Anecdotes and oddities from a distant era
A garbled extract recounts varied curiosities including discussions of personal adornments made from unconventional materials, a surgeon’s opinion on wearing wings, a hoax fear about dead bodies and hair guards, plus an anecdote about Gen Albert Sidney Johnston. It mentions public figures like Charles Sumner and Ulysses Grant in a series of fragmented memories and tales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honate
Yoake Aomi
Charles Sumner
Wormbey
Grant
Albert Sidney Johnston
Utah
Tysell
Venice Street Market Scene From a Bygone Era
In a vivid Harper's Magazine vignette Col. Geo. E. Waning describes a bustling Grand Canal quay scene. Women with head dresses, newsboys, and fruit sellers mingle with shoppers at the Rialto as produce and pumpkins stack along steps and balconies. A man observes, recalling how water, pump and street life shaped daily commerce in the crowded city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joris
Rialto
Roy
Boya
Grand Canal
Asia
Hiashi
Geo. E. Waning
Harper's Magazine
Inedible Remedies and Egg Preservation Methods
Iris suggests quinine derangements and tannic acids with garlic onions and gunpowder as remedies. An infusion of the orange tree leaves in red wine claims to aid rodent control. Dr Phipson’s egg preservation method uses butter salicylic acid and sawdust to keep eggs fresh for months, tested for two years. Prof Olmsted’s rust preventive coating for metals is advised for farm tools knives and kettles with a chalky, waxy mix reapplied as needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iris
Presserz
Ecgs
Syeer
Phipson
Olmsted
Seo
Apely
Scioto Cine
Courtship in Azores and Domestic Life Reflections
A Philadelphia Times correspondent from the Azores describes Azorean courtship as a lengthy, public exchange beginning at a balcony and evolving through family presence. The excerpt also shares a humorous vest button episode with Mr Blummer, then shifts to essays on spiritual womanhood, ritualism, and the evolving role of women in society and religion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia “Times
Azores
Ponta Delgada
Suoud
Fam
Maria
Ely
Mra
Brimmer
Thaven
Bool
Pinaud
George
Blummer
Blommer
Coon
Levant
Fingland
Victor Hugo
London
Fragmented Vintage Dialogue and Humorous Snippets
A mosaic of quirky anecdotes and exchanges from a bygone era. Scenes include a tense tavern talk on payoffs and talk readiness, a boastful street corner dialogue, humorous quips about weddings, and stray jests from Boston, Paris, and Bridgeport noting manners, marriage, and travel tales.
Storms Origin and Wind Theories Through History
The article reviews historical ideas on storm origins from Dove and the east west wind theory, noting current shifts to barometric pressure relations. It explains the shift from grand currents to modern understandings, while acknowledging ongoing gaps in explaining pressure distributions and barometer changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dove
Equator
Popular Science Monthly
Curious weapon of the petite Australian and brutal rattlesnake
A carved wooden throwing weapon used by Australians amazes scientists with its curved flight and whizzing spin. It can strike mates from forty to sixty feet away and sometimes returns to the thrower. The piece is dangerous for Europeans to project. Also reported is a giant rattlesnake killed on Tron mountain near Bristol, nearly eight feet long with twenty five rattles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aska
Robert Blevins
Tron Mountain
Bristol
Africa
Crystal Palace
London
Fragments of a chaotic Vermont notes and oddities
A scattered wire of anecdotes and items from Pitteford and Vermont. It recounts a local suicide attempt by Fred Banneruxn’s son, oddities about Sir William Pepys, a ground-digging venture, notes on Tomsk University in Russia, and various miscellaneous clippings about gorillas, ghosts, singing, and social quips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Banner Buruxn
Fred
Pitteford
Montague
William Pepys
Ae Denensoh
Sonn
Ni J
Irpenia
Tomsk
Amatardam
Holland Yeally
Germany
Pennet
Atlantic
N.C
Himelf
Liveroor
William James Mayor
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China
Ita
Nicholas
Weldon
Pey
Gen. Johnston
Eriken
Andhars
Piya
Aruime
Zervanta
Abe Ech Hscon
T. W. Ringineons
Poman
Miss Dinkinson
Anna Dickincone
Yen
Myra
Ohlicies
Boston Post
Veneering
Bridgeport
Bostox
Lapres
Tuileries
Billy
Marana
Paris
Pau
Switzerland
Faris
Boomerang
the Gorilla
Medical Wochenschrift
St. Petersburg
Monsssein
Monassein
Oriest
Breehee
Vermont
Saint
Cincinnati
Warritzr
Isaac Latex Ferd
Gotha
Norristown Herat
United States
Coe Ena
Lewis
Usta Lewis
Ohio
Bal Boris
JMR Seany
This Co
New England
Middle
Asc
Sart
Prom Averi
Us Meares
Apy
Malasia
el Be
Express
Chaupestand Quickeats
Leeele
WAL G
FARGO
Prev
Ae Wormley
Lawson
Lawson Chemical CO
Cleveland
Grecers
Ealers
Eiee
Drag
W. Johnston & CO
Jefferson Ave
Detroit
Mich
U. S and
Canada
H.M.& P. Hempstead
A. Watson
Lafayette
C. Tn
State Street
A. General Assort
Jewelry Store
R. Butler
Grocers
Central
State St
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