Study in Brains Claims Women May Surpass Men
A discussion on brain size and intelligence reviews ancient gender bias and modern measurements. It cites studies by Bord Vierordt and others showing average male brains weigh more, but argues intelligence cannot be judged by size alone. Proportional comparisons to body weight suggest women may have a relative brain advantage.
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Sual
Alexander Sutherland
New York Journal
Dr. Bord
S J. Marylebone Hospital
Vierordt
Boyd
Wan
Tere
Bischoff
Bonn
Wen
Vierodt
Parchappe
Copling Drawings Hidden in Reflected Glass Trick
An obliquely viewed reflection through a vertical glass pane creates a mirrored image on a sheet of paper behind the glass. The technique implies the drawing can be copied by observing this reflected image, leveraging the reflected copy as if on the opposite side.
Use of mirrors in copying art explained by Prudlomme
A mirrored setup reverses the image left to right. A vertical picture is reflected in a mirror angled 45 degrees, then illuminated by the second image onto the paper. Plate glass prevents distortion, though common glass can be used with later corrections to align features like a church tower with the original.
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M. Prudlomme
la Nature
Digestion by Carnivorous Plant Debated
M Kapell Dubois argues nepenthes pitcher plants are not carnivorous. He asserts that sterilized pitcher liquid shows no digestion, and that any apparent digestion results from microbes in open pitchers.
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M. Kapell Dubois
Boys for House Servants Trial in Milwaukee
Milwaukee housekeepers face a servant girl shortage. Charitable agencies trial boys aged 14 to 18 as household help with reports of success. Boys learn duties, accept lower pay, and rarely demand privileges, contrasting with scarce servant girls who seek higher wages and piano access. A prospective employer rejected a boy over a piano request, provoking indignation.
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Milwauckee
Hope
Milwaukee
Cheago Chronicle
Prairie chickens in plenty promise strong season across northwest
Minnesota and neighboring states prepare for a thriving hunting year as prair ie chickens and quail flourish due to dry weather. Reports from St Paul note thousands of birds near wheatfields and timbers, with early season dates set for Sept 1 in Minnesota and Wisconsin and Aug 15 in South Dakota. Duck, plover, and snipe shooting also expected to be excellent as birds gather near rice beds and swamps.
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Northwest
Minnesota
Dakotas
St. Paul
New York Sun
Prairies
South Dakota
North Dakota
Wisconsin
Where Less Counts Hatless Girls and Horseless Carriages
The Erie Times notes a growing trend of frugality and austere attire as society tightens its purse strings. The piece surveys fashion shifts toward simplicity amid economic strain.
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The
Erie Times
The shirt waist man arrives in 1900s fashion satire
The verse by H Lambert Jr. from Philadelphia mocks heat culture and social etiquette as the shift waist man replaces dust and the fan. It contrasts a cool, coatless figure with a public swelter, noting fashion shifts and urban behavior.
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H. Lambert, Jr
Finances of China: Provinces Pay Tribute and Tax Mischief
A Washington Star view outlines China’s revenue sources from land and grain taxes to salt monopoly and foreign maritime duties. It reports rampant peculation, mispricing of rice taxes, and lavish tolls like likin. The piece argues central salaries are too low, breeding vast corruption and a weak imperial budget.
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Fro
Peking
China
Board of Revenue
Washington Star
The
Yang-tse
Kiangsu
Che- Kiang
Salt Department
Robert Hart
Maritime Customs
Canton
Boppo
Department of State
Sir Robert Hart
United Kingdom
Shah as shopper buys bicycle bodyguard and autos
The shah of Persia plans a Paris style bicycle secret police with 60 wheels and a 50 strong unit, hiring instructors and repairers after choosing wheels from an American company. He buys seven French naphtha cars, two American autos, 100 telephones, three American phonographs, ten sewing machines, one French cinematograph and 20 cameras. A ship will carry his Persian purchases from Marseilles. California Riverside orange shipments rise to 1.6 million boxes annually.
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Hia
Persia
Paris
New York
Shah
Marseilles
Amateur Gourds: From Plain to Decorated Pyrography Art
An 19th century guide explains turning gourds into vases and bowls. It details gourd structure, cutting without breaking the shell, drying, and shaping feet with hot lead for steadiness. Methods include pyrography with color ranges from brown to black, scraping to reveal layers, and dyeing with aniline colors for permanent decoration.
Gourd display items on metal stands and stands
A description from The Art Amateur lists several gourds as decorative items. It mentions a natural gourd with hollowed decoration, the top of a gourd mounted with silver as a scent bottle, a gourd on a metal stand, and a colorfully dyed gourd with metal feet.
Drop Biscuit Recipe From Table Talk
Drop by spoonfuls onto a buttered pan and bake in a quick oven. Mix sifted flour salt sugar and baking powder, rub in butter or lard, then add sweet milk to a thick drop batter. Shape as dough and bake promptly for light biscuits.
The Charm That Returned in Witchcraft Tale
A Detroit News retelling recalls Lord Holt the English judge who cured a girl with a charm and later faced a witch charged with sorcery. The judge recognized the same charm in the witch and dismissed her, though the court kept the charm.
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England
Holt
Detroit News
The Predicament of Two Women With Seven Calls to Make
A Cincinnati Enquirer snippet portrays a speaker planning seven calls in one afternoon. She weighs topics from Eth el's fox terrier to Dexter's tale about the Goddess of Liberty, jokes about Clara, weather talk, gossip Mandy promised not to repeat, and the risk of running out of material for her conversations.
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Ethel
Little Bob
Dexter
Liberty
Clara
Mandy
Mrs
Maude
Cincinnati Enquirer
Reading Dialect Versus Classics Provokes Gentle Resistance
In a conversation captured by the Washington Star, Mr. Cumrox dismisses dialect stories as tiresome and impractical, favoring solid study such as Virgil with his daughter. He laments the teaching of dialect in public schools, arguing it to be foolish and unhelpful for education.
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Mr. Cumrox
Washington Star
Champion Trouble Borrower
A man with glasses cites a friend who has chosen his pallbearers and asks them to demand probes before burial to prove death. His companion counters with a tale of a poet’s wife fearing wealth and social prominence. Chicago Times-Herald.
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Chicago Times-Herald
Raw recruits directed to the cook by the chief
A Pacific islander asks what to do with a batch of raw recruits. The chief, absentminded, dismissively repeats the phrase and tells them to turn the raw recruits over to the cook. The Washington Star memorializes this brief exchange as a curt, humorous vignette.
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Washington Star
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