Science of electricity aids torpedo defenses cited by Edison
Advices from Yokohama report China offered Chan-Som bay to Russia for a winter station. Vladivostok circles claim a secret Russo-Chinese treaty is real and a survey for a Siberia through Manchuria railway has been ordered.
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Yokohama
China
Chan- Som Bay
Russia
Vladivostock
Siberia
Manchuria
The Penny Dreadfuls and Other Canal of News
Penny dreadfuls helped cause a New York Central train wreck, killing two and injuring several. The piece notes mail chemistry of penny dread fuls, a Philadelphia tip about a New Jersey asylum, and wider social topics from divorce trends to a French Island purchase. It surveys 1895 events, including crimes, politics, and world affairs, with a critical tone toward England and a dense chronological record of notable happenings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Central
United States Mail
Philadelphia
New Jersey
Honolulu
Dole
Brooklyn
N. Y
New York
Casimir-Perier
Felix Faure
National Assembly
Versailles
Brisson
Faure
Waldeck-Rousseau
United States
Lord Randolph Churchill
London
M. de Giers
Congress
Lilioukalni
Hawaii
Llord
English
Cleveland
Brazil
Shesche
Republic
Bissell
William I. Wilson
West Virginia
Anna Gould
Jay Gould
Ernest Castellane
Neuchwang
Justice Barrett
Alva S. Vanderbilt
William I. Vanderbilt
Harry Hayward
Minneapolis
Catherine Ging
Japan
New Orleans
Hunerfano County
Col
Gresham
Maldrid
Alliance
Shimonoseki
Erastus Wiman
New York Supreme Court
John L. Waller
Trench
Madagascar
Hovas
Li Hung Chang
China
Mikado
Chitral
Prince Bismarck
Germany
Martinez Campos
Cuba
Paul
William Court Gully
House of Commons
Prof
Dara
New Haven
Perry
Matteawan Asylum
Weehawken
Spain
Corinto
Nicarangan
Archie D. Brown
Kentucky
Fulton Gomion
Louisville
Withanside of
Marlborough
Lord William Beresford
Tennessee
Peter Turney
Chefco
Island of
Sormosa
Count Kalnoky
Austria Hungary
Jose Marti
Supreme Court of the United States
Houston
Texas
David Hannigan
Solomon H. Mann
Shahzada
Shah of
Persia
England
Inspector Williams
Oscar Wilde
Valkyrie
Glasgow
Washington
Lord Rosebery
Sir Vista
Oakwood Cemetery
Chicago
Eugene V. Debs
Primo Rivera
Madrid
Richard Olney
Judson Harmon
Uganda
Central Africa
World’s Woman’s Christian Conference
Parlem Ship Canal
New York City
Laidlaw- Sage
Chauncey M. Depew
Vanderbilt University
Nashville
Tenn
Baltic Canal
Rosebery
Paris
Yale
New London
Storward
Huxley
Bristol
R. I
R. W. Buchanan
Sing Sing
Gray Gables
Cornell
Henley
Trinity Hall
M. Stambunioff
Bulgaria
Sofia
Pitezel
H. H. Holmes
Toronto
Henry Irving
Walter Besant
Lewis Morris
Whasang
Spring Valley
Ill
Justice Howell
United States Supreme Court
Viscount Wolseley
Duke of Cambridge
Denver
Ecuador
Elvy Alfaro
Rothschild Bank
Sandy Hook
N. J
South Carolina
Columbia
Atlanta
Edam
English Channel
National Park
Chickamauga Battleground
Garibaldi
Rome
Irelae
Great Britain
Duchesne
Antanana
Rivo
Louis Pasteur
Corea
Seoul
Constantinople
Dallas
Miles
United States Army
Schofield
Milwaukee
Wis
T. de Witt Talmage
First Presbyterian
Theodore Durrant
San Francisco
Blanche Lamont
Italy
Broadway
Bleecker Street
Consuelo Vanderbilt
William K. Vanderbilt
Duke of Marlborough
St. Thomas’ Church
Evening Journal
Detroit
Joseph Jefferson
Garden Theater
Pauline Whitney
William C. Whitney
Almerie Hugh Paget
Russia
Olga
Cuyahoga River
Manhattan
Atlanta Exposition
Alexander Dumas
Fils
Lafayette
Bartholdi
Joseph Pulitzer
Hearne
Missouri
Millionaire Stillwell
Greenway
Manitoba
Stepniak
Havana
House
Baltimore
Senate
Naughty Paris Singer Yvette Guilbert Heads to America
The famed Paris performer Yvette Guilbert, noted for topical songs and pantomime, rose from a Paris marchant seamstress to international sensation. Her early life, stages, and sensational reception in Europe are summarized.
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America
Yvette Guilbert
Paris
Gar
Yvette
Alcazar
Theodore Child
Meulin
Naurof
Flaveur
Juunenarte
Inelgium
Europe
Germany
Italy
London
Negative Excellence Sniggins and Wiggins on a Play
Sniggins and Wiggins exchange wry remarks about a theater performance. Sniggins deems the play poor while recalling their seating antics and hats in a humorous, clipped vaudeville style exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sniggins
Wiggins
The Clever Woman At Home Gets Praised In Harsh Times
A Philadelphia Times piece extols the uncomplicated home woman who mends, bakes, and cares for a family. It mocks oversmart cleverness in society while praising the steadfast domestic helper who prescribes simple remedies and ensures better mornings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Times
Humor Exchange Explores Manly and Feminine Sidedness
A comic panel features Bertha questioning a character about seeming manly or feminine. Harold replies the trait is hereditary, noting half of his ancestors were male and half female.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bertha
Harold
A Vain Fellow Young Lady Comic Exchange
In a Fliegende Blaetter humorous vignette a young lady on a riverbank asks about a fish jump while an army officer parries with a flirtatious quip about being noticed. The exchange plays on vanity and vanity’s gaze through a lighthearted scene.
An Unfortunate Present
A playful family scene shows Johnny attempting to open a bank, prompting a cheeky warning that such mischief might lead to a burglary in adulthood per a Truth magazine comment.
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Johnny
Tapa
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A. C. Anderson
Ss. W. Anderson
Minnesota
Thomas A. Edison
Boston
Lake Superior
Anticosti
St. Lawrence
Nicaragua
Venezuela
Yorktown
Peary Arctic
St. John's
N. F
Wilmington
Del
Col. E. M. Heyl
Crown Prince
Siam
Marshal Pavia
Philip S. Post
Illinois
Louis Fatio
Aaron L. Dennison
J. L. Merriam
F. Chadwick
Oregon
Isaac N. Stiles
Mary L. Stevenson
J. W. Paddock
Union Pacific Railway
William B. Remey
Gov
Palmer
I. T
Nicholas de Giers
Marshal Francois Cestian Canrobert
France
James Cockle
Queensland
E. Rockwood Hoar
N. H. R. Dawson
M. D. Stivers
John L. Stevens
Maine
Commodore Henry Bruce
United States Navy
Isaac Pusey Gray
Mexico
Frederick Douglass
Ored
Charles Carroll
Carrollton
B. F. Prescott
New Hampshire
Jesse Wheaton
Wheaton, Ill
IF. H. Hoadley
Greeley
L. F. Brigham
Massachusetts
William Ward
Pennsylvania
Henry Studebaker
South Bend
Ind
Adam Bad
Paran Stevens
W. Jennings Demorest
James Fulton
James Dwight Dana
James W. Scott
Chicago Pieratt
James F. Wilson
Iowa
Franklin Fairbanks
St. Johnsbury
Emily Thornton Charles
Emily Hawthorne
D. C
John Brown
Joh Brown
James Kelly
Chicago Tribune
William Cogswell
Hugh McCulloch
United States Treasury
Walter Q. Gresham
Henry Martyn Scudder
D. D
Richard Culahan
Thomas Henry Huxley
Peixoto
Harlow S. Orton
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Stephen Nicolas Stambuloff
Edward Beecher
Howell E. Jackson
Frank M. Pixley
San Francisco Argonaut
William Strong
Henry Bentley
Stephen R. Beggs
Mjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
Aie Wetmore
Agrae
Henry F. Ponsonby
John Redfern
HonaNlen G. Thurman
Eliza Benton Jones
Thomas H. Benton
H. S. Bundy
Ohio
Isaac S Bassett
United States Senate
Daniel Webster
Charles B. Athwood
James C. Veach
Indiana
Edward Harland
Belfast
Ireland
Max le Baudy
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