Hoppity Skip and Little Folks Across the Street
A collage of light hearted vignettes and moral tales for children. Miss Hoppity Skip charms readers with blue eyes and sunny curls while playfully describing life on the street. Two Swedish mothers carry infants on their backs in leather bags as they immigrate to America seeking easier lives. Hal learns an honest lesson about family care and reward, and Willie explains a stormy sky with simple, practical logic.
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Mamma
Miss
Hoppity
Skipz
Immigrants’ Bureau
Ellis Island
Sweden
West
Honest Hero Harry Pays For Window
A boy named Harry Bentley accidentally breaks Mr Moss’s large front window while throwing a stone at his door. Instead of fleeing he confesses, accepts fault, and Mr Moss forgives him. The shopkeeper offers work and a chance to earn 25 cents per day for four afternoons to compensate the cost.
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Harry Bently
Mr. Moss
Papa
Harry
Bridget
Mr. Sloss
Vapa
What She Had to Do at Lake George
A married couple visited Lake George for a planned three week outing. The husband dictated that the wife stay after he returned on business. She could telegraph if it got too dull and he would say if she could come home. After three days of rain and loneliness she asked what to do and he sent back a cruel reply to steal an umbrella. Rumors speak of a possible separation.
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Lake George
Tie
Ottc
Postal notice from North America Post Office routes
By order of the Post master General of North America these are to pivot notice that on Monday night the sixth of this instant December the Western post between Boston and New York sets out for a Fortnight the three winter months of December January and February and to go alternately from Boston to Saybrook and Hartford to exchange the mails with the New York rider on Saturday night the 11th current and the second turn sets out at Boston on Monday night the 20th current to meet the New York rider at Hartford on Saturday night the 21st current to exchange Moyles and all persons that send letters from Boston to Connecticut from and after the 11th instant are hereby notified to first pay the post-rate on their mail.
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North America
Boston
New York
Saybrook
Hartford
Yok Ryder
Ryder
Moyles
Connecticut
Lhe Sane
Treasure Discovery Sparks City of Ice Dig For Vast Hoard
Reports describe finding ancient documents revealing a buried wealth in the City of Ice. The treasure, jewels and gold coins valued at $2,000,000, allegedly secreted by order of Emperor Maximilian, stirs a rush to unearth it among those allowed to know.
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Ice
Maximilian
Skull and body size proportions in historical note
A fragmentary physiological observation states that the skull size ratio of a male to a female is 100 to SS and body weight is 100 to S4. The text appears as an isolated snippet discussing comparative anatomy.
Burns cure with cold charcoal pressed on the burn
A report notes a folk remedy where a piece of cold charcoal is applied to a burn to instantly subdue pain, illustrating traditional first aid beliefs and improvised care methods from historical practice.
Wages of the Chinese and the pulse and temperature
The piece discusses Chinese wages around Shanghai, noting monthly pay from 60 cents to a dollar plus board for many workers and describing how cost of living, such as rice at about 10 cents a pound, shapes the working poor. It contrasts monthly and daily work, notes long hours for self employed trades, and mentions tobacco quality and the high purchasing power of money. It also explains a medical topic on body temperature and pulse, detailing normal ranges, fever, and the function of a clinical thermometer in the St Nicholas piece.
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China
Langhorne Leitch
Kansas City Star
Shanghai
Coase
Chinee
Seaboard China
St. Nicholas
Parrot Prince and Queen Die In Shared Sorrow Tragedy
An explorer recalls a west Makai pair of red-tailed gray parrots in Africa. The male died from an internal injury after a fall while the queen imitated his death and then perished from grief within twenty minutes. The observer questions the cause and meaning of this emotional shock.
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Peetor Junker
Africa
Dr. Junker
Parrot
California Tobacco Strength Sparks California Growers
California tobacco farming is established but the crop's strength is higher than desired. Growers note the crop’s robustness poses processing and quality challenges, emphasizing the need for balanced curing and marketing strategies to fit California conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
California
Florida
San Francisco Examiner
How Insects Make Music From Wing Rubs To Cries
The article explains insect sound production with male katydids rubbing wing plates, grasshoppers making flying sounds, and moths and butterflies emitting noises. It notes the death's head moth and mourning cloak butterfly as sound makers and mentions a loud East Indian cicada named dun bub, illustrating diverse acoustic insects.
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Tropics
Kondeh People of Nyassa Described by Merensky
In Berlin a Kondeh profile notes their geography between Livingstone Mountains and Lake Nyassa shaping a high civilization. It highlights strong affections, gender equality in law, severe penalties for female offenses, and rare self-harm deaths often via drowning crocodile attacks.
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Berlin Anthropological Society
Merensky
Oo Lake Nyassa
Livingstone Mountains
SL James Gazette
Human head and brain mirror in vegetable shapes
The Transcript notes a French periodical claiming a striking likeness between human organs and vegetables. It cites walnuts as brain analogs, plums and cherries to eyes, almonds to noses, oysters to ears, and various vegetables to body parts, ending with playful comparisons about music and life.
Living Hope After Despair in a Melbourne Anecdote
In Melbourne, Hume Nisbet tells of a distressed Jewish tailoress seeking laudanum for heartache and suicide. He urges her to live and try again. Six months later she returns with joy, now married to the Christian foreman who hired her, proving a hopeful turn after hardship.
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Hume Nisbet
Melbourne
Most Wonderful of Pearls and the Southern Cross Pearl
The article traces black pearls from fashionable use by Empress Eugenie to auction prices like 20000 dollars for her necklace and 5000 for the snap pearl. It highlights the Southern Cross, a unique nine-pearl cross from Western Australia valued at about 50000 dollars, discovered by Clark and buried under superstitious fear before being recovered in 1874.
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Eugenie
Napoleon III
Marquis of Bath
Mexico
Tahti
Fiji
New York Advertiser
Clark
Western Australia
Simpler Oil Trick for Snake Handling
A scientific writer claims placing a drop of oil from a foul pipe in a snake’s mouth makes it instantly rigid and powerless. The technique is touted as useful in the bush, enabling a person to restrain a snake by squeezing its jaws to open its mouth and apply the oil.
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Uiman
Doah News Snippet Offers Vague Local Signal
Fragmentary pipe inside and outside scene yields unclear details. Text mentions wy snake and rigidity as a motif, with minimal readable context and no identifiable persons or organizations.
The Toilet Habits of Birds and Historic Republic Cycles
Observations on bird bathing and dust preferences describe birds using water and dust baths differently across species and urban settings. A concluding historical note links repeated patterns of republic formation to military despotisms in Greece Rome England France and the Americas as evidence of recurring political cycles.
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Greece
Alexand the Great
Rome
Khmps
England
Commonwealth
Republi
Oliver Cromwell
Alon
Napoleon Bonapart
Central and
South America
Chinese Quotations and the Art of Allusion in Literature
A compact essay notes Chinese writers rely on historical allusions to enrich prose and poetry, often fabricating or overusing quoted references. It contrasts Chinese literary practice with famed 19th century critics while listing long lives of notable male and female writers who continued productive work into advanced ages, including Amelia Opie Edgeworth Sand and Stowe.
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Atheneum
Darwin
Keats
Lamb
de Quincy
Burns
Dickens Herbert Spencer
Amelia Opie
Miss Edgeworth
Caroline Herschel
Mary Somerville
Genrst Eliot
George Sand
Harriet Marueneau
Harriet Beecher
Stowe
France
Power Cobbe
Charlotte Cushman
Fanny Kemble
Emma Willard
Almira Lincoln
Cady Stanton
Titan of Big Basin Goliath a Giant Redwood Tale
In Santa Cruz County California the Big Basin forest houses a massive redwood nicknamed the Goliath of Big Basin. The tree stands about 200 feet tall with the lower hundred feet free of branches and an estimated diameter of twenty three feet at the ground. Woodworkers say it could yield over 1000000 feet of lumber and more than a hundred cords of wood from limbs and waste. A distant note mentions politicians and vacancies in a separate aside.
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Big Basin
Inig Basin
Santa Cruz Count
Cal
St Louis Republic
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Hoppity Skip
Dolly
Christian Intelligencer
Hal
New York Times
Willie
Hoiser
Younus
California Tobacco
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Bir
New York Dome
Yynely
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