Self Condemned By a French Judge in Revolutionary Trial
A judge in revolutionary Paris orders execution of a young girl amid class conflict. He later condemns the innocent child, the Marquise de Bellay, to the guillotine, then faces arrest and dies, haunted by the sentence he issued. The tale follows the judge's personal catastrophe from moral conflict to downfall.
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Paris
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Plnce de la Revoluntion
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Marquise de Nellatr
Courtesy Lessons From A Newsboy On Respectful Conduct
A 19th century-style tale depicts AYRE the newsboy sharing a cloak of courtesy with a shivering girl outside a mission hall. The piece defines courtesy as recognizing another’s dignity, rooted in good manners, and argues it prevents friction and unhappiness. It stresses hat off when spoken to, avoiding interruptions, and links manners to power and social esteem, citing Emerson and Elizabethan lore.
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Ayre
New York
Walter Haleigh
Queen Eliza- Bell
Mission Hall
Opally
Raleigh
Truy
Emerson
Thomas Fuller
Elizabeth
Walter Helvigh
Sir Waller
God
The Scrappy Ostrich Treachery and Domestic Details
The article from Harper's Weekly explores the ostrich as an unruly, combative bird requiring strict yet just guidance. It notes the male’s fidelity, peculiar mating habits, and curious incubation duties, while detailing how farm handlers must manage its temperament and aggression.
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Harper's Weekly
Porson and the Private Bottles Anecdote
In a fragment from Samuel Rogers and His Circle a tale recalls Richard Porson the Greek scholar visiting the painter Hoppner at his cottage near London. With Mrs Hoppner away, the key to the wine closet is missing yet Porson stays to dine on a mutton chop and beer from the alehouse, noting Mrs Hoppner keeps a nice bottle in her private chamber.
Mystery Gin in Lady's Apartment Sparks Disharmony
A search reveals a concealed bottle of spirits in the lady's apartment, provoking surprise for Hoppner and joy for Porson who drinks it all noting it is the best gin he has tasted in ages. The next day Hoppner complains that Porson drank every drop of her hidden dram.
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Porson
Hoppner
Uwoppner
Major Butler Flouts Orders to the End
A tale from early Revolutionary days recounts Major Butler’s defiant streak. Facing a fatal illness, he arranged for a coffin hole so the general who vexed him could see his head, proclaiming he would not obey the order even in death.
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Butler
Ailiy
Ny Oue
Tal
Edwin Booth Early Years as Alcherd III Companion
The text notes Edwin Booth, between ages fifteen and eighteen, nearly constant in companionship with his father Junius Brutus Booth, detailing how Edwin’s devotion aided the elder actor despite eccentricities that taxed their bond.
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Edwin Booth
Alcherd III
Junius Brutus Booth
Edwin
Edwin Booth's First Stage Triumph as Richard at 12
A historical note recounts young Edwin Booth stepping into the Richard role at the National Theatre New York after his father refused to perform. The boy faced a stunned audience, struggled with a costume many sizes too large, and earned praise for delivering the pivotal lines and foreshadowing his later fame. The piece mentions his later engagement with a Baltimore stock company and indicates the era's rough beginnings for a future acting great. In a separate snippet, German court etiquette banned waltzing in royal balls since 1900 after the Empress Frederick's mishap, with Berlin's court still preferring noisy openings followed by quadrilles and polkas.
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National Theater
New York
Edwin
Richard
Tresnel
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Axe
Richart
Edwin Booth
Baltimore
Eewin Boothe
Far West
Kansas City Star
Frederick
Augusta
New Palace
Berlin
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