Admirals list sparks Navy retirements and curiosities
The piece notes the Navy retirement list, with emphasis on Admiral Worden of Monitor fame. It surveys medical findings on tubercular deaths, British and Foreign Federation book output for the blind, a giant opal found in San Francisco, a Denver air-vent device for tied men, Alaska exports and lack of roads, cork and wood paving experiments in London, and opal discoveries in Oregon with high rough prices.
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United Sates Navy
Gamue
Washington
Army and Navy Club
Boston *Transcript
Admiral Worden
Ie Monitor
Amons
Merrimac
London
Edinburgh
My Very Best to Do My Best
A Farmington Maine Chronicle reader Julia WH May writes a reflective poem about doing one’s best in small labors and quiet daily acts. She vows to mend garments and strive to improve with each stitch and effort, seeking guidance from a higher Good Master.
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Julia WH
May
Farmington
The Glove-Maker’s Parrot and a Dragoons Tale in Grenoble
A narrator recalls lodging above a chatty parrot kept by a retired glove-maker in Grenoble, whose repetitive cry and swollen feet drove the narrator toward violent acts with arsenic. After the bird dies, a charming visit from a young woman leads to romance with her daughter Bertha, while a separate section describes a German towns exhibit planned for Chicago World’s Fair with a medieval town, castle, and German cultural display.
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Grenoble
Villara Street
Mr Saint-Eynard
Jacqui
Hare
Jacquet
Jack
Bertha
Chicago
Berlin
Deutsche Bank
National Bank
Fuer Deutschland
Nuuremburg
Heilbron
Nolsten-Thor
Luke
The Parrot and the Ghostly Gift
A narrator recalls arriving with a violin, meeting a brilliant parrot named Jacquot who performs a playful ruse, then marries Bertha. The tale ends with a quip about crime and punishment, alluding to a French source in Epoch.
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Jacquot
Macbeth
Banquo
Bertha
Onion Poultices and Remedies Across Ailments
Old stories extol onion poultices for croup sore throat and diphtheria threats. Raw onion paste or heated forms are said to hasten head formation in tumors and relieve earache neuralgia ferrers. Eating raw onions is linked to sleep nausea stomach worms and scurvy prevention per New Orleans Picayune.
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New Orleans Picayune
Lorpor
London
England
New Orleans
Picayune
Deunkenness
Desthoys
Hell
Tig
Father Nicoll
A Sanitary Paradox in Richmond Prisons
The Richmond Dispatch reports a sanitary paradox during a disease outbreak. Prison inmates in the state penitentiary and city jail, crowded and poorly ventilated in a high-risk city quarter, remained largely free from the grippe. Conversely, residents along Shockoe Creek faced diphtheria but showed near immunity.
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Richmond
State Penitentiary
City
Shockee Creek
A Rabbit War Drives Rabbits Into the Pen Extermination Effort
In California’s San Joaquin Valley ranchers wage a bitter war on jack rabbits. The rabbit drive uses a latch and wire fence to enclose and corral the pests, who are then slain or captured. Thousands may fall in a single drive, with some kept alive for transport to San Francisco for exhibition. The effort aims to protect crops and trees from damage.
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San Joaquin Valley
California
Golden State
San Francisco
Eli
Curious Bits From A Bygone Era Of Odd Facts
A jumble of trivia from ancient to modern times. notes on ottar of roses and a ton of rose buds, Europe’s heaviest woman dying in Bavaria, a Connecticut judge fining a man for disturbing a police officer’s plumbers, and Esco rial gates in Spain. Also ship canal cost estimates, lightning skin changes, Malay cats, dog shoe fashion, and tiny Nevada congressional district. Includes World’s Fair insurance, Charlemagne’s painted rosebush, Onondaga Feast of False Faces, Cohasset’s long serving schoolteacher, and a prune grower rejecting Bordeaux buyers to pack prunes himself.
Boy Who Invented the Saw Bry Becomes Railway Manager
A green country boy hired as a brakeman on a western railway devised a method to pass two freight trains on a short sidetrack. After sketching a diagram in the sand, the boy demonstrated that two long trains could pass, a solution that transformed him into a celebrated railway manager. The Philadelphia Record recounts the tale of ingenuity overcoming doubt.
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Green Country
Western Railway
Washington Post
America
Great Railway Line
Philadelphia Record
How Snakes Climb Trees In Snakes Glide Up Trunks
A St. Louis Republic note explains that snakes move by rib movement and abdominal scales attached by short muscles. Scales grip rough surfaces aiding rapid ascent around trunks and branches. Some species climb with notable agility, gliding straight up trunks as if on level ground.
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St. Louis Republic
Water dissolves many substances with varying solubility
A dated science note explains how water dissolves substances differently with temperature and state, noting salt, alum, and saltpeter capacities in cold and boiling water, along with dissolved ammonia and gases. It also mentions sea water containing numerous elements and metals. The piece references a New York Times quip about snakes and bird fascination and a zoo keeper's critique of a myth.
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New York Times
Byrne
Zoo
Bilkins and Wilkins Conversing in Odd Dialogue
A New York Weekly fragment shows Bilkins and Wilkins in a quirky exchange about human talk and misfires in social interaction. The dialogue hints at loneliness and misunderstandings, framed in a flippant, early 20th century style.
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Bilkins
Wilkins
New York Weekly
Sermons and Religious Doctrines On Missions and Sects
A Philadelphia report quotes Henry M. Stanley affirming that Protestant missionary work has been highly successful despite missteps. The piece notes counsel on churchgoing, prayer, and family devotion, and surveys Dunkards, non polygamous Mormons, and seven communistic societies including Shakers, Bruderhof, Amana, and Harmony.
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Stanley
Philadelphia
Henry M. Stanley
Sam
Africa
Cnrern
Dunkards
Alexander Mack
Witzenstein
Germany
Mack
Holland
America
Christian Saur
Germantown
Saul
Reorganized Church of Latter-day Saints
Utah
Iowa
Joseph Smith
Brigham Young
Joseph Smith, Jr
United States
Shakers
Bruderhoef Mennonite Society
Temperance pledge and Scottish reform movement note
A temperance pledge text urges unwavering stance and cleanliness in water use, followed by a Glasgow Reformer update on Scotland’s temperance progress. It highlights anti liquor sentiment, parliamentary hopes, and various national data on alcohol, law actions, and social outcomes.
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Scotland
Glasgow
Temperance Army
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Cornet
Itis
Dritish and Foreign Federation
Cal
Guerrero
Mexico
North American
Denver
Detroit Free Press
Insane Asylum
Pontiac
Surgical Institute
Ladienepolis
New York
Alaska
Oregon
Williamette
Multnoonah
Noereurvea
Amiri
Nome
N.Y
Europe
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Escorial
Maine
National House of Representatives
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Lake Ontario
Polynesia
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Ilanover
Charlemange
Haroun al Rasehid
Uensclves
Cohasset
Masa
Bordeaux
France
Saw Bry
Snake and Hird
Tle
Missions
Wile
Aion
Faith
Lattle
Doubt
Starr SA
Casteria
Samuel Pitcher
Castoria
Oracon
Lowell, Mass
J. F. Krocuzios
Conway, Ark
H. A. Ancaés
Oxford St
Brooklye, WE
Children's Department
Castors
Ustren
Honorra Axp Dipset
Boston
Magi
AtLzx
C. Sarre
the Centaur Company
TI Murray Street
New York City
Tuscarawas County
Ohio
New Icaria Society
Jefferson County
Missouri
Harmonyites
Temperance
8. Irwin
Temperanes
Temperance News
Paris
Old
Melrose
Union
Jackson
Miss
Bangor
Iowa Supreme Court
St. Louis
Texas
Carroll D. Wright
United States Revenue
Pennsylvania
Burns
William Shannon
Mount Holly
Pano
Frederick Webr
Forterville
Peng
A. W. Marshall
Marshall
Witneis
Ilinois
Toronto
Penn
Botucteaes
Swearingens
Bluings
Ale ‘Texas
Jno
Bonn
Falince
Perticniara
Gax
Poetland
Herbert Walker
Wser - BS
Mivte ST. Epetseowei
George
Shrady
Steves
B. Bowser
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Trondom
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