Foreign Gossip from the Global Scene and Sudden Fortunes
A Paris city inventory values its property at 200 million dollars while a British warship deemed a failure stirs debate. Paris hosts a new method to slow horses with magnifying bridles. Germany touts vast Westphalian coal fields and a Hamburg exhibition boosts interest. Newcastle’s Robert Robson, 72, inherits a 1.25 million fortune and endures a flood of newfound relatives and claimants.
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Leopold Rothschild
Paris
Dublin
Parnell
h—Cnicago Tribune
Vesuvius
Germany
Hamburg
England
Robert Robson
Newcastle
King
Manchester
Robson
Northern Siberia's North Coast and Wrangel's Arctic Vision
The article surveys northern Siberia from the White Sea to Behring Strait, detailing Wrangel's Kolyma exploration, native tribes, climate, and subsistence. It notes seasonal summers, harsh winters, and hardy life, with rivers navigable in summer and reindeer and cod provisions.
Farming as an Occupation and the Path to Mastery
The essay argues bias toward farming starts with inclination and experience. It contrasts two brothers one driven to machinery and the other to fieldwork, and advises trying farm life from the bottom to learn the business. It cites a merchant's son who, living as a farmer, gains practical insight and success. It also warns that buying books and hiring help is costly and slower than hands-on learning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Ilo
New York
Liebig
Agricultu
Livdig
Education as a key to successful farming from Geddes
The passage emphasizes that farming is a business requiring special education. It cites examples showing progress tied to learning and warns that lack of education leads to failure for those entering agriculture or guiding the next generation. It situates these ideas during a period of great improvements in rural life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jon
George Geddes
American Agriculturist
Pond Deposits as Manure Improvers
Professor G. C. Caldwell notes pond and creek mud contain nitrogen, phosphoric acid, and potash but in small amounts. A fair field test guides profitability. drying, lime treatment, and mixing with muck or stable manure improves quality. Composting with yard manure or animal offal enhances value and reduces nutrient loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. C. Caldwell
N.Y. Tribune
Preparing Cabbage for Fowls in Winter Feeding
A Poultry Journal correspondent describes a cheap method to produce sour cabbage from outer cabbage leaves and rock salt. Layer leaves with salt in pits or barrels, ferment, and store for winter use. Feed raw or lukewarm, as it enhances chicken condition, stimulates early laying, and requires little labor.
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Poultry Journal and Record
Germany
Fashion Notes on Corsages Trims and Velvet Trains
Low corsages are painted new trains richly trimmed Bridon gloves lace sleeves waning neck adornments gold bead necklaces and copper red shades dominate young ladies wardrobes Polka dot lace and crepe puffs trim rich dresses ostrich feathers accent evening gowns Jett ed bonnets remain in fashion black bonnets Ruby coats for girls pale pink and white bonnets at receptions Cut onyx bead bracelets appear in morning wear Velvet with flower in pile tops trains White dresses decline for winter mourning crape dresses with jet bead garniture Le vite cloak features long cashmere vigogne or cloth front lappets slashed neck opening reveals a cravat pinned like gentlemen’s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridon
Various Parlor Notes and Oddities Highlight New Year Customs
A digest of eclectic items cites a Nebraska judge’s remark on a relic of barbarism, a Cairo shooting, Owsley’s whisky debt in early Chicago, Jeannette geogras search, and Gladstone etymology. It notes a Southern Dakota bond fraud and Abbott Kinney’s Eden claim. New York New Year calling declines with Vanderbilt/Astor families largely absent.
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Golar
Franco
Gaslin
Nebraska
Grand Jury
Cairo
John E. Owsley
Hen‘tacky
Owsley
Chicago
Jeannette
N. Y. Herald
Clara Louise Kell
Nebraska Penitentiary
Boston
Gladstone
Dakota
Douglas
Los Angeles County
Cal
Abbott Kinney
San Gabriel
Valley
Kinney
Thomas
Pueblo
Los Angeles
New York
Vanderbilt
Astor
Tasting an Elephant from A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa
The essay describes an elephant carcass split open with the carcass gutted and a three foot skin slab peeled away. Kafkra and bunhmen enter the hollow body to extract fat and ingest bathed in blood, a practice among interior Africans when large game is killed. The narrator notes uncertainty about whether the blood bath confers courage or simply remains on the skin until it wears off.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Africa
Butler Buys Harris Community Lands in Portland
General B. F. Butler acquires the Harris Community land in Portland, Chautauqua County for 9101,000. The Harris Community started in 1867 with 2,000 acres, founder Thomas Lake Harris once owned half. The group taught self renunciation and a two in one divine unity with spiritual symbolism. The community declined and Harris left New York years ago.
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B. F. Butler
Chautauqua County
Harris
Portland
General Butler
Thomas Lake Harris
Oneida
Buffalo Express
A Friend in Need and the Value of Kind Advice
The text extols friendship and sympathy as a remedy for trouble. It argues that wise counsel and kind words help lift burdens and strengthen character, noting that timely aid can restore hope and support those in distress.
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de Long
Amazon
Asia
Siberia
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Jakatsk
Lona
White Sea
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Qusalans
Baron Wrangel
Kolyma
Arctic Ocean
Lena
Harper's
America
North Siberian
Central Asia
Allal
Backbine
Arctic Circle
Lene
Cape Chelyuskin
Sthetia
Giin
Wrangel
Kolymak
Algo
Jakutsk
Polar Sea
Captain de Long
Kotemoi Island
Lanna River
New Siberian Islands
Traito
San Francisco
Fashion Notes
Butler
Gilmour
Cleveland
Ohio
Minteters
Helles
Jd. Hn, Mareig & CO
Cincinnati
Dr Bulls
Eulttea
Hye
Am Journal of Jatwins
Abs
Meverald de Caries
Oteer Rink Putin
John
Florida
Jaatican Elastic
Uoll Coast Canal
Mall
MASS
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Jackeye
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Outfit & Cents
Addres Bard Dros
Chicega
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