Foreign Gossip and Royal Etiquette Highlights
A column notes the Crown Prince's family and Queen Victoria speaking English or German, with French rarely used by top aristocrats. It reports Queen Victoria yearling sales averaging near $1000, Miss Gladstone moving to the Durham deanery, and Mrs. Parnell hosting parties in multiple European cities. It also mentions Mme Jenny Lind receiving the Seraphim order, the Princess of Wales restricting ball beauty standards, and a London social figure taking a Thames-side villa inviting top men and their families.
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Germany
Queen Victoria
Miss Gladstone
Durham
Adelaide Neilson
Hon. Carr Glyn
Mme. Goldschmidt Jenny
Lind
Paris
Princess of Wales
Thames
London
Ventriloquists of History and Modern Times Examined
A survey of renowned ventriloquists from ancient to modern times highlights Eurykles of Athens as a master, French giants Alexandre and Hrabout, English stars Love and Harrington, and contemporary masters McCabe and Davies. Tales include McCabe on a steamboat prank and a highwayman confrontation, with Hrabout’s romance and a dramatic temple voice ending abruptly.
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Prof
Love
England
Larrington
Revere
Mass
Frederick McCabe
E D. Davies
Davies
Australia
McCabe
Vies
cCabe
Smadile
Cincinnati
Myrisoner
Louis Hrabout
Brabout
Brabaut
Tor
Ventriloquist Interview Recounts Prankster Tricks On Tour
The ventriloquist recalls playful tricks once performed on a train including barking dogs a cat in a basket and a bee and wolf sounds to startle passengers. He notes he does not often joke but occasionally amuses himself at others expense and would refrain if not inclined.
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Purgatory
Reckless Driver Hoxie Tells of Runaway Ride with General
The Washington Republican recounts Lieutenant Hoxie’s day driving a fast horse to an Arsenal road chase with a senior General. The General warns about the horse’s habit of shying as Hoxie labors at the reins and the pair barely avoid a wreck before the General exits safely.
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Washington Republican
Hoxie
Grey
Columbia Buildings
St. Louis
Gene Caender
Callender
Arsenal
Moxie
Face to Face with a Leopard in the Glen
Dr F. J. Oswall recounts a perilous moment in the glen when a panther crouched behind a fallen tree fifteen paces away. A gunshot from Tommy's shotgun scatters the animal, while Monito weeps, showing rare emotion in a brave boy amid the Iris crown flocks.
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Pommy
Menito
Tommy
Monito
F. J. Oswall
Nichular
Ham Omelet and Cottage Cheese From Home and Farm
A home and farm column offers simple recipes including a ham omelet with boiled ham and eggs and a cottage cheese preparation from clabber. It also praises buttermilk as a healthy drink and notes a tea-based method to restore black silk.
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Waldo
Ohio
Ladion
Itral New Yorker
Treatment for neck tumor using seton drainage and potencies
A historic medical guide describes confinement on a light diet and cooling potion, frequent wet bandages, and prolonged flaxseed poultices for a neck tumor. It prescribes a sharp incision at the neck base, drainage via a seton soaked in cantharides tincture, and staged internal stimuli with nitrate of silver and zinc solutions to promote granulation and healing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walla
The Mystery of Difidence and Unconscious Manners
The piece discusses excessive self consciousness as the root of difidence. Archbishop Whately argues true manners arise from unconsciousness and being unaware of self. Thackeray notes only a few achieve simplicity early in life and self importance or bashfulness disrupt sociability.
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Archbishop Whately
Thackaray
Bystander Recounts Arrest Rumor and Village Gossip
A woman questions a boy on Lafayette street about a drunken man arrest, naming a black coat and linen pants. Ezekiel Chapin of Pittsfield dies, leaving $16,000 found later, revealing wealth hidden by poverty and frugal living in Otsego County.
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Lafayette Street
Jones
Letrou
L’resxs
Ezekiel Chapin
Pittsheld
Otsego County
Flora
Varnisher F. Nicholas Crouch of Kathleen Mavourneen Fame
The note recalls F Nicholas Crouch author and composer Kathleen Mavourneen as a Baltimore factory varnisher. It details a career with many failures and successes, Civil War Confederate service with severe injuries, English birth in 1808, arrival in 1849 with Max Marotzek, and a local minister's quip on the Sabbath as a morning lie in bed and collar-button struggle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. Nicholas Crouch
Kathleen Mavourneen
Baltimore
England
Max Marotzek
Lowell
Profitable Patients and Odd Notes in Advertisements
An excerpt touts Hop Bitters as a cure for sick and wasting conditions with claims of rapid improvement. The text also makes a string of light observations on marriage, aging, and baldness, mentioning a Cincinnati Slur quote and a German girls remark, framed as a miscellany of ad style commentary.
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Cincinnati
Medical cures and home remedies in old advert lines
An assortment of old ad copy touts Kidney-Wort as a cure for kidney and liver disorders and a tonic for a weakened constitution. It also claims mild cathartic action to relieve sickness. Other items promote rat and pest remedies, a nasal balm, and a universal yeast product for family use.
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Elmos
Lydia BE
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkhan
Morrison, Plummer &G
Chicago
Ill
Ben
Rugene I. Bork
Junction City
Xanaes
Mys
Ener Vor
John Arwell
Washington
Ohio
idney-Wort
Mamle, Goodwin
Chardon
Idney- Wort
Anan Tiy
Corvett
South Salem
N. J
Saya
John DB. Lawrence
Jackson
Tenn
Coto
Montgomery Center
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