French Undergrads Viewed as Serious Yet Frivolous
A commentator contrasts French undergraduates with American students, noting their energy and intelligence but criticizing a perceived lack of humanity and convivial tradition. He argues French students pursue knowledge in a broad cultural sense, aiming to inform themselves and others, while remaining tied to a formal university framework in Paris.
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Wheelr
Fife
Alain
France
America
Norte
Meme Miers
Auch
Paris
England
Tieribaer
Peasant Crafts Highlight Asian Tador Bird Nest Work
The article notes bird life and highlights the tador bird of Asia as a striking achievement. It describes the bird selecting a plant with leaf size about a man's hand to form a nest and weaving cotton plant fibers into a thread using its bill and feet to sew edges of loaves.
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Asia
Opinion on Woods trial prompts unlikely sports wager
A clergyman reading ecclesiastical court details in a Congregationalist report expresses doubt about the trial of Professor Woods of Andover Theological Seminary. A fellow reader predicts John L Sullivan will knock out the presumptuous opponent in the first round.
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Woods
Andover Theological Seminary
New Hampshire
Avalayas
Congregationalist
John L. Sullivan
The Sirloin Origin and Royal Jest in Lancashire
The sirloin name derives from surloin in French, meaning upper portion of the loin. A King James I quip at Hughnton Hall, Lancaster, supposedly framed the term as a royal joke about the joint, saying not surloin but Sirloin.
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James I
Hiughton Hall
Lancashire
Lann
The Old World and its Ways travel book ad
An advertisement for a travel book by Ryan and Willans Jeu solicitors promises a grand volume with over 200 engravings and iron photographs by Erya. It recounts a worldwide trip and nations visited, urging orders with free outfit and mailing handling. Thompson Publishing Co. in St Louis solicits fifty cent mailing cover.
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Willans Jeufer Solicitors
Imperial Aday Sages
Erya
Outfit
Senc
Thompson Publishing Co
Louts
Intolerable gas bag remark at Berlin train station
Von Moltke, famed for brevity, objects to a pompous officer who salutes with Guten morgen in Berlin. Two hours into the journey a captain again salutes and departs, prompting Moltke to murmur that the man is an intolerable gas bag.
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Atian
von Moltke
Perlin
Bian
Eval
Harper's Weekly
Animals Toilet Like Cats for Grooming Across Species
The Birmingham Post notes that cats perform a meticulous toilet routine using the fore foot and tongue, with lions and tigers washing similarly. Hares also wash their faces with their feet, and the hare’s foot even serves as a brush and paint applicator for stage use.
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Birmingham Post
The Face of the Clock
A clock made in 1370 for Charles V of France faced the king’s demand to correct the Roman numeral IV. Vick suggested error, the king declared himself never wrong, and the clock was changed to LIL and kept that way since.
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Fienry Vick
Charles V
France
the Wise
Vick
Charles
Theatre Dilemma Remains Unclear in Two Tickets
In his office Ue contemplates two theater tickets for tonight and considers asking Jones to join. He fears his wife wants to see the play more than anything this year and dreads missing dinner plans. a coin toss will decide, though he suspects the result will be disagreeable either way.
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Jones
Ull
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