Thanksgiving at the Highland Cottage and the Lost Baby
A Canadian traveler recalls a Christmas tale from Arran told by a Highland shepherd. Janet, his wife, discovers a newborn in a cave beside a dead mother, their shared care lifting hope briefly before the child dies that night and is laid to rest with the mother, symbolizing faith and heavenly reunion.
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Janet
Corrie
Iain
Robert Bruce
New World
Christ
Joseph
Mary
Jesus
Bridge Building BrotherHoods of the Latin South
Bridge-building brotherhoods arose in the South of France in the late twelfth century to provide refuges for travelers and to maintain ferries and bridges. Founded by Benezet, later canonized though not decisively vouched for, they were sanctioned by Pope Clement III in 1189 and organized like knightly orders with a hammer emblem on the breast.
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France
Benezet
Clément Tel
Quirky global facts and old time curiosities emerge
A medley of curious notes cites coffee as an antidote to alcohol, no church or temperance in Prospect Harbor, Russia conscription and famine, young Buckland’s animal closet, No Mans Land stock wealth, tree height method, Karent marriage rites, a Sacramento gold nugget tale, English school fees and attendance, duel threats in Richmond, Alaska silversmiths, quinine fever cure, violin origins, and Bethlehem Moravian Sun Inn from 1758.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bethlehem
Moravian Sun Inn
New England Winter Better For Consumption, Say Doctors
Dio Lewis argues after years among consumptives in California that northern climates, especially New England, better restore strength via open air and exercise. He cites frost, discipline, and steady outdoor activity as crucial, noting patients improve with daily walking and ample riding, while warm California climates offer less vitality. Twenty years in New England and three in California support the view that climate plus lifestyle trumps travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dio Lewis
California
Tropics
Arctic
Temperate
New England
North
Minnesota
New Hampshire
Cuban Courtship and Family Surveillance in Love
A narrator describes Cuban courtship as a monitored affair where lovers meet under family scrutiny. Daily visits, windows as contact, and notes exchanged define romance under parental eyes. If the couple slips, siblings or mothers intervene, and the man must prove fidelity with daily presence and compelling excuses.
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Cuba
Diverse science notes on rivers, metals, and light
Reports cover Weissman’s river discovery linking Hassai to Lake Leopold II, a steel casting yield for watch screws, Cailletet and Bouty’s metal resistance with temperature, Tokio and Japanese Chemical Society to publish in Roman letters, leaf evaporation rates, Mohammedan Western Lidian architecture, Berlin carbonic acid production, a stone soldering method, incandescent light for micrography, Trouve apparatus in micrography, and Percy Smith on trees and lightning.
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Journal of the Chemical Society
MM. Cailletet and
Bouty
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Justice of the Peace
Griffith's Block
Reell
State Supreme Court
NEW Star Barber Shop
M. V. Keene
Prof’r
C. B. Lay
Ryan
Magowan
Pittsburgh & Western Railroad
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Chas. Burk
Fane
Kate House
Whacox
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Pickett
H. A Jamieson & CO
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M. Mead
Warren
N. K. Wendelboe
Liberty St
the Exchange Geet
Axp Poor Room
Wills & Stricker
Prop'rs
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Chase
Noow
Arran
Glens
Redding
Nin
Maggie
Bairstow
Col
Liskety Ann Waren
Hovsh First
Binz
Maine
Prospect Harbor
Goldsboro County
Frank Buckland
Texas
Massachusetts
No-Man’s-Land
Mr. Wilson
Smithsonian Institution
Washington
James Marshall
Sacramento
England
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Richmond
Virginia
Hastings
Jones
C. P. Bradley
Jonas
Alaska
Trent
Gaspard di Salo
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Lient. Weissman
Sersvice
African Association
Congo
Equator
Lake Leopold
Physical and Mathematical Society of
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Japanese Chemical Society
Lidia
Edinburgh
Berlin
H. van Heurek
Percy Smith
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