A New Caste in India English Residents and Their Children
A Ram Chandra Bose essay in The New York Independent argues that English residents and their offspring form a new caste in India marked by arrogance and exclusivity. It cites the Albert bill reception and Lady Duff Gordon’s Egypt letters to illustrate how treated natives fuel resentment and potential uprisings as educated Hindus grow more European in outlook.
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New York Independent
Ram Chandra Bose
India
Aia
Comacy
Europe
Albert Bill
Duff Gordon
Egypt
Noises in China Reflect Festive Noisy Culture
The Chinese embrace loud, smoky celebrations and constant percussion in streets and homes. Fireworks, gongs, and cymbals accompany religious and civil feasts, while rooms eschew chimneys and fill with charcoal and tobacco fumes, as noted by The Daily News and echoed by observers.
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St. James’ Gazette
Ruskin
The
Daily News
Celestial Empire
China
St. George's Cathedral
Arch-Priestess Blavatsky Described By London Truth
The piece portrays Mme Blavatsky as a clever enigmatic figure of about six decades old with claimed occult knowledge. It humorously notes letters from Asia arriving has it walks and teapots found under hedges, suggesting she communes with unseen voices and distant voices.
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Theosophy
London
Mme. Blavatsky
Asia
African Strong Man Described by Stanley in Chicago Herald
Stanley the explorer recounts a six foot five inch African man who was slender yet extraordinarily strong. He could toss an ordinary man ten feet and catch him, flip a large donkey by the ears and pin it on its back, haul a 3 year old bullock halfway around a plantation, and once carried twelve men for 800 feet on his back and chest.
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Chicago Herald
Stanley
Tike to Protest Against Negro Minstrels
A Chicago Current note argues it is time for colored people to protest the practice of blackfaced minstrel shows that caricature all colors and peoples, questioning why the black man must be clown to such an extent.
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Chicago
Concord Philosophers Verse Playful Taxonomy of Thought
A fragmentary poem from the Washington Hatchet era traces mental gears and inner calls in surreal metaphorical field notes. The speaker invokes the Not We and the Ego in a journey through moorland forests to study consciousness and thought processes.
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Washington
Not
A Widow Seeks Fountain for Yard to Please Wife
A gray man in Detroit seeks lead piping to run a fountain for a yard as part of a plan for a second wife. He explains he wants water at a hilltop spring to appease his wife who loves fountains and lawn ornaments, but the dealer doubts the project is feasible and the match seems off.
Man in Booge’s restaurant studies a diagram of algebra
A pale man with a high forehead at Booge’s fixtures unfolds a large diagram of signs and algebraic formulas pinning it to the wall. He contemplates the equations while eating, counting aloud with a wary stare, then explains he is applying a Gladstone style digestion method refined to thirty two chews per bite and so on.
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Boston Globe
Booge's
Mr. Gladstone
Boy’s Mule Mischief Sparks Alarm in Germantown
A frightened Germantown resident reports a boy from the livery stable tried to tickle a mule’s heels with a straw to see its reaction. The mule remained unmoved, prompting concern from the household. Nearby, the post office received a 2-cent stamp with a perfumed note signed “Sweet Sixteen” urging caution with canceled stamps.
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Germantown
Aleck
Post Office Department
Post Office
Maud S’s Merit Cited in Boston Transcript Note
The Boston Transcript lauds Maud S’s success as further proof of Maud S’s merit. It also mentions Bill Nye urging entertainers to send money orders and stamps for reply to social engagements this winter.
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Boston Transcript
Maud
Maud S
Bill Nye
Attar of Roses and Perfume Spoofs From Europe to India
A long survey of perfume production covers attar origins from Turkey and Bulgaria to Provence and Singapore with notes on adulteration and scent strength. It also discusses rose geranium substitutes, verbena, mignonette, violet, heliotrope, bergamot, and lemon oils used in luxury fragrances, and links an Indian wheat cake signal for revolt to traditional cross-cultural secretage.
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Chicago
Turkey
Smyrna
Connecticut
Ganges River
Attar
Ross
Oscar Wilde
Europe
France
Rom
Malay Peninsula
Singapore
Provence
Tropics
Messina
Cosmopolitan Europe by Eli Perkins Letter
The article notes Europe growing cosmopolitan in dress and style. It cites Munich Berlin Dresden and Paris blending with New York looks and describes architecture merging across nations. It says national costumes vanish except in Swiss mountains with Germans French and English wearing similar clothes.
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Europe
Eli Perkins
Munich
Berlin
Dresden
Paris
New York
Switzerland
Irving Fooled Boston Scene Pictures By Coal Tar Chemistry
The correspondent recalls Irving arriving in Boston with scenery largely unusable. He staged a Shakespeare piece at the Bowery Theatre and critics praised the exquisite stage pictures unseen before in the city. A note mentions beauty once unknown arising from coal tar chemical treatment.
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Irving
Boston
New York Sun
Stow Theatre
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