Monkey fundraiser and legal quip headline reel
A Paris charity reception features a dressed monkey collecting donations for a good cause, causing laughter as the singer is amused yet vexed. In San Francisco a court debates whether atheists can testify, noting old rules could bar scientists like Tyndall and Wesley. A Vermont card mocks a man misnamed Bil Dill and a Boston social story coins paste value. A riddle and a Yankee quip finish the fragment.
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London
Paris
United States Circuit Court
San Francisco
Tyndall
Wesley
Will Practice In 1 Lot Caroine And Queen Ante Countus
A legal notice notes a will practice concerning one lot tied to Caroine and Queen Ante Countus with monetary stakes. The document outlines actions and potential claims in a probate matter.
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Old Lovers Eke Joy From Forty Years Apart
An elderly couple, Miss Carney and Mr. Turner, reconnect after decades apart along a village lane. He is a grey clad gentleman and she a brown clothed widow. his tale of a miller’s ghost and lost love leads to a promise of marriage as bells ring a month later.
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Edward Carney
Mark Turner
Miss Carney
Purner
Taey
walter
Ali
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Prisey
Priscy
Want of Courage: The Call to Begin Doing Great Things
Sidney Smith argues that talent is wasted by timidity and hesitation. He urges decisive action over cautious calculation, noting past delays in publication and the fleeting opportunity of life. Readers should overcome fear, even if it requires forceful effort against feeling.
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Vermont
mur
Bil
Willan Palmer
Sidney Smith
Water for the Eyes from Frasers Magazine
Water for the Eyes argues that cold pure water is essential for eye health. The writer says morning ablutions should include washing the eyes with cold water, especially for those exposed to dust or heat. Artisans in wool and cotton trades are urged to frequent eye washing to prevent inflammations, swelling, and cataracts caused by fine dust.
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Frasers Magazine
Immortal Minds and Lasting Principles Quote
A fragmentary quotation exhorts that works on marble perish while those on immortal minds endure. It speaks of engraving justice and love of mankind as enduring tablets, noting the true end is to know a life that never ends. The source presents a reflective, moral maxim.
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DaNinL Wenster
Long Words and Word Lengths in a Daring Exchange
Tom and Bob trade jokes about dangerous words and the longest English word. Tom claims valetudinarianism, then corrects with smiles and finally Beleaguered as a clever punchline about distance between first and last letters.
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Bob
Tom
What Makes the Wires Hum
An Austrian writer notes telegraph wires hum even in still air and frost. Temperature changes, especially cold, shorten wires and cause vibration, with friction at supporting bells producing sound in wires and poles.
Submarine fresh water and prison work ethic cited
The Persian Gulf region hosts arid shores with no rain yet abundant sea springs. Divers dry a goat skin bag to collect fresh water from submerged jets, hauling up water and repeating dives. A New Jersey prison study links employment to better health, showing lower deaths and illness when convicts worked versus idleness across several years.
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Persian Gulf
Bahrin
Ooman
New Jersey
Two Paths to Happiness and the True Timber Within
A reflection on happiness through diminishing wants or augmenting means, urging balanced effort to improve personal welfare and society. Advice ranges from thrift to ambition, with a note on mercy, politeness, and how storms reveal character and strength.
Pennsylvania Conundrum Prompts Light Wordplay
A quirky note from a Pennsylvania issue quips about a lord Jove and a man who owes his washerwoman. It also mentions spelling schools spreading in Ohierre proving women spell better than men and jokes about Picasctni and rhheumatoid rhymes.
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Pennsylvania
Ohierre
Proverb Advice on Speech and Promises
A historical proverb urges thinking before speaking and delaying promises, warning that rash phrases invite hastened consequences. It emphasizes restraint, prudent speech, and measured commitments in daily conduct.
Ladies favoring a third term movement after second marriages
A large group of women who have remarried are reported to support a so called third term movement. The remark suggests shifting political backing or continuity desires among remarried segments of society. The source notes no formal party endorsement or organized group.
Bright boy speaks of three sects and empty hands
A boy tells his teacher of three sects the male sex the female and insects. The writer laments those who come to Washington hungry and leave empty.
Quotations on life and virtue from various thinkers
This fragment offers aphoristic reflections on nourishment, companionship, happiness, childhood, charity, resilience, and moral guidance. It weaves thoughts on being loved, the value of noble ideas, and the idea that virtue begins at home yet extends outward.
All-Seeing God in Psalm 129 Sunday Lesson
International series presents All-Seeing Cod focusing on Psalm 129 with themes of God's omniscience and omnipresence. The piece explains God's exhaustive knowledge of thoughts and deeds, the comfort for Christians, and the sobering reality for sinners, urging faith in Christ's atonement.
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David
God
heaven
hell
New York
Matthew Wienry
Mitchell
becaue
wiekake
pearus
Athoma
sifest
Reid
Christ
boed
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BARNES COMPTON
TMOS, J. KEATING
FRANK A. BOND
Librariant
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Commissioner of Land Office
W. R. TAY WALID
Judiciary Department
Court of Appeals
JAMES L. BARTOL
Oliver Miller
Jos. A. Stewart
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JAMES & FRANKLIN
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MO. M. ROBINSON
AL WICKES
FREDERICK STUMP
JOAN W. TEMPLE
GEO, M. RUSSUM
L. J. GADD
CLINTON COOK
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Preston
Henry Wilson
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Greensborough
Geo. F. Beaven
Treas
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Robert Jarrell
Nf. F. Willis
Register of Wills
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Reese Wyatt
Wm. H. Downes
Jas, W. Saulsbury
Bennett Todd
Jona, Longfellow
Elijah Todd
Wan. H. Whiteley
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Senderson
J.P. Fierce
Greensborough, Md
Thos. A. Smith
Thos. Melvin
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Trilsborough
W. W. Williamson
Smithville, Ltd
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