Short Dreams Reveal Vast Time in Small Sleep Moments
The article notes dreams can span long periods while actual sleep lasts only seconds. Lord Brougham and Gord Holland illustrate rapid dream duration with amanuensis narration and Babbage recounting extended dream sequences. Various cases describe suffocating skeletons, Atlantic crossings, and brief sleep despite lengthy dream narratives.
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Lord Brougham
Gord Holland
Mr. Babbage
Atlantic
America
London Firemen in 1905 and the evolving fire service
The piece notes how fire insurance firms marked houses with cognizances on lead plates and describes early fire engines, uniforms, and equipment before formal brigades. It mentions firemen acting as constables during Burdett’s release and details the primitive, hand-pumped engines and modest water output of the era.
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Francis Burdett
Life on the Wagon Show Circus Crew Revealed by Expert
James M Niton, a noted observer, details the hard and varied life of wagon shows. He notes performers and crew endure long travel, irregular meals, and strict self care while overall improving provisions and pay in recent years. He highlights diet, cleanliness, and limited medicine as key traits of circus workers.
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Acirons
French Conscripts Suffer Brutal Horse Riding Incident
A French artillery private named Rubin at Vannes was strapped to a horse and whipped after a failed ride. The horse bolted, he fell, suffered a fatal head injury, and a corporal’s punishment followed before he died en route to confinement. A British Medical Journal note warns against slicing pineapples with the same knife and mentions pineapple rind's acidity. Cuba reportedly uses salt as an antidote for pineapple poison.
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Aubin
Vannes
Bazine
Rubin
Cuba
Four Tips for Extending Umbrella Life
An umbrella retailer advises that drying umbrellas handle downward speeds moisture away from the fabric, allowing even drying and preventing wear. He notes that drying handle upward traps moisture near the top, harming silk or fabric and shortening life. Leaving the umbrella loose when stored and even when wet aids longevity, and cases contribute to rapid wear through friction.
Big Foot the colored policeman of Peoria
After a heavy snow and brutal cold a crowd gathered by a lamp post to inspect footprint prints. A local colored policeman, nicknamed Big Foot, urged the onlookers to move along as two supposed victims lay hidden in the snow, and the crowd dispersed.
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Peoria
Badly Left Handed: A Concert Laugh Line
A pair at a concert jokes about left handedness and degrees of it. One quips a fiddler can be so left handed he cannot eat or sleep with his right hand, but the other calls the claim foolish. The gag hinges on an exaggerated, humorous misunderstanding of left-handedness.
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Hewston
Dan
First Rte
Tin
Pretty Rough Talk at a Wayside Slab
A traveler seeks dinner in Arkansas while a horse request is refused. A woman jokes about her husband instead of a man who is absent, and the traveler is astonished. She muses that her kin think she has done well, noting her sister married two New Jersey men.
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Arkannsas
Curious views on second marriages and illegitimacy in Europe
A Western widower is comforted by a neighbor claiming fifth marriage as relief. A New England woman protests a third marriage, but jokes about rebuilding after a fire. Illigitimacy in Europe appears high due to strict marriage controls and parental consent laws, with property requirements affecting eligibility.
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Europe
Emblem Talk Sparks Bee Hive Idea on Chatham Street
Uncle Abraham debates an emblem for his shop noting a bee hive symbol of industry. The exchange highlights the irony of a bee as a worker while offering a bargain suit, with playful dialect about tailoring flaws and the climate.
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Abraham
Chatham Street
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