Osage Hedge and Peach Trees Guide from Franklin County
A Franklin County farmer asks about hedge age and care for Osage orange around hedge. advice: cut shoots now to 3 inches, trim in June, final cut next winter, and repeated until hedge is compact in three years. Also guidance on thinning peach interior, winter mulching, and straw around roots when ground is frozen. Additional notes cover agricultural education at Washington convention, military training for colleges, and comments on game hens ducks and English walnut cultivation.
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Osacre Orance Henars
Forest Home
Kansas
N. J. Tribune
Tribune
Franklin County
Kan
Derren Ogle on dextral pre eminence and handedness
Dr William Ogle argues for a natural basis of right handedness in a Royal Society report. He cites bilateral brain asymmetry with left hemisphere often larger in right-handed people and notes hereditary patterns and cross species parallels in primates and parrots. He links cerebral blood supply to handedness and comments on wider biological trends.
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Derren
William Ogle
Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London
Marper
English traveler mocks American ladies for idleness and virtue
An English traveler praises British noblewomen for active lives and public duties, contrasting them with American fine ladies who allegedly copy male letters, assist the poor, supervise farms, manage clubs, and pursue arts. Examples include the late Marchioness of Lansdowne and the Duchess of Bedford. Also included are letters about moths, a method using sulphurous acid, a literary note by George William Curtis, and a Swiss muslin fashion remark.
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Great Britain
Marchioness of
Lansdowne
Duchess of Bedford
Woburn
George William Curtis
Irish Wit and Oddities in a Storied Collection
A humorous slice of miscellany features Irish quips about boots and luck, a long parade of anecdotes from editors and coroners to a 113 year old veteran, a monkey saddle caper, a teetotaler quip, a Burns parody, a maiden’s arbitration over a jilting, and a jokey legal voyage through a spelling exam and wedding advice.
Fourteen Chinese students arrive in Paris for state funded education
Fourteen young Chinese of noble lineage arrive in Paris from Canton to study at state expense, to be split between Saint Louis and Louis le Grand colleges. Four Japanese princesses, kin of the Tycoon, are expected soon for education in Paris, noted for beauty and dignified figures.
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Paris
Canton
Saint Louis
Louis le Grand
Tsen
Ka-Pse- Hang
Hoans-Pa-Li
Ko-Phare
Nebraska Land Company offers 500 free house lots
Five hundred house lots will be given to the first applicants with no restrictions to promote emigration. Locations span towns villages and cities across Nebraska. For full particulars write Favre & Co. Real Estate Dealers No Broadway Omaha or Nebraska Land Company Omaha Nebraska.
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Nebraska
Favre & Co
Broadway
Nebraska Land Company
Omaha
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Philadelphia, PA
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