Trials of Anglo-Indian Housekeepers in Montreal Star
Garth Grafton reviews a Montreal Star piece on Anglo Indian household staff roles and tensions. The booming list of servants includes khansamah kutmutgar bahadur ayah dhoby dhurzie and syce, with everyday abuses and grudges, highlighting cultural humor and class dynamics in colonial households. The memsahib’s management is mocked through accounts of towels baths limes and secret wallets.
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Khaneamah
Annas and Pice
Khansamah
Memsahib
Ayah
Oyah
Durwan
Sahib
Admira
India
Hindoo
Garth Grafton
Montreal Star
To Keep Up with the Dance Decline of Dancer Education
A Globe-Democrat dancing master laments that mere schooling no longer suffices for social dances. Modern balls revive intricate catillon forms and new dances with obscure names. Even skilled dancers must take lessons to avoid awkward missteps and mortifying blunders in front of others.
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Globe-Democrat
Mothers and Daughters Enlist in City Lecture Series
In a Chicago bookstore a salesman notes mothers back a lecture program aiding daughters education. Mothers attend with their children at homes and public venues, while the girls remain unaware of their mothers' backing. The piece praises women cultivating their children's minds amid forewarnings about a dimmer next generation.
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Chicago
Deepest Borehole Depth Report From Schladebach Village
Reports place Schladebach near Leipzig as hosting the world’s deepest bore hole at 748.4 metres after six years and 52500 dollars. Observed temperatures rise with depth but at a slower rate in lower layers per Wochenschrift. Also notes on a tariff talk interrupted by a heckler at a Merritt club meeting and a Merritt quip in Harper’s Bazar.
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Schladebach
Leipzig
Germany
Land
New York Telegram
Bjones
Merritt
Ney Woot
Harper’s Bazar
Begging as a Rural Trade in Russia Noted in 19th Century Report
A report describes beggary as an inherited village trade in Russia. Peasant beggars collect funds with silent exchanges, while entire villages sustain beggar-ready households. The piece cites Moscow province estates with hundreds of beggars and notes declining profits amid poverty. It adds that public relief in St. Petersburg exceeds that of most European capitals, with about a quarter of the city’s population benefiting in 1884.
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Russi
Moscow
Russia
St. Petersburg
Professor Janson
Little May Wonders If Heaven Tops Dog Show
In Portland the young daughter of a prominent merchant asks her mother if heaven is better than the dog show. The exchange reveals May's curiosity about death and heaven as she imagines celestial streets of gold and angelic music.
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Little May
Portland
Mamma
Tuaniite
Portland Transcript
Novelty, fur trends, and teaching sewing across papers
A Boston Courier tale shows a servant misjudging a dog's weight, illustrating limits of reliability. The piece riffs on novelty in trade, forecasting a surge of absurd fads, with fur collars made from prepared catskin and fashion sketches from Paris exhibitions drawing stagnant market response. It also notes an English invention that uses a frame and glass to teach sewing by showing each stitch, speeding instruction and freeing time for academics.
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Boston Transcript
Montreal Star
Man beaten by thief in uptown assault
A night-time attack left a man insensible after an ambush uptown using a rock like weapon. A star boarder muses on the weapon while the landlady Mrs. Makeshift is mentioned as the household owner in the Burlington Free Press item.
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Makeshift
Star Boarder
Burlington Free Press
The Winfarthing Oaks Growth Record and Change
In Winfarthing parish two famous oaks, the Winfarthing oak and a slightly smaller companion, were measured by Robert Marsham in 1744. The larger tree stood 88 feet 7 inches in circumference and the smaller 80 feet. In 1874 the larger was 40 feet in circumference while the smaller remained 80 feet, showing one tree gained 17 inches over 130 years and the other stayed the same.
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Winfarthing
Robert Marsham
Gilbert White
Marsham
London Standard
Unprofitable Crops in a Wry Exchange
A Boston Herald wit remarks on a wealthy man’s son returning from the south. The farmer’s tale: he sows wild oats first year and raises Cain the next, a pointed jab at mismanaged farming and youthful folly.
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Wealthy
Cain
Boston Herald
Windows as a Microcosm of City Life
A Boston Transcript quote extols watching a downtown building opposite Tremont Street to study a microcosm of society. It argues windows reveal clear social and trade divisions, offering a compact Mercator-like view of aspirations, vices, and virtues through a cross section of random occupants and occupations.
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Tremont Street
Boston Transcript
Dog Returns Home After Forty Sea Miles
A tale from Thomaston Maine recalls Capt Norton of Cushing and his dog who grew seasick aboard a voyage to Wilmington North Carolina. The dog disappeared at sea then somehow arrived home in fourteen days, crossing or circumventing inlet routes with no explanation. The captain notes the dog had had enough of salt water.
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Thomaston
Maine
Norton
Cushing
Wilmington
N. C
All Things Necessary in Sothern’s Funeral Anecdote
The tale recounts E A Sothern visiting a furnishing undertaker and ordering elaborate funeral necessities. He fearlessly reappears to check progress, then questions how to secure the body, finally revealing the shop card and declaring that “all things necessary for funerals promptly supplied.” The gibe hinges on the body being the first necessity.
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Sothern
Pemberton
E. A. Sothern
Costs Question From Justice Maule A Novel Rule
The account recalls Justice Maule’s remark on costs in an action where one party versus another raises a question. He calls the proposed rule absurd and notes he has not seen such a doctrine in Queen’s Bench Reports. He doubts its legitimacy and emphasizes the judge’s limited involvement in the case.
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C. B. TR
Justice Maule
B. C
Queen’s Bench
A Justifiable Protest at a Stoddard Lecture
A reader complains about disruptive behavior during a Stoddard Lecture on Berlin. He details a row of attendees chewing and rattling a candy bag, blaming two women and a man for creating noise and distracting the audience until the talk ends. The letter ends with a sharp jab at those readers.
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Sree Ane
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Cambridge
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Francis Kelly
Market St
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