Red Bird Wings and Garnet Clouds in Harper's Magazine
A fragment from Harper's Magazine evokes red birds and red clouds as a mystical vision. Vivid imagery links the hornet sounds, garnet skies, and celestial flame to summer and splendor in a poetic prose style.
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Earnet
Harper's Magazine
Love and Plans Collide in Temple and Linda
In this scene Temple confronts Linda with a bold plan to quit the army and pursue wealth, while Linda jokes about aging and keeping him. Their impassioned exchange ends with a tense departure as Linda returns home and Temple copes with the looming opposition from her father and the Hutchinsons.
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Temple
Linda
Cameron
Miss Hutchinson
Eliza
Mrs. Hutchinson
The Letters and Diamonds At English Exhibition
A writer argues against a lineal descent of the letter y from the Roman Y and traces its use as a vowel in upsilon transliterations. The exhibit features Marie Antoinette diamonds, two pearl epaulettes from the late Delhi emperor, a pearl idol ornament, and a record black diamond described as the largest yet found, with a yearlong cut losing ten kavats.
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Marie Antoinette
Marie
England
Delhi
Live Oak Wood and Naval Heritage Reevaluated
The article traces live oak’s historic role in shipbuilding, noting its extensive use in old warships for frames and planking. It explains that while still employed in some construction, the wood’s value has risen due to reduced supplies, fueling sentiment and romance around the species.
Great Chinese Dragon chandelier at Chicago Exposition
Report on a Canton made dragon chandelier and Chinese theater at Jackson Park. The four story pagoda shaped electric lamp chandelier weighs 1400 pounds with 116 lamps. Exhibition features a theater, museum of Chinese articles, and dragon flag valued at $3000.
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Oriental Theater
Jackson Park
Manufactures
Canton
China
The Power of Telescopes and Ancient Tools
Prof E B Holden explains how telescope size boosts star brightness from 100 to 32,400 times naked eye visibility. He notes practical magnification limits and moon viewing conditions. The article also covers why lost people walk in circles, limb length data, primitive plow design, rice scythe use, and global gold production trends through 1888.
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Dakota Farms
California
Cireles
Sting
Columbia
America
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