Birds as teachers of faith in October Thoughts sermon
Rev Dr Talmage’s autumn sermon uses migratory birds to urge higher Christian living. He likens storks cranes and swallows to faithful flight toward heaven, warns against delaying repentance, and calls for a singing, advancing church that rises above world temptations.
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Brookirs
Dr. Talmage
India
Holland
Germany
Heaven
American Congress
South America
Africa
Ceylon
Renee
Church of God
Triumphant Church
Singing Church
George Miller
England
Elfred Cookman
Church Militant
Church Triumphant
Moses
Brunel
Paul
Alps
Church of We
Sastapronius Sein
Iain Sa Vay
Mozart
Our Wit and Humor in Poetry and Prose
A gleeful column presents quips and mock verses from Truth magazine, including light verse on politics, innocence rewarded, and playful riddles about society. The piece surveys wind, height, and urban life with a satirical wink, credited to J. F. in Truth.
Global facts and famous firsts from a historic miscellany
The item surveys diverse topics from geography and industry to people and discoveries. It notes Japan as a sulfur exporter and coastal lights, while listing state strengths in crops and industry. It mentions a long lived Parisian, polar ice thickness, a Herod bust in Jerusalem, and M Bertillon’s anthropometric work.
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Japan
Great Britain
Mississippi
Kentucky
Massachusetts
Paris
Nicholas de Savin
Polar
Herod the Great
Jerusalem
Hermitage Museum
St. Petersburg
United States
Daniel M. Spraker
Mohawk National Bank of Fonda
N. Y
M. Bertillon
Global Economic Snapshots From Historic Data
Bananas in Martinique sell for 8 cents a bunch while Britain earns 95 million from liquor taxes and 40 million from tobacco. Italy distributes 2 million yearly in doweries. British rail returns average 3.5 percent. From 1811 to 1875 Pittsburg built 1,416 steamboats. after 1875, construction fell. Electric fires last year totaled 238 with 3.2 million in losses. U S fire losses last year totaled 168 million with 35,186 fires and 106 million insurer payments. Estimated U S earnings stand at 3.49 billion.
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Martinique
Great Britain
Pittsburg
United States
Fie
United
Solved the Problem of Emancipation Society Insight
Dialogs critique class, marriage, theft by yacht owners, execution jokes, and charity misfires. The piece contrasts wealth and misery, noting a formerly underpaid worker now content after marriage, and mocks reform zeal through quick, satirical exchanges.
Timekeeping by a Pendulum Coin Trick
A reader describes a coin hanging inside a glass tumbler on a thread used to tell time. The coin’s regular side strikes suggest a time signal after a steady, precise hand. The note calls for unbiased testing of whether pulse or intention affects the swing.
Buckeye farmer finds love and wedding gift mystery
A rustic Buckeye farmer, rich from a gas well, marries a fine girl. While admiring wedding presents, she notices no duplicates in the collection and they debate the meaning of the word duplicates, revealing a humorous misunderstanding about gifts.
German officer grants furlough to wife in military humor
A fragment from Texas Siftings portrays Colonel Donner of the dragoons dictating a six week health furlough for his wife to report to Weisbaden. The officer demands regular reports on her fidelity. In another vignette a wife wakes to a cellar intruder, while the husband dismisses the threat and mentions locking potatoes in the vault.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donner
Dragoons
Weisbaden
Texas
James
Lucky Colonel Singerly Leads Local Farm Venture
Colonel Singerly of Philadelphia owns a Cecil county Maryland farm famed for top cattle and now reveals a brick clay deposit. He plans to ship clay to New York to undercut current suppliers with a similar high quality product.
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Colonel Singerly
Philadelphia
Cecil County
Maryland
New York
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Puck
Ler
J. F
Zane
Mrs. Fadd
Miss Fadd
Young Ladies’ Philanthropy Club
Walt
Aderfoot
Holand
Birmingham
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