Jewish Humor and Its Bitter Flavor Across Judaism
A compact, period tone survey traces Jewish humor through pain and piety. It cites Renan and Heine on laughter, quotes Leobold Yunz on suffering, and presents medieval and Barcelona Jewish wit. The piece closes with a tale of a dying rabbit, satirizing belief and fate as in London Spectator reference.
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Heine
Paris
Ife
Leopold Yunz
Israel
Arles
Ifeine
Nature's noblem en lin and the call to service
A young man with high promise rejects a lucrative vocation to avoid wealth driven temptation. He chooses a path enabling service to humanity, praising useful ambition over riches. The piece lauds those who help others as nature's noblemen enriching civilization alongside greed for gold.
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Tie
Lin
Artistic Temperament as a Disease of Amateurs
Chesterton cites the artistic temperament as a disease afflicting amateurs and contrasts first, second, and third rate greatness with examples like Shakespeare Whitman and Whistler. He argues true artists utter and rid art within and that some tragic temperament prevents producing art.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Ike Shakespeare
Ike Whitman
Whistler
Shake- Speare
Browning
Neutral position questioned in choir dialogue
A fragment shows a noncombatant asked about choir involvement and a response of neutral stance, with a brief exchange about not siding with either faction, attributed to the Philadelphia Ledger.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Decaped All Memory
A fragment from the New York Press humorously questions the meaning of alma mater and the teachings omitted by a graduate, noting memory gaps as a playfulexchange about education and memory.
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Selfmade
New York
Needle Eye Story Solved Sewing Machine Riddle
The tale recounts Eline Howe's dream aided breakthrough on needle eye placement for a sewing machine. After a night of doubt and a frightening dream of execution, he woke at 1 am and realized the eye could be at the point. This clarified a key invention step in sewing machine history.
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Eline Howe
Ham
Art of Conversation in Cornhill Magazine
An essayist argues that people should treat talk as seriously as golf, striving to improve by reflection and practice. He condemns formal rote talking and urges natural zest and spontaneity to keep conversation lively and genuine.
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LT Owish
Cornhill Magazine
An Irish Type: Women in Ireland Preserve Youth and Placid Life
The New York Tribune notes a distinct Irish female persona. It says the Irishwoman avoids worry and ages gracefully, remaining content amid routine social rounds. It contrasts upper circle affluence with a dull, solitary winter life for non-hunting families, yielding a medieval castlelike boredom.
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New York ‘Tribune
Desks of Famous Men A Glimpse of Historic Writing Nests
The article tours desks of Salmon P Cinse and Alexander Hamilton in Washington with a mahogany travel desk once used by Hamilton. It notes Nathaniel Hawthorne’s desk at Salem custom house and Wayside tower room, and Victor Hugo’s glass study on Guernsey with a wall shelf desk.
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Salem
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Hawthorne
Scrapes and their use in bridge students slang
In old Enghind forests deer dug holes called scrapes. Travelers fell in them at night, often muddy after drinking. The term spread to describe people who got into trouble, and bridge students adopted the caper meaning reaching difficulty.
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Enghind
Canbridge
London wagered pudding sank under Thames near Rotherhithe
In 1706 James Austin bet 500 pounds he could cook a phim pudding ten feet under the Thames near Rotherhithe. Spectators crowded the site as the lime-pit pudding was lowered and kept submerged for about two hours. A committee retrieved and tasted it, ruling Austin won though the pudding was overdone.
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James Austin
Thames
Rotherhith
Austin
Famous Women Gamblers Across France England and Mexico
The article surveys historic women gamblers from France England and Mexico. It cites Mime de Montespan Madame du Barry Madame de Pompadour and Queen Marie Antoinette in France, Nell Gwynn in England, and Lorna Paquita in the southwest United States and Mexico. It notes their fame, high stakes games, and the ultimate fates and scandals surrounding their gambling.
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Louis PV
Louis
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Hoen
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Faro
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Mme. de Gueinene
Nell Gwynn
Charles II
Duchess of Cleveland
Duchess of Mazarin
Paso del Norte
Qualetor
Lorna Paquita
New Mexico
Southwest
Lonna Paquita
Liverpool Mercury
Divers Paralyzed Diversions And Homeopathic Theories
The New York Herald notes divers from pearl beds to sponge fisheries facing a condition called divers' paralysis. It claims homeopathy, via like cures like, can restore divers once removed from water, with sufferers appearing helpless on deck and recovering when submerged or dropped overboard. The piece alleges water exposure both causes and cures the malady in a controversial, sensational tone.
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Ceylon
Mediterranean
Pearh
Tie
New York Herald
Etiquette and peril on Alpine ascent recounted
A historic article recalls peer etiquette in the early parliaments and a dramatic Matterhorn rescue. It describes rules on chamber behavior and attire, then narrates the 1903 Alpine accident where guides Purier and Gentinetta saved their injured companions amid a crevasse and falling rock, with dramatic survival and eventual recovery.
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Auberey le Blond
Zermatt
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Centinetta
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Gentinett
T Bave
Gentinetta
Phong
A Civil War Duel Tale and Honeymoon Woes
A Mer Ripley anecdote recalls two soldiers in a Civil War stand off where misfired shots failed, a surrender demand led to a witty retort, and a captain spared a prisoner after both believed they were defeated. The piece then pivots to humorous advice from a traveler about honeymoons, noting failed long sea trips and automobile trips as miserable, with a cartoonish quip about a friend or an enemy interrupting a honeymoon.
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Ripley
Cahnaly
DT Hnad
Avot
Ong Jong Sea Garage
Philadelphia Record
Prescription Copy Fees Warned by Dyspeptic Man
A New York area man warns against asking for a copy of a prescription at drug stores, noting many shops tack 10 or 15 cents to medicine prices if done at purchase. He says it breaches etiquette and favors those who delay, while copying with medicine later avoids arousing suspicion.
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Teres
Barcelona
Sid
New York
Ares
Colophon origins in ancient Colophon and printing
Colophon, a city north of Aphesis near the sea, reputed birthplace of Homer and near Apollo's oracle. Strabo explains the proverb to put on colophon meaning to end an affair well, linked to Colophon's cavalry famed for decisive charges. The term colophon later described a printer's device or sign in old books as a definite end.
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Tout
Aphesis
Homer
Apollo
Strabo
Fiacre the Saint Named Hackney Carriage Origin
The fiacre name hails St Fiacre, an Irish noble who became a hermit near Meaux France in the seventh century. Sauvage began public hackney coaches in Paris in 1610, centering at an inn on Rue St Martin named Hotel St Vinere with the saint’s image, giving rise to the term finere.
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St. Fiacre
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Meaux
Sauvage
Pars
Rue St. Martin
Hotel St. Vinere
Child Falls From Window Cited as Eyewitness Remark
Detroit Free Press reports a neighbor recalls a child’s fall from a third story window. A policeman confirms the child was standing when the event occurred and the witness stance aligns with the scene. The remark about the mother being a cat reflects neighborly folklore rather than fact.
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Detroit Free Press
Freshening inscriptions on ancient tombs pointed to no new fiction
Old Mortality explains to bystanders that there is nothing essentially new in modern fiction, noting the legible inscriptions on pancient tombstones as evidence. This remark appears in a Chicago Tribune context.
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Chicago Tribune
Tycho Brahe as a Turning Point in Astronomy
The 1560 eclipse influenced a 14 year old Danish boy, Tycho Brahe, toward astronomy after plans for army and law. His awakening to celestial prediction sparked a lifelong devotion and his later impact on Kepler’s genius, marking astronomy’s debt to Brahe.
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Tycho Brahe
Kepler
Dinner in a Tower Bell Feast at Erfurt Cathedral
In July 1713 ten of Erfurt’s wealthiest burghers dined in a kitchen built on the beam supporting a gigantic bell in the cathedral tower. Medals were struck to commemorate the event, showing the guests on the obverse and the unusual dining scene on the reverse.
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Aell
Erfurt
One For the Synonym in a Classroom Exchange
A classroom exchange defines a synonym as a word with the same meaning. The teacher notes traits of language such as why synonyms exist and how they help when spellings are uncertain.
A Bad Patient and Doctor Confront a Habit Pattern
A witty exchange in the Louisville Courier-Journal features a doctor unable to order a patient to stop any habit. The friend remarks on the patient’s lack of bad habits, prompting the doctor to concede the difficulty of enforcing personal change.
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