I Fall in Love With My Gymnasium Class
A teacher recalls his first appointment at a female gymnasium in N I and the intense, awkward infatuation with a student, Maria Ryshkina. He narrates teaching anxiety, growing affection, and a parallel bond with Krassoff, who shares similar longing for his beloved. Eight years later, Krassoff is a lawyer and the narrator remains unsettled, feeling an empty heart.
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St. Petersburg
Mile
Ryshkina
Mlle
Maria Vasilyevna Ryshkina
asium
Krassoff
Semyon Semyonovitch
Milo
Krausoff
Maria Vasilyevna
Mme Titiens fortune in chancery and heir quest
The famous singer Mme Titiens died in 1877 leaving her fortune to Peter Tietjens. He lived in Cardiff in 1873 and possibly emigrated to South America. For years no trace of him appeared and relatives pursued claims for two decades. In 1895 a court order allowed assuming his death if no heirs claimed after proper notice.
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Mme
Titiens
Mme. Titiens
Peter Tietjens
Cardiff
South America
Peter
Peter Tietjeng
Contented Customers
A humorous exchange in a newspaper spoof quotes a passenger claiming excessive returns burden merchants, while another passerby boasts forty three years in business as an undertaker, highlighting contrasts in customer behavior. The Elmira Telegraph-Telegram caption frames the vignette as a light mock.
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Elmira Telecram
Be Careful of Geography in a Popular Novel
The writer misplaces geography by placing the Azores in a southern latitude and sending the hero to the Antarctic in January. January is Antarctic summer with continuous daylight, a fact the author overlooks, highlighting geographic inaccuracies in fiction.
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Azores
antarctic
Necessity for Smiles A Treatise on Happy Countenances
Essay arguing opinions on smiling and facial expression across situations. Cites photogra phers advice to “look pheasant” and notes varied attitudes toward perpetual sunshine and melancholy. Discusses Monna Lisa, American women, and the choice to smile as a personal matter. Chicago Tribune quotation.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Chicago Tribune
Plants Bend Toward Gravity As They Grow
Francis Darwin told Glasgow conference that a pine tree grows straight up due to a gravitation sense. Some plants curve to optimize growth, such as Narcissus stalks bending as flowers open to present the crown to pollinating insects.
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Francis Darwin
British association
Glasgow
Hobbies Lead to Madness and the Maupassant Case
A warning that intense hobbying can drive a person toward insanity. The article cites Guy de Maupassant, who pursued occult science as a hobby, becoming obsessively absorbed, losing sleep and appetite, and ending in a sanitarium amid erratic behavior.
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Guy de Maupassant
How an Eskimo Secures a Wife
An Eskimo youth earns marriage eligibility by killing a polar bear unaided. He journeys by night to seize the first unsuspecting girl, who screams and summons the village. Sealskin scourges are used to defend the maiden as she escapes. he pursues, catching her after a gauntlet of kicks and blows, and if she escapes a third time she becomes his wife.
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Ile
Names For Warships
The United States names its fighting ships after states and principal cities rather than grand mythic titles. This practice localizes interest in the Navy and instills pride in each state or city to have a vessel bearing its name.
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United States
Union
Ajax
Divorce by Turkish law and garden quarrel tale
A lighthearted note on divorce in Turkey describes how a divorce can be sought without a judge. It recounts a gardener husband whose flowers provoke his wife into threats, a sister witness, and a failed divorce over garden dirt and a pink shirt incident.
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Turkey
Bees Carry Toilet Cases
The article explains bee anatomy and behavior focusing on the tongue wax glands and how wax is produced and handled. It details wax plates on the abdomen, the cutting shears, mouth processing, and hind and front leg adaptations for gathering pollen cleaning antennae and maintaining hive hygiene.
Longevity of Birds Explored in 19th Century Study
Birds show wide lifespans from eight to eighteen years for small songbirds to over a hundred in captivity for ravens and parrots. Wild geese may exceed a century and swans reach about 300. The long lifespans offset high juvenile mortality and low fertility, notes Weisman.
How Some Coins Were Named Origin of coin names and their origins
The origin of current coin names is curious and often tied to old weight standards. The pound reflects the English standard, shilling and penny derive from German roots, crown refers to the coin’s image, and franc traces to King John who first minted the pieces in 1360 with the motto Le Roi Frank.
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John
Bronze in antiquity and copper sources
The article discusses bronze origins and the copper supply of ancient peoples. It notes copper deposits near Lake Superior and Lake Baikal, and suggests that ancient smelting would have been difficult, implying European ancients may have been more clever than often believed.
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Lake Superior
America
Baikal lake
Siberia
Europe
Ocean Derelicts
Theodore Waters in Ainslee's recounts derelict ships and their fates. It describes the drift patterns of vessels abandoned at sea, notable cases like Fanny E. Wolston and W. L. White, and the peril they posed to mariners along the Gulf Stream to Europe and to New England shores.
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United States
gulf stream
ocean river
Sargasso sea
Fanny E. Wolston
W. L. White
Delaware
White
Europe
Grand banks
New
Hebrides
Fred B. Taylor
Labrador
Hatteras
North Carolina
Wells beach
Theodore
Ainslee’s
The Fatal Age of Fifty Six in Famous Figures
A St James Budget note observes a perceived pattern where many renowned individuals die at age fifty six. The list includes Napoleon’s era figures and others such as Dante, Capet, Henry VIII, Paganini, Pope, Marcus Aurelius, Saladin, Lincoln, Spurzheim, and more, suggesting a curious fatal limit among genius.
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Dante
Hugh Capet
France
Henry VIII
Henry IV
Germany
Paganini
Alexander Pope
Marcus Aurelius
Frederick I
Prussia
Maria Louisa
Saladin
Egypt
Robert Stephenson
Scipio Africanus
Helvetius
Henry II
Pliny
Julius Cesar
Charles Kingaley
Juan Prim
Henry Knox
Van Tromp
Abraham Lincoln
Marryat
George Whitefield
Robert Dudley
earl of Leicester
Frederick II
St. James
The Angels Came Too Readily
A Georgia darky attempted prayer at dusk in an old field and fled when he heard winged visitors. His wife cried for him to rise as the angels supposedly arrived, but he explained he cannot fly and is too heavy to tote, prompting a humorous exchange about winged rescue.
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Georgia darky
John
dar
Atlanta Constitution
Do Not Talk Aches and Pains Says Women’s Journal
A Ladies' Home Journal admonishes readers to dismiss illness from memory and focus on others and uplifting topics. It urges ignoring lingering pain after surgery, dwelling only to relieve it, and to live as a light bearer bringing strength to those around.
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earth
ome Journal
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