Dramatic critics and Boucicault on stage news
The Pall Mall Gazette interview with Dion Boucicault critiques contemporary dramatic criticism and favors weekly feuilletons with analysis. It also reviews American theater, praising Barker Thorn dyke Ada Behan and Mrs Gilbert, noting American comedians avoid vulgarity and play to audiences with refined technique.
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Pall Mail Gazette
Dion Boucicault
Qnan
Ma. Boucicault
Hazlitt and
Oxenford
Franklin d
Dixey
Emmet
Lewis
Jeferson
Ai. Roucieault
Del
Mendelssohn Family and a Smoking Actress Anecdote
The narrative recalls the Mendelssohns in a Be nin suburb home with a garden and oversized wedding gifts including twenty life sized china apes. It also recounts Sarah the actress in a Brussels to Paris train incident where she defiantly smoked a cigarette, sparking a confrontation with a coughing old man and prompting a station inquiry.
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Benin
Mendelssohn
Cinderella
Fromet
China
Dernhardt
Sarah
Brussels
Paris
Madara
Monsiecur
Ewehange
Stetson and theater talk fill society pages
The article lampoons manager John Stetson and his critics while noting reconciliations and anecdotes about Shakespeare, Racine, and stage figures. It reports on Mary Anderson’s London life, Rhea’s planned American tour of drama, and a New York amateur theater project with $200,000 capital, led by Joseph Hart and awaiting Mrs. James Brown Potter.
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John Stetson
Bartley Campbell
Racine
Stetson
Robert Mantell
New York City
Mary Anderson
Tunoridge Wells
London
Rome
America
Mile
Rhea
Sardou
Octave Peuillet
Legouve
Meilhae
Harvey
English Lake Country
Joseph Hart
James Brown Potter
India
Comedy Club
Mendelssohn’s Quiet Years After Wife’s Death
Mendelssohn endured nearly five years of contentment with his wife before her untimely death. He raised two sons and two daughters, fulfilling both paternal and maternal duties for the rest of his life.
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Mendelssohn
Maciillan’s
Missionary of Horses and a Starry Find by the Sea
In a Little Folks piece the two boys by the sea dig in the sand and uncover a star fish beside a shell. They believe the star is the deer star they watched nightly, fallen from the sky, a moment of awe and imagination. The tale captures a noble life lesson about curiosity and wonder.
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Malcolm Douglas
St. Nicholas
The Silent Footman Hurls Evening Howls
In Mrs George Ticknors hall a liveried footman keeps a rigid calm until a quiet afternoon reveals his secret. An amanuensis upstairs hears a cascade of howls from below. A maid explains the man’s outburst is relief when the house is empty and the staff loafs in quiet.
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George Ticknor
From Iron to Manhood A Lesson in Study and Play
A speaker explains that a rough iron bar gains value through processes like horseshoes needles and watch springs, illustrating that hard study and training elevate a boy into useful, educated man. He urges balance of study and recreation, warning against neglecting either.
Missionary to Horses and the Young Edward Flower
A portrait of Edward F. Flower born in 1805 England whose boyhood amid a western stock farm shaped a lifetime of kindness to animals. The article notes his early horse fascination, a rough lesson with a pony, and a path from hunter to Birmingham businessman guiding humane work with horses.
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Edward F. Flower
England
Moses
Edward
Mr. Flower the Elder
Mr. Flower
Birmingham
Mr Flower championed animal welfare across nations
Harper's Young People notes the life of Mr Flower who left business to roam Western plains and then English cities. He exposed cruelty to horses and the bearing rein, wrote up warnings in Horses and Harness, and with Sir Arthur Helps published Animals and their Masters. He also campaigned against cobblestones in London streets.
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Plains
Flower
Flowers
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Mr. Flower
France
Italy
Egypt
Sir Arthur Helps
London
West
Harper's Young People
The Kitchen Ethics and Meat Reduction in American Women
The Boston Record comments on how moral and religious aspects tie to kitchen life. It argues that many better class women ignore cause and effect in diet, overeat meat, and suffer nervousness and poor temper. It advocates substituting nourishing grains for meat and balancing cravings with sensible limits.
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Beecher
Boston Record
Religion and business. Sunday limits on work at store
A grocer and his assistant discuss the parson’s prohibition on unnecessary Sunday work. The grocer suggests delaying wetting the sugar until tomorrow, arguing it weighs more when wet and that the Sabbath should not be broken unnecessarily.
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John
Puck
Old-Fashioned Wooing in Eliza beth Woodville's Journal
A reconstructed diary passage details a day in the 15th century courtship of Elizabeth Woodville and John Grey. It recounts milking, poultry chores, a pony ride, a shared meal, a four pound subscription gift after a farm fire, prayers, and late reflections ending with dreams of her future as queen.
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Elizabeth Woodville
Lord Grey
Edward TY
Catherine
Rachael
Robin
John Grey
Reena Oonnae Inuit
John
Fuseli
England
Southwark
False claims and salvage disputes from Civil War award
Report notes the United States Court of Claims rejected salvage claims of insurance companies after the 15 500 000 indemnity for indirect damages, leaving a balance in treasury. It recounts ensuing debate about the legitimacy of salvage payments and references a Denver or Cincinnati Enquirer quotation by Clara Belle. It also mentions a claim of 50 000 Mormon children in Utah.
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United States
J. Bancroft Davis
Court of Claims
United States Treasury
Initer Grean
Utah
The Colosseum and Its Storied History
A survey of Rome’s Colosseum from its purpose and dimensions to its use as a fortress and church site. Details include its elliptical shape, seating, arched exterior, and major events from gladiators to martyrdom, with notes on later destruction and repurposing.
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Colosseum
Coliseum
Rome
Vespasian
Titus
Robert Guiscard
Naples
Clement XI
Inter Ocean
Tunisian Snake Charmers Draw Crowd with Venomous Show
In the Tunisian suburb a crowd gathered as Bedouins hosted a perilous snake performance. Venomous serpents and a dramatic insistence on dangers drew Arabs close, while a Bedouin used a threatening tactic to push spectators back. A hooded Arab was bitten as serpents slithered away, heightening the panic and spectacle of the street demonstration.
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Ipc
Titnis
Sayupo
Sleepwalking Tales From Antiquarian Notes
Dr Haycock nightly delivers sermons in sleep while others try to wake him. An Irishman swims two miles and sleeps by the roadside unaware of his feat. A man saddles a horse at night and returns soberly to his door after a ride. Moritz cites a illiterate basket maker preaching sermons in sleep. A girl mimics violin playing in sleep after hearing a fiddler nearby. Somnambulists also err badly in dangerous acts. London Post.
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Haycock
Oxford
Maenish
Edinburgh
Pritchard
Moritz
Abercrombie
Petrus
Lonon Ost
Smiling Preparations Across Nations in Quiet Rivalry
The excerpt compares two fictional feuding figures in a Dumas graphic work to real world states Trance and Prussia. It notes frontiers, breechloaders, and spies as measures while governments smile and pretend amity. The piece links literary trope to contemporary geopolitical posturing.
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Dumas
Trance
Prussia
Novel Invention Aims For Offshore Lighted Refuge
A mid ocean hollow steel float anchored to bear a sixty foot light proposes a refuge for distressed ships and a weather station via telegraph relay instruments. The idea seeks funding to cover ongoing expenses and secure stable, harmless deflection of waves amid policy of official caution. A stray note mentions a man and a race track phrase.
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