Variety of curiosities and oddities from across the nation
The Register highlights a Nevada exhibition of a tomato-like potato vine with green-tinged tubers growing above ground. It also notes Louis XII’s fashion timing, a Massachusetts fig tree surviving seacoast frost cycles, and Sonoma County’s railroad forest experiment using sawed trees and stumps as ties.
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Nevada
Mr. Grovur Lest
Scituate
Massachusetts
Sonoma County
California
Lingual Sacks and Society Notes From Early 1900s
A mosaic of brief items: language roots traced from sack to sac in many tongues. Charleston women students wear blue black cashmere with velvet trim. New York’s Grange estate to yield to streets. New Haven and Newark test small scale technical education. a Nebraska Baptist pastor supplements salary with shoemaking while preaching. pioneer Martin Murray of California dies wealthy after leading emigrant trains. Schleswig-Holstein bans Danish speech among locals. Danish folk song banishes birthday revelry. a microscope link to cholera is explored.
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Woman’s College
Charleston
South Carolina
Microscopes Reveal Hidden Germs and Cotton Seed Wealth
A London experiment amplifies a cholera germ 2 000 000 times, showing tiny life as large as a human hand. Cotton seed yields 35 gallons of oil, 22 pounds of cotton, and 75 pounds of cake per volume, with total value around 19 dollars. Madeira wine remains popular in Washington, enjoying historical imports and striking demijohn prices from 24 to 49 dollars per gallon.
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London
Bonanza
Washington
Supreme’ Court
Alexandria
Josiah Lee
Baltimore
Prince of Wales plans Roche estate development to boost Cornwall coast
Watts as real estate speculator and heir to the Duchy of Cornwall owns 100 acres of Roche land facing the sea. He proposes laying out building lots at Roche opposite Padstow a fashionable summer resort. Proceeds aim to relieve debts and fund Wales pockets via high prices paid by rich buyers.
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Watts
Duchy of Cornwall
Roche
Cornwall
Padstow
Prince's Land
Wales
Abalone Shell Baby Foot Finds Stirring California Mystery
A fragment of an abalone shell with an infant's shoe and worn sole was found near Redwood, California, suggesting a very young child. The shell contains a decayed foot from a drowned infant carried by tide, with decay revealing the ankle. A drowning incident off the coast seven years ago is linked to a missing child, a root remnant noted as well.
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Redwood
California
Evolution Debated: Man From Reptiles or Ancestral Ape
The WAtWinian view suggests descent from extinct hominid ancestors while Mr Candlwéll, at a Montreal meeting, argues mammals including humans likely descended from reptiles. The platypus is cited as a lowly mammal with birdlike eyes and reptilelike egg structure, provoking thought on life’s origins and the belief among some scientists that human ancestry lies in lower life forms. Burka notes FruGazty’s founding principle that all riches have limits.
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Repille
Canldtwéll
Montreal
Demorest
The Mocking Bird Dropping Song In Flight
Maurice Thompson recounts witnessing a mockingbird perform its rare “dropping song” near St. Mark's river. He details the bird’s mounting and descending flights ending in a spiraling fall while delivering an ecstatic, powerful chorus. The piece reflects on genius and nature’s music as observed in Georgia and Florida locations.
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St. Mark's River
North
Georgia
Tallahassee
Florida
Mars
Uncle Jo
Georgian Hills
Keats
Shelley
Maurice Thompson
Altantie Monthly
Chinese Burial Grounds In Shanghai Described In Odd Reverie
The narrative surveys Shanghai burial grounds as vast land misused for waste while gravesites persist. It notes local customs, mentions French authorities and colonial tension over cemetery access, and contrasts old and new burials with varnished coffins left exposed before being covered or bricked.
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Shanghai
Chinese death customs and imperial deodorizing proposal
A discussion notes Chinese burial practices, noting above ground graves and grave mounds that are tended on anniversaries. It recalls offerings, bones, and discarded riches, with mentions of cremation unlikely and a shift to sewer-based disposal. The piece critiques current systems as unhealthy and suggests an imperial edict for deodorizing.
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China
Collins
Middy
German Barbers Terrify a Visitor in Humorous Tale
A St. Louis Globe Democrat humorous excerpt recalls an American in Germany who endures an overzealous barber. The narrator mockingly describes shaves, lathers, and nerve-wracking handling of the neck as German barbers supposedly pursue new customers with relentless routines.
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Germany
St. Louis Globe Democrat
Vultures swoop as tiger is skinned and eaten in clearing
A sportsman in India describes how vultures gather around a tiger carcass once its skin is removed. In twenty minutes the birds strip the remains to a skeleton while two jackals skim the edges. The scene ends with a note on marital speech rules.
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India
Guudh
Elephant tales of peril and power in jungle clash
A Minnesota Bazoo recounts three elephant stories. Major Rogers escapes a charging beast by climbing a tree, aided by a fallen Wellington book. another tale praises a war elephant guarding a royal standard until its driver perishes. The narrative shifts to an old Indian battle where a steadfast elephant preserves the flag, then a comic digression on domestic life and fashion at the end.
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Major Rogers
Rogers
India
Poona
Falls of St Anthony visit sparks chaotic family voyage
The Brandyshanks visit Minneapolis and the Falls of St Anthony with three children and a dog. The scene blends humor and danger as the dog tumbles near the mill race while shouting, warnings, and family banter illustrate a chaotic excursion from a city landmark to a dangerous wash of water.
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Brandyshanks
Minneapolis
Falls of St. Anthony
Tandyshanka
Pee Fey
Plain and Simple Speech and the Slough of Affectation
The piece argues against pretentious diction in newspapers and public discourse urging the use of plain language. It contrasts "localities" and "residences" with simple terms, warns that over-elaborate styles dull vernacular speech, and cites examples from journalism and everyday speech to illustrate the tension between formality and common speech.
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Brick-Vards
Old Sol Miller Nominated for State Senate by Republicans
In Troy Kansas editor Old Sol Miller, famed for sharp pen and irreverent style, was nominated for the State Senate by Republicans. A religious meeting opposed him, threatening withdrawal if he ran, but Miller defended his 30 years of publishing and warned he would publish every hidden story if defeated. The meeting adjourned after a long, tense silence.
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Old Sol Miller
Troy
Kansas
State Senate
Old Sol
Bret
Aufor
Betten
Paper bottles from Germany and Austria described
The passage notes paper bottles are largely manufactured in Germany and Austria. They are made from rags, wood pulp and straw, coated on both sides with defibrinated blood lime and alumina. They are produced in two parts and subjected to high pressure. They will hold spirits and acids and are said to be inexpensive and durable.
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Germany
Austria
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