Maud's Year of Calico Brings a Clerk to Fortune
Maude Bryant refus es pearls and Silk in a dramatic betrothal test. Charley May, a clerk earning £800 yearly, seeks her hand and endures her father's teasing. Maude pledges to wear only calico for a year, resisting riches and fashion. After a long trial, she keeps to her vow, and the reward is a marriage proposal from May.
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Grace
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The Peat Chick A Wada Win A Morat
Old Clack the chicken matriarch shelters Peep a lively chick who brags and flouts rules. Peep leaves the coop, confronts barnyard rivals, boasts of crowing prowess, and suffers a brutal lesson when a rival rooster defeats him publicly. He returns humbled, asking what the world saw in him.
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Discovery Of A Mammoth Cave In Wyoming Territory
Bays reports from Table Mountain Wyoming Territory a cave of immense depth found by a herder. Explorers lowered into a perpendicular shaft eighty two feet deep then descended about one hundred feet into a vast network of vaults with stalactites stalagmites and bone fragments. The cave appears honeycombed with passages radiating from the surface opening eight by four feet. A new trade in lean cattle to Schleswig Holstein is noted, and a local family on the Hudson was poisoned by poke-root mistaken for horseradish.
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Table Mountain Ranch
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Terre Firme
Flere
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Washington
Darwin
Cope
Leidy
Agassiz
Varieties in a 19th century miscellany column
A digest of curiosities and notes: Des Moines townships in Towa, Cruikshank’s 113 works, Caprera visitors, camels plowing in Egypt, steam propeller science, Virginia’s natural bridge bankruptcy, heavy taxpayers list for Cincinnati, Easter St Mark’s day prophecy for 1886, Goethe and Schiller letters sold, women studying medicine in Paris, Paris exhibition locks vs Europe, Turver paintings at London sale, notable births in 1789, a lunatic with indigestible items, Lorraine emigration to France, British pavilion at Paris Exposition, Wisconsin tornado anecdotes, Derby poaching prevention device experiments.
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Cincinnati
Enigma Solved By Charley May Scandal
The passage reveals a mystery surrounding Made Bryant and Charley May. Mr Bryant confesses to Aunt Eloise, clearing up the puzzling situation that had captivated fashionable circles and sparked speculation in the papers.
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Maude Las
Mr Bryant
Eloise
Bryant
Charley May
Peep’s Lesson Ends in Tragic Cochin China Fable
In a tale set in Cochin China a peasant warns against rude chicks at home. Peep scolds the fledglings then dies after a single kick from his Teg. The episode underscores consequences of behavior carried into the wider world.
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