Whimsical Relics and Grim Oddities Captured in London Tales
A travel tale recalls a London house museum with curios like a carved knife and fork and a human thigh bone. A friend notes a mummied hand used as a paperweight while the Prince of Wales curates grotesque tokens. A missionary’s fate in the South Seas is linked to a cannibal relic, per a New York Herald account.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prince of Wales
Fatty
London
Phat
South Sea Islands
New York Herald
Modern Gallantry and Odd Anecdotes Across 19th Century Shell
A collage of quips and anecdotes covers gallantry in decline, a Knox County wife struck by a snowball spurs geyser of masculine fury, mountain climber Mr Whymper’s fall, a French scientist’s take on stature, Peter’s Pence historical sums, and birds avoiding bright nest colors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knox County
Bangor News
Whymper
Birkenhead
The Snail’s Patience and Garden Habits
A brief natural science sketch explains snail life in the garden. Snails move slowly hunt by night carry their house on their back and breathe by drawing air in and out. Spiral shells mostly turn right to left and snails seek shelter in leaf and twig corners as winter approaches.
Daring Food Fads Hint at Nutritive Vapors and Wooden Bread
A 19th century article previews two European culinary fads: nutritive air or vapor meals and Berlin made wooden bread from fermented sawdust. It imagines future homes with tubes to deliver meals and notes horses already digesting the wood product. It also cites global tastes from shark fin to whale extract.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
MacLowan
MacLewan
Styx
Berlin
Thas
China
South Africa
Barris
Upper Nile
Fragmentary Trade Notice From W T Baer & Co
Incoherent OCR fragment mentions Baer & Co and a Wirsdaor Ons phrase likely indicating a trade notice. No clear event date or actions provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. T. Baer & CO
Wir
Daor
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