Duel Over a Pellet and a Parisian's Vengeance
Paul, a Parisian in a seaside resort, teases the Englishman Sir Arthur Jacobson with bread-crumb pellets at table. A drunken duel ensues, wounds Paul, and after months of illness he falls in love with Jeanne, Paul's nurse. Arthur scraps a final feud by gifting a dried pellet and a fortune, allowing Paul to wed while Arthur dies years later in Holland.
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Careless of Mis Appearance Story From New York World
An elderly, wealthy Paterson man, known as eccentric, is seen shabby in New York and later in Patterson. His friend notes the ragged look. the man replies that no one knows him in New York and that everyone knows him in Paterson. The tale is attributed to the New York World.
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Patterson
Paterson
New York World
Co Operative Telegraph Line in Sewanee County Mich
A rural co operative telegraph network in Sewanee county Michigan grew from two farmers linking houses to sixty five miles of line and ninety offices. Farmers serve as operators battery men and repairers and use lines freely. One man survived poisoning by telegraphing a doctor for instructions to drink sweet milk until arrival of medical help.
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Letter Found in Cod Reveals Danish Message Lost at Sea
Nature reports that on April 29 near the Westman Islands Teeland, captain of the Danish mail steamer Laura, threw overboard a Danish letter. On May 6 a French fisherman’s cod off Reykjanes carried the letter, which the French consul presented to Laura’s captain. The fragment was decomposed but legible.
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Westman Islands
Teeland
Laura
Reykjanies
Reykjavik
What Do You Want Me to Bring From the City
A fond father asks his year-old child for a city pickup list. The child responds with a playful menagerie including a wally horse a pop gun a train of cars and a bank and anything else you can lay your hands on. The exchange reflects childlike whimsy from Harper's Young People.
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Johnny
Harper
Polishing Powder for Metals and Glass
A useful polishing powder made from finely powdered glass mixed with a small proportion of dried soda ash.
Technical Education in Trades for Early Employment
The piece notes global interest in technical education to start young men in profitable trades without long apprenticeships. Prominent English figures support such institutions and French government technical schools report strong success, as reported by the Chicago News.
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France
Chicago News
Rescue Scene and Quirky Quotes Amid Ocean Aches
The fragmentary text mixes a nautical rescue moment with garbled dialogue from a Boston bound voyage and quotes from Utica Observer and Martha's Vineyard Herald. It notes London relief money, eyes as soul windows, and empty tenements, ending with a garbled Puget Sound reference about wood types.
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Boston
Penelope
Utica
Martha’s Vineyard
A Peculiar Type of Physical Beauty A Blending of Races
A vivid examination of skin tones among Caribbean populations and the blending of Carib, European, and African blood. The author catalogs range from bronze to metallic yellow skins, notes muscular vigor, and cites a Martinique physician’s remarks on mixed heritage. The piece features lyrical, potentially biased observations about race and physical form.
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De. J. J. J. Cornilliac
Martinique
Lafacade Hearn
Harper's Magazine
Warn Readers on Travel to Russia in May and June
Detroit Free Press corresp describes brutal winter conditions even in late spring. He warns travelers to pack heavy winter clothing for May or June, notes Russia's later calendar, St Petersbu r, and the North Pole route. He observes long northern days and persistent cold as peasants plant while cities still wear overcoats.
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England
Holland
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Baltic sea
North pole
Detroit Free Press
Lost Stimulants Do Not Build Prosperity
A columnist argues that tea and coffee are not foods and, if removed from daily life, would not affect physical prosperity. They are described as merely cumberers of the table that contribute only expense.
Reunion of blue and gray praised for sweetness of disposition
The London Times cited by the Boston Transcript lauds the reunions at Gettysburg and notes that over the past twenty five years Americans have learned a remarkable sweetness of disposition. It suggests this trait could benefit Europe if shared.
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London Times
Gettysburg
Europe
America
Boston Transcript
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