Oddities From The Register 1862 Echoes And Oddball Tales
A quirk filled collection notes stage legends Zeke de Lussen Lillian Russell Marion Manola and Vernona Jurbeau born in 1862. French law keeps a declared dead person dead unless they rename themselves. A New York girl rents dollhouse rooms for caramels. Harpenden clock bees halt time. A Galveston mystery questions Mr Grempczynski’s asylum escape. A Waco tale tells of a child feeding a snake beside a gutter. Newfoundland codfish catches total 70 million annually. Some men joke about waking to a season’s worth of meals on election days.
Mohawk princess urges education for Indian future in NY address
Virogta, Mohawk ruler, tells the New York Anthropological Society that Indians have no future without education. The event highlights ongoing debates about culture, history, and advancement within Indigenous communities.
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Virogta
Remnant of
The
Six Nations
New York Anthropological Society
Carbonic Gas Suspected in Spring Destruction
The report suggests a concentrated form of carbonic acid gas as the active agent in the spring’s destruction, with authorities noting a possible common cause in both cases.
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Tdlaho
Punctual Great Eastern trains reach six month record
Enauanp highlights a 56 percent punctual rate for 100000 passenger trains on the Great Eastern road in the first half of the year. Additional figures show 37 percent within five minutes late, 4 percent between five and ten minutes late, and 3 percent over ten minutes late. The piece also notes the German Emperor’s strict nursery discipline, contrasting with the popular Prince Henry and Princess Sophie.
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Enauanp
Great Eastern Road
Prince Henry
Sophie
Whitechapel murders tied to classic fictional parallels
The article compares London’s Whitechapel killings to De Quincey’s The Avenger and Hoffmann’s Mademoiselle de Scuderi and Poe’s Murder in the Rue Morgue. It notes a broader parallel with The Avenger in which a killer targets families in a German city and is revealed as revenge for ill treatment of his family, suggesting a sexualized motive tied to a traitorous woman.
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Tin Whitechapel
London
de Quincey
Avenger
Mademoiselle de Scuderi
Hoffman
Gaborian
Poe
Rue Morgue
Whitechapel
Mademoiselle de Secuder
Zulu Marriage Laws Echo Mosaic Rules
Zulu marriage binds partners with strict rules. Infidelity can be punished by death for both spouses. divorce follows disobedience or idleness. A wife may return to her father with cows repaid, children stay with her, and twins are sacrificed to avert ill luck.
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England
A Curious Law on Witches and Matrimony
An 18th century English law reportedly punished men enticed into marriage by cosmetics and attire as witchcraft. The piece notes the law did not remove the items cited and muses how many witches would be found today. It links the term witch to quaint endearment between lovers.
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England
How a Monk Became Czar in Russian History
A historical tale recounts the 1484 death of Czar Basilovitz and the rise of Boris’s power. A monk Ostrefief claimed to be the murdered Demetrius, gaining support and a short reign before assassination and his fall in 1605, with several impostors attempting afterward.
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Russia
Basilovitz
Theodore
Demetrius
Boris
Ruric
Ostrefief
Poland
Moscow
Czarina
Origin and meaning of the phrase taking the cake
A note on the expression taken from cake walks in the South and its broader echoes. The piece traces its anti polite burlesques in minstrelsy to noble origins in medieval Europe, including Ireland and England, where cake riding and cake prizes appeared at weddings and seasonal games.
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Gerard
Brand
Ireland
England
Monkeys in Hindoostan Aid Police with Quelling Riots
A Popu lar Science Monthly note describes sacred monkeys in India helping authorities by charging crowds at dog fights and schoolyard scuffles. It cites the Rhesus baboon as morally prepared to curb aggression and recalls a Agra scene where a leopard accompanies a hotel owner amid monkey crowds.
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Hindoostan
Popular Science Monthly
Agra
Plantera
Leopard Intruder Stages Sleepy Ambush on Platform
A speckled intruder spooks a crowd as a gang gathers on the platform forming a semi circle around a sleeping figure. They face the leopard with bristling manes, ready to thwart what may be its intended visit.
Burning Old Letters Better Than Hoarding Them
A speaker urges disposing of old letters by burning after sorting. Many contain secrets, past loves, and regrets, with value only for reference or memory. Keep essential dates in a blank book, then burn the rest as Garfield advised to live among the living.
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Garfield
Hosek
The Value of Sleep for the Elderly and the Wise
The London Illustrated News urges ample rest, arguing age increases sleep needs. It cites Shakespeare praising sleep and warns against night work, noting doctors often preach what they do not practice and warning against the snare of sleepless literary labor.
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Arsenius
Caherlu
Motive Power Of The World By The Bureau Of Statistics
The bureau of statistics in Berlin sums up world motive force and notes that four-fifths of engines were built in the last 25 years. It lists boilers and locomotives by France Germany Austria and the United States gives horsepower totals and converts steam power to approximate human work across the globe.
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Bureau of Statistics
Berlin
Rolund
France
Germany
Austria
United States
Where Maidens Do the Courting in Africa
A San Francisco Chronicle article describes traditional courtship where a young African woman sends a dash to a favored suitor via an elder, with gifts ranging from fowls and yams to gold jewelry. The lover may accept or refuse, and marriages may follow though not always.
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Africa
San Francisco Chronicle
Iris Plans Three Foot Wide Bicycle Path Between Cities
Iris proposes a three foot wide cinder path to connect New York and New Haven for bicycle users. The plan envisions a durable surface suitable for casual riders along a designated route between the two metropolitan areas.
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Iris
New York
New Haven
A Switzerland Fair Through a Small Town Morning
The piece describes a Swiss town fair with cow bells and carts at dawn. Peasants in blue gowns bargain over cattle and pigs in the Wish Market Place while a merry go round entertains children and a music box fills the air before street stalls offer woolen underwear ribbons and calicoes along Town Hall Street.
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Germany
France
Alps
Town Hall
Curious Minerals of Utah Include Vast Veins and Wax
The mineral resources of Utah include large veins of whimly white ore and pure beds of water forming materials. Ozocerite or natural mineral wax, gilsonite, and a three foot wide vein of asphalt over a mile long are noted. Great Salt Lake serves as a vast salt and sulphate of soda source, with wind- blown borate and soda production potential.
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Utah
Great Salt Lake
Death and the virtue of a long temperate life
The article extols natural death after a long life of health and temperance, urging living to God and mankind. It lauds bodily health, calm decline like a summer evening, and notes Winrian D. Krvitiny, the "Father of the House," will serve in Congress thirty years if he completes his term.
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Winrian D. Krvitiny
House
Congress
The Art of Making Up by Actors in Drakes Magazine
A discussion of stage makeup methods for portraying age health race and mood. It describes using mirrors wigs wax and teeth alterations while warning against excessive cosmetic harm and noting that proper makeup can improve appearance when actors maintain care and discipline.
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Drake's Magazine
The Origin of Tea Through the Ages and Myths
A historical sketch traces tea origins from Central Asia to China Japan and Persia. It notes that Chin Nong is credited with invention about 5 000 years ago, with later spreads via the Dutch and Portuguese to Europe in the 17th century.
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Centre Asia
Chin Nong
Yuen Ty
Tsin
China
Japan
Osaka
Tartary
Persia
Europe
E. H. Libby
St Nicholas
A New Theory on Moses Death Sparks Child Prognostications
A boy offers a new theory about Moses death on a railroad track prompted by his mother’s reading of a poem. The incident follows a, perhaps unrelated, note about Alexander III and a massive steel mass found in a Peterhof cannon foundry. Doresuvin, the oval king of British Columbia, earns $2,000 in income.
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Moses
Nebo
Boston Congregationalist
Alexander LII
Peterhof
Doresuvin
British Columbia
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