Shamrock legends and Swift sermon from old Ireland
A fragmentary reminiscence recounts St. Patrick using the shamrock as a teaching symbol and the trefoil’s sacred status. mentions the shamrock’s cross symbolism, its Arabic name, and Pliny’s note on serpents. It also recalls Dean Swift’s charity sermon at St Patrick’s Cathedral Dublin and a joke about lending security.
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Thore Jas
Bt. Patrick
St. Patrick
Pliny
Dean Swift
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Dublin
O Leary’s Retort to Curran at Dinner
Irish barrister John Philpot Curran quipped to Reverend Father O Leary in a dinner exchange. Curran said he wished the priest were St Peter. O Leary answered that he would keep the keys of heaven and could let him in.
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O'Leary
Curran
John Philpot Curran
Father O Leary
Father
St. Eter
Min
Fire and death tolls stun towns amid wide calamities
Read across the nation reports of massive fires in Polk City and Exeter mills, a 109 year old death in Georgetown, and fatal shooting in Quincy. A list of incidents includes a Baltimore ware factory blaze, counterfeiting crackdowns in Belleville, and a jailhouse lynching in Rolling Fork. Also noting California capital move talks, a barbers Sunday law, and a suicide after a murder plot.
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N. Uy
Polk City
Elizabeth Smith
Yerira
Georgetown
Ind
California
Kentucky
Jamoaica
Bucyrus
Jacob Fike
Fike
California Legislatura
San Jose
Estherville
Gottlib Hampp
St. Louis
Baltimore
Ingram, & Co
United States
Belleville
W. Va
Neporoes
Rolling Var
Miss
Lee Walton
Rufus Haywood
Cesarea
Turley
Mainy
Janes Howard
Will Morgan
Fifth’ Cavalry
Caldwell
Kun
Tha
Ultio Carnegia
Pittsburgh
Yielnity
James William Hyatt
Norwalk
Capa
Thomas Uryant
Winksville
Uryant
al Crisp
Joel TL Woolley
Long Aranch
Asbury Park
Margeret Hooper
Brooklyn
Robert Hooper
Montana
Facial features and folly in 19th century physiognomy
The Louis Globe-Democrat describes how facial traits reveal intelligence and character. It cites heavy brows for perception, rounded foreheads for imagination, and a turned-up smile as frivolity, while cautioning against attributing wit to small heads and noting wrinkles as signs of ability or folly.
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Louis Globe-Democrat
1908 World Facts Assembled From Sparse Notes
A collage of bold claims: St Louis streetcar mailcar, California larger than New England, 27000 liquor outlets in Paris with one saloon per eight locals, Languedoc canal cutting voyage by 2000 miles, a London confectioner’s giant cakes and puddings, Chinese longevity linked to habits, Germany bans poisons in round bottles for internal use and da agonal bottles for external use.
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St. Louis
California
New England
New York
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
Paris
Languédoc Ship Canal
France
Straits of Gibraltar
London
Anya
Germany
Fashion's Fancies and Fashionable Finery Trends
A fashion note details new gimps and galloons for trim on coats and costumes. Describes boat shaped hats with colored crowns and ostrich tips, empire waistlines with side belts, hidden gown openings, velvet ribbons, and wide skirt borders reaching knees, plus bias velvet trims on various gowns.
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Directoire
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