Quotation miscellany from The Register column items
A rapid roundup of curious notes and anecdotes from The Register touches on Anglo American businessmen, Victoria's health, a Chicago burglary tale, twins named Brilliantine and Bay Rum, Koch lymph, Idaho mineral yields, taste distribution on the tongue, black eye concealers in New York, a Honduran revolution, Berlin coffee by electricity, Americanistes congress in Paris, insomnia and suicide, and Emperor William’s paternal policies and German military spend.
Fragmentary note hints at cultural and linguistic observations
The readable fragment mentions an elderly figure named Christehee Colambu, described as a foreign discoverer who is devout. It loosely alludes to intellectual activity descending through families and branching into many forms, likened to a digestion table, but the text is incomplete and lacks clear events or dates.
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Christehee Colambu
Seaker
Spectacular fortunes and public concerns
The piece cites a Spanish nobleman famed for fighting bulls and a wealthy relative who profited from bullfighting, notes the Inter-State Commerce Commission’s alarming 1894 rail accident toll with 1 972 deaths and 20 028 injuries, laments preventable deaths, discusses Brazil’s lottery reforms shifting funds to a state school, and critiques church funded by poor parishioners’ savings. It also surveys naval power projections with Britain ahead, and questions the value of grand Philadelphia churches versus practical religion and humanitarian work.
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Inter-State Commerce Commission
United States
Congress
San Paulo
Brazil
Philadelphia
Sam Jones
Sodas of Natrona County Sold to Foreign Syndicate
A syndicate of English and French capitalists buys Natrona County Wyoming’s 240 acre soda lake property for 2 million dollars. The deposits are nearly inexhaustible and 96 percent pure soda. Baron Debesgne leads the group, promising a large new plant to exploit the pale sulphate to carbonate process, cutting production costs by half.
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Woyming
Natrona County
Wyoming
Baron Debesgne
France
Stanley As He Is
The general view of Henry M. Stanley portrays him as a large man, though he is actually short and thick-set with nearly white hair. A photo misrepresents him, and his relaxed gait and casual posture mask his years among African tribes, while his earnest passion for Attica shines when he speaks.
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Henry M. Stanley
Mr. Stanley
Africa
Attica
Hig Earnestrass
My Cake Rule From Good Housekeeping Says Bake With Judgment
A humorous verse describes a baker sharing a personal rule for cake making. It cites variable ingredient amounts like flour eggs sugar and butter, notes adjustments for cream or milk, and emphasizes oven heat and judgment over fixed quantities. The poem attributes the rule to Good Housekeeping.
No 29 Hemlock Place Ghosts and a New Life
Hubert Minton loses his fortune after a long legal fight and plans to wed artist Ethel Langdon. The Hemlock Place house proves haunted, deterring tenants until Ethel confesses a prank blamed on an agent named Avraham Muggins. The couple ends up living there, poor but content, with the ghost finally laid to rest.
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Hemlock Place
Mr. Minton
Mr. Muggins
Hubert Minton
Mr. Abraham
Minton
Hubert
St. Lawrence
Major Carson
New York Art Emporium
Ethel Langdon
Diana
Cleopatra
Miss Langdon
Ethel
Tarlan
Herbert
Thousand Island
Miriam
Aunty
Jithel
Granny Higgins
Miss Ethel
Muggins
Huubert
A Story of Congressman Rogers
A humorous anecdote about Arkansas Congressman John Rodgers in a barber chair. The barber asks to remove his collar, he complies and unbuttons his shirt, explaining the collar is made with his shirt. The Washington Post attributes the tale.
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John Rodgers
Arkansas
Rogers
Yo’ Collah
Jes’ de Collah
Rodgers
Washington Post
Locomotive Tale Ends in Tragic Track Collision
An old engineer recounts a fateful run aboard locomotive 142 with Bill Sikes. A sudden sight on the track leads to a fatal collision at speed, leaving the crew and listeners haunted by the grim aftermath and the ragged laughter of bystanders.
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Bill Sikes
Bill
Man freed from postal box and counterfeit silver scare in Nuremberg
A traveler in Munich wedged a letter in a crowded post box and nearly got stuck by a ring caught on brass teeth. In Nuremberg a man arrested for counterfeit silver was released after officers proved his money was genuine. the purse he bought from a street vendor was made from quicksilver-impregnated sheep-skin bags, explaining the odd lustre and texture. The man was kept overnight in the old town.
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Munich
Nuremberg
Spain
Beecher's House Becomes A Brooklyn Boarding Home
The former Henry Ward Beecher residence on Hicks and Clark streets in Brooklyn’s Heights has been transformed into a boarding house. The once grand library and living room are now partitioned into bedrooms, with the butler’s pantry stripped of fittings. A writer notes the change from the deathbed days to present utility as visitors pass the weathered brown stone stoop.
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Henry Ward Beecher
New York Evening Telegram
Hicks Street
Clark Street
the Heights
Brooklyn
Beecher
Gen. King
Portrait of a Dying Era and a Bridge Photograph
The narrator recalls entering a library half an hour after Beecher's death and finding Maj. Pond seated at his table with books and papers as if he had just left. A large photograph of the Brooklyn Bridge rested on an easel, while the house shows rapid decay and change.
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Beecher
Maj. Pond
Brooklyn Bridge
Two Odd Lawsuits Over a Punny Pig and a Duck
A writer cites two peculiar court battles from the South. In Dahomey two Black men, a Baptist minister and a Methodist elder, fought over a pig valued at 50 cents, spending years and over $1,000 in costs before a half share compromise, the pig dying soon after. In Tallahatchie County Mississippi, two white men argued over a puddle duck believed to be mallard, a seven to eight year case that ended with each paying all costs though the duck was worth 20 cents.
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South
Dahomey
Baptist Church
Methodist Church
Tallahatchie County
Miss
Crystallized frost scenes outshine lab crystals
The New York Ledger extols frost art as wonders surpassing synthetic crystals. Ice-storm panes, bejeweled with diamonds and lacy vapor, transform windows into fairy landscapes and inspire poetic visions. The piece notes frost cartoons and frost-made landscapes as rich sources for vivid art.
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New York Ledger
Imagination Kills a Helena Woman After Dream Forecast
Mrs Rebecca Byrnes a respected Helena Ark woman famed for intellect and piety summoned her children claiming a dead husband warned her of ten days left She calmly bid them farewell then died exactly at the predicted hour Doctors say death resulted from imagination The Philadelphia Times notes the bold superstition and tragedy of credulous belief.
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Rebecca Byrnes
Helena
Ark
Topeka
Kansas
New Orleans
Sedalia
Earth
Chg
Philadelphia Times
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He Is
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