The Muffs Fashion Through English History
A retrospective on muff use from the 1600s to the early 1800s notes that men wore muffs early, with double muffs at times, and traces trend shifts through reigns and fashion plates. It highlights styles, prices in 1608, and figures like Henry Prince of Wales and Josiah Tucker, ending with the large late eighteenth and early nineteenth century styles and declines.
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Prince of Wales
Venice
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Josiah Tucker
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Horace Walpole
George Montagu
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London
Jaguar Killed by Mighty Boa in Mexican Jungle Scene
A World Wide Magazine account describes a harrowing encounter as a jaguar fights an enormous boa constrictor. The snake ensnares the jaguar, wrapping around its neck and body, then for a moment lifts the animal before the jaguar is crushed and dies.
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Ita Victhn
Methodical burglars heard nightly in quiet suburb
An elderly bachelor at a whist party recounts a running joke about burglars targeting his home for two weeks Each night Mary hears them wake the sleeper and the couple notes the burglars are methodical They enter through the dining room window then leave by the same window and always lock the window behind them Mary is a light sleeper which amuses the narrator
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John
The Giraffe Second Story Worker With the Long Neck
A whimsical Collier's Weekly item on the giraffe describing its long neck as a necessity to reach food and parasites. It blends playful misstatements about anatomy and history with humorous observations on its appearance and alleged uses in war.
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The Clever Telegram and the Capitol Gambit
A congressman faced a staged plea to leave for a wife’s dire health news, but declared he had no wife and proceeded to the Capitol. The piece uses a tale from a supposed telegram trick and contrasts a general reluctance to dwell on death with thoughts of mortality as discussed by G Lowes Dickinson in Atlantic.
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the Inquirer
Old Thoughts on April in 1626 Fantasies
A fragment from Old Nikolas Breton’s 1626 Fantasties lauds April as the earths comfort and heavens blessing with lyrical lines about laborers at dawn and spring imagery. The London Chronicle is cited as the source of the remark.
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London Chronicle
Wrinkles as Pretwork: A Curious Exchange
A brief, quirky snippet presents a father asking about wrinkles and a response about pretwork and fretwork, hinting at playful wordplay. The fragment evokes a domestic vignette with a hint of linguistic humor.
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