Webster and Hayne Duel Recalled in Atlantic Essay
The piece recalls Webster's Senate reply to Hayne on January 20, 183?0, praising his commanding presence in the chamber and his restrained oratory. It compares Webster to a Saladin-like foe and to Sheridan, noting his Whig uniform and deliberate delivery ending with the phrase Liberty and union now and forever one and inseparable.
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Domestic. To mend China and cookery notes
Instructions cover mending china with gum arabic cement for a strong fix. Also includes recipes for broth for a sick person using lean beef and rice, baked potatoes with steam release, peach pie with cling-stone peaches, and squash pie with milk or cream.
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That horse of yours is slow as cold mules
A farmer’s friend compliments his horse as handsome, while the owner dryly notes the horse is as slow as cold mules, reflecting a rural old proverb tone.
Tramp Discovers Ham Is Wooden Fraud
A despairing tramp at a shop front realizes the ham he stole is a wooden facsimile and laments the state of civilization as he contemplates his deception and loss.
Dickens' Advice to His Son From Dickens Letters
A father writes a detailed financial plan for his son outlining an annual allowance of 250 to cover wine and clothes, with quarterly payments and strict debt avoidance. He stresses honesty, reliance on him, and the New Testament as moral guidance, ending with affectionate blessings.
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Recollections of Gen Cass in Anglo American Disputes
The Cincinnati Enquirer recounts Gen Cass amid the Quintuple Treaty crisis, including Lord Brougham’s charges in Parliament and Cass’s defense of American sovereignty. A Dover Calais crossing anecdote shows Cass’s sarcasm toward English rivals and a later shipboard encounter with a fellow passenger who learned Cass’s true identity.
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The Mair of the Caverns lecture on Britain 20000 years ago
Prof Boyd Dawkins spoke at the London Institution on Britain 20 000 years ago tracing the transition from river drift hunter groups to cave men then to Neolithic farmers and later European civilizations. He described primeval London area landscapes with dense forests and diverse megafauna and noted shifts in climate and society over time.
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Landholding patterns among England's titled families
A London paper notes that 122 titled families own 5.5 million acres with scarce attainment by labor or value. Other items report a Warsaw Arkansas railroad hoax, a parish comic exchange, gate misadventure, Gladstone's sister HelenJane dies in Cologne, and large legacies for education and clergy aid along with a bedbug marked G W 1776 in a boarding house.
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International and local woes haunt a curious week
Eight Little Sisters of the Poor depart Rennes to set up in Brooklyn. A poet laments and a caustic reply underscores the day. King Humbert buys land in Alyssinia seeking an Italian colony. A St Louis Catholic’s suicide follows a brother’s conversion to Presbyterianism. A remark on Noah’s ark and a warning about a sinking floating debt close the briefing.
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Skulls in the Royal College of Surgeons Collection
A description of the Royal College of Surgeons skull collection praises its vast diversity with over 1 800 specimens. The gallery includes skulls and skeletons from many regions and peoples, from Ainos of Yesso to Tasmanians, Kanakas of the Sandwich Islands, and Peruvian skulls, illustrating broad osteology and historical diversity.
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Raising Radishes Instruction From Germantews Telegraph
A Germantews Telegraph correspondent explains soil preparation for tender radishes. Use light permeable soil, muck from swamps mixed with ashes or lime, and a heavy muck top-dressing to grow large, transparent roots quickly and avoid worminess. The piece ends with a quip about a mistaken marriage joke.
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