We both are wrecks of long ago in broken harp song
A lyrical meditation on aging and memory as a broken harp is revived by golden strings and the unattainable past. The speaker recalls lost love and battle memories, while children bring life to the instrument and its vanished tones. The poem contrasts aging silence with fleeting music that never fully returns.
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Trae
Marilan
Asi
William
Greenwich
Erate Ines
Shipelie
Ami
Earth
Marie
Mars. Buck
Japan
Lauce
Namin
Lis
Theo
Blanche Beck's Daring Elopement and Reunion at Theatre
Blanche Beck escapes with William Earle after choosing love over wealth as her mother faces ruin. Years later the two reunite when Blanche, now a theatre star, meets William in London and marries him after revealing her true past.
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Blanche
Fosdick
Warle
Mamma
Mr. Mosdick
William Earle
William ‘Arte
John Pundiak
Aymarket
Pearl Graydon
Leonard Eversly
Blanche Beck
Taymarket
Jermyn Street
Imaginative Inmate Sends Cloth Message From Asylum Window
A Wolnda inuitte of an asylum in Maysville California, believing she was imprisoned by enemies and denied pen and ink, conveyed her case through needlework on cloth and discarded it from a window.
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Maysville
Cal
A Dan iel Brought to Judgment
New York Herald reports on Little Daniel Maxwell a boy found desecrating the Sabbath by throwing stones on East Fourteenth Street. He damaged a grocery window and nearly injured bystanders, appearing yesterday in Jefferson Market Police Court where the judge admonished him while the boy teased with sobbing answers.
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Daniel
New York Herald
Daniel Maxwell
Haley
East Fourteenth Street
Jefferson Market
Smag
Mere
Vienna Protects Tombs of Great Composers Outside Walls
Vienna will take public care of tombs for Beethoven Schubert Hayden Mozart and Gluck outside the city walls. Wanderers find neglected memorials at cemeteries and callers note past desecration of Haydn’s grave and Schubert’s Wahring tomb. City vows to guard monuments and brighten them with flowers.
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Vienna
Beethoven
Schubert
Taydn
Mozart
Gluck
Wahring
Brain Growth in Domesticated Ducks and Human Brain Development
The article reviews Dr Crichton Brownes paper on the influence of domestication on brain growth, arguing that domestication lowers brain function in ducks by removing survival challenges. It links observed effects in animals to heredity and cautions that luxury and inactivity erode intellect in humans, urging constant mental exercise to preserve brain capacity.
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London Lancet
Crichton Browne
British Association
Water for Cows and Clean Water Practices
A farmer argues for clean water in cattle care noting milk is mostly water and ponds invite contamination. He favors running brook or pumped wells for cows, warns against puddles, and promotes mixing water into feed as profitable for milk production.
Bosh by Rufus Choate Told in a Napoleon Rapture
A Boston lawyer recounts Choate rousing himself at an East Cambridge maritime case by invoking Napoleon. The judge and spectators lean in as Choate delivers a vivid twelve minute oration, then adjournment follows. On the bridge back, a friend praises the tribute to Napoleon, and Choate quips that it was all bosh.
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Anood
Blanche
William
Toshai
Rufus Choate
Bosh
Boston Courier
Boston
Choate
East Cambridge
St. Helena
Napoleon
Wild man of Colusa County Roams Woods in Breechcloth
A wild man living in Colusa County California roams the woods and steals from sheep herders cabins. Described as about 34 to 40 years old with a shaggy beard and sunburned skin, he wears only a breechcloth and avoids questions from travelers. He reportedly fled justice and prefers isolation, seeking tobacco from hunters without answering.
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Colusa County
California
Czar Confirms Sentence for Lieutenant Gorleff Banished to Siberia
The Czar confirms the sentence of Lieutenant Gorleff, a custom house officer, to be deprived of rank and title and banished to Siberia for allowing some individuals to smuggle goods across the frontier without paying duty.
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Gorleloff
Custom House
Siberia
Secret of Bonaparte Life Revealed in Memoirs
Excerpts from Madame Remusat’s Memoirs reveal a tale she attributes to Empress Josephine as Napoleon sought a feigned pregnancy to produce an heir. Josephine allegedly consented and Corvisart refused to participate, later recounting the incident amid questions about the legitimacy of the King of Rome. Some readers pay attention who never pay anything else.
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Bonaparte
Madame Remusat
Josephine
Napoleon
Corgisart
Corvisirt
Bones
Aurora Borealis Observations From Norways Arctic Winds
A translated letter by Herr Esmark describes the aurora borealis as linked to arctic air and southerly winds, noting a falling barometer and rare explanations invoking warmth and moisture release. It cites events in Northern Norway and midnights near Tromsø, with spectral analysis yielding scientific insights for Arctic exploration.
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Temple
Ceedings
Royal Great
Bodsty
Jlerr
Mark
Mark, May Perhaps Be Congide, Torusting
Esmark
Norway
Lottin
Bravais
Jorstrom
Hop
Alten
Tromsoc Larbor
Maang
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