Notable Lives and Unusual Feats From Diverse Realms
General Schenck lives quietly in Washington and shuns cards. Harrison of California runs 6000 hives producing 200000 pounds of honey yearly. London’s Divi Evans becomes youngest lord mayor at 42. Baron Hirsch worth 100 million from railroad contracts. Dunn, California naturalist, catalogs tens of thousands of insects. Depew lauds Macaulay essays for oratory. Lavigerie once a loan sabreur. Howard once a Life Gears commission. Perth archbishop’s youth saw Russian hussars. Stephens, 70, still fiery Fenian head. indictment for treason pending. Ferguson, wounded at Inkerman, wears Crimea and Turkish bravery medals. Major Dickey, 80, Maine pioneer and politician, called Duke of Kent, remains active for his people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Schenck
Washington
Mr. Harrison
California
London
Divi’ Evans
Baron Hirsch
G. A. Dunn
Chauncey M. Depew
Macaulay
Cardinal Lavigerie
Cardinal Howard
Perth
James Stephens
Dublin
James Ferguson
Inkerman
William Dickey
Aroostook
the Duke of
Curious Odds And Ends From A Distant World
A miscellany notes global trivia from pigments to religion and industry. It mentions Venezuela hair ornaments, India’s religions banning alcohol, accidental creation of colored paper, a vast Bakoo naphtha spring, Bahama style sponge trade, red sea microbes, a French hospital water experiment, ancient temple finds near St Saens, terra cotta Venus figures, sugar whitening by clay, Liberia farms without clocks, and Liberian sun time stations with noon under the zenith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Venezuela
India
Bakoo
Taggieff
Ifit
Bahanw Islands
Florida
Bahamas
Red Sea
Venus
Liberia
Whispers About Women in Modern Times
A column notes prominent women and achievements across nations and fields. Baroness Rothschild’s wealth, Mrs. Evangeline Wilson Carpenter presenting a notable photograph, the 8000 women physicians in the United States with 500 in New York, Miss Blackwell as medical pioneer, Sverdrup driving six horses in Gothenburg, Mme Millet’s widow living in Barizon, Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney’s sixty eighth birthday, and Oklahoma board member Beeson praising women in all occupations from farming to editing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rothschild
Evangeline Wilson Carpenter
United States
Henry Wilson
Philadelphia
Gothenburg
Sweden
Sverdrup
Norway
Millet
Barbizon
Mme. Millet
A. D. T. Whitney
Oklahoma
Beeson
Notable 1892 Theatre News From New York and California
Lillie Langtry begins American engagement in New York on January 25, 1892. Bertha Ricci, a singer, was left valuable property by a rich man whose daughter she once aided. Sarah Bernhardt shows a pet opossum named St Casilda. Ada Behan praised by Mime Bernhardt as a talented actress in Shakespeare and Sheridan. Henry Arthur Jones's new play The Crusaders flagged as a failure due to weak reception. The mayor of Talladega greeted Alabama on stage during a New York production. Nelson Wheatcroft claims to finish The Surgeon of Senart with an unknown Brooklyn co writer as future collaboration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillie Langtry
New York
Bertha Ricci
Arich
Sarah Bernhardt
Alabama
Talladega
Nelson Wheatcroft
The
Mirror Reports
Senart
Brooklyn Woin
Wheatcroft
Turf Topics of the Season and Racing Notes
Plunger Pittsburg Phil ends season $20000 ahead. Stoval acquitted of ferryboat shooting and back in saddle. North enters Chicago Derby 1993. Civil Service shows 14-8-2-1 from 25 starts. Ralph Wilkes clocks 2:18 at Independence, junior record. American Trotting Horse Register to shift to weekly. Morris secures five of thirteen Galopin stallion matings at 1250 each. Cesarewitch won by Ragimunde at 25–1. Joe Thompson paid £40000. A horse learns few words. The Horseman urges firm Whoa.
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Pittsburg
Phil
Stoval
Peter Robinson
Philadelphia
Colonel North
England
Civil Service
Ralph Wilkes
Red Wilkes
Independence, Jr
Uis
Sunol
American Trotting Horse Register Association
Wallace's Monthly
J. A. Morris
New York
Galopin
Railroad Developments Report From The Lake Shore Corridor
Mortgage for 10 million dollars on the Lehigh Valley Railroad and branches was recorded in New York. New stations and over a million in track enhancements on the Lake Shore run Cleveland to Chicago. The sil chrome decor material enters car and depot interiors. Wabash begins equipping all passenger trains with Weinghouse air signals. A division superintendents meeting called for physical exams by civil service. Mechanical engineers plan a new fast passenger locomotive type. Grayhound engines desired to cut New York Chicago running time. Albert Johnson of Raleigh is the oldest locomotive engineer in service, dating to 1936. Francis Wilson speaks as publisher of a Horas translation by Eaganer and Boswell Field of Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
New York City
Lake Shore
Cleveland
Chicago
Wabash
Railway
Mil Service
Civil Service Coumission
Evie Mechanical Engineers
New York
Jat Cago
Albert Johnson
Raleigh
Sharga
Rishmond
Predericksourg Valle
Yardatche Raleigh and Gascon
Spreading Manure in Autumn Across Plowed Ground
Advice on laying out fields with narrow unplowed strips to drive wagons and scatter manure, enabling three quarters of plowing before spreading and finishing next spring. Diagrammed layout shows entry points, strip widths, and turning patterns for efficient spreading and late plowing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Autuvian
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Odds and
Ragimunde
Joe Thompson
Francis Wilson
Theles of Horas
Eaganer and
Boswell Field
Clarence M. Weed
Ohio
Iowa
Montana
Almenaberto
Main St
Montanana
Mineral Lands
Langhorne & Reece
Helena
Frank L. Pee Ee
U.S. Land
Othie
Lena
Nesta
Arickene
Caponts
Fee Ag
Imo
AME
Bor Cary
Neok Yoko
W. Sandgame
Eriisog
Manu
Atlon Wuliar
Tye
Cona Ok
Dan Syatem
Wea
Thiebouk
Bereen
Werao
East Lynne
Henry Wood
Charlotte Bront
John Halipax
Eo Vneen
Adam Bede
George Eliot
Woman IN White
Wilkie Collins
Lane Audlet
Mies
M. E. Braddon
Vanity Fair
W. M. Thackeray
Pompei
Sir HE. Bulwer Lytton
Alexander Dumas
Charles Reade
Dion
Tribune Pub. Co
Dillon, Montana
Cooper
American Forest
Leatherstocking
James Fenimore Cooper
Century Magazine
Cosmopolitan
France
Germany
Italy
Great Britain
Poe
Deerslayer
Pathfinder
LAST
Mohicans
Pioneers
Leathiersvooking
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