Anecdotes of Fontenelle and other figures with a note on California politics
The passage recalls Fontenelle’s scathing reply to a pamphlet and includes tales of Leo XIII and Lincoln. It then shifts to a rumor about the “Chinese Vote” in California with Chinatown’s 2000 plus natives and projected 2500 Chinese children by 1920, and ends with a rustic critique of alligators and courage through a Louisiana anecdote.
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Leo the Thirteenth
Brussels
William J. Stillman
Greece
London Times
Stillman
Fiunter
Charles the First
Parliament
Lincoln
Seward
Charles
Light Brigade
James Russell Lowell
England
Athenaeum Club
London
Justin Martyr
Athenaeum
California
San Francisco
Chinatown
Sacramento
Stockton
Los Angeles
San Jose
Louisiana
A Wonderful Change What the South Is Now and Was Twenty Years Ago
The article contrasts the South’s progress since 1877, noting Birmingham, Chattanooga, Atlanta, Florida, Texas, and neighboring states. It highlights faded industries and new growth in rail, cotton manufacturing, fruit and vegetable trade, and farming shifts from buyers to producers, with Georgia's cotton output doubling.
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Birmingham
Chattanooga
Atlanta
Florida
Texas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Arkansas
Tennessee
Alabama
Virginia
New York
Boston
South
Southeastern
Cross Roads
In a Balloon Amid Bright Sunshine and Cloudscape
A narrator describes rising in a balloon with dim sunlight turning to bright sun and prisms around the shadow on clouds. The craft teeters as a supposed burst is seen, then reassurance they are merely descending through a cloud with ballast asked to be released to regain altitude and earth view.
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Malea
Frank James
Quantrell
Kentucky
Bunen
Rocky Branch Road
St. Louis Republic
Sale of Trandseers Leads London Auction Tally
Sir Edwin Landseer works titled A Piper and a Pair of Nutcrackers sold in London for 8135 dollars and Eager Terrier realized 2835 dollars. Gillingham view by W Muller fetched 5880 dollars, Millais My Second Sermon 1705 dollars, Frith The Pet Fawn 1680 dollars. Linnell Emigrants 4410 dollars, Peter Graham Cradle of the Sea Bird 4355 dollars, Clarkson Stanfield Worms Head 1725 dollars, Cittora on the Gulf of Salerno 2310 dollars.
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Sir Edwin Landseer
London
Gillingham
W. Muller
Millais
Frith
Linnell
Peter Graham
Repair Dept Mixup Cited By Washington Star
A jeweler tells a customer not to repeat a cost error after the repair chief explains that a prior charge caused a man to buy a newly marked down watch instead of repairing the old one. The remark underscores a mistaken overcharge alleged in the Star report.
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Washington Star
Courtship Rumors Stir After Loss
In a Minneapolis Times dialogue, Mrs Gray condemns Black for courting again before his late wife is buried. Mr Gray defends Black, noting the wife was cremated, suggesting differing views on propriety after loss.
Julius Caesar and the classics in Tid Bits
The Tid-Bits note recalls Caesar as a writer of classics and cites a playful line about women counting their fingers when learning a widower will remarry. The item blends literary mention with a light quip.
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Caesar
Julius Caesar
Vast array of global notes in an old New England compilation
A sweep of curiosities and reports from 19th century notes: pennies deposited in a New Hampshire bank, number of churches in New York, Springfield car ventures, Dutch and Danish flags, court rulings on women’s offices, Pearl diamonds in Babylon, and innovations from Paris to Nova Scotia.
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Greater
New York
Springfield
Mass
United States
London
Bombay
Comora
Denmark
St. Paul
BE. C. Chamberlain
Western Mining Company
Elks
Portland
Arkansas Senate
Paris
Nova Scotia
Babylon
Indian Guide
Wryo
Devil
England
Cape Ushant
France
Cape Finisterre
Spain
Supreme Court of Missouri
Painesville
Ohio
Harry Waters
Evergreen Cemetery
Mobile
Ala
Illinois
Maine
California
F. W. Hunt
Island Falls
Stonewall Furnace
Cherokee County
Alabama
Jerome Summers
Weaverville
N. Y
Dickens
Scott
Goldsmith
Lytton
Montreal
Sydney Harbor
Norway
Sand Filtering Wells and Global Tobacco Cruelty
A Denver News summary explains a simple sand filtration setup in wells to reduce bacterial contamination and warns about limits of filtration. It also recounts historical torture of smokers in Persia and Russia under rulers Abbas I Amurath IV and Czar Michael Fedorowitz for tobacco use.
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Koch
Denver News
Persia
Abbas I
Nicotiana
Amurath IV
Michael Fedorowitz
Editor mocks contributor idea from head
The Louisville Journal reports an editor quips to a contributor about ideas born in the mind. The editor warns if more ideas arise like that they should be amputated.
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Louisville Carter-Journal
Flo and Tom in a Quiet Comic Moment
Flo confesses her struggle to stay virtuous while admitting envy of her neighbor's wheel. Tom questions if it is blasphemy, but Flo clarifies the challenge is coveting rather than sin.
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Flo
Tom
Letters from the Civil War and Guerrilla Tales
A reader recalls Civil War mail delivery, soldier letters, and the care of wounded letters. Frank James recounts a Quantrell raid near Western Kentucky and a misread enemy charge. General Meade's stern discipline and a surgeon's insult prompt a sharp exchange over taunting epithets.
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Fontenelle
Laconia, N. H
Mal
Mexico
Diaz
Delaware
Dover
Glacier Creek
Alaska
Hitchin
Post Office Department
Liverpool
Manchester
John Morgan
Meade
Hia
Horace Porter
Grant
Army of the Potomac
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