Apples and Pears and Peaches in the Garden of Eden
The article traces the apple’s origins in eastern lands and its spread by early settlers with Indian aid, notes its prominence in temperate zones and Bible references, and covers related fruits like pears and peaches, including cultivation, pests, and historical spread. It highlights phosphorous content, medicinal notions, and variations from crab apples to perry.
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Garden of Eden
Arctic Circle
New England
New York
Michigan
Herodotus
Theophrastus
England
West
Pliny
Caucasus
France
UE K
Almerica
Tiny grain of sand's grand lesson on importance
A moral tale follows a small grain of sand on a roof that joins a brisk breeze to seek life beyond. It ends up causing a dignified citizen eye trouble, is removed by an oculist, framed, and hung in a library as a reminder that even small things can matter.
Botanical oddities and the antelope flower curiosities
The running antelope flower displays white petals marked with dark halos and dots resembling an antelope in flight. Other orchids imitate bees, butterflies, worms, and beetles, with some mirroring toads or wizards to trap pollinators. London Bridge wear and tear is noted with about 200,000 pedestrians daily, shoes lost to time, and granite eroded by the centuries.
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Wellington
Arthur
Truab
London Bridge
London Bridges
Newcastle
Nation of invalids warned by Dr Mitchell
In McClure's Magazine Edward Wakefield cites Samuel Weir Mitchell as he warns nervousness is a national disease. He cites nerve deaths exceeding one quarter of all deaths, mainly among the young, blaming climate, overwork, and the school and economic pressures on both sexes. He urges reduced study hours, more leisure and exercise, and regular meals to prevent lifelong misery. He notes men face career pressures earlier, but women bear the harsher toll from puberty onward.
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America
Samuel Weir Mitchell
Medical Society of Pennsylvania
Edward Wakefield
McClure’s Magazine
Dloom
Mitchell
Weir Mitchell
Ife
Ds Wold
Bern Street
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