Tales of Ibn-Adam Doomed by Carpenter’s Trick
The narrator recounts an Indian fable from The Thousand and One Nights where a peacock and peahen hear a goose speak of Ibn-Adam, the feared man. A horse and a lion flee from him until a tiny carpenter traps the lion in a wooden box, enacting Ibn-Adam’s cruel power as the creator of forced labor and death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Sehchehzade
Donynzade
Ome Neman
la Fontaine
ba-Adam
Allah
Ibn-Adam
Ibn
Eva
Hon
Adam
Chou
Tam
Lion
Horse
Peacock
Peahen
Eaamine Hha
The Sweet Soul Buys Stamps After Directory Visit
A kind woman enters a drug store with a companion to view the city directory and, after thanking the proprietor, decides to purchase something. She modestly asks for five two cent stamps, saying it is right to repay the trouble and use of the directory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice
Washington Star
Auburn Haired Lasele and the Red Hatred Lasses
An exfake captain recalls a youth when he admired red haired girls then changed after a boat accident below Bay City. A redheaded cousin of his host surfaced after the White Star steamer wake capsized their party, leaving the narrator with a remembered ideal and a lasting aversion to blue and red.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lasele
Bay City
Nansht
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Weather talk and a schoolteacher’s barometer idea
A Philadelphia Dequirer excerpt shows a young schoolteacher proposing that children are reliable weather barometers. She explains restless pupils predict rain and notes boys are harder to control. A light moment ends with the idea that children have their uses after all. Also a Harlem Life snippet hints at a romance obstacle involving a sister.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Girard Avenue
Saunterer
Chestnut Street
Philadelphia Dequirer
Barnums First Circus In Washington During War
An old circus rider turned clerk recalls Barnum's first foray into circuses in Washington in 1803 during the war. Hugh Coyle, then a drummer, suggested bringing a show here with animals, Bears from Barnum, Forepaugh, Cooper and OBrien provided acts, and Sinn funded advertising. The venture, on Louisiana Avenue, ran two daily performances mainly for soldiers, boosting Barnum to later start his own circus ventures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barnum
Washington
Uptown
Star
Hugh Coyle
Coyle
Gardner, Hemming & Co
W. E. Sinn
Canterbury Hall
Louisiana Avenue
Sinn
New York
Adam Forepaugh
James 5. Cooper
John O’brien
Grizzly’ Adams
Forepaugh
Cooper
O'Brien
Ita
Washington Post
Old Salt Quells Boys On Cornwall Quay With Cuff
In a Cornwall fishing village scene two youths near deep water are cuffed by a veteran, the hamlet’s father, who then resumes his pipe. A visitor intervenes, arguing the youths were not harming him, while the old man explains his fear of the unpredictable danger it posed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Non
Ibn-Adam
London Telegraph
Cornwall
Miss Cutter Mistaken Identity Singers In Jersey City
A Brooklyn soprano Miss Ruby Cutter swapped places with a friend of the same profession for a church charity in Jersey City. Both sang their repertoires, and the next morning papers reported Miss Cutter’s friend singing in both cities at the same hour. The tale ends with a pun on Columbus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Cutter
Ruby Cutter
Jersey City
Brooklyn
Columbus
America
Baltimore
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P. A. Got, W.H. Denny
J. J. Merriken
W.F. Pennington
Eugene Lynch
R. T. Carter, W.H. Anderson
H. C. Hobbs
W.R. Peters
M. L. Blanchard
Lord
I. T. Baker
J. Culver, E. W. Ingram
Wye
Tuckahoe
Denton
Milton
Lewes, Sus
Q. Alr. R
Queenstown
William Hf. Conn
Wit
Hopps & CO
Lam
Auburn
Geo. A
Daniel
WEI
Amgul Wall
JE. Tygert CO
Souti Delaware Ave
Ee Allan Jelpeia
Americus Fertilizers
Caroline County
Charles F. Smith
Ridcel
Echo
Trump of Fame
Wcle Sam
Peerless Machine Shops
Geo. M. Wingard
Easton, Maryveland
Clothing House
Baltimore Street
Baltimore, Maryland
New York Clothing House
Caroline
John K. Calloway
Aca
T.L. Day
Swing & Company
Fallowfield
T. L. Day
LOST
Theron Cy
Peredom
Psce
R. W. Munkittrick
Harper's Weekly
Sir Edwin Arnold
Rudyard Kipling
Sam
Tomay
Harlem
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