Characteristics of Sydney Smith in the Harper's Magazine tribute
Lawrence dated June 19 1885 presents Andrew Lang's Harper's Magazine portrait of Sydney Smith. The piece highlights his humor and melancholy balance, audacious wit, and contrast with idealized intellect, likening his style to Mark Twain and noting his views on Orpheus Linus and the beast quotient.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney Smith
Mofiere
Socrates
Aristotle
Leonfeas
Orpheus
Linus
Ortheus
Mark Twain
Mark
Lord Tennyson
Ireland
William Wilberforce
Clapham Saints
Scott
Edinburgh Review
Andrew Lang
Harper's Magazine
Costly Highway and Silver Wagon Road Tale
A Rochester man touts a Colorado Horseshoe Mine wagon road that yielded silver in the roadbed, claiming the road is worth 200 dollars per ton and must be kept. The anecdote blends mining, transport, and a playful aside about nickel-plate railroads, ending with a children’s compliment and a trade ad note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. L. Billings
Rochester
Horseshoe
Colorado
V. Y. Sun
Keep and repair the cellar for fruit and vegetables
The Western Rural notes thorough cellar repair and cleaning to prevent rat damage and dampness. Whitewash walls, seal holes, ventilate, sort and store apples properly, and consider a dry, well-sealed vault to keep produce safe for generations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germantown Telegraph
School and Church News Roundup
A scattered digest of religious, educational, and social notes from 19th century North America. Highlights include Canada ministers paid at least fifty dollars with parsonage, Brooklyn schoolchildren drinking candy tainted with fusel oil, Yale prize for English composition, New York trade schools, Stockport’s famed Sunday school, and Dutch-era church counts in New South Wales. Also notes on a Vermont University student resuming studies, a western theological seminary debate, Genoa Nebraska Indian industrial school details, and Congregational yearbook statistics on churches ministers and benevolence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yale College
Boston Journal
New York City
Stockport
Cheshire
England
Western Theological Seminary
Providence
Chicago Times
Colony
New South Wales
Indian Industrial School
Genoa
Neb
Omaha
Seven Thousand in a Block The Most Crowded Spot in New York City
A block bordered by Fourth and Fifth Streets Avenue A and First Avenue in the East Side is described as the world’s most crowded, housing over 7000 residents in six story tenements. The area is mostly Germans Poles and Americans with no Italians Chinese or Africans, and contains a savings bank nearby with no pawnbroker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Fourth Street
Fifth Street
Avenue A Sind
First Avenue
Leeming East Side
Trish
Albany Journal
Thomas Seetin, Jr
Fourth Judicial District Court
Douglas County
Kansas
Lawrence
State of Kansas
Eash
Catherine M. Seetin
Thomas Seetin Jr
Samuel Seetin
Margaret McIlwaine
Mary Zimmermen
Eliza Rule
Jane Watson
Susan, Rule
James Scetin
Lownahly
Thomas B. Smith
Edmund A. Landon
Wakarusa
Thomas 5
Jarmean
L. L. Davis
Old Man Hair Restorers Featured in Odd Exchange
A fragmented dotty exchange recalls Jenkins praising a mysterious product while another man touts Parker’s Hair Balsam as effective. The dialogue hints at faded hair and a promised remedy with rich perfume and claimed benefits, ending on a speculative note about bladder symptoms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jenkins
Roy
Pungent Paragraph Snippets From Varied 19th Century Clippings
A collage of quips and items notes urban humor about snoring marriages and social mores, with quotations from Norristown Herald Boston Post and others. It mentions a Canadian freshwater lake formed from stock water, a violin air driving geese wild, puns about trousers and violets, and a jokey ad for Rough on Toothache.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norristown Herald
Canada
Liverlyville
Oil City
Burlington
Smith
Boston Post
Tragic End of a Lawyer in a Quiet West Career
Pill Nye recalls a perilous legal stint in the West ending after a client’s death and a swift retreat from practice. He recounts purchases, the collapse of a mining promise, and a rapid return to solitude as he laments the isolation and sorrow of active law work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvanis
Lou
West
Laramie City
Godden
Charlie Kitchen
Thoresburgh House
Kitchen
Helm Mountain
Ema Pox
Death
Taver
Thad
Pill Nye
Louisville Courier Journal
European Wolf Expansion and Early Construction Experiments
A fragmentary report notes wolves migrating from Siberia into Europe, with Asiatic incursions observed in the Pyrenees and surrounding regions. It mentions a Chinese-started effort to combat the plague, and cites a German trial of a sand cork lime partition material claim as soundproof and light. Separate items discuss submarine telecommunication lengths and a Japanese card advertising services for clothing repairs upon arrival at Yokohama.
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Europe
Siberia
Wosges
Pyrenees
China
Germany
Japan
Yokohama
Reeke
Washerman
Machi
Yokohame
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The
Gang Dournai
Lawrrence
San Ana
Siplid
Mountains
Golorada
Fediss
Indianapolis Journal
Douglass & Sone
Chool and Church
Boston Transcript
Damo
Boston
Barber Bros
BtLi. Nye
Cir Ion
Thene Scale Co
Chicago
Drugeista
ELY Secteres Owecs
Emory
Tay
Tutt’s
Hagel
Murray St
Hew
York
M.D. Boot
DA. Ward
Oaioago Waite Lead & Oil CO
COR, Greer & Fulton
Ehens
Glenn
Cnreres
Vorthves
Lee Scribner's Son's Publishers
New York
Durand
Bse
Sake
Chiba
Loulalana State Lottery Company
Inco
Ithe Lagitabine
Chantabia
Sud Ise
Ita Fran
Stata Som
INE Academy OF Music
New Orleans
MW Saat
Carita
Alcie
Eserves
Bun Ponae
Poston
M. Ottens & CO
Main Street
Kansas City, Mo
Kansas City
Atchison & ST. Josefs
Lind
Topeks
Atchison
Peoria Foy
Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Columbus
All Pointe
Tny Bina
Aia
Vin Quincy
T. J. Putter
Yperceval Lowell
Frea
Mangrchaqhr
Posige Joun
Ganson
EK Hoofer
Ienbgex
Msaa
Hale’s
Exton
Exton, Proprieter
Rh M
Speman Gorn
Banat
Minn
Ciarler N. Crittenton
Rob Roy Kennal
Arnold Burgess
Glens
U.N. Crittenton
Palos St
Alno
Champion Cabinet Creamery
Hina Jae
Ar Ae Daaymplemeat CO. Bellows, Fans
Vermort
Bigelow
Uibca
Barber Brother
Caswell, Hazard & Co
King’s
Scien
Jonea
Bros. i
Grigg
Erepers
Cag
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Olay Lf
Hyers, Curmaso, Ti
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