The Queen of Fannie Comstock at Madame's Seminary
A bullied poor girl named Fannie Comstock endures verbal mockery and social cruelty at a school run by Madame. After a severe brain fever from stress, she survives with quiet dignity while classmates confess their wrongdoing, seek forgiveness, and later crown her queen with songs. The school ends by gifting her a full apparel and support pack, symbolizing repentance and renewed care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belle Burnett
Madame
Coerm
Fannie Comstock
Fanny
Fannie
Be'le
Belle
Tere
John
Madama
Schoool
Macne
Jexerra Gazin
The Poor Scholar Arrives At Madame Gazin’s School
Belle Burnett and friends recount a new pupil at Madame Gazin’s school a striking woman who brings a $250 cash gift in a leather wallet and asks for a receipt. The scene unfolds with surprised Madame Gazin guiding the visitor to No. 10 as laughter stirs the room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belle Burnett
Madame
Madame Gazin
St. Louis
Dubuque
Kitchener
Belle on the Hudson and a World of Science Notes
The excerpt follows Belle to a luxurious Hudson home and a cherished Seminary life, then shifts to short scientific briefs. It reports Vesuvian soil aiding potato disease resistance, Bantley and Trimen’s medicinal plant work, a near completion of a great reflecting telescope lens, a leather substitute from animal membranes, a scenograph camera device, desiccating stoppers, and marble imitation by Corvin’s process. It also covers a Papyrograph copying method and miscellaneous quips about marriage, mortality, and humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eden
Paradise
Nineveh
Tyre
Sidon
Babylon
Tadmor
Orient
Desert
Athens
Greece
Europe
Seven Hills
Rome
Vesuvinus
Bantley
Trimen
Nature
Leon Foucalt
France
Belgiqne Horticole
Candezi
Cornelis
Corvin
Dresden
Naundorf
Boston Journal of Chemistry
London
Echoes of Aztec Glory and Pueblo Quietude Amid Modern Change
The article contrasts ancient Aztec and Pueblo cultures with present day upheaval. It notes Aztec peril and martyrdom near Mexico City and highlights traces of a once opulent, distinct civilization near Pueblo County. Modern life intrudes with trains, industry, machines, worship, and daily family life, ending the age of silent habitation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cortezcate
Montezuma
Mexico
Pueblo County
Silver Streets of Virginia City and Oddities Feature
A Virginia City Nevada piece reports streets paved with silver due to long deposits from ore wagons and a bold assay showing $985 in precious metals from mud on a wagon wheel. The column also surveys Mexican ruins near Tancutaro and a scatter of global curiosities and comic snippets from the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
Nevada
Cow
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The
Hudson
Science and Industry
St. Paul
Ancient People
Colorado
Tancutaro
Michoacan
Diodalus
England
Lousia Maylon
Moses
Coupil
Lake Ontario
British India
Milwaukee
Bordeaux
Michigan
Sheffield
Charley Ross
Don Carlos
Csar
Iran
Russia
William Wilson
Sixth
New York Volunteers
Billy Wilson
New York
Satan
Devil
Steven Pear Andrews
Nantucket
Lyon Playfair
Gladstone
Liverpool
Dublin
O'Connell
Thomas Brooks
Santiago de Cuba
Guantanamo
Morrillo
Rock
Atlantic
Cunard Company
Avantuc
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