Educated trout and world notes cross a busy page
A miscellany recaps in terse items from The Register including a Ohio aquaria tale of intelligent trout, wheat market optimism, Mrs Tom Thumb’s failed show, Marquise Ripon’s wealth, San Francisco sanitation critique, a Pennsylvania heir disinheritance, Everett Fara’s eccentric Ohio land holdings, Judge Rockwell’s career, fashion links to the Prince of Wales, Albert Edward’s wardrobe influence, and a Tennessee wedding coat crafted in Greenville in 1838 or 1839.
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Everett Fara
Richmond
Summit County
Ohio
England
London
Andrew Johnson
Tennessee
New Orleans
Johnson
Greenville
H. T. Price
Regarded Coat and Wealth's Shifting Fortunes of Kane
A torn coat with missing buttons is noted as well preserved apart from losses. The obituary details Prof Samuel Kent Kane of Oberlin, once rich through oil and mining ventures, repeatedly ruined and revived, ending with a varied fortune. It also mentions John Hay’s brick mansion plans, London vaccination figures, and Tebbs’s anti vaccination activism.
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Samuel Kent Kane
Kane
Ohio
Oberlin College
Standard Oil Company
Colorado
Arizona
Boston
Silk Making in France Faces Decline and Competition
The French silk industry has gradually weakened over a decade with roughly 70 000 workers ten years ago and 85 000 five years ago, as Italian English German Swiss and American producers offer cheaper silk made by hand at home. Lyons dyes once secret now copied internationally, adulteration dilutes quality, and France imports millions of pounds of silk. A stray note links Turk executions and English umbrellas as curious coincidences.
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France
Italy
England
Germany
Switzerland
America
Lyons
Europe
Mark Twain and Cable Portraits from St Nicholas
Edmund Alton in St Nicholas recounts George W Cable and Mark Twain with sharp detail. The piece contrasts Cable’s slender grace with Twain’s large head and sleepy eyes while recalling their early careers in New Orleans Hartford and Washington and noting Twain’s rise to fame through Innocents Abroad and Roughing It.
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George W. Cable
Cable
New Orleans Picayune
New Orleans
Century Magazine
Mark Twain
Washington
Leve
Senator Stewart
Alta Califorquia
New York Tribune
Hartford
Buffalo
Elmira
Twain
Emmira
Europe
Trollope
Blain
Missouri
Senatorial Chirography and Deciphered Handwriting
A narrator recalls deciphering reckless Senate handwriting turning scraps into understanding. He describes twisting notes and reading guardian signatures, revealing how he befriended lawmakers by translating their own unreadable marks. The anecdote ends with a senator claiming clear handwriting despite the confusion.
Fables and Morals of Animals From an Old Ledger
A fragment from a vintage compilation presents fables The Wolf and the Goat The Fox and the Trap The Peasant and the Robber Each tale delivers a blunt moral about greed danger cleverness and luck The dialogue pits animals and a peasant against human folly in rustic lessons preserved from antique print.
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Detrot Tree Press
Velasquez Las Meninas and the Knightly Red Cross
Clara Erskine Clement notes that Velasquez last great work Las Meninas captures a whole scene rather than a portrait. The royal family maids and the painter are shown with the king and queen mirrored, Infanta at center, a red cross painted by Philip gives the painter knighthood in a famed compliment. The painting’s color is dull olive-green gray yet its power remains enduring.
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Velasquez
Spain
Infanta
Philip
Order of Santiago
Clara Erskine Clement
St. Nicholas
Raymond as a Reporter and Daniel Webster’s Pause
Henry J. Raymond, famed for longhand speed over stenography, earned praise from Daniel Webster for accurate reports. Webster waited for Raymond to cover a Senate speech on the fugitive slave law, remarking that the "little fellow" would report correctly and arrive the next day.
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Henry J. Raymond
Benton
Daniel Webster
Senate
Raymond
Webster
New York Bulletin
The Question of a Call to Pulpit Preaching
An eminent divine tells a youthful aspirant the issue is not if you are called to preach but if the people have a call to bear you. The Boston Globe quotes this reflection on vocation and audience in religious life.
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San Francisco
Boston Globe
Gagus stalk mystery from Gauputil Island tale
A ship captain reveals a curious item from Gauputil Island, a gaudily painted stalk known as gagus that natives drink as a narcotic. The captain explains gagus growth, its cactus-like form, and the brutal effects on natives including bone softening, wasting, and eventual death, with a warning on its potency.
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Gauptil Island
Molucca Group
Gagus
Gaupul Island
Paradise
Gauptil
Intolerance in Russia and press crackdown reported
Stepniak’s London Times account describes a near collapse of the Russian press under the reign, eight newspapers banned, only two Liberal papers allowed, political discussions forbidden, major magazines suppressed, and a 125 work index limiting sale of books including Lyell.
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Stepniak
London Times
Golhs
Russia
Slovo
Messenger of
Europe
Lyell
Man
Adam
Bravery in a Trying Moment on Prospect Avenue
A Sunday night highway robbery attempt on Prospect Avenue ended with a citizen’s loud cry for help. A resident grabbed a shotgun, patrolled the lake bank, and kept watch until the patrol wagon arrived, while townsfolk in a saloon and a neighbor recounted the alarm and witnessed mock valor and surprise in a crowded scene.
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Prospect Avenue
Peck
Not Exactly Murder A Detroit Hotel Farce Unfolds
Report from a Detroit hotel describes a third floor disturbance with a man crying murder and a veiled woman allowing the crowd to pry open room No 40. The punchline reveals the culprit was a porous plaster being removed from a husband by his wife. An ironic aside notes babies swallow about 1500 thimbles yearly.
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Pennsylvania
Detroit
Law
Continental Congress
Detroit Free Press
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Hantrorp Times
Tom Thumb
New London
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India
Carleton Gardens
Putney
Yorkshire
Lincolnshire
Connecticut
Courant
Julius Rockwell
Supreme Court of Massachusetts
Rockwell
State House of Representatives
House of Representatives of Congress
United States Senate
Edward Everett
Henry Wilson
New York
Prince of Wales
Albert Edward
Washington Star
John Hay
Sixteenth
Sixteenth Street
London Local Board
Tebbs
Tubbs
Chicago
Mr. Clemens
George S’. Edmunds
Edmund Alton
Herzen
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