The Word Use and Language Horizons in Daily Life
A long study tests vocabulary size using Webster 1875 dictionary results. Counts show a well educated man may know 20 000 to 25 000 words with daily use of 6 600 to 7 000. common people 2 000 to 4 000. illiterates 1 500 to 2 500. It notes a child’s day yields about 2 145 words, and includes a curious dog anecdote about a Brantford Ontario Indian school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Fleming
Literaturre
Canada
Mohawk Indian Institution
Brantford
Ont
H. Ashton
Mr. Ashton
London Spectator
Laban
Jacob
North Chane Herald
Shrewdness Among Africans In a missionary tale
A Buffalo Courier item notes Bishop Tanylor on African shrewdness and a missionary anecdote. A native challenges a missionary who offers good news. the exchange ends with a request for a blanket, highlighting cautious humor about generosity and deceit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tanylor
Africa
Buffalo Corrier
Correspondence in Dress of the Sexes Fits Fashion Echo
A Philadelphia Times commentary notes how male and female fashion converge across decades. As men adopt tighter garments or looser cuts, women mirror the styles, from trousers to jackets and headwear, producing synchronized evolutions in attire and accessories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Times
Infant Theology Turns On Heaven Or Angel Promise
A child explains heaven and becoming an angel to a younger brother. Tom contemplates being good to earn angelic status but doubts his own goodness. The moment shows a child's earnest faith and self doubt in a simple domestic scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom
Acquaintance Rumors Touch Mr Goodfellow In Philadelphia
Fragmentary notes claim Mr Goodfellow is attentive to a Chicago girl with limited appearances in Philadelphia. The brief mentions an uncertain weekly pattern and vague social attention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Eruption of the Skin Cured by Brandreth’s Pills
Evelyne Venney of Rocavittle Ontario reports a long skin eruption healed after a course of Brandreth’s Pills taken nightly. She details a regimen of six pills for four nights then tapering to one nightly for a month, claiming complete and lasting skin restoration.
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Rocaviitle
Ontario
Canada
Brandreth
Ep Venney
Zinc Extinguisher for Chimney Fires Adopted
An article cites a Boston Fire Department member crediting zinc placed in stoves or grates as an effective chimney fire extinguisher. A four inch square sheet of zinc fuses and releases fumes that rise the chimney to quell the blaze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Fire Department
Theologist son jokes about future magazines career
A father questions a son returning from school about studying theology. The son explains the aim is to write jokes in old age. The excerpt also includes faded ads for Kemp's Ballant cough remedy and Brown's Droxellian Troches, with old time promotional language and a mocked line about Old Nick's carriage with sulphur springs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nick
YOUTH'S COMPANION Advertises Free Year Sample
A Boston notice promotes Youth's Companion claiming reach to over 400 000 families and offering a free weekly subscription through January 1 1889 for new subscribers with sample copies available. Dialogue notes satisfaction with a sermon titled On Economy and appreciation for a contribution basket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
We Youth's Companion
Boston
Mass
Penrent
Churchmas
Puch
Watches for the Holidays in Chicago Adverts
W G Morris of No da Fifth avenue Chicago promotes a wholesale watch and jewelry business with a large prices catalogue and 1 700 illustrations. He offers care advice for watches and articles on diamonds and precious stones. Also notes Carl A Parsons created a gray powder from carbon under high pressure and electric heating that resembles diamond dust.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. G. Morris
No. da Fifth Avenue
Chicago
Tr Kaders
C. A. Parsons
Post
de Saine
Morris
A Radical Cure for Epileptic Fits
A letter to the editor offers a claimed cure for epilepsy by HK. G. Root of New York. The author promises a free sample bottle and treatise to any sufferer who provides a postal and express address, asserting thousands cured. The note also contains a general aphorism about people flattery and truth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bo Strong
HK. G. Root
M. C
Pearl Street
New York
P.O
T. A. Succus
M.C
Pearle
Catarrh Cured and Free Recipe Offer
A clergyman healed from catarrh after many failures plus a free recipe offered by Prof J A Lawrence at 84 Warren Street New York City. Two miniature railways planned in Pekin for the Emperor. Illinois reports 383 800 pensioners annual payments totaling 4 344 164 dollars.
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J. A. Lawrence
Warren Street
New York City
Tilinois
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Busingas College
Buffalo
N.Y
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True & CO
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Reliabey
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H. B. Bryant & Son
Chicace
Morey Mfg
Wis
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