Sitting Bull and the exhibition era notes
The Register reports Sitting Bull with a colossal headwear reference and a $200 monthly salary during his current engagement. It notes rising rents in New Orleans tied to the upcoming exhibition, plus wheat shipments from San Francisco to multiple destinations, and General Crinemaax of North Carolina praising tobacco as a cure with reported medical successes using tobacco leaf compresses.
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Sitting Bull
Daniel Webster
Howse
New Orleans
San Francisco
Great Britain
Belgium
Central America
T. L. Crinemaax
North Carolina
Army staff rules and curious science items from old news
Lory Drrrenin bans married men from his India staff to keep a lean aide de camp corps. Norway sent 52 skeletons of Lapps to Europe for science. Wild western animals disappear. California bears and puma decline. Two tailed rats arise from a surgical tail graft. Inventors pledge baled air as power for tricycles. A Washington veteran with 45 years in the army dies, never taking a commission.
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Lory Drrrenin
India
Rockies
California
Washington, D.C
Testimony from Khartoum describes Arab horsemen threat
The London Times correspondent in Khartoum reports Arab horsemen overwhelming numbers injuring and driving off troops with spear and Remington fire. He notes utter demoralization among our men and extols the black soldiers as the only dependable force. A reader describes a boy's death by swallowing glass in marmalade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Powens
London Times
Khartoum
Gordon Pasha
Saati Bey
Saati
London
Glass in plum tarts and a massive Santa Cruz blast
Reports recount two family incidents where preserved fruit in glass bottles caused glass fragments to be found in plum tarts after cooks knocked off bottle tops. Separately, near Santa Cruz a 4000 pound blasting operation blew a mountainside to clear rail route, creating a dam that redirected a river and left no rock or sand behind.
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Santa Cruz
California
Gibraltar
Orton Tichborne case shocks 19th century law views
The lengthy English trial over the Tichborne claimant ends with Arthur Orton found guilty of perjury after 188 days, despite evidence both for and against his identity. The case, tied to Sir Charles Doughty’s claimed estates, exposes contradictions between memory, manner, and provenance.
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Arthur Orton
Thomas Castro
Roger Charles Tichborne
England
Sir Charles Doughty
Chicago
Daily Nes
Bella
Rio Janeiro
Orton
Australia
Hopkins
Tichborne
Roger
Melbourne
Owen Lewis
Lewis Owen
Mind Reader Witness in Court and The Eliot Lewes Confusion
A court witness, Mr Brown, claims to be a professional mind reader who reads thoughts like a printed page and refuses to read a legal blank. The Paris Beacon notes uncertainty about George Eliot and George Lewes, correcting claims that Eliot was irreligious and attributing irreligion to Lewes instead.
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Mr. Brown
Paris Beacon
George Eliot
George Lewes
Absent mindedness and the forgetful guest tale
A hotel clerk describes absent minded guests and notable lapses. He recalls a lavishly forgetful man who ordered meals twice and bought a paper, plus a bridegroom who forgot his wife's name and a Dr John So and So misnamed bride. A Border Telegraph anecdote ends with a dramatic Granada train incident.
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Guesa
Tve
New York
Bank of England
John So-and-so and Wife
Jack
Sam
Jennie
Jennie Odamit
Virginia
Richmond
Notable Garve Jon a Cemetery Described in Detail
The text recounts the Garve Jon a cemetery as a silent city of niches along walls where each casket has a wall niche labeled with the deceased name or Propriedad purchased status. It contrasts middle class bare plots for the poor with rich garden-like enclosures, chapels, and monumental sculpture, all set in a willow and cypress forest adjacent to a marble church.
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de Amicis
Spain
Garve- Jona
Adornments Across Ceylon and Curious Pension Names
Descriptions of Ceylonese attire show women and men bedecked with gold and silver ornaments, including ear and toe ornaments and hair adornments, with a two year old boy wearing a silver key. The second feature surveys odd pension applicants with unique names such as Praise God Barebones, Christly Crow, and John Drinklager, noting humorous and telling name-alignments with wartime lives and occupations.
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Ceylon
Siar
John Bunyan
Lemuel Warren
Charles Dickens
Pilgrim Crazylouse
Pennsylvania
Pilgrim
D. Slatecypler
Christly Crow
Satan
Illinois
Christ
Bethlehem
Judea
J. Christ
St. Louis
J. 8. Limberley
Sem
Charleston
Isaac Walkingstick
Gen.Thomas
Nashville
John Drinklager
Good Templars
Vermont
John Smith
Jfashington Star
Journeyings of the Dead across seas and rivers
The article surveys ancient beliefs about the dead crossing waters to reach the living world. It cites Kundrun, Atli, Odin’s golden vessel, German psychopompoi, ship burials from King Hakon the Good, the Scild and Sceaf legends, and Alaric’s burial by sea, framing these as immemorial customs.
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Kundrun
Krimhilt
Atli
Odin
Bravall
Valhalla
Hakon the Good
Norway
Scild
Sceaf
Alaric
Mediterranean
Buriel
Archery as a Pastime in English Summer Life
Archery evolved from warfare to a beloved English pastime, enjoyed by men and women on lawns during the summer. The sport builds core strength, offers healthy exercise, and links to historic events from Hastings to Agincourt. Tudor and royal patronage sustained it, with laws mandating bows and arrows, and Queen Elizabeth renowned for long-bow skill.
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England
Harold
Hastings
Crocy
Agincourt
Jatiner
Richard
Henry the Fifth
Ivery
Doneland
Elizabeth
Charles
What Could He Expect as a Balloon Aeronaut Story
A landlord refuses shelter to balloonist Coxwell, who later emerges from the clouds to confront fear and curiosity. In the village, locals retreat and apologize, asking what a man from the skies could expect on earth. The piece also notes Holland's 145,694 tillers and that 6 percent own their holdings.
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Coxwell
Lnds
Holland
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Sigmund
Balder
Hringhorin
Horrokin
Beauty
Thor
J. A. Harrison
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