Paris police report forty eight of sixty two MPs Tory gains
London and Paris crime and politics are summarized with figures showing Paris arrested criminals, a large youth share, and shifts in party strength. The piece also notes Japan's new constitution, heavy Canadian debt, and a temperance temple plan in Chicago while touching on US military capacity and a Brooklyn legal case involving a guardian ad litem for a paralyzed child.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Iliament
Pigott
Parnell
Cme
Brooklyn
Saya the Citien
The Districted Teacher in a New York Voice
A chaotic district public school scene is recounted with a patient history teacher facing noisy pupils. The piece depicts recitations gone awry, chalk and pencil woes, and a teacher’s struggle to restore order amid clamor and mispronounced lessons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wahington
Jane
Padler
Bunker Hill
New
Yor
New York Voice
Humorous Bits From A Prairie Conversation And Fire Safety
A collection of humorous snippets and quips ranging from a candle blaze to a talk on the prairie. It includes jokes about lighting a match, a likening of milk to creme de la creme, and a mock debate about doctors and names. A barbering of social scenes and small talk illustrates everyday life with playful wordplay and punchlines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Creme de la Creme
Slimdich
Mr. Boarder
Two
Dakotas
Ingeniousness of Crooks in Paris Exposé of Counterfeiter
Paris police acknowledge American crooks lead in science but admit French experts rival in versatility. Versailles detective captures engraver Professor Jules Sarni with a cache of 82 counterfeit templates and tools. He ran a legitimate engraving business yet created perfect imitations of tickets and bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Metropolitan Police
Paris
Boston
Versailles
Jules Sarni
Anch
Havre
Two Rivals threaten Bell telephony rivals emerge
Gray's telautograph and Essick's type writing telegraph challenge Bell's monopoly. Gray's device transmits writing with secrecy and could replace the telephone. The system between this city and New York uses Postal Telegraph wires to send typewriter signals over short circuits, demonstrated as practicable and remains secret.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bell
Gray
Essick
New York
Postal Telegraph Company
Fidteburg
Women Studying Surgery Pupils of St John Ambulance in England
The article describes women at Birkenhead training with St John Ambulance to become skilled in physiology, hygienic rules, bandaging, stretcher carry, and bleeding control. Many pupils come from wealthy or titled backgrounds, including the Duchess of Westminster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S T. John Ambulance Association
Birkenhead
England
Duches
Wesminster
New Fork Telegram
The Handy Remedy Salt Uses in Medicine and Home Cures
A long list extols salt as a universal remedy for dental care, hair loss prevention, foot troubles, digestion, colds, catarrh, sore throats, and eye health. It claims salts cure many ailments from digestion to fever, ulcers, and even cancer with egg white paste, plus cautions on cold versus warm water for eyes. It ends with a note on Rowland Hill and the postage stamp origin, told via a traveler and a poor girl anecdote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Independent
Romance of the Postage Stamp History
The text traces the stamp’s origins in Great Britain on May 6 1840 and notes later adoption in the United States in July 1847 with provisional issues by Brattleboro Millbury Baltimore New York St Louis and New Haven. It mentions Austria issuing the postal card in 1873 the US a newspaper stamp in 1857 and the East Indies a telegraph stamp, and cites a catalog noting about 43 188 stamps listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britaan
Brattleboro
Millbury
Baltimore
New York
St. Louis
New Haven
Great Britain
Austria
United States
East Indies
ML Moens
Brussels
Training Dogs and a Deaf Bridegroom Tale
Training Dogs argues kindness yields best results with dogs while noting breed traits and training methods. French and German poodles excel in tricks. The second tale reports Maury Jones and David Davies, both deaf and dumb, married in Landaff Wales. a shock near Penycraft colliery revived his speech after years of deafness.
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Landaff
Wales
Maury Jones
David Davies
Davies
Penycraft
Bute
Frederbert
Miss Jones
Goodall
Sun
The Delicious Mangosteen in Exotic Java Shores
Travelers rave over the mangosteen, a round fruit with a brown rind hiding six to eight creamy white segments. The pulp melts on the tongue, tasting like stone fruits and citrus all at once with a subtle tartness, an epicurean dream from ice cold storage that cannot be transported easily from its distant, tropical home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Java
Tropics
Inventions and oddities touted in a late 19th century item
A miscellany reports diverse topics from 4000 insects in the West Indies to a proposed forty inch telescope lens for Wilson's Peak California. It notes new airship ideas via a retired French officer, lighthouse optics failure in fog, quarrying stone for Anthony's Nose, a nickel slot photo booth, an anesthetic using pressurized carbonic acid, Huxley on whale feeding, and early photography in artillery: a camera on a cannonball to track its wobble when aimed at the sun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Professor Huxley
Rearing Young Trout From Eggs and Feed
Instructions from the New York Times describe hatchery setup using a 12 inch plank box buried in ground, gravel-filled chambers, a 1 inch water pipe, and a wire screen outlet. Eggs hatch in about thirty days. fry are fed curdled milk or beef liver paste twice daily until ready for pond release. The Fish Commissioner at Washington can supply eggs on request through a Congressman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
New York Times
Arbor Day spreads across states from Nebraska to California
Arbor Day has grown to seventeen states with a nationwide push to plant trees. Governor Morton of Nebraska created the day to shield the West from blizzards and the South from heat. Michigan adopted Arbor Day in 1886, designating April 11, while California followed on November 27, 1886. New York State does not observe Arbor Day as a legal holiday.
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Morton
Nebraska
Michigan
Alger
California
New York State
Comets and Halley’s Return Discussed by Hill at Naval Observatory
Mr. George A. Hill, at the Naval Observatory in Washington, outlines ongoing comet research. He cites two fellow observers, Prof. Brooks and Prof. Barnard, noting fewer than five hundred comets observed historically, with three to four new discoveries yearly, and predicts Halley’s comet returning between 1909 and 1913 after a long solar orbit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George A. Hill
Naval Observatory
Washington
Sar
Hill
United States
Prof. Brooks
Geneva
N. Y
Barnard
Lick Observatory
Mount Hamilton
Neptune
Unusual World Notes and Curious Oddities From A Far Flung Page
A mosaic of odd facts and curiosities from distant places. A South African chief sells a mine for a hand organ and rug. Rain bows moonlit in Caribou Maine. A hen hatched sixteen chicks from fifteen eggs in Withlacoochee Florida. Paris holds calico printing designs monopoly in Europe. Coffins bought in advance in Chios. A Portsmouth man’s celluloid pendulum burns a hole in his clothes. Washington tallest president at six four, Madison six five? A Baltimore hen lays an eye shaped jewel weighing seventy one grains. Lewiston dinggists sell tan remedy worn around the neck. Parisian swells smoke cigarettes with a gold finger clasp. Thomas Galt testifies in Detroit he was drunk and sober years after. The US Dispensatory lists eleven thousand remedies. An ordinary elephant yields 120 pounds of ivory worth 390 dollars. England uses 650 tons of ivory yearly, needing 12,000 elephants. A goose-sized bird with a goose-like call appears on the Atlantic coast. General Harrion’s inauguration features a Turkish gift steed now owned by Gen. Beal. A 20 by 30 by 3 foot white cedar board arrives in Portland without knots. A tomb in Rome reveals nineteen vases, three with red and white decoration on black. Red-haired Samoa natives captivate crowds, men seek locks of hair. Samoan kingship could shift regional power. The Chinese minister, among the seven richest men, famed for jewels and taste, is a mid-height mandarin with dimples and keen hospitality.
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Naples
Japan
Eny
Nova Scotia
Irving
Comercial
Australia
New Zealand
Canada
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Chicago
Temple of Temperance
South America
Columbus (Ohio
Field and Stockman
Philadelphia
James
John
United Buttes
Globe
Maine
Senda
Britain
British Empire
Argo
Colorado
New Mexico
Asmalil
Tes
Bome
Cee
Welle
Namie
Birchrod
Labies’ Department
Thingo Herald
Myra
Philadelphia Telegraph
Catharine Peirson
Richmond
Mass
New India
Rowland Hill
Raverer
Lake District
Ragland
Asemne
Mad
Kapress
Pierynne
West Indies
Guiana
Wilson's Peak
Cal
Anthony's Nose
Sachens Head
Conn
Faling
Voituriez
LiHe
North Carolina
Caribou
Withlacooche, Fla
Sti
Europe
Chios
Portsmouth
N. H
James Madison
Lewiston
Thomas Galt
Detroit
Sheffield
Portland
Oregon
Rome
Signor Lanciani
Samos
Samoa
Santos
South Seas
Acred
Atlanta Constitution
Rothschilds
France
Powbson Co
Indiana County
J. Johnson
Progress” Building
Indiana
D. W. Anthony
Concord
Belaware, Werden Wiens
Blairswiler
Milton G. Miller
BANKS
Jamison
Bankers
Third and Chestnut Streets
Basiane
Munigonpat Loarter
Miscellaneous Securitiee
Lewes
Avon
Pully
LG Walker
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