Kipling Portrait and Sparrows Wing Pall
A fragmentary piece recalls McPhee a shipboard figure famed for engineering lore and a wary view of life at sea. It contrasts his blunt humor with a note on a New Orleans sparrow game observed by a Philadelphia Times correspondent, showing curious bird antics on a rooftop diamond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kipling
McPhee
Liverpool
Sen
Gr . Massey
Wilkie Collins
Charica Restie
Rudyerd Kipling
McClure’s
Philadelphia Times
New Orleans
Raye
Mindature
The Prussian Crown And Classical Miter Description
The article describes the Prussian crown with a Byzantine inspired dome and a central cross of five diamonds supported by a large spinel ruby, 11-diamond foliated arch, pearl hoops, tealwork and silver ornaments set on purple velvet, gold base with two large diamonds. It also includes several humorous clippings about domestic matters and fashion tips on patent leathers.
Ingersoll's First Recitation Reber G Ingersoll
A collection of anecdotes and excerpts about oratorical skill in Ingersoll and early 20th century figures. It includes a young speaker's failed declamation about a telegraph wire bird, a fox hunter tale, seafaring remarks, a bushwhacker map skill anecdote, moonlight versus sunlight notes, and a printer’s note on Leighton's brief peerage.
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Telegraph Wire
Fiell
Chicago Times-Herald
Queen Victoria Sabbath at Windsor and Balmoral Sermons
The Quiver notes Queen Victoria’s Sunday routine with a plain gospel discourse read from scripture, no personal references, at St George’s chapel or private Windsor chapel. It mentions 20 minute sermons, excluded topics, and Balmoral organ music by Beatrice or a waiting lady with servants leading singing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Windsor
St. George's Chapel
Order of the Rr of India
Balmoral
Beatrice
Wandering Stranger Seeks Seventh Street on Cable Car
A New York City passenger asks a conductor if the car nears Seventh Street. The trip proceeds past Twenty-third Forty-second and Fifty-third streets before the stranger learns they have passed Seventh Street long ago and asks to switch cars. In Detroit a woman panics over an unloaded gun in a stranger’s possession, fearing catastrophe and demanding the gun be pointed elsewhere before exiting.
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Columbus Avenue
Seventh Street
Twenty-third Street
Forty-second Street
Fifty-third Street
Tenth Street
Eighty-seventh
New York Mail and Express
Widow wit and ocean wave power idea
A New York Herald excerpt notes a Paris social vignette about a widow known as a wit and her praise for a very young widow. It also reports J M Dwyer of San Francisco inventing a wave power method using a buoy and mast to drive a land based motor and flywheel for continuous motion.
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London
Paris
America
Europe
New York Herald
J. M. Dwyer
San Francisco
First notices and curiosities from old texts
The article notes the horse ranking below the ass and elephant in intelligence and links horse fear to anger in quan. It cites an 148% English law mention of pins and Wright’s 1824 patent pin machine. It ends with a remark on Greenland potatoes about marble size.
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Romanes
Quan
Wright
Greenland
Washingtons tiny survey cabin at Mount Vernon tribute
The New Haven Journal notes a small 12 by 12 foot cabin in Clarke county near Berryville tied to young George Washington. Once used to store surveying instruments during upper Virginia expeditions, the lone upper chamber, two rooms, and a stream below mark a relic rapidly decaying beneath time.
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Washington
Mount Vernon
Upper
Virginia
Clarke County
Frederick
George Clarke
Berryville
Daniel Morgan
New Haven Journal
Spoiled the Party at the Joneses’ Talk Event
A fragment recalls a dull Joneses party where no pianist performed and guests sat awkwardly. The scene contrasts with a vivid portrait of an actor in Shakespearean dress from St. Nicholas describing a lurid, flamboyant figure with plum cloak and poniard.
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Nick
John Bennett
St. Nicholas
Akeley Fights Leopard in Africa and Strangles It
Field Columbian museum taxidermist Carl Akeley and a native hunter faced a crouching leopard during a safari. Akeley shot the animal in two hind legs. in the ensuing struggle he seized the leopard by the throat and choked it to death, suffering only a torn arm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Akeley
Field Columbian Museum
Africa
Akeley
New York Sun
Not Guilty Highlander Refuses Caution Advice
A highlander in a capital case is found not guilty. The judge warns him he may be hanged on a future return. The man replies with a quip about the cautioner paying the debt, per Scottish Nights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald
How Papa Said Grace and Other News
A humorous anecdote describes a Methodist minister and a hostess during tea. The hostess’s four year old child offers a clever retort about a different kind of grace. The item blends light domestic humor with a biblical reference to a crown in Exodus.
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Grace
Methodist
The
Buffalo Courier
Receipt That Becomes Pat Flynn’s Irish Wit
A village shop clerk tricks Pat Flynn by crossing his account off the books as a receipt. Pat insists the payment isn’t settled until he keeps his money, and the merchant finally concedes, giving him a literal receipt in the end.
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Pat Flynn
Pat
Paith
Honest Judge Arthur Shields Saved Case on Stand
C R Markham of Cheyenne recalls Judge Arthur Shields famed for fairness in Kansas. In a pivotal trial the judge shocked both sides by asking to be sworn and testifying, saving Markham’s client as the court ruled in his favor. The decision stood after appeal, a unique record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Shields
C. R. Markham
Cheyenne
Kansas
Washington Star
Cremation Pioneers and Proponents Across Nations
The article notes women leaders in cremation advocacy abroad and in the United States, listing figures like Lady Dilke, Lady Rose Mary Crawshay, Olive Thorne Miller, Kate Field, Edith Thomas, and Ballington Booth. It cites 4 647 total U S cremations from 1876 to 1895, with men outnumbering women in New York. A later literary excerpt contrasts ardent romance with a poodle’s cheerful reply.
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Dilke
England
Dresden
Europe
United States
Rose Mary Crawshay
Olive Thorne Miller
Lippincott
J. C. Croly
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Alice D. le Plongeon
Kate Field
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland
Edith Thomas
Ballington Booth
New York
New York Tribune
Time and choice govern duties beyond wealth and society
The piece argues that chasing wealth or social pleasure excuses neither parent nor spouse from duties. It claims time is a chosen priority, not an unchangeable constraint, and that every person has liberty to allocate time as they see fit despite others’ expectations. It notes potatoes weigh 56 pounds in Pennsylvania and 60 in most other states.
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New York Ledger
Waiter from Bowery Delivers Comedic Service in New Orleans
A Bowery waiter drifting into town lands a job at a Royal Street restaurant. He parries a refined diner with slang and boastful threats until the guest faints, and is later rescued by a head waiter. The scene, described by the New Orleans Times-Democrat, ends with the Ganymede from New York on dishwashing duty.
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Bowery
Royal Street
Leanenis
York
Orleans Times-Democrat
Young Man on the Fence and Long Range Bullet Danger
The Rev. Charles H. Pathurst discusses youth development and life attitude in The Ladies' Horn Journal, urging seriousness and practical earnestness over cynicism. An Indian magistrate recalls a European hunter's long range rifle incident in Hasan Madras, where a Martini-Henri shot wounded a man from 1,150 yards away after deflecting off stones and hills, causing a broken wrist and injuries.
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Charles H. Pathurst
Ladies’ Horn Journal
Hasan
Madras
Archbishop Benson Confounds Tom Mann With Book Reveal
A writer in Goodwill recalls Tom Mann accusing clergy of lacking sympathy for the poor. Archbishop Benson invites Mann to Lambeth and questions him, then reveals he authored Christ and His Times. Mann had used the book at socialist meetings and acknowledges it.
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Cairo
Horace Porter
Benson
Tom Mann
Lambeth
Christ
Birds Calls Across Sexes in Songbirds and Corvids
The article notes many birds share calls between males and females such as ravens rooks New Zealand parson birds and gulls. A trained ear may detect pitch differences though ordinary observers may not. True songsters show little sexual difference in vocal organs though males typically sing more often and more richly than females.
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New Zealand
Crispi’s Daughter Lingua-Glossa Elopes With Servant
From Mian December 19 the Secolo reports Princess Lingua-Glossa, daughter of Signor Crispi, has eloped with one of her servants. The tale contrasts a failed political speaker and a royal elopement amid crowd scenes.
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Crispi
Mian
The
Secolo
Signor Crispi
Lingua-Glossa
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Richmond Dispatch
Clara
Maude
Philadelphia Press
Ingersoll
Reber
G. Ingersoll
Aljihis
Fria
Robert Seatifus
Noe
Iguaer Ant
Colonel Barr
Texas
Thiagpur
Marryat
Sam
New York Journal
Flamimarion
M. Flammarion
Prederic Leighton
Detroit Free Press
Jones
Delagoa Pay
Pennsylvania
Newleigh
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