Polite Man’s Dilemma on a Three-Cent Car
A Victorian era three-cent bob-tail journey ends in comic embarrassment. A polite conductor drops a ten cent piece instead of three, offends a young lady, tries to recover funds, borrows seven cents, and ultimately arrives at an awkward resolution with the driver and fellow passengers. The scene ends with the man vowing never to ride again in such cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seventeenth Street
Washington Post
Mrs. Partington
Mrs. Jones
Jones
Norristown Herald
Picayune
Frostburg
Maryland
Laramie
Bostor Transcript
A Peculiar Chinese Merchant Fortified Against Bandits
Keen Fann, a Chinaman who spoke about twenty English words, built a castle like shop fortress opposite a store to deter Mexican raiders. He drilled his band and armed men with old revolvers from San Francisco, endured nightly threats, and finally killed a man with a stray shot during a raid while chasing intruders across the river.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keen Fann
Keen
San Francisco
Prentice Mulford
San Francisco Chronicle
Cleaning Soiled Chamois Leather With Soda Wash
A Scientific American tip explains cleansing a dirty chamois leather by soaking in weak soda and warm water with soft soap for two hours, then rubbing clean, rinsing in a diluted solution, wringing, drying quickly, and brushing to restore softness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scientific American
Gladstone Library at Hawarden Opens for Borrowers
The Hawarden Castle library houses over 10 000 volumes with sections for Homer Shakespeare and Dante. Mr Gladstone reads and writes at three desks with busts and medallions while a small ax from Nottingham rests in a corner. He handles vast correspondence via secretaries and occasionally signs letters personally.
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Mr. Gladstone
Gladstone
Hawarden Castle
Nottingham
Sidney Herbert
Duke of Newcastle
Canning
Cobden
Homer
Tennyson
W. E. Gladstone
H. W. Lucy
Arper’s Magazine
Ten Tons of Gold at the U S Mint
A Philadelphia special reports a discreet transfer of twenty seven iron bound cases from Adams Express wagons to a basement at the United States Mint. Each box is heavy and guarded with armed escorts as part of a $30 million bullion shipment from the New York assay office, with about $17 million on hand.
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New York
Mint
Philadelphia
Adams Express Company
Assay Office
Express
Arrison
D. M. Evans
Sub- Treasury
Chicago Tribune
United States Mint
Snowden
Tribune
Stories of Lord Loughborough and Bradsford anecdotes
Lord Loughborough as Chancellor tests lunacy and a man exclaims Ezekiel. Lord Bradford is asked about a live versus dead sheep and its legs. London Society notes a Washington statue planned for Wall Street steps to honor the 1883 evacuation centennial.
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Lord Loughborough
Bridgewater
Campbell
Ezekiel
Isaiah
Jeremiah
Earl of Bradford
Lord Bradford
Sonora
London Society
Literary and personal glimpses from 19th century press
A collage of notices on Emerson quotes and jokes about lending money. Reports cite York town Centennial preparations and honors for Colonel Lay, the Lay submarine torpedo inventor. Brief portraits cover Lathrop, Thaxter, Dodgson, Browning followers, Seth Green and Senatorial society observations.
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Emerson
Secretary of War
Yorktown
John L. Lay
Buffalo
N. Y
New York
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Italy
Mr. Dodgson
Oxford
Chicago Journal
Robert Browning
Thaxter
Celia Thaxter
Massachusetts
Browning
Boston
Seth Green
Rochester Democrat
Fragments of Humor and Wit From North American Papers
A collage of quips and light anecdotes from various papers. Jests about sand in cotton, a boy’s marriage joke about a brother, wordplay on bannister and corridor, a farmer remark on anthracite coal, a wind carrying a man, and other snippets from Frostburg to Philadelphia.
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Lord Bridgewater
Washington
United States Sub-Treasury
Wall Street
New York Chamber of Commerce
Wdetrott Free Press
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