The Glorious March Sermon by Dr. Talmage Abroad
Dr. Talmage’s weekly sermon from his foreign preaching tour extols the church as fair as the moon clear as the sun and terrible as an army with banners. He argues the church outshines secular progress and envisions a global army of believers across American and European wings moving toward triumph and heavenly jubilee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loxspan
Solomon
Church of God
Fultons
Morses
Whitneys
Perrys
Livingstones
Church of Christ
Nebuchadnezzar
Darius
Minister of Christ
Philadelphia
Church of Jesus Christ
Moon
Jas
Heaven
Paradise
Christ
God
Wilds
West
Table- Lands
Ocean
Pacific
Red Sea
China
Siberia
Himalayan
Palestine
Xerses
Earth
Celestial Mansion
Bannera
New York School of Applied Design for Women
A fall launch in New York introduces the New York School of Applied Design for Women. The school aims to broaden women’s work by teaching pattern making for carpets fabric printing and architectural drawing with instructors drawn from current industry practice.
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New School of Design
New York
New York School of Applied Design
Sketch of Mary E. Peabody and her family roots
Mary Elizabeth Pangborn later Mrs. Peabody of Burlington Vermont descends from Jonathan Carver. She taught in a St Johnsbury academy and became wife of Selim H Peabody principal of Burlington High School in 1853. Four children, skilled housewife, flower painter, and early Chicago Women's Club member.
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Mary E. Peabody
Mary Elizabeth Pangborn
Peabody
Burlington
Jonathan Carver
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Selim H. Peabody
University of Vermont
Burlington High School
Chicago Women’s Club
Mrs. Ward Replies to Critics on David Grieve Preface
Mrs. Humphry Ward drafts a preface to a new edition of The History of David Grieve addressing critics from the Quarterly and Church Quarterly Reviews. She debates whether novelists should engage religious and social topics, reviews the novel form, and weighs how fiction can reform society. Marlon Hurlawid’s Home and Ramapo Lake are briefly noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Elsmere
David Grieve
Queens in the Kitchen and Royal Culinary Talent
The Empress Elizabeth of Austria is famed as a pastry cook and horsewoman, while Archduchess Valeria says she knows ancient and modern cuisines. Queen Victoria enjoys omelets and the Princess of Wales excels at tea and toast. Princes pursued serious studies like entomology and paleontology.
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Elizabeth of
Austria
Valeria
Victoria
Princess of Wales
England
Albert
Notable Women and Arts Highlights From Various Countries
Miss Schliemann reports a Greek find by her own hand while Irish railways employ many women as booking clerks. Queen Victoria’s private rooms display paintings of domestic life including a christening scene by Reid. Miss Jessie Ludlow wins a Times Manchester prize for Best Book and Why I Like It. Lady Waterford praised as an exceptional artist, while Miss Elizabeth More builds a cottage in Edgeworth, Pa with hand labor. Mme Schumann health restored. daughter to study in Frankfurt and England. Countess of Aberdeen stresses parent education as vital to child development.
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Schliemann
Dublin
Queen Victoria
Reid
Beatrice
Jessie Ludlow
South Carolina
The
Times
Manchester
England
France
Germany
Canada
South America
Mexico
United States
Sudiow
Columbia
S.C
Ivanhoe
Lady Waterford
Watts
Elizabeth More
Edgeworth
Miss More
Frankfort
Mme. Lehnamann
Countess of Aberdeen
Parents’ National Education Union
River of Rest and other readings in a quiet town
An eclectic column mixes poetry about the River of Rest with essays on religion skepticism a Detroit family tragedy and light anecdotes. It includes James Russell Lowell on faith and a Kansas heroine tale plus a science bent riff on train motion and a Bishop etiquette joke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Russell Lowell
Largest Fires on Record Across History
The piece compares historic urban conflagrations. Moscow in 1814 destroyed 30,800 buildings valued at 150 million dollars, Chicago in 1871 lost 125 million with 17,450 buildings burned, London in 1666 saw 13,200 buildings burn valued at 55 million, Boston in 1872 lost 60 million with 65 acres burned and 776 buildings affected. It also cites 1870 Constantinople, 1851 San Francisco, and 1852 Hamburg fires, arguing Moscow and Chicago were the greatest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Moscow
London
Boston
Constantinople
San Francisco
Hamburg
Railway Mystery and Earth's Spin Explain Rail Wear
A northern south railway line shows faster eastern rail wear. The explanation offered attributes the wear to Earth's rotation from west to east, where motion opposes gravitation. A rapid skater gliding over thin ice hints at the same resisting forces.
Ants as a Brazilian wound stitchers and other tales
A curious note explains Brazilian Indians use large ants to seal cuts by biting and gripping the wound, leaving heads to hold the skin together. Also recounted are a pony promise to Mrs Tree, an automatic gun trap killing outlaw Jack Cooley, and Robert T. Lincoln’s sparse relic collection.
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Brazil
Jack Cooley
Cooley
Fayette and
Westmoreland
Pennsylvania
Thomas Collier
Wairchance
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Talmage
Sunderland
Tam
Sye
Marion Warland
Carmen Sylva
Roumania
Munich
Mon Renos
Moa Repos
Wied
Apostle
Sadies
Marlon Hurlawid
Ramapo Lake
Queens
River of Rest
Detroit
Arthur
Can
Milord
Johnnie
Charles H. van Wyck
Nebraska
Pat
Patrick
Kansas
Atchison
Mr. Beerbohm Tree
Robert T. Lincoln
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