Mexican Vanilla Cultivation and Curing Process Described
A detailed account explains how Mexican vanilla grows on host trees, requiring no cultivation of the ground. Leaves and buds form beans after several years, which are harvested, cured, dried, and packed in tin cases then cedar chests for transport. The article notes differing bean classes, pricing, and distribution to Europe and the United States via New York.
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John Habean
G Yan
Europe
Real States
France
Ican
New York
Japanese Garden Aboard The Gardener’s Chronicle
Douglas describes Japanese gardening in detail noting dwarf shrubs and trees grown in narrow spaces with artificial water features and stone borders. It highlights the care, restrained space, and aesthetic of a Japanese garden including purple foliage and ornamental bridges. A dramatic anecdote closes with a parable about Heaven and a circus joke.
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Douglas
Gardener’s Chronicle
Japan
Ildey
The Vegetable Wax from Rhus Succedanea in Japan and California
Henry Loomis notes the Rhus Succedanea tree yields wax from its berries. The plant grows readily from Japan to western provinces, bears wax-rich seeds early, and produces versatile wax for candles waxing, textiles, and other uses. Cultivation could profitably expand with rising demand and honey extraction shifts.
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California
Japan
Mental Cures of Physical Disease Debated in London Spectator
A London Spectator discussion contrasts cases of fear and expectancy shaping illness. It cites an American woman mistaken for a swallowed tooth fragment whose relief came after a doctor’s ruse. It also notes Dr. Carpenter’s account of tumor absorption under terror and a clergyman’s reassurance about afterlife reunion, highlighting how attention and belief influence physical states.
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London Spectator
Carpenter
Disappearance of the Bowery Boy in The Times
The New York Times laments the Bowery Boy a once common figure, recounting a Thackeray anecdote from 25 years ago. A red shirted, cigar smoking lamp-post specimen with soap locked hair and shiny hat speaks in a distinct tone and directs a visitor to leave quickly. The piece notes the Bowery boy’s successor has more vices and fewer virtues.
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Guests In A Cold Reception At Home
A woman tells visitors she did not expect company that day yet asks them to feel at home. One guest answers that he will make himself at home as quickly as possible, hinting at an awkward social moment.
Vivier's Comic Fear After Hydrophobia Joke
The cornetist Vivier, famed for jokes more than horn playing, detains a fleeing bourgeois with a dog onlook. He quips the man will have to face him, brandishes a cane, and reveals a hydrophobia bite eight days earlier as the chase ends with the fat man fleeing in terror.
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Vivier
Dry earth combats lice on cattle say farmer
A Farmer's Advocate correspondent recalls an observer noting his bull stayed free of lice while other cattle did not. He tried applying dry earth to all cattle, finding it effective as both prevention and cure. The method, cheaper and safer than tobacco or acids, is used even in winter from stove-heated earth.
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The
Farmer’s Advocate
Garrison's Prison Poem from Baltimore Jail
William Lloyd Garrison writes a poem in a Baltimore jail about the mind’s freedom surpassing physical confinement. The verse describes walls, gates, bolts, guards as trivial to thought and spirit, which travels swiftly from Earth to Heaven and visits homes, firesides, and distant places.
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