Sunrise on Tower D Aalapret seals their betrothal
In a dawn ascent to the Tower d'Alaspret a duo, M. d'Herble and Miss Edel, confront hope and doubt. As the sun breaks through clouds their guarded courtship culminates in a first kiss and declared betrothal amid a symbolic rural dawn and distant treetop country.
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Cherble
M. d'Herbie
Tyger
Ang Mra
Simona
Misa Kael
M. O'Herble
Tower d'Alaapret
Mian Edel
Paris
Tiger
Miss Edet
M. d'Herble
Hatogu d’Alaapret
Edel
Iune
Mischel
D'Herble
Mias Edel
Del
M. d’Herble
Miss Jean Ingelow dies remembered poet and author
The distinguished poet and novelist Miss Jean Ingelow died at her son's in her seventy seventh year. Born in Boulder, Lincolnshire in 1830, she rose from a shy child to luminary of Victorian letters. Her poems and four novels, some set to music, earned admiration from Tennyson and Longfellow and left a lasting literary legacy.
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Ean Ingelow
Bouton
Lincolnshire
Bogand
Hoey
William Ingelow
Jent Tngelow
Tennyson
Longfellow
Joan Ingelow
Misa Tngelow
Kensington
Ale
Laurate
Jos
Whales as Travelers in Early Whale Fisheries
William H. Dall of the Smithsonian notes in Science that early whale fishery records show whales struck in the Atlantic later killed in the North Pacific. This suggests game whales are long travelers, crossing oceans from Atlantic to Pacific via Cape Horn or the northern route around North America and through Bering Strait.
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William H. Dall
The
Smithsonian Tnstitution
Atlantic
North
Pacific
North Pacific
Cape Horn
North America
Bering
Ink Lake Curative Mud Baths Of Arizona Report
A Morning Oregonian piece describes a hot mud and lake bath in the Cocopan hills of Arizona. The black oily water is heated to 110 to 216 degrees, with mud packs to the neck followed by immersion and sweating on sulphurous sands, claimed to produce wonderful cures.
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Cocopan Hills
Arizona
Indiana
Oregonian
By Order of the King Four Ts Mark the Fourth Hour
A tart anecdote recalls how a clock dial retained four Ts for the fourth hour after Charles V’s era. Henry Vick presented the first accurate clock, the king insisted it be corrected, declaring never wrong and ordering the mistake removed.
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Charles V
France
Henry Vick
Vick
Dur ham evangelist opens Holy Ghost and Us Fillo school
FW Santora, an evangelist, establishes an institution in Durham Maine named the Holy Ghost and Us Fillo school. He declares other Christians are on the wrong road and that devils roam daily. He asserts unity with God amid perpetual religious visions.
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Santora
Durham
Holy Ghost
Avery Tay
Jajnis
Wattun
The Troubles of Prince Arthur at Connaught Ceremonial
A London Daily News report details Prince Arthur of Connaught at a ceremonial college event. A junior student, shy and unassuming, lingered behind crowds rather than join peers. The Duke of Connaught aided his son into a carriage after a playful struggle, exposing a light moment of royal family etiquette amid spectators.
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Arther
Connaught
Munters
Saya
London Daily News
Prince Arthu
Con- Haught
Prince Arthur
Frederick
Pricer
Arthur
Duke of Connaught
Aants
Origin of the Dollies Name Ties to D'Oyley Cloths
The piece explains that dollies arose from quit rent cloths given at St Michael feasts by Rob ert D'Oyley in Norman times. William granted lands to D'Oyley on condition of annual cloth gifts. Ladies embroidered designs on these cloths, which accumulated into a supply used as napkins at royal tables, and the term dollies derives from D'Oyley.
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William
Robert D’oyley
St. Michael
Renowned astronomer Simon Newcomb remembered for planetary calculations
Prof Simon Newcomb, retired from the navy and Nautical Almanac, is famed in two continents for his planetary and lunar motion rules. Born in Nova Scotia in 1836, he moved to the United States as a teen and began as a teacher before joining the Smithsonian and later the navy. His work on asteroid orbits supported a fixed law, earning degrees and medals worldwide. He remains youthful and vigorous in old age.
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Simon Newcomb
Navy
Nova Scotia
United States
Smithsonian Institution
Newcomb
United States Navy
Washington
Unclear Ancient Sarcophagus Origins Mentioned
Fragmentary historical note discusses why a sarcophagus name arose from a stone coffin practice. It claims limestone coffins possessed alleged powers to destroy the body and teeth, with the term sarcophagus linked to resting on flesh and coffins placed atop bodies.
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Simno Cofina
Bullet proof cloth tested by Casimir in Chicago demonstration
Inventor Brother Casimir, with Dr. F H Westerhuke and police expert Sergeant Boyd present, subjected himself and a second volunteer to 32, 38, and 44 caliber bullets at 10 paces. The cloth reportedly withstood all hits with minor painful shocks, prompting plans to market for police and civilians and to take the fabric to Europe for adoption.
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Selal
Chicago
Canimir Zogien
Fred
F. H. Westerhuke
Brother Casimir
Dove
Carter H. Harrison
Prendergast
Casimir
L. C. Borland
Zegien
Doctor Borland
Borland
Boyd
Police Department
Smith & Wesson
Webb
Palnness
Weslerschulia
Minuttes
Casimir Cama Hia
Europe
Carlyle and His Pipes in Quiet Smoking Chronicle
Carlyle was a heavy smoker famed for breaking thirteen cutties on the hearth and his vow to quit. His silence philosophy grew alongside tobacco, and he compared Parliament and Frederick the Great’s councils with pipe smoke. He prized precise pipes from Scotland and fretted over a Glasgow order of dozens of pipes arriving in dust and rain.
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Carlyle
Beclerechan
House of Commons
Frederick the Great
Scotland
Cheyne Row
Edinburg
Grose
Glasgow
Balzac Vanity Tale Sparks Roar of Literary Pride
The noted French novelist Honore de Balzac boasted there are only three French writers Viktor Hugo Pheno phite Gauthier and himself. At a dinner a younger writer claimed to be a man of letters, prompting Balzac to ridicule the pretension and remind all of the marshals of modern literature.
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Tialzac
Honore de Baleac
Victor Hugo
Pheophite Gauthier
Balzac
Cleopatra's Needle Faces Risk From 1900 Exhibition Lighting
The Cleopatra's Needle obelisk in Paris's Place de la Concorde may be damaged by a plan to install electric lighting at the summit for the 1900 exhibition. The proposal calls for blasting through solid stone to mount searchlights, risking serious harm to Egypt's relic.
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Cleopatra
Paris
Place de la Concorde
Old Egypt
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Cama
Victoria
Ia Atill
Mafoty Pacer
Pacer
Duce
Casimir Zeglen
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