Clara Morris at Home and Kean's Stage Fire
George Alfred Townsend tours Clara Morris's Hudson River estate and domestic life, noting her health, artistry, and marriage to Harriot, and contrasts her with Kean as a genius who blended realism and idealism. The piece also surveys Minstrelsky’s decline, tracing negro minstrelsy from its rise to its postwar fall after emancipation, and its lasting impact on American theatre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Alfred Townsend
Clara Morris
Miss Morris
Patti
Wales
London
Mr. Harriot
Hudson River
Harriot
America
Daily Papers
Burnt-Cork
Green Bay Tree
Manager Promises Paris Spectacle With London Chorus
A bustling theater scoop recounts a manager arriving on the steamer Nausea with grand plans for next season. He boasts Paris success, Rome costumes, Paris scenery, and a chorus from London, naming Ethelinda Plantagenet as a prized find though she may not sing or act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Rome
London
Ethelinda Plantagenet
Royal Paradise Theater
Lord Hairbrain
Duke of Lawntennis
Photographic and lighting advances of the era
A survey of new instruments and methods includes the cylindrograph for panoramic shots using a rock salt lens for dark photography. Abney reports red-end sensitive plates, and a rock-salt lens could reveal high temp bodies. Also described are a horn horseshoe for urban driving, a massive German armor test, and Japanese lacquer resilience contrasted with fragile modern lac. A novel oil lamp designed for outdoor industrial light provides 150 to 200 yard illumination with stable flame under wind or rain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abney
Spezzia Ao
Notable Tilt Between Col Ingersoll and Beecher
An informal salon gathers four or five prominent men including Col Ingersoll and Henry Ward Beecher. They discuss various topics with brilliance but avoid religion. Beecher remains silent as a joke prompts talk of Ingersoll’s idiosyncrasy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col. Ingersoll
Henry Ward Beecher
Bob
Beecher
Across the Slough of Despond A Vanished Faith and Oddities
A fragmented reminiscence recounts Col Colly Ingersoll clashing with a critic over religion and crutches in a muddy street scene. A Middlesex lawyer known for wit narrates a hayfield tale of Adams and a jug, ending with a humorous caution on soil fragility. Horace Greeley’s temperance and cider quirks, plus an Egyptian Doric shaft origin note, round out a collage of social scenes and curiosities from the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col. Ingersoll
St. Louis
Wayland
Adams
Middlesex Bar
Mr. Adams
Gus
Boston
Duty and friendship in a late 19th century prayer and tales
A long devotional piece extols motives of duty and selfless love, contrasting mere justice with forgiveness and faith. It weighs Christian mission work in 1883 84, then shifts to Palm Sunday customs of Acadians and a humorous slice on public life, ending with a wry reflection on beauty and luck in urban transit.
Deliver Us From Evil in the Bible Recension Debate
A critique argues against modern revisions of the Seventh Petition of the Lord’s Prayer, defending the traditional phrase Deliver us from evil. It cites Greek, Vulgate, and Protestant translations, noting the widespread acceptance across Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, and Reformed churches. Also includes brief nautical tips, political anecdotage, and a quip on women’s place and madness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Rome
James
Luther
George Bancroft
New Princeton Review
Weathered Faith Projection Says 1886 World Religion Totals
At the outset of 1886 the race’s religious spread is tallied with about 1.5 billion people. One third nominally Christian, 365 million Romish Greek and Oriental, 135 million Reformed, plus 10 million Jews and 180 million Muslims. Pagans total 800 million, with smaller Christian shares in major nations and mission fields adding 700,000 plus 400,000 more Isles of the Sea. The grand total of converts or adherents tied to Christian institutions approaches 2.6 million in the mission field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lerents
India
R. G. Wilder
South Seas
London Missionary Society
Sierra Leone
Gold Coast
St Leuis Christian Advocate
China
Japan
Siam
Turkey
Persia
Africa
Isles of the Sea
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Mitchell Capital
Mitchell, Dakota
John Kimble
Gilbert
John Kemble
Coriolanus
Shylock
Richard
Ingo
Edmund Kean
Coleridge
Kean
Kembles
William Charles Macready
Minstrelsky
Hamburg
St. James
Antruvur Chase
Edwin Booth
Joseph Brooks
Robson
Crane
Marc Knaw
Effie Ellsler
Alvin Jos
New York
Lorra
Ena Abbott
Brossox Howard
d’Auvray
Bret Harte
Yorl
Horace Gree
Horace Greely
Col
Nicholas Smith
Greely
Dr. White
Cornell University
White
Mr. Greely
Croton
St. Louis Republican
Egypt
Greece
Beni- Hassan
Pikom
God
L. B, Hartman
The
Jerusalem
Vesuvius
United States
Virginia
Appomattox
Bayou Beef
Bernal Osborne
House of Commons
Mr. Stanley
Osborne
Twenty-first Regiment
Lord C
Pigeon
Rolfe
Cromworth
Mr. Rolfe
New York Sun
Col. Zell
Grant
Comstock
Salt Lake Tribune
Joleridge
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