Miss Maup Banks Triumphs On New England Stage
Miss Maup Banks earns success in two months of stage life with Camille performances, while Gen Banks shows pride at her progress. A Pennsylvania Governor-elect and a colored editor exchange quips over a newspaper subscription as a joke about longevity. Also notes on circus slang, a Newburyport skipper's world voyage planned for a magazine, magnesium lighting costs, and a London court scene with a donkey test case.
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Maup Banks
New England
Gen. Banks
Camille
Braver
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Beaver
Gen. Beaver
F. A. Crotomayx
Newburyport
Globe
Cloudman
Panama
Isthmus
North America
Behrings Strait
Asiatic
Suez
Mediterranean
Gibraltar
Shetland Islands
Iceland
Greenland
London
Solomon
Bagdad
Lord Salisbury
Gladstone
Waist-Compressing Belt Sparks NY Fashion Stunt
A New York tailor unveils a linen waist-compressor with curved whale-bones and buckles designed to slim corpulent men. He argues corpulence is rising and urges users to have wives or valets tighten it beyond comfort, noting its popularity among aldermanic-sized men in dress attire. The ad style note also mentions Cravs Spreckess blaming a gin-fuelled king with adventurers for a royal split.
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New York
King and court cost figures and sugar production notes
The piece discusses royal salaries including the King at 50000 dollars a year and household expenses, Spreckels' clashes with the King over loans, and a tale of a deaf visitor praising the President. It also covers sugar production data for 1885-86 with Cuba and Java declines, beet sugar gains in Russia, and a Washington night school for adults over 40 with anecdotes from students and teachers.
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Cuba
Java
Russia
The Washington Fly Describes a Relentless Intruder
A humor piece recounts a writer's battle with a single persistent fly in his room. The fly performs aerial feats on the manuscript, bathes in ink, braids legs, and hinders progress with comic mischief. The tale ends with a failed capture and the narrator longing for home and drink.
Mail from Arkansaw prison inmate charms father
A prisoner in the Arkansaw penitentiary writes home to his father describing his longing to return to the countryside, saying he would rather plow with a jumping coulter than stay in town and requesting a hidden bottle of liquor. He notes no alcohol since leaving home and wonders if Bob Caney has sold something unspecified.
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Arkansaw Penitentiary
Par
Tam
Coulter
Bob Caney
How Adventurous Females Attract the Opposite Sex
A Rochester Post-Express item notes street flirtations rising in practice with women using signals like umbrellas and ribbed sashes to invite male attention. It describes coded meanings for various umbrella positions and the social acceptability of "respectable" women engaging in such encounters.
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Rochester Post-Express
Training Two Hummingbirds at California Health Resort
An invalid young woman at San Rafael, California, tames two wild hummingbirds by feeding them honey and sweetened water. The birds become tame, share a honey-filled flower, and even sip from a spoon while she coaxes them into the parlor window. They cooperate to drive away intruders and later allow a single bird to take honey drops from her hand.
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San Rafel
California
St. James
The Woman Who Never Slanders
The piece extols a type of woman who shuns gossip and public quarrels, focusing on private affairs. It notes such women avoid social arenas like tennis grounds and balls, making them unseen by many men who chase leisure and gossip.
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San Francisco
Sumner defeats Lincoln bill quips and a carriage ride
A cabinet figure recalls Sumner’s push to block Lincoln's Louisiana reconstruction bill. Lincoln doubts the tactic yet invites Sumner to escort Mrs. Lincoln at inauguration events, illustrating Lincoln's generous diplomacy and political restraint during a tense period.
Andrew Jackson and the dinner table rebuke tale
The piece recounts a dinner scene with Andrew Jackson where a boastful guest declares he always votes against him. Jackson replies he has fought battles for the country so that the guest may enjoy that privilege, illustrating quick wit. It also notes a Southern judge’s sharp retort about burning Yankees. COLLEGES FOR WOMEN section discusses advances in women’s education, listing Oberlin, Mount Holyoke, Vassar, and U.S. universities, and highlights growth in female teachers and higher education access.
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Andrew Jackson
Gen. Jackson
Jackson
Congress
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Philadelphia
Boston
Oberlins College
Mount Holyoke
Vassar
Michigan University
Harvard
Cornell
United States
Canada
Battle of the Boyne Seen Through Loyalist Eyes
Report recounts the 1690 Battle of the Boyne near the River Boyne in Ireland between William III and James II. It notes William’s bravery despite a shoulder wound, James II’s retreat to Dublin, and a remark about changing kings. The piece links the Orangemen’s origins to the event and includes a Kentucky editor’s quip about a loaded pistol and liquor.
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Boyne
Ireland
William III
Orange
James II
Dublin
France
William
Order of Orangemen
Kentucky
Insomnia and Sleep as a Positive Function in Medicine
The article argues sleep is a positive physiological state distinct from narcotic torpor. It notes Napoleon and Gladstone as examples of strong sleep control, critiques physicians for underestimating insomnia, and urges detailed examination of organ excitability using tools like the sphygmograph and optometer to diagnose and treat insomnia scientifically.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
William Gladstone
Found the Place at Woman's Exchange Sign
A Duval County farmer in Jacksonville notices a swinging sign reading Woman's Exchange on Ocean Street. He exclaims he has discovered it and jokes about bringing his wife there to swap her, claiming the town is “whoopin’ things.” His quip reflects local humor in a Jacksonville Herald item.
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Pennsylvania
New York
Cleveland
Gilsey House
Washington
D. C
Ned
Ocean Street
Duval County
Burbridge
Jess
Jacksonville
Fla. Herald Po
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New Harmony, Indiana
Cruavs
Sandwich Islands
Jose
Spreckels
Iyuman
Evenin
Drhansaw Praveler
Sumner
Lincoln
White House
Senate
Louisiana
Confederate States
Wade
Ohio
Massachussetts
Mrs. Lincoln
Duliaiapolis
Colleges For Women
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