Grandmother Radiates Love as Baby Sleeps
A grandmother paces softly in a dim old room while a baby rests in her arms. She sings a cradle song, memories rise of youth and strength, and the child’s future life brings hope and light to her twilight years. The scene centers on tenderness, family bonds, and enduring blessing.
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Paris
Count Trepance
Marquis de Pierrefonds
Merope Sarucci
Pierrefonds
d’Espinasse
Magenta
Count de Seignelay
Hague
Brussels
Diane de Chanceray
Theater de la Monnaie
Prince de Klostercamp
Diane
Seignelay
Prince Kostercamp
Ferradynes
Witer
Shaken Hands on an Escape on The Heights
In a perilous night scene on The Heights Hugh helps Amy Herbert after a fall. They discuss fear and shyness, light a pipe, and strike a bargain to be natural with each other, ending with Amy noting her gratitude and a playful exchange.
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Hugh
Amy
Amy Herbert
Miss Herbert
Barmouth
Carnarvon
Ida
Mr. Herbert
Hugh Carson
Manchester
Herbert
Amy Herbert and Hugh Carson Face a Father’s Objections
Amy defies her father’s plan for a cautious marriage and pursues an engagement with artist Hugh Carson after a two month separation in a Welsh village. The father rails against the match, while Amy calmly negotiates a path to happiness and writes Hugh to join her.
Bathing at the Dead Sea Experiments with Easy Float
The narrator describes reaching the Dead Sea and enjoying a remarkable bath. The water’s high salinity, twenty six and a half percent, makes swimmers float like corks. The writer, a capable swimmer, demonstrates walking and floating, then helps Dr C who cannot swim to share in the new experience.
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Dead Sea
Dr. C
Shaker Diet Features Meatless Tables at Mount Lebanon
The Shakers at Mount Lebanon maintain meatless diets with separate tables for meat and meatless fare. They favor fruit and extensive gardens, and Elder Evans now seventy, has not eaten flesh for forty years and remains vigorous, noting past illness before adopting vegetables.
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Mount Lebanon
Father Evans
Elder Evans
Father
Lebanon
Early lambing warns of labor strain and discouragement
The notice explains that managing a flock demands much labor and patience and warns that premature lambing among ewes will lead to disappointment if housing and care are not adequate. It emphasizes the value of proper quarters and attentive husbandry.
The Greek Beauty Sophie Potoki and Polish Nobility
Sophie Potoki, born in Pera to Greek extraction, becomes a magnet for nobles starting with Boskamp the Polish ambassador. Her life intertwines with Count Potocki, secret marriages, and dramatic tragedy culminating in Sofijowka and her death in Berlin.
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Sophie Potockie
Pera
Ghika
Maurogordatos
Sophie
Boskamp
Stanislaus Augustus
Stanislaus
Poland
Chozim
Warsaw
de Witt
Kamienec
Paris
Louis XVIII
Constantinople
Venus
Count Potocki
Felix Potocki
Potokis
Castellania Mnizech
Josephine
Felix
Count Potoki
Krystymopol
Glass and Crowbar Tragedy in the Snow
In a blizzard Isaac Silberstein carries window glass from Bayard Street when Patrick McGuire of the Elevated Railroad exits Henry Knubel’s saloon with a crowbar. They tumble onto a coal grating, glass shatters, and a hat is struck. In court Isaac seeks damages while Patrick denies responsibility. The judge notes contributive negligence and rules, Isaac moves on with the wrecked glass as Patrick leaves hat damaged.
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Isaac Silberstein
Bayard Street
Patrick McGuire
Henry Knubel
Isaac
Patrick
Pat
County
Westmeath
Ireland
Indian population and education rise in decade
The census shows 250864 Indians in the United States excluding Alaska with 127458 in citizen dress. House occupancy grows from 8646 in 1868 to 23060, 866 schools with 12222 pupils, and education spending at 353125. Reading ability reaches 41309, church membership 30000, and sheep numbers surge from 7988 to 594574. Data mainly from Indian Territory.
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United States
Alaska
Tattooed sailor Alonzo Hewitt tells of Patagonian branding
Alonzo Hewitt, crew member of the ship Angelica, recounts capture by Patagonians during a gale. He describes days of tattooing with fishbone ink, displaying over 183 images of beasts birds and reptiles across his blue and yellow tattoos and the pain and awe of being exhibited as a living canvas.
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Alonzo Hewitt
Angelica
Mr. Hewitt
Minehoo
Freedom
A Baboon Dinner Episode in Early Life of South American Baboon
Bishop Colenso relates a quaint incident from a South American baboon's early life. On a hot day baboons sun and lounge while two youths seek scorpions. A young baboon eats a fat scorpion but is stopped by an elder who shakes him and consumes the prize.
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Josephine
Count Potocki
Jassy
Sophie
Potemkin
Potocki
de Witt
Sophia
Poland
Sierakowski
Hamburg
Soefijowka
Trembecki
Sofijowka
Berlin
Colenso
Thei Donga
I Donga
Sleepy Hollow
Growth of Plant Species Counts Through History
The record traces plant species tallies from ancient mentions by Theophrastus and Pliny to modern estimates. It notes Gesner’s 800 and Bauhin’s 6000, Tournefort’s 10156, Linnaeus’ 7294, Persoon’s 25000, De Candolle’s 30000, London 1889 81731, Lindley 50887, and the present estimate near 125000 species.
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Hippocrates
Theophrastus
Pliny
Gesner
Bauhin
Tournefort
Linnius
Persoon
de Candolle
London
Lindley
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Hastings
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J. A. Beaver
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Pealer
Main Street
Bank
Milheim
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Notary Public
Scribner and Conveyancer
Millheim
Tomlinsey
Millheim, PA
Ie I. Brown
Penna
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Enna
Wolf
Journal Book
Ye Banking CO
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Daddy
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Mary
James
Shaker Dietetics
Sophie Potoki
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