Light in the Night: Dr Talmage on Evening Brightness
A sermon illustration on Zechariah’s promise that at evening time it shall be light. It celebrates letting God’s grace shine through old age and disaster, with examples of faith under trials and the lasting triumph of Christ in death.
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Will Recorded by Graphophone Hints at Heirs
A wealthy Russian dies with no will. In a library a young man uses a graphophone to record what he believes is a song. The voice on the machine eerily speaks the missing will, prompting its submission to the courts.
Duty and Lee and the Daughters of the Confederacy
BILL ARP extols Gen. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, praising duty as a guiding creed. He recalls early wartime meetings, later reverent portraits of Lee, and notes the Daughters of the Confederacy’s mission to preserve truth. He lauds Confederate matriarchs, female progress, and urges men to seek marriage as a lifelong education.
Whitman in Prospect Hill A Quiet May Day Memory
J Trowbridge recalls a sunlit Sunday with Walt Whitman on Prospect Hill Somerville. The pair share meals talks and laughter as the poet enjoys jokes about his Leaves of Grass while a clock face conceals the volume with Whitman quipping no one can see through that.
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Heirloom boast leads to laughing turn in tale
An wealthy man boastfully shows a table claimed to be 500 years old. A guest counters with a 3,000 year old table, preferring to reveal it as the multiplication table made in India. The exchange humorously undercuts bragging about antique possessions.
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India
Breakfast Cold Love Quip Triggers Morning Banter
A Philadelphia Press quip depicts a couple at breakfast where a wife accuses her husband of waning affection. He retorts that his breakfast is cold not his feelings, delivering a witty one liner about the lapse in warmth. The exchange highlights marital friction with humor.
Fragmented Detroit Free Press exchange on epstalks
A garbled Detroit Free Press fragment shows a dispute between Mrs Witherby and Witherty over a fuse about epstalks. The readable portion indicates confusion and a tense exchange with strong language but lacks clear context or details.
Notable Oddities From The World In Briefs
A Lisbon woman Arlington style near burial startled observers when the cry from the coffin proved she was alive and died five hours later from fright. The sultan of Turkey keeps six sons and seven daughters in strict seclusion. In England, personal crisis trends have grown into a disease, with deaths by self harm up 200 percent over fifty years. Judge John H. Reagan of Austin retires after fifty years in public service. Andrew Carnegie’s coat of arms bears a reversed crown with a liberty cap and symbols denoting “Death to Privilege.” Bishop Hoffman presented seven boxes of rare butterflies to the American Museum of Natural History from Japan Jamaica the Philippines and the Himalayas. Edward Beaupre of Assiniboine claims to be the world’s tallest man at seven feet ten and three quarters inches and still growing. Princess Waldemar of Denmark is noted as an artist who might rival Rosa Bonheur if compelled by necessity and spends mornings painting in her studio at seven.
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China’s Credit and Public Trust Across the World
The Shen Pao cites the Shanghai Mercury arguing Chinese citizens distrust state borrowing, contrasting with Western nations where rulers borrow from their people. It claims national debt can herald prosperity when funds support public works, citing Japan’s railways and Turkey as cautionary examples, and suggests China could gain from a well-used national debt.
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Shanghai Mercury
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Turkey
Swindled the Landlord Pearl Hoax in Paris Restaurant
A diner in a Paris restaurant spits out a jewel said to be a $250 pearl. The jeweler claims its value is two cents, he and an accomplice allegedly conspired to defraud the landlord by keeping the pearl as security for a $60 dinner bill. The landlord still possesses the pearl.
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Paris
Detroit Free Press
A Daring Author Seeks Stage Prof Advice
A persistent young man with a manuscript asks a manager for guidance on where to seek a professor to help with his play. The exchange references a line about infernal realms and shows the author following the manager's advice.
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N. Y. Herald
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