Paris Exposition and world issues in a retrospective view
The survey notes figures on France with Max O'Rell praising the Count of Paris as a rising figure in France. It covers quinine life extension, U S naval building, Wyoming seeking statehood after Idaho, and the Paris Exposition’s iron architecture. It cites debts, census figures, education bans on alcohol, and Russian and Turkish military reforms. It closes with fire statistics and prevention ideas.
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Max O'Rell
Count
Paris
France
Berlin
San Francisco
Georgia
My Kingdom and My Queen Poem Reflects A Mother’s Crown
A short lyric from Youth’s Companion extols a humble realm where love rules. The speaker praises a peaceful home, two cherished subjects, and the central figure named mother who governs with quiet devotion. The poem contrasts worldly grandeur with domestic joy and enduring affection.
Promises in War and Love in Franconia
Viva and Tom Creighton, young lovers amid looming war, vow to marry. Tom departs to fight, returns to Viva with devotion tested by danger and illness. Viva conceals a medical condition, but after a tense journey West they marry and face fears together, her promise guiding them through trials.
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Viva
Tom Creighton
Tom
Genevieve Lestrange
White Mountains
Franconia
Broadway
New Hampshire
Europe
Pine Hill
New York
New
Creighton
Mrs. Merwin
Fort Stilling
Dr. Sands
St. George
What the Blind Learned at New York Institution
A class of a dozen blind pupils at the New York Institution for the Blind on Ninth Avenue and Thirty-fourth Street demonstrated calisthenic exercises, memory training, and skill in music, sewing, and craftwork. The session showed how Blind students read by touch, memorize compositions, and distinguish wood colors by roughness. The institution, receiving state support and gifts, eyes a broad curriculum from kindergarten to piano tuning and physical training, with visitors welcome on Wednesdays.
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New York Institution For the Blind
Ninth Avenue
Thirty-fourth Street
Wait
Fireproof wood by zinc water claim sparks debate
A circulated paragraph claims a New Englander has dissolved zinc with hydrogen to produce zinc water, making white wood fireproof at low cost. Edward Atkinson praises it as revolutionary for fire insurance, though the method remains secret and only one English scientist supports the claim.
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Whitewood
Edward Atkinson
Boston Economist
Cornell University
Lyon Payfair
Bellows-smokers for apiaries and fuel tips
The Prairie Farmer note advises keeping bellows-smokers ready in apiaries and scraping soot from flues before use. It suggests using fuel that reliably yields smoke, recommending cotton rags rolled and tied at intervals, while noting alternatives like pink rotten wood, and citing a dry hard wood that burned steadily for a day to produce smoke.
Remedy and farming notes from a 19th century agricultural column
The text describes using tobacco water as a remedy for plant lice on houseplants and fruit trees, stresses ducks need water for profitability, argues fall pruning of grapes is better than spring, explains asparagus harvesting and bunching, offers ophthalmia care for horses, and includes farm and garden notes on hay, dairy, dehorning, poultry, manure, and general farm practices.
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Fiell and Stockman
C. L. Walters
Washington Star
Nails would reach 203 inches on Chevreul’s death
A London Figaro excerpt recounts a fanciful statistical estimate about the nails of the late M. Chevreul, who died at 103. It claims nails grow about an inch per year on two thirds of digits, with the middle finger nail advancing faster, totaling over 56 yards of nail length across ten fingers. The piece invites further inquiry by amateur statisticians.
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Statistical Society
M. Chevreul
M. Chevrenl
London
Figaro
Purifying a Room and Fresh Boiled Water for Tea
A 19th century note explains purifying a room with a pitcher of water that absorbs respired gases, leaving the air unified but the water filthy. It also covers making tea with fresh boiled water, warning against overboiling and recommending pouring into a warm kettle immediately. It includes house cleaning tips, clothing care, dyeing carpet rags, and a short set of calendary maxims.
Ancient Babylon's Magnitude and Observations
The Globe Democrat notes Babylon as a vast ancient city larger than London, with walls towering like church spires and Nebuchadnezzar's palace encircling seven miles. Their canals and brick pavements, grand temples, and reckoning of heavenly motions, especially lunar cycles, reveal meticulous early astronomy.
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Babylon
London
Nebuchadnezzar
Jeru- Alem
Euphrates
Globe Democrat
Kittens Fend Off Mother In Curious Cat Tale
A Brooklyn correspondent reports a cat kept as a mother had her kittens banged by the dam. The kittens, enraged, united to severely beat the mother, who fled and now avoids them as the young reap advantage from their reprieve. Also includes a vivid sketch of a China boy’s life, schooling, hair queues, and toys.
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Brooklyn Itis
Tand
Severa
Kate
China
Sejch
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Congress
Wyoming
Idaho
New York Herald
Hayti
United States
Russia
Germany
Austria
Vienna
G. Imlay
India
Asia
England
Rusk
Proctor
St. Louis
United Satutes Navy
Flaes
Brookup Navy Yard
Rose Terry Cooke
Tom de Nizious
Eo York Independent
Bers
Africa
St. Luis
Ancient
Jim
Portland Oregonian
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