The Last Census Notes and Curious Global Quirks
A miscellany of facts and reflections spans lawyers and ministers incomes, silk farming in Turkey, New Jersey farmland value, Prussian officers, Arkansas railway valuation, and Missouri Pacific, plus thought on handwriting, marriage prospects, Irish census shifts, religious demographics, Irish language decline, and a physician’s cautionary anecdote about air and clothing. It closes with crime statistics, reform hopes, and a warning about lifeboats on steamers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Threir
Williams Dbuffield Robinson
Eastern
Pennsylvania
Tusius Oiler
Green and Blue Paint Mess Surrounds a Pastor
Reverend Milo Milner returns to Simpson Terrace to a scene of home made chaos as Mrs Chipley and daughters Maud and Marian scrub and paint. A dispute over green versus blue doors ends with Milner apologizing to the Deans and then proposing to Wid ow Chipley, ending the tale with a practical marriage choice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Milner
Simson Terrace
Simpson’s Terrace
Milo Milner
Dixey
Maud
Marian
Dixey’s
Mamma
Joe Dean
Deans
City Company
City
Joe
Francesca
Dean
Chipley
Masten
Mund
Green
Marion
Rev. Milner
Francesca Dean
Mr. Mil
Jace Dean
Mischievous Mand
Miss Maud
Milner
Danger In Little Things And Candles In Russia
A column excerpt highlights the phrase not dangerously injured and contrasts medical cautions with everyday risks. It recounts cases of minor injuries turning fatal and notes health influence on outcomes, then shifts to a New York Press piece on Russia’s candle usage in churches and a brief Skeletal overview of snakes from the New York Herald.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julius Browne
St. Louis Globe Democrat
Russia
Europe
Kazan
St. Petersburg
House of Congress
New York Press
Infection in Paper Money Raises Germ Transmission Risk
A Spanish money study shows banknotes may carry septic germs. Tests with notes in use for small values found about 19 000 germs on roughly fifteen grains of paper. Cultures in broth, gelatin, and agar were injected into rats and guinea pigs, with most animals dying within twenty four hours.
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Bank of Spain Entrent
Cava
Pearls of Thought and the Shape of Virtue
A compact aphoristic essay exploring envy, self-worth, love, time, science, philosophy, religion, and education. It argues that true excellence inspires admiration rather than scorn, and that genuine virtue emerges through disciplined study, humane action, and proper education hidden within ordinary people.
Sioux War-Tales From Major Dan Allen At The Laclede
Major Dan Allen recalls clashes with Sioux on the open plains near present day South Dakota. He describes the Sioux as fearless and deadly in battle, recounting a dramatic encounter where a dynamite charge disabled a war party as his rifle crew held their ground. The tale, from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, portrays him as the thunder maker among the Sioux.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dan Allen
Trackless
West
Laclede
Napoleon
South Dakota
Perdition
Milton
Vesuvius
Nouw
Thundermaker
St. Louis Globe- Democrat
Pineapple's Merits and Medicinal Value
The article extols pineapple fruit and juice as highly beneficial. It claims pineapple can aid throat diseases and diphtheria, acts as an anti dyspeptic, and provides a permanent cure for morning indigestion by addressing its root cause. It urges dyspeptics to heed the advice of a past user.
The Realm of Fashion Past Epochs Return
An essay on revived antique fashions for modern styles notes men and women alike admire dress, with households expected to coordinate, and fall gowns featuring Empire and Louis XV influences. It describes garments, trims, and silhouettes, including wrappers, corsets, boleros, and tailored streetwear with velvet and lace, plus hat trends and color tones for the season.
Zag A Charming Novelty For the Young
A fashion note describes pelerines worn on shoulders with waist-length options. Chatelaine belts return in style to carry small items like a watch purse mirror powder boxes and a gold or silver wishing bone, replacing the four leaf clover.
Temperance editorial on cholera cures and abstainers
The Gondon Inquirer editorial cites a Havre medical officer claiming nine of ten abstainers who drank alcohol survived cholera while nine of ten drinkers who fell ill died. It also covers a Temperance Jubilee in Carnegie Music Hall marking fifty years of the Sons of Temperance with leaders John W Oliver and George McKibben among survivors and attendees from across the union and Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gondon Inquirer
Havre
Order of the Sons of Temperance
Carnegie Music Hall
Order
Tasny
New York
Union
John W Oliver
Yonkers
George McKibben
Band of Sixteen
Division Street
Chelsea
C. H. Benworth
N.J. Stearns
Stephen Merritt
Edward Crummay
Edward Carswell
Canada
T. L. Cuyler
Oliver
Louis Wagner
Philadelphia
Benjamin R Jewell
Massachusetts
Samuel F. Cary
Ohio
Leonard Tilley
New Brunsl
Mr. Carswell
New York Times
Temperance News
Great Britain
Liverpool
Henry Thompson
England
Deca
Isle of Man
General Booth
Salvation Army
London
Sbrt
The Rothers Cradle and Divine Labor Reflection
A fractured verse and prose excerpt extols the sanctity of work and industrial life. It blends a lullaby theme with Christian exhortation about awaiting heaven, praising diligent labor and denouncing idle pietism through a quotation from J. R. McDuff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. R. McDuff
Power of Evil and its Dominance in Nature
A quotation attributed to Dr Boyd ponders why evil wields greater influence than good in the universe. It argues that a single foul drop ruins a cup of clean water, while a drop of clean water barely improves a cup of foul. The text contrasts how pain in one part can ruin the whole, whereas relief in one part cannot counter widespread suffering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boyd
Satan survey of soul weak points in temptation
The passage likens Satan to a besieging foe surveying a city to find its weakest wall and easiest breach. It asks where our defenses fail most—understanding prone to error, fancies and levity, wills to frowardness, or affections to excess—before temptations strike the soul.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Satan
Spencer
Readiness in the Performance of Duty in 1780 Connecticut
On May 17 1780 Connecticut residents faced a solemn mood as candles burned in many homes and birds fell silent. Hartford legislature debated adjournment with Colonel Davenport insisting on being found at duty if judgment day neared, requesting candles be lit.
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Connecticut
Hartford
House of Representatives
Davenport
Biblical Museum
Church Amusements and the Drive for Entertainment
The Rev Dr Gordon warns against relying on human entertainment to draw worshipers. He argues churches seek novelty in music, architecture, art, rhetoric, and social attractions, questioning if pulpit offerings should be replaced by dazzling displays to win souls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. J. Gordon
Also Mentioned on This Page
Indiana Progress
Dar Esday
Turkey
Minister of Finance
United States
New Jersey
State
The
Ladomenn
Schleswig-Holstein
Arkansas State Board of Railroad Commissioners
Missouri Pacific Aystem
David N. Carvalho
Cincinnati
Walden
Jason
James Whitcomb Rilar
Richard Owens
Huxley
America
New York Herald
Fop
Falt, Styles
Temperance
Science
Popular Seimee Mon Monthly
Daniel
Rother’s Cradle
Jesus
Hillel
Jung
Lema
Hinnom
Jerusalem
Hiltel
Fertie
Krommacher
Soli Fd
J Garrett
St. Jerome
Balan
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