Tariff talk and Guiteau trial dominate looming Congress session
The coming Congress may focus on tariff reform but divisions on the issue hinder action. A proposed Eaton Bill would create a commission to study tariff revision, delaying any decision by at least two years. The Guiteau trial is noted as unusual for the judge allowing a lengthy, taunting address and for defense remarks challenging witnesses and credibility.
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Congress
Tur Guitesu
Scoville
Mr. Scoville
Guiteau
Epidemics and politics loom in national discourse
Reports warn of small pox epidemics in Fort Wayne, South Bend and Madison while Congress debates apportionment impacting 27 seats. A New York expert links Guiteau to social danger as railroad expansion accelerates with 16 000 miles planned and funded. Local fraud schemes warn readers about the National Marriage Dowry, with dissolving confidence and mounting assessments.
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Axp
Fort Wayne
South Bend
Madison
Siva
Union City
Jacob Townsend
National
Filling Little Pitchers and the Gift of Learning
A Chambers' Journal excerpt reflects on early education and child capacity. It contrasts rapid prodigy progress like John Stuart Mill with the challenges of five year old scholars entering compulsory schooling. It argues for patient pacing, joyful rhythms, and gentle framing of early literacy as children learn to correlate ideas.
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John Stuart Mill
Robertson
Hume
Gibbon
Rollin
Chambers’ Journal
Clever Tactics Save Newspaper In St. Petersburg
A six month suspension of Golos threatened a 170000 ruble loss but cautious measures paid off when authorities were outsmarted. General Eruroth’s fury led to suppression and a bellicose letter, yet Professor Modestoff started a near replica named New Gazelle within two days. The stunt mirrors Alphonse Kary’s La Guepe maneuver.
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Golos
St. Petersburg
Eruroth
Bulgaria
Battenberg
Go/os
Professor Modestoff
Olos
Modestoff
Gazelle
Alphonse Kary
Pall Mull
Lead poisoning signs in cosmetics cited by Dr Holland
At the Kentucky State Medical Society meeting Dr Holland notes vague lead poisoning symptoms precede wrist drops colic and lead line. He cites a case of a woman using flake white powder as a cosmetic and describes melancholia wrist drop and gum line effects. He warns cosmetics may contain lead and gives chemical analysis results. Iowa school spending in 1880 nears 5.6 million dollars, highest per capita in the union.
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Kentucky State Medical Society
Holland
Journal of Chemistry
Mixed global items reflect a busy miscellany
A sprawling roundup reports on poll taxes in New Zealand, a Canadian couple, mail dromedaries from Texas, street theft in Washington, a drowned woman with a gold medal, a California highwayman, Miss Schaffer’s notoriety, Moroccan heat, Nevada cattle branding losses, General Gordon’s wealth, polygamy in Utah, a Turner stone Bible, Garfield’s beach remark, Sutro’s hot lake, poisonous honey warnings, army cruelties in Germany and Austria, and London street accident rates.
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Detroit
California
Millionaire Fair
Schaffer
Elmira
N. Y
Brockport
Morocco
Sutro
Nev
Comstock
Trebizond
Keith E. Abbott
Zoological Society of London
Philadelphia
Germany
Austria
Vienna
London
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