Cold Weather in Russia and Harsh Northern Winter
A correspondent describes extreme cold in St. Petersburg with temperatures down to 25.6 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, noting closed schools and empty churches. He observes still air, blue skies, and birds or horses freezing, while carmen sleepwalk to death. Fire pyres burn in streets and many iz voschtschiks are found frozen. Russians endure cold in heated homes and furs. He debunks a De Maistre claim of strangers snatching stew and rubbing noses, based on winters spent in the country. The piece shifts to ropeways: coal transport via ropeways in Upper Silesia, a ten-mile Spanish mine ropeway moving 700 tons daily, and a Belgian ropeway carrying 2,000 tons per day.
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St. Petersburg
Imen
de Maistre
Gottasegen
Upper Silesia
Belgium
Good Advice from a Good Judge for Grads
A staid adviser lampoons girl graduates with seasonally dated guidance on essays poetry and addresses. It mocks tone and posture urging blue ribbon essays, stamps for return, restrained praise, and measured stage moments while warning against strong mindedness and premature engagements.
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Byron
Alia
Hoboken
Ropeways Surge in Use Across Regions
Nearly 300 aerial ropeways are in operation for various kinds of work with spans up to 1,000 feet and grades as steep as one in three. Carrying capacity ranges from 5,000 tons per week to more than double that, depending on if lines employ one two or three fixed-rope systems.
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Hood
Aly
Beaver
Twininy
Wiggonsvile
Ohio
Hood & CO
Lowell
Maus
Wedlock Among the Arabs in Mongeart tradition
A Philadelphia Saturday Night article outlines Mongeart marriage customs in the Sahara. It details selection by the groom, dowry and family support, wife duties milking, spinning, and serving meals, and limited polygamy due to poverty. It notes divorce rights, male offspring securing status, and harsh penalties for extended absence after separation.
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Sahara
Philadelphia
Demijohn Disappears On Erie Train In Jersey City
A stout man with a demijohn sits beside two stern temperance ladies on an Erie Railroad afternoon train from Jersey City. The ladies accuse the bottle of ruin and its owner vows to drink it over Sunday, but the demijohn vanishes as the car nears daylight, leaving the owner puzzled and the ladies smiling knowingly.
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Erie
Jersey City
Berges
New York Sun
Rat skins for gloves and a dining spider tale
A discussion claims rat skins are widely used for gloves though a Grenoble glovemaker says they are too small and thin. The piece cites encyclopedias, a Cornwall dress of rat skins, sewer rat hunts, and myths about Thames glove hides, ending with a New York dining spider anecdote from a chop house tale.
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Grenoble
Aurain
Draper
Iskeard
Cornwall
Paris
Seine
S. William Beck
Thames
What She Liked by Annie a School Subject
A visitor asks Annie if she likes going to school, and she replies she really thinks she likes it. She highlights walking to the school, talking with girls at recess, and coming home at noon and night as reasons. The exchange ends with a note urging methodical reading and purposeful study.
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Annie
The Literati Visitor at Teras Sittings Office
A tall, smooth faced youth with long hair enters Teras Sittings and proclaims himself Junius Elzevir Scroggs. He denounces the paper for appealing to pastry readers and urges editors to seek ancient lore, while the staff remains focused on current readers and a lone card that proclaims this is their only day.
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Teras Sittings
Business Managers
Junius
Elzevir Scroggs
Sifiings Boomer
Homer
Dani
Aristotle
Tenas
Mr. Scroggs
Mar
Sevres
Seringe
Seroges
Tale and Hearty in Old Age Health Claim
An extended poetic praise extols vitality in old age likening it to a lush ancient tree. It asserts Hosteller's Stomach Bitters and Dyspeptic Syrup as indispensable for vigor, relief from infirmities, and protection against malarial effects, urging a thorough trial.
Brave robin sentinels save nest from cat attack
In an Orchard on Broad way a cat invaded a robin nest. The mother robin left her mate to draw the predator away and returned with a redbreast army. The winged defenders swarmed the cat, forcing it to retreat and saving the young birds.
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Broadway
Bangor News
Rocky Point Beach Exchange Ends in Surfing Confusion
At Rocky Point a playful conversation between Mr. Beeckman and Miss Cabot centers on joining the beach. Miss Cabot resists the surf but ends up in it, prompting a light hearted exchange and a judge appears in the scene.
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Mr. Beeckman
New York
Miss Cabot
Bostons
Miayuma
Trouble in the Kitchen Trate Incident Cited
A fragment reports a quarrel where Troubie warns Joln that future kitchen talks with the cook will lead to discharge and self cooking. The American Glassworker quote notes a physician showing a skeleton model to a friend, implying a patient’s pallor or health concern amid casual banter about the sherry.
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Joln
Pye
Enlightened East Indian envoy leaves Paris for India
Saud Mohammed Haiti, a distinguished East Indian visitor to Philadelphia earlier, has left Paris to return to India. He had come as a representative of a native educational society to arrange for East Indian apprentices in American factories and schools. He later entered Pasten's laboratoire in Paris by Indian government instruction and recounted a New Year mishap on Chestnut Street where he was mistaken for a mask wearer.
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Ann Street
Jack
Jin
New Fork World
Saud Mohammed Haiti
Philadelphia
Paris
India
Pasten
Pastenr
Hadi
Chestnut Street
Sultanpur
Oudh
Philadelphia Snagquirer
General Hooker's White Charger Tale
Joe Dickinson recalls the famed white charger used by General Hooker at Chancellorsville. The horse, found by a Union soldier near Good Hope, was claimed by its owner who appealed to Secretary Stanton. the horse vanished and later ended with Hooker, becoming a notable parade horse in federal service.
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Joe Dickinson
Ceneral
Joe Hooker
Hooker
Chancellorsville
Tie
Sickles
Good Hope
Mau
Dan Sickles
Anegro
Stanton
Chistine
Fuet
Five Excursion Trains to Tennessee and Deep South
The Chicago and Eastern Railway plans five personally conducted excursion trains for August and September with one lowest first class fare for round trips to Tennessee Alabama Mississippi and Louisiana. Tickets valid returning in thirty days available via Traveling Agent D Th Morrell or William Hill General Passenger Agent Chicago. A mix of notes covers Lord Kingsboroughs Mexico seven folio volumes with colored illustrations and a sales pitch from B Johnson & Co Richmond Virginia. Also a remark on bamboo flowering famine prevention in 1812 and a jab at illiterate barbers.
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South
Florence
Ala
Chicago
Evansville
Tod
Th. Morrell
B.J. T
First National Bank
William Hill
Gremeral Vassenger
Mexico
Lord Kingsborough
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Hns
Rhine
Danube
Tiber
Kirchen
Severn
Mail and Lepress
Lov
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Robins
Rocky Point
Troubie
Vwuerye
Dr. Pierce
Dr. Sage
A. Yorum
General Hooker
B. ¥. Johnson & Co
Loo Main St
Richmond
Via
Tudin
Brya V1
BusiNess College
Buffalo
N.Y
Vention
Kalser
Mfr
Clybourn Ave
Adtertimera
Hichland Park
Ill
Northwestern Military Academy
Concre
Government Academies
Ihacoe
3 & Pe Meany
Rene Tetlan
Gias Pavodeler
Brewster Safety Rein-Holder Co
Molly
Mich
CATON
Mall
Circulare Fea
Calon
Bostom
Beth
Maul
Iness College
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Balary
Secret Service
Ee Grannan Detective Bureau Co
Arcade
Cincinnati
Piso
Hazeltine
Warren
Northern Pacific
Minnesota
North Dakota
Montana
Idaho
Wealingotn
Oregon
Gilas
B. Lurbory
A. Scullen & Cid
Lake St
Atiarre
Gaway
Almer
Palmer
Ito
Ee A. Gavise
Franklin St
Ghlingraham
M. D
Amsterdam
D. R. Dyche , CO
Urney
Wwannington
Joseph H. Hunter
Pionston
Tryant & Stratton
STA
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