Cripple Ben and the Sorthwick tale of love and ruin
The clipping blends a sentimental piece about Cripple Ben a poor street vendor and his cheery resilience with a dramatic narrative of Gerald Sorthwick tea trader China Maud Conway Captain Hall and a ruined family told through a moonlit garden perilous romance and a fateful arc. Included are unrelated notes about photography arisings politeness and domestic scenes with farm dairy tales and local curiosities.
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Ben
Firat
Cotswolds
Captain Hall
Gerald Sorthwick
Gerald
Maud Conway
Sorthwick
China
Jengih
Maud
Hall
England
Gerald Sorthwich
Britain imports of wool from South Africa in early year
In the first three months of this year Great Britain imported 7,890,009 pounds of sheep and lambs wool from British South Africa. The same period in 1877 saw 10,809,397 pounds and in 1876 11,789,032 pounds.
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Great Britain
British South Africa
The Rose of Jericho and Its Ancient Legend
The Rose of Sharon is famed for bell shaped blossoms of varied hues and a storied romance. In the East it is revered, its seed ball carried by winds to disperse and root anew, symbolizing the Resurrection to Orientals.
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Sharon
Syria
Judea
Arabia
Englishman known as Sir IH survives dramatic beach ordeal
The Journal de Monaco recounts an Englishman struck by a rock at Point Barraya. He bled heavily and fainted, remaining naked and starved for six days before dragging to a garden wall and knocking for help. Garden workers found him seemingly dead, revived him with restoratives, and he later wrote a line to his hotel landlord before recovery.
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Maud
Tam
Mr. Sorthwick
Adindy
Mertouiouhv
Jersey
Héffer
Nelly
Robert
Peter
Journal de
Monaco
Point Barraya
Ife
Tropical Rains Compared With English Rainfall
The Tropical World notes tropical showers can be vastly more violent than temperate rainfall. It describes how heavy downpours flood ground, drown noise, and disrupt sleep. Mumbai has seen nine inches in a day, Calcutta twelve, and Pebas on the Amazon recorded thirty inches in a single storm.
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Bombay
Calcutta
England
Pebas
Amazon
Mysterious large fly plagues County Derry districts
A new plague in County Derry brings a fly of house-fly size in vast numbers filling the air. The insects sting animals and humans, causing inflammation and sometimes blinding horses, driving cattle home from the field.
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Egypt
County
Derry
Ireland
Growth of Angora Goat Wool Trade in Britain
Historically Angora goat wool began shipping to England in 1820 at about twenty cents per pound. Demand rose, and by 1877 the price reached about seventy cents per pound. Britain imported roughly 7,000,000 pounds yearly, valued around $5,000,000.
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England
Turkey
Great Britain
London executions and sensational posthumous displays recalled
A fragment recalls hangings at Kennington Common and the display of heads at Temple Street, referencing Townley Fletcher and others, with bystander the depictions linked to spying and loyalty. It then shifts to a Boston poolseller’s scam selling horse pictures at Beacon Park, promising buyers a share of pool winnings after races.
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Francis Townley
Georg Fletcher
Jacobis
Kennington
London
Walpole
Temple SM
Boston
Beacon Park
Brazil Butter From Tle Eggs Sparks Curious Tradition
In Brazil butter is made from tles eggs. Eggs placed in a large wooden vessel where natives join with bare feet to mash them. Oil rises to the surface skimmed off and stored in pots. The practice spreads across regions as a luxury and curiosity about local tastes.
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Brazil
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Aman
Teatrader
Williams
Croesus
San Francisco
Raleigh
Elizabeth
Jennie
Lillie
Ned
Grunty
Lee
Bonnie
Grunt
Franklin
Paris
Char
John McLaughlin
Bixby
Tombs
John
M’lang
Eury
The
Rose of
Jericho
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