Escape Dream for a Hunted Man in the Bush
Rufus Dawes flees through desert and bush after leaving a coal camp. He grapples with hunger, fatigue, and a murder discovery, then discovers the deserted settlement and a hopeful signal of human presence. The pursuit continues as Frere nears the Osprey and strange figures appear on deck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rufus Dawes
Gabbett
Coal Head
Mount Direction
Birches Inlet
Sarah Island
Frere
Mr. Bates
Hobart
James Lesly
William Cheshire
William Russell
John Fair
James Barker
Barker
Fair
Cheshire
Lesly
Russell
John Rex
Grimes
Lyon
Riley
Rex
Porter
Sylvia
Missy
Papa
Bates
Mutiny aboard the brig and crew's bold breakout
The prisoners seize the brig during a mutinous uprising. Rex and companions force guard and crew aside, seize weapons, and prepare to sail away while Bates and Mrs. Vickers and Sylvia face a perilous journey ashore under guard.
Leap Year Proposal Keeps Private Past in Play
A light exchange reveals a fiancé’s joke about an earlier engagement to a widow. The man recalls proposing to the current fiancée, who quips that memory may be faulty. He clarifies the prior engagement occurred during leap year.
Tragedy and Comedy in a Westward Tour Dialogue
Dialogues reveal Rowland Rands planning a lecture tour through the West while a comedian notes it may be a tragedy. A fugitive Cossack applies to a telegraph firm in America claiming to know how to plant Poles, despite lacking wire experience. In the Adirondacks Eva praises the mountain air as intoxicating and Dick jokes about becoming air tight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rowland Rands
Comedian
America
Adirondacks
Eva
Brook and River: A Tennyson Poem Excerpt
A flowing river image is described with vivid natural scenes and personified movement. The verse traces the river's journey through hills, fields, towns, and eddies, noting its persistence as men come and go.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Tennyson
Blood Stream In Dutchman's Cave At Ross Peak
Two Philadelphia women Miss Elizabeth Waln Vaux and Mrs. Charles Schaffer ventured into Dutchman's cave near Ross Peak British Columbia. They found a blood colored stream amid stalactites and stalagmites in a grand grotto and returned safely after darkness and dangers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ross Peak
British Columbia
Philadelphia
Elizabeth Waln Vaux
Mayor Vaux
Charles Schaffer
Dutchman's Cave
Philadelphia Bulletin
Not Well Trained and Gone to Los Angeles
A clipped exchange notes Mr Owalott has left for the office, saying he has gone to Los Angeles yesterday and will return after lunch. The Cleveland Leader observes that public goodwill is hard to maintain and hints at broader distrust.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Owalott
Los Angeles
Cleveland
Silent Siblings Endure Forty Two Years of Silence
James and Mary Durney, a 60 and 55 year old brother and sister living on a seventy five acre farm near Chateaugay New York, have not spoken in forty two years since a quarrel over Mary being allowed to attend a party. Their contrived silence persists despite daily coexistence and mutual good relations.
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Chateaugay
Franklin County
N. Y
James
Mary Durney
Mary
Mary Darney
A Mod ern Campaign and Witty Epigrams
Excerpts recount a humorous Japan China scene and a barrow wheel misfortune in Weikaiwei with a Chinaman and a heavy wheelbarrow. Another fragment shows a poet's rejected submission and editor's critique. The page closes with quips about manners and marriage.
Oddities and Feats Across The World And Markets
A roundup of curious facts: the longest clock pendulum in the world at 777 feet. a 30 mile chasm carved by Labrador waters. 31 languages spoken by Philippines inhabitants. costly Mahomet tomb. £2,000,000 in diamonds and rubies. steam vessels still thriving. world steamship count 65,934 versus 30,561 sailing ships. a French heart model. Greenland birch tree less than three inches tall. Chinese poll tax and wrist seal in Siam. German automatic billiard tables. swallows rescued in Switzerland and freed in Italy. U.S. leads in hides and skins consumption worth over $50 million. imports of skins abroad. a long list of deaths from adulterated foods including toadstools, candy, wood alcohol, ice cream typhoid, and spoiled milk preservatives.
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Grand Falls
Labrador
Philippines
Mahomet
Siam
Germany
Switzerland
Lucerne
Zurich
Italy
England
France
Ostrander Elms at Cornell Stand as Living Gift
Henry Sage recounts the donation of Ostrander Elms at Cornell University. A Canadian woodsman offered to plant thirty or forty elms near Dryden, saying they would provide shade for someone after he was gone. The story links Sage, Ezra Cornell, and a legacy of humble generosity in campus lore.
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East Avenue
Cornell University
Ostrander Elms
Henry W. Sage
Ezra Cornell
University
Cornell
John B
Canada
Michigan
Dryden
Henry
Ostrander
East Avents
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Zee XIII
Mr. Bate
Larke
Mrs. Vickers
Mr. Frere
Russenl
Jones
Philip
Mysterious Dam
Chin
David Fraser
Wehaiwei
Weikaiwei
China
Philadelphia Press
Miss Cayenne
Washington Star
Moeer
Enn
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