. The report notes Kansas City children are taller and heavier than English peers at ages 10 and 15, with Belgian children matching American growth patterns. The piece cites Warmer in Harper's Magazine and discusses opium smoking claimed to cure yellow fever, including anecdotes from New York and Memphis.
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Mott street
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Won Chin Foo
New York Sun
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Pompeii Visit Reveals Harrowing Echoes Of Ancient City
A visitor recounts returning to Pompeii days after a previous tour and finds the ruins more striking, describing the ghastly detail of victims in the museum near the gate and the stark realism of the entombed figures. The piece notes Pompeii's enduring immortality amid destruction. Then a series of short notes cover Count Kalnoky’s one finger greeting etiquette in Vienna, a Yankee terrapin farm near Mobile, and scarce gold dollars used for trinkets, ending with a note on Sir Edwin Arnold composing Licht of Asia during train travel.
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Origin of a Poem and Moravian Banner Tale
The piece recounts Longfellow’s poem origin about Moravian nuns and Pulaski’s Bethlehem banner, noting historical refutations of romance and tracing the banner’s later path to Captain Bentalou and the Maryland Historical Society. It also quotes Longfellow on his inspiration and naming, and adds a New York Sun note on Chinese residents and social habits in the city.
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The Prince's Hungarian Coachman
The Prince of Wales admired Hungarian coachmen's mustaches during a visit to Hungary and hired one for his own beard. On returning to Marlborough House the jehu found all staff shaved. The prince, angry at losing the mustache, sent the man back to Hungary that evening.
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Hungary
Marlborough House
jehu
New York World
Curious paradoxical deafness noted by Dr Boucheron
The report to the Paris Academy of Sciences explains a patient who is deaf to speech in quiet rooms but hears in noisy settings like a moving carriage or railway train. The condition is described as grave progressive and sometimes hereditary, caused by compression of the labyrinth of the ear.
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Boucheron
Paris Academy of Sciences
Think of It Says People Speak As Beams Compared To Motes
A Galveston News reflection notes that remarks about others invite equal counter remarks, arguing speech carries weight and can magnify effects beyond intentions as small as motes.
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Galveston News
Watch Repair Profits Outstrip Most Trades In Country
A retired jeweler notes high profits in watch repair and jewelry work, citing main spring replacements from 1.50 to 2 dollars, crystal sales at 25 cents, and cleaning fees around 1.50, with cost prices for springs and crystals much lower. Also references weed farming in Japan as a farming aid and weed management influencing costs.
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Globe- Democrat
Unbreakable substitute for glass by Parisian chemist
Mons L C A Marguerie of Paris develops an unbreakable glass substitute by coating heated wire gauze with a soluble glass gelatine paste and drying. Sheets are then dipped in chrome alum or bichromate, with coloring possible in the gelatine and optional varnish for protection.
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Mons. L. C. A. Marguerie
Paris
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