German Cooking Explored with Sharp Satire in Lippincott Review
A satirical critique of German cuisine surveys daily meals from breakfast to supper, noting heavy sauces and stodgy dishes, with jests about sausages and carp on New Year’s Eve. It mocks variety, praises some home fare, and cites a bizarre rhubarb of a dish described as powdered horse radish with frozen whipped cream.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brillat- Bavaria
Freiligrath
Legion
Germany
Berlin
Silesian Kingdom of Heaven
Jericho
Lippincott’s
Protection device for carrier pigeons in China
Pigeons in China are protected from birds of prey by a simple apparatus. Thin bamboo tubes attached to the birds with thread under the wings create a shrill whistling sound as they fly. The noise deters raptors and keeps them at a distance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Two Humorous Brothers in Wayne County Tale
Two brothers Joel and Jonathan were famed for their ugliness as they traveled by wagon toward Cincinnati. A stranger bet $10 Joel is the ugliest man in Indiana. Joel reveals his name and Wayne County residence. Jonathan rises from the wagon, the stranger pays the bet, and the tale ends with the stranger settling the wager.
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Joel
Jonathan
Wayne County
Ind
Cincinnati
New York Mail and Express
Leave Granted by President In White House Tale
The Eighth Ohio orderly asks for time off to dine at the White House after bringing a letter from the president. The scene highlights the president’s genuine democracy, admired as unequaled by any other country.
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Robert Nourse
Congregationalist
Eighth Ohio
White House
United States
Life span of a panama hat compared to owner longevity
A Washington Star excerpt extols panama hats noting their durability and long life. Hats can last 10 to 40 years with care, examples include a Washington resident with 40 years of wear and a physician whose father wore one. Lining wears, but the body remains sturdy. original costs were under 14 dollars.
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Washington
Panama
Washington Star
Stronger Than Oak Foot Bridges In Morocco Failures Spur Change
Engineers voice concern over heavy traffic footbridges in Morocco. Oak strings fail. return to aloe fiber cables proposed. Plaited two inch thick nearly two inch wide tar saturated fibers nailed to oak planking with iron straps. Cables offer elasticity and greater durability for footpaths.
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Morocco
Held Up and Palmistry Biases in Train Robbery
An anecdote from the Boston Transcript recounts Miss Greener and Miss Whiting on a train held up by robbers. Miss Whiting recalls misinterpreting the hold up as a palmistry lecture, smiling at the end despite the danger. A New York Tribune quip notes Newfoundland’s jakes and pools of varying sizes.
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New York Tribune
Sign Language of Mexico and City Life Comparisons
The article surveys Mexico’s sign language and gestures with fixed meanings from I dont know to wait and eat. It contrasts Barcelona and Madrid post offices, noting bottlenecks and rude officials, then offers a Pall Mall Magazine quip and a Yonkers Statesman joke about a songwriter. It closes with a note on seventeenth century chicken skin gloves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Guatemala
Texas
Barcelona
Madrid
Marseilles
Spain
St. Martin’s-le- Grand
Pall Mall Magazine
Blood Poison Cure Claims Miracle After Desperate Struggle
A testimonial recalls severe blood poison sufferings from infancy, years of sores, and failed treatments. The writer credits Swift's 8.8.8 as the sole remedy reaching and curing deeply seated conditions, claiming complete, permanent recovery after trying various physicians and tonics.
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Woedar
Swift
T. W. Nee
Montgomery
Forest fossils and ancient geologies reveal buried woodlands
Ancient forests lie under coal fields in deep strata and a Greenland palm forest proves arctic warmth long ago. Off Lincoln and Norfolk a submerged, former dry land forest rests beneath tides while Arizona shows a desert forest turned to rock and gemstones after upheaval. A sailor’s camp near the site meets a brutal fate as an ax splits a pine into onyx and jasper. Balloons are made from gold beaters skin layered into a strong fabric with glycerin, water, and linseed oil varnish to render the material inextensible.
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Fairyland
Greenland
Arctic
Indies
Lincoln
Norfolk
Arizona
Chicago Tribune
Templer
Notes and Queries on Fire Matters and Cyclone Power
The excerpt cites Pall Mall Magazine on using potent chemical means to render fabrics homogenous and notes frugal bequests for fagots to burn heretics. it recalls a widow’s bequest redirected to coal for warmth of the poor. It then discusses cyclone force, estimating 473,000,000 horsepower in a West Indian cyclone, far beyond human capability.
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Newfoundland
Bill
Jill
Yonkers Statesman
S.S.S Blood
Swift Specific Company
Atlanta
Georgia
Ferrys
Alweyack
Annaual
Ferry & O
Detroit
Mich
ER. B. van Alstine
Empire
Superior
van Brunt & Wilkin
E. B.van Alstine
Mitchell
Capital
West
Special Farmers Institute
F. D. Coburn
Kansas State Board of Agriculture
Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Journal
the Humane Alliance
National Humane Alliance
Mitchell Capital
The
Mitchell Printing Co
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