The Toss of a Copper Two Lovers Letter Series Ends
Adrienne confesses love for two men Casimir and Rene while navigating a country home in letters to Blanche. Rene remains distant yet loyal, Casimir offers steady companionship, and Adrienne weighs marriage choices amid jealousy, secrecy, and a looming farewells.
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Casimir
Rene
M. de Villelong
kKene
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Hydrophobia and national pride stir old debate
The piece muses on hydrophobia as an imagined disorder in humans and animals, mocks Canadian retaliation plans, and jokes about racing scandals and future newspapers. It notes education gaps on hydrophobia, warns against betting as protection against financial shock, and ends with a New York editor’s view of future papers.
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New York
A Friend An Enlightening Series On Friendship
A Sanity of definitions from London Tit-Bits prompts a varied set of friend traits. The best entries describe friendship as a bank of confidence empathy and help, a mirror of esteem a defense against hardship and a binding link across lifetimes.
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The
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Bank of Credit
Santa
Tennyson and Friends: Shifting Modern Poetry Voices
The piece contrasts Tennyson as a poet of abstract qualities with Browning as a diverging figure. It notes the struggle between conscience and passion in Tennyson and argues he defends eternal law over personal voice, while George Eliot’s poem May I Join the Choir Invisible embodies a preference for immortality over individual hearing. Browning stands apart from these schools.
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Devine
George Eliot
Robert Browning
Light and Sound From Sunlight Through Prism
A historic experiment shows a beam of sunlight through a prism or rainbow lights a glass vessel with silk or wool to produce sounds. Different colors of the spectrum generate varying tones while some colors yield silence, notably green in red light gives strong sound.
Freeman the English historian and the doctor title
A Yale encounter recounts how the English historian Prof Freeman, who held Oxford and Cambridge doctorates, reacted when called Doctor Freeman. He quipped that even Gladstone would deserve the title, while a Yale professor noted that such courtesy was not due to a man of Gladstone's eminence.
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What King Charles Threw Away
A historical note contrasts King Charles I selling 36 New River shares for £500 yearly with today’s value. Each original share would now yield $2,000 annually, turning the king’s sale into an immense windfall of roughly $468,000 per year in profits. The piece closes with a moral about men’s desires versus their circumstances.
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Charles
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England
New River Company
Royal Treasury
New York World
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