Lost Half His Soul A Sketch With A Buddhist Priest
Crowds gather at an inn as a traveler persuades an old Buddhist priest to sit for a sketch. He is paid cash and mock beliefs that a soul leaves the body for portraits cause anxiety. After a staged destruction the priest believes half his soul returns and he recovers.
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China
East
United States Nautical Corps Completes Planetary Study
More than 100000 sun and planet observations by the U S nautical corps under Professor Simon Newcomb aim to determine fundamental astronomical elements and planetary masses. The work involves 22 to 23 unknown quantities for the three planets Saturn Jupiter and Mars and required years of voluntary collaboration, a triumph for American astronomy.
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Saturn
Jupiter
Mars
United States Nautical Corps
Simon Newcomb
Elephant Encounters and Murderous Rogue in Africa
Porter's study on elephants and predators explains trunk use and defense. Anecdotes recount Anderson nearly killed in a skarm by a charging elephant and a rogue Bala district elephant that killed many before being hunted down.
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S. Hampden Porter
Anderson
Kabis
Africa
Jaulnah
Balaghat
Baker
Bloomfield
Sanderson
Two of the Unemployed Cartoon Dialogue
A dialogue exchanges between a tramp and a gilded youth about prolonged unemployment. The tramp pleads for aid after eight weeks without work, while the youth retorts that eight years is longer and offers no help.
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Chicago
Underground railways advance in Glasgow and global curiosities
Reports detail Glasgow operating a single underground line with two more under construction. Abroad notes include a 64 foot sea serpent skin at Bombay Zoo, a 225 ounce horseshoe nugget in Hargraves Australia, ancient Pompeii razors, and repairs totaling 2.24 million dollars on the Monarch battleship with iron construction and new engines delivering 13 to 14 knots.
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Glasgow
Bombay Zoological Gardens
Hargraves
Australia
Pompeii
Turkey
Constantinople
Weinek
Imperial Observatory
Prague
Copernicus
Lick Observatory
Syracuse
Sicily
Monarch
A Noble Fight Twenty Years of Prosperity and Suffering
A Greenville resident Isaac A Sugg recalls a sixteen year battle with a nerve and system ailment. He credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with restoring his health after failed treatments and mentions others in Greenville similar cases. The article promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills available through Dr Williams Medicine Co. at 5th and Main for 30 cents per box.
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Atlanta. Ga
Isaac A. Sugg
Greenvi
Greenville
Mr .S
Busin
Will
Williams
Wiliams’ Medicine Company
Julius Caesar Sees Life Through Limited Lenses
A fragmented reminiscence lists Caesar’s unrealized acts and experiences. It notes he rode a bus, spoke on a telephone, avoided telegrams and trains, and did not read, view troops, read meat, patent wheat, or cross the Atlantic, while hinting at many missed opportunities.
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Julius Caesar
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