Notable miscellany from daily notes and curiosities
A showcase of odds and ends from a 19th century daily page includes fashion, travel, science, law, and society vignettes. Items cover shoe strings, moose training, pool hall legality, park features, flying machines, duels, taxes, and humorous anecdotes from various towns.
Humorous Selections From Preachers to Editors
A collage of light verse and cartoons with jokes about preachers lawyers doctors editors and bores. Lively quips cover misreadings personal slips and witty exchanges across humor magazine style captions and panel captions.
Harlem landlord hints at higher rent over family news
A New York landlord raises rent after a casual chat about his wife’s mother returning home. The joke cuts to a tenant’s reaction and a sly attempt to test the prospective new rent. The piece contrasts casual pretexts with sharp wit in urban rental life.
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Ana Wenan
New York
Harlem
Venus Siflings
New York Weekly
Common Sense and Odd Newspaper Tidbits Collide
A collection of humorous snippets and quips from various papers. Jokes cover medical cures, family life, racial caricatures, jail life, and parental advice in a playful, era tone with sharp one liners and community vignettes.
Sunday School Lesson on Hosea City Preacher and Judgment
This lesson reviews Hosea 10 1 15 with focus on Israel as an empty vine full of leaves but no fruit. It contrasts city preaching with Amos country preaching and calls for righteous sowing yielding mercy, urging faith in God s way over self reliance and detailing Bethel s shift from worship to vanity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amos
Hosea
Deut
Beth-aven
Bethel
Elftt
Jareb
Israel
Ephraim
Judah
Jacob
God
Jesus
Philip Henry
Zion
Lord Thyng
Gail Hamilton
Satan
SIDEROSTAT: Foucault's star light observer near 1808
The Siderostat built by M. Leon Foucault before his death on February 11, 1808 used a clock driven mirror and fixed objective lens to study starlight as in a camera obscura. Cleopatra trinkets now appear as bracelets necklaces and brooches featuring lotus leaves sphinxes and serpents heads.
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M. Leon Foucault
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