Topics of the Times notes on power, war and agriculture
A collage of opinions on self reliance, wealth, royalty, and current geopolitics. It discusses the German potato trade and German use of potatoes, Russia and Japan in the Orient, the Russian people’s loyalty to the czar, and a sketch of McKinley’s Civil War era charity. It also references Berlin exhibitions on alcohol and German agricultural practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Russia
Manchuria
Niuchwang
Korea
China
Berlin
Germany
United States
Ireland
Alcohol and telegraphy loom large in late 19th century report
The piece discusses Germany's alcohol industry and its vast products from starch to syrup, noting alcohol engines in navy service. It then celebrates the Pacific Cable Company’s world girdling message from New York to Oyster Bay in nine and a half minutes, comparing it to Shakespeare. It ends with a series of anecdotes about famous doubles, including Edward VII, the czar, the Prince of Wales, and others like King Humbert and King Oscar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mackay
American Pacific
Pacific Commercial Cable Company
New York
Roosevelt
Oyster Fay
Long Island
Hongkong
Azores
Chicago
Postal Telegraph Company
San Francisco
Pacific
Honolulu
Hawaii
Midway
Canso
Nova Scotia
Oyster Bay
Globe
Orient
Philippines
Washington
Alaska
Shakespeare
Puck
Oberon
Avon
Whitechapel
Edward
England
Detroit Free Press
Prince of Wales
Europe
M. Bertolani
Salerno
Humbert
Italy
Hierr Adolph Hirschfeld
William
Germany
Luigi
Pompeii
New York Evening Post
Building of Babel
Vesuvius
The
Sarno
Monte Sant Angelo
Lettere
Narses
Nocera
Helena
Manfrel
Beneventum
Castellamare
Capri
Ischia
The Chinaman in the United States in Frank Leslie’s Magazine
The article estimates about 100000 Chinese in the United States, with 20000 in San Francisco, and smaller colonies in New York Philadelphia Boston and Chicago. It notes most migrants come from Kwong Tung province and describes Chinatown life work trades rituals dress and social habits including opium use and tea drinking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
San Francisco
New York
Philadelphia
Boston
Chicago
Kwong Tung
Canton
Shan Tung
China
Language of Their Own in multilingual Switzerland
A visitor notes Swiss linguistic diversity with German spoken by about three quarters of the population and four other languages, mainly French and Italian, reflecting proximity to neighbors. Public notices and congressional speeches occur in French and German, with official translations provided to newspapers. The Swiss president is Adolf Denner, a name unfamiliar to many. Mail delays leave expectant readers waiting for letters that never arrive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Azorea
Lifthe
Switzerland
Macaulay
M. Adolf Dencher
Do you ever have any difficulty in making your cook keep her place
Quote from Cincinnati Commercial Tribune noting a cook who immediately runs the house and never stops, contrasting a self reliant man who acts as his own crutch rather than leaning on others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnat
Commercial Tribune
Paris Mushrooms Beneath the City in Parallel to Lofty Trade
A reporter descends into Paris underground caves where champignon growers cultivate mushrooms beneath the metropolis. He and a photographer endure a 45 foot shaft, near constant darkness, damp air, and cramped passages as they witness beds, fungi farms, and the vast network that sustains a yearly market valued around $1,250,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Malakoff
M. Burvingt
Unclear OCR noted economic figures for Great Britain
Fragmentary OCR data shows an increase to 27 300 in the first year and 10 183 in Britain. The text includes garbled phrases about trade and a Caudl padian cote, unclear context. No definitive event or date can be established from the readable parts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Caudl
Padian Cote Enorme
Monte
Roar Woot
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Hinself
Loubet
London
Czar
Paria
France
John Burroughs
West
Eas
William MckKinley
Be Baye
Frank Leslie
Cobsler
Edward Charles
Champignonnistes
Sian
Leese Bety
Champignonniste
Moutineaux Ogi
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