The Register notes on heels and oddities in society
A scatter of brief items covers Helen Hunt Jackson's death linked to a staircase fall and Victorian fashion, Nickerson the reclusive Marylander, Valencia cholera memories, nitroglycerine shipments refused by ships, Battenberg lineage, Judge Chronowich’s attire and manners, Berry Wall’s financial ruin, Nasby on Josh Billings, ex minister Tart on Russia and transport, Russian tariffs on petroleum, Bishop Cannon’s Mormon leadership, and his muscular frame and dyed hair.
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Helen Hunt Jackson
Amusing Tale of Ill Woman Aboard Steamer
An AnApy guest recalls Mary Anderson visiting a seasick woman at sea. The ill passenger enjoyed Miss Anderson's cheerful singing from outside the state room, then heard the same voice calling for Joe to return to her cabin, eliciting a wry smile as circumstances altered.
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AnApy
Mary Anderson
Miss Anderson
Joe
Miss Junta Fiuercuer and Salt Lake Editors Highlight West
A fragment from a New York Tribune note remarks on Emery Storrs and frontier editors in Salt Lake City. It quotes stumping in multiple belts and a contact with State Committee Chairman Cooper, reflecting regional newspaper life and literary voices of the era.
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How a Thermometer Is Made In A Lecture Tale
The text explains step by step how to form a thermometer from soft glass with a bubble, blown bulb, filling with heated air and mercury, and sealing after marking freezing and boiling points at 32 and 212 degrees. It notes bore evenness and bulb size affect accuracy. A lady asks her husband if the talk tired him. his sharp reply says it bed me a good deal.
Vision on Patmos Calmly Sought by Hopeful Voice
A poetic plea seeks illumination beyond doubt and fatigue to see as the ancients did on sea-girt Patmos. The speaker longs for heavenly sight, healing leaves, and a stream that ends sorrow, wishing for a dawn where night ends and day reigns. The verse mirrors a yearning for direct divine revelation.
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H. H. Newhall
Sweet Kiss Turns Sour in Dog Flavor Folly
A humorous verse from Harvard Lampoon narrates a maid with a poodle flirting with her lover who envies the kiss. She kisses the man, he asks if it was sweet, then jokes that it tastes like dog as he heads off with his cane.
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Hull
Detroit Tree Press
A Narrow Escape by Canoe Through Blue Mountain Rapids
Captain Scarboro recounts getting lost near the Oregon frontier after chasing a deer. Nick Piper guides a perilous canoe descent through canyon rapids, pursued by hostile tribes. They reach a lake and are saved when U.S. Army regulars, led by Scarboro's own company, open fire, ending the danger and celebrating the rescue.
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Nick Piper
Kenyon
Piper
Arite
Repid
Bogan
Nievk Diper
Iaprang
United States
Nick Piper and I Advance Despite Threats
The passage notes the speaker and Nick Piper moving toward the front with no fear of further molestation, indicating continued peril yet resolved bravery as they press onward.
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Nick Piper
Roses and Lincoln at the Bazaar
A narrator describes courting Abraham Lincoln at a crowded bazaar, presenting roses as he ascends a staircase. Lincoln accepts the flowers without apparent recognition, promising a final greeting. The scene ends with his smile and departure, leaving the narrator moved by the encounter with the historic figure.
Flower Language in Japan and the Window Vase Proposal
A Gardener's Monthly excerpt explains a Japanese custom where a suitor plants a gift in an empty flower pot outside a daugh ter's home to formally propose. If accepted, the plant is cared for as a sign of consent. if not, the gift is discarded. The act occurs when mother and daughter are at home and unseen by them.
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Japan
Reminiscences on Gordon Show Human Side of Heroism
In a New England Century piece Mr Stannard recalls Gen Gordon’s life of sacrifice while revealing a human flaw. The memoir describes Gordon hosting poor boys at his Gravesend home and a young intruder who receives a morning bath and cleansing from head to foot.
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Gordon
Stannard
Gravesend
Fragmented humorous miscellany from 19th century papers
A collage of quips and jokes from various periodicals including playful witticisms about fortune, preachers, animals, and social scenes. Notable snippets reference Ishite Hall Lies, Carl Pretzel, and humorous exchanges about marriage, appetite, and taste, with caricatured dialect pieces from Detroit Free Press and others.
Mysterious Joke About Court Adjournment
A Maine court delays for witness Sarah Mony arriving, jokes adjournment without Sarah mony. A man laughs later at the pun and tries to tell his wife, who fails to grasp it at first but then says she will in five minutes.
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Sarah Mony
Sarah
Mary Mony
Lewistore
The Origin of Tea Legend and Confucius Eye Tale
The ancient Chinese legend says the first tea bush grew from the spot where Confucius cut off his eyelids in anger for sleep. It adds a moral urging readers to have a purposeful aim beyond mere existence and to work for a meaningful good in the world.
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Confucius
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