Emma Abbotts Two Kisses and Stage Smiles in Theatre
Gossip notes Emma Abbott and her famed two kisses from Romeo and Juliet versus The Mikado. It compares Abbott kiss to others, cites stage smilers like Rosina Vokes and Sadie Martinet, and recounts anecdotes about performers and composers including Auber and an opera rehearsal mishap.
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Emma Abbott
Miss Abbott
Abbott
Ian
Cor Jolanus
Shelly
Locksley Hall
Fatima
Sidney Lanier
Mark von
Yun
Juliet
Lewisride
Rosina Vokes
Brandon
Sadie Martinet
Victoria Schelling
Billie Barlow
Mrs. Everard
Miss Robe
Wallack’s
New York Journal
Raymond and Buchanan tales from Wolfert's Roost to Arkansas
A Boston Transcript excerpt recounts John I. Raymond bragging about a diamond and a watch bet in Wolfert's Roost, plus a tale of McKean Buchanan touring Arkansas where a solo audience led to a dramatic pistol threat and the troupe's exit with winnings. Also a brief quip about opera versus pantomime.
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J. 5. Casement
Painesville
Ohio
John I. Raymond
Raymond
Wolfert
Nickpatrick
West
McKean Buchanan
Arkansas
Dan
Buchanan
Stage figures tied to San Francisco actress Adeline Stanhope
Stage Gossijn Ansste Pixary will tour the South. Channes T. Parsner may return to the stage. Barry Sullivan's son’s ex wife, Adeline Stanhope, is said to star in the United States. She is a mature blonde with a handsome face and a refined figure, noted for a romantic career.
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Ansste Pixary
Channes T. Parsner
Barry Sullivan
United States
San Francisco
Adeline Stanhope
The Land of Flowers in South Australia and a Mouse Trap Tale
A long Victorian excerpt extols South Australia as a flower and fruit rich land with Adelaide Botanic Gardens led by Dr Schomburgh noting vast cabbages and wheat. It contrasts spring beauty with a cautionary tale of a wise mouse deceived by cheese, ending with the trap snapping shut.
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South Australia
Adelaide Botanic Gardens
Schomburgh
Adelaide
Sam
Castile
Spain
Jonathan Swift
St. Patrick’s
Australia
Lovndon Telegraph
OUR VICE PRESIDENTS AND THE MAKING OF SCREWS
A review of vice presidents from John Adams to the present notes resignations deaths and acting officers, highlighting Calhoun Breckinridge Lincoln Hamlin and Colfax among others. The article then details screw manufacture from raw wire to finished fasteners, describing cutting rattling shaving and packing, and praising a machine that produces about thirty one screws per minute with daily output of ninety three gross.
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United States
John Adams
Washington
Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Aaron Burr
Jefferson
George Clinton
New York
Madison
William H. Crawford
Georgia
Senate
Elbridge Gerry
Massachusetts
John Gilliard
South Carolina
Daniel D. Tompkins
Monroe
John Quincy Adams
John C. Calhoun
Jackson
Hugh L. White
Tennessee
Martin van Buren
Richard M. Johnson
Kentucky
John Tyler
Harrison
Tyler
Samuel L. Southard
New Jersey
Willie P. Mangum
North Carolina
Polk
George M. Dallas
Pennsylvania
Millard Fillmore
Zachary Taylor
William King
Alabama
Franklin Pierce
King
David R. Atchinson
Missouri
Jesse D. Bright
Indiana
Bright
United States Senate
John C. Breckinridge
Buchanan
Lincoln
Hannibal Hamlin
Maine
Illinois
Andrew Johnson
Lennessee
Lafayette S. Foster
Connecticut
Benjamin F. Wade
Ohio
Schuyler Colfax
Gen. Grant
Henry Wilson
Thomas W. Ferry
Michigan
William A. Wheeler
Hayes
Chester A. Arthur
Garfield
Author
Bayard
David Davis
Edmunds
Cleveland
Hendricks
WntersPrean
Alkaloids in flour transform with long storage
Mons Ballaud reports flour stored in sacks develops alkaloids as acidity from old flour acts on gluten during natural fermentation. Traces appear in flour a year and a half old, more in flour ground two to three years prior. The remarks mix with a humorous dialogue and social witticisms.
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Mons. Ballaud
Birds and Boys and Reindeer Hunting in St Nicholas
A lively passage from St Nicholas recounts summer birds nesting in the arbor and a playful Eskimo reindeer hunting game. It describes boys on sleds racing to spear antlers set on a slope, marking prizes and strategy, with notes by Lieut. Frederick Sclwatka.
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Lieut
Frederick Sclwatka
St. Nicholas
The Pranks of a Woodchuck in a Family Tale
A reader recalls raising a tame woodchuck rescued for five cents. The pet grows from a helpless kit to a mischievous, affectionate playmate. It raids the cheese, naps in a lettuce bed, roughhouses with kittens, and even helps chase rats, then disappears one Sunday night, leaving a bittersweet memory.
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Chuck
Ollie
Detroit Free Press
Ouray Night Life and Local Oddities Highlight County
In Ouray the scene is lively with dramatic phrases about indulgent habits and social excess. The piece mocks local life with humorous lines about editors, masher work, and heavy ore shipments while noting Kentucky’s recurring honor as home to Speakers.
When the Old Elephant Came and the Little Boy’s Apple
A Woolsey era tale contrasts Colonel Milbank’s hard heart with his tender fatherly love for a son. The boy yearns to see the elephant arriving next week, while the household awaits drums, crowds, and a hopeful apple offering. Meanwhile other items recount quirky family anecdotes and urban jokes from Brooklyn and Philadelphia pages.
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Milbank
Millbank
Alanta
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Mozart
Anber
Auber
William ‘Tell
Ander
Tell
Tenjle Bar
John T. Raymond
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Gossijn
the Land OF Flowers
Scott
Puck
Birds and Boys
Herc
Josie
Maria
Dolly
Mary
Grandfather Griggs
May
Miss Adams
ILM
Ugolino
Count Ugolino
Dante
Trefer
Tower
Pisa
Philadelphia News
Ouray
Ouray Solid Mundoon
Eiver
Bessless
Windsor Terrace
Bessie
Brooklyn Times
Caies
Lucy
Bess
Philadelphia
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