Vermont exemptions touch farmer debts and English views on America
The Vermont note highlights that with five dollars exempt from process a farmer can shelter tens of thousands in property, while two unrelated items report on Matthew Arnold's last word on America and 1884 death statistics. It cites 344 self-inflicted deaths that year, 150 by hanging, with March peak and September lull.
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Vermont
America
Matthew Arnold
Sir Lepel Griffin
England
Vienna
Vassar
Queen Adopts Standard Pitch For State Music
The English press notes Queen Victoria has ordered the private band to adopt the diapason normal for all state balls and concerts, urging opera houses to follow. The move aims to ease pitch for singers such as Sims Reeves Christine Nilsson Patti and Santley. A Vienna Hairdressers Congress closed with twelve women performing live models in a hair design competition noted for originality and a model featuring electric light decor.
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Queen Victoria
Sims Reeves
Christine Nilsson
Madame Patti
Santley
Congress
Vienna
Clock Synchronizing Company Sets Citywide Standard Time
New York company forms to keep all city clocks on standard time. From a central station, signals traverse electric wires to sub-centers with hydraulic machines. Underground pipes and compressed air wind and regulate clocks within a mile radius. Every hour, minute hands are arrested and machines wound to match the elapsed notches.
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New York
Vanderbilt Sons-In-Law Move Into Railway Jobs
Vanderbilt secures his sons in law as railway clerks and managers in New York. Twombley gains an independent income of about 30000 dollars a year from loading and unloading freight with ships and barges. Dr Seward Webb leaves medicine for a sinecure berth worth ten dollars in the same patronage system.
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Vanderbilt
Twombley
New York
Shepard
Sload
Seward Webb
Tillinghast
Tas
English Doctors Wealth and Local Cabal Burlesque
The piece recounts rich fees claimed by English physicians with figures like 75 000 and 60 000 dollars and notes Paris press skepticism. It shifts to an Arizona column recounting a tavern confrontation with Gringo Baker and a boastful defense of cabinet views and a threat in a loaded sanctum.
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Anderew Clarke
Medical Journal
Redcliffe
Baille
Astley Cooper
Pau
London
Catherine H
Russia
Dimsdale
Paris Temps
St. Petersburg
Gringo Baker
Gringo
Beverage consumption abroad and cheap nutritious lentil soup
A London Times table shows per head yearly alcohol intake by nation across spirits wine and beer with Belgium leading beer drinkers and France consuming most wine. A correspondent touts Egyptian lentils as cheapest nutritious food at under pence a pound yielding two quarts of strong pea soup per pound used with bones and stale bread to sustain a family.
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The
London Times
Norway
United States
Cece
Unkown
Sweden
Netherlands
London
Pious Father Wins At Sea of Cards on West Side
A devout father finds his son gambling in a Clark street saloon and, after ejecting him, sits to finish the game. He wins the pot as a humorous note on virtue rewarded. The item ends with a quip on matrimony likened to a sea voyage.
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Clark Street
San Francisco
Trance States in Alcohol Use Linked to Blackouts
Historical cases describe alcohol induced trance or automatism where memory and consciousness are suspended during binges. Examples include a railroad conductor, a mechanic, a clergyman, a physician, an editor, and a man of fortune who acted with no recollection, sometimes under criminal impulses, with varying levels of awareness during the episodes.
Courts Everywhere May Multiply Cases In Record
Popular Science Monthly notes cases could multiply across courts worldwide, reflecting growing legal activity and the expansion of judicial records as a global phenomenon.
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Popular Science Monthly
Velocity of Light Experiments by Prof Simson Newcomb
Prof Simson Newcomb of the Nautical Almanac discusses new phototachymeter experiments between the Washington Monument and Fort Myer to measure light's speed. He notes an accuracy near a ten thousandth of the result and outlines implications for solar distance, earth mass, and improved astronomical tables.
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Simson Newcomb
Nautical Almanac
Washington Monument
District of Columbia
Fort Myer
Naval Observatory
Michelson
Navy
Europe
Venus
Solar System
United States
Debate on Ghost Belief by Coleridge and Coues
The article compares Samuel Coleridge and Elliott Coues on ghost belief. Coleridge denies ghosts, while Coues asserts belief, claiming ghosts can be studied by senses and chemistry. It questions whether physical investigation proves ghosts exist and notes the subjective nature of ghost experience.
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Colerige
Elliott Coues
Coleridge
Coues
Smart
York Herald
Denmark’s Agricultural Teachings and Exports
Denmark spends $55,000 annually for agricultural teaching with dairy and farm schools nationwide. Improved methods reach from king to farmer, helping a small cold country export many cattle and farm produce while producers thrive. A California groom’s bridal gift horse led to his daughter’s fatal riding accident.
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Denmark
Tae
California
Indoors Lives of China's Rank Ladies and Their World
A New York Commercial Advertiser account contrasts Chinese noblewomen with luxury yet cloistered living. It describes palanquin privacy, dual courtyard houses, footbinding culture, and the dignified yet strict domestic life of mandarins wives, noting attire, rooms, furniture, and the social divide between sexes.
Cross-Eyed People And The Social Effects
An oculist describes how cross-eyed individuals often brood over their condition. He explains how perceived judgment affects interaction, loner behavior, and even marriage. The piece notes varying coping reactions from withdrawal to despair and isolation.
Alliterative Mania in Historic Book Titles
The passage surveys 17th century title pages and bold alliterative, odd phrasing from Cromwell era religious tracts. It cites examples like A Most Delectable, Sweet, Perfumed Nosegay for God's Saints to Smell At and The Spiritual Mustard Pot to Make the Soul Sneeze with Devotion, noting the era's distinctive playful typography.
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London
John Fay
Cromwell
Quaint
Zion
Samuel Fish
Java
David
William Huinnis
Quiet funerals for the very poor in twenty first century life
The piece contrasts lavish funerals of the wealthy with quiet burials for the poor and satirizes morbid public curiosity. It cites Mrs. Cates on funeral parades, notes the social pressures around death, and jokes about mistaken funeral expectations observed in Indianapolis Journal.
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Paddy
Indianapolis Journal
It Costs to Smoke A Wealthy Man’s Cigar Calculus
An 80 plus year old man who started smoking early computed his life cigars over 67 years. He lists six monthly compounding at 6 percent and arrives at 200000 dollars as the total today. A Newstream wife received 4000 dollars for a broken rib and her husband calculates she is worth about 816000 at that rate.
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Imperial Court
Emperors Palace
Paris Tigaro
Hartford Times
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