Oddities and notices from The Register
A digest of curious items and brief notes including an oxger weighing 250 pounds and sixteen feet long near Port Townsend. oil prospects in California. political runnings in Kentucky. a Nile irrigation project in Egypt. an escaped ostrich in California. various opinions on vaccination and religion. divorce law revisions. a returned lost ten dollar bill in New Reprorp. booming shipbuilding. a Youngstown soldier 12 years old in the Civil War. North Carolina’s mixed-race congressman. a Spanish grand duchess into poker. dressmakers fined for overtime. sleeping car porters’ perquisites in Arkansas. a Rutland man’s facial neuralgia surgery. a 75-year-old baronet’s marriage to a 16-year-old. a schooner’s storm rescue. a Cincinnati will with china dogs. and Marysnrr I. Parken importing English servants to California.
Curious Sleep Story and Anecdotes From Across the Nation
The article reports a man in a deep trance in England, sleeping thirteen days and a half with rare rigidity and no visible respiration. It also recounts Miss Mary Macerippen who claimed to have seen all Presidents from Washington to Cleveland, her Annapolis birth, and a fort fort recital of 1812 era Baltimore. It includes the California bandit Black Bart, born Duantes E Boies, his Civil War service in Illinois, and his later life in Oregon Illinois before moving to Montana with a happy family, though a life of roaming terror to stage lines in California remains.
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England
Alexandria Palace
Mary Macerippen
Washington
Cleveland
Annapolis
Baltimore City
Fort McHenry
John Howard Payne
Baltimore
Monumental City
Duantes E. Boies
California
Black Bart
Decatur
116Th
Illinois
Oregon
Ill
Montana
Nervous Disease Expert Probes Murder Motive and Oil Stats
Dr Hasmann argues murder always has a motive, contrasting human cruelty with animal slaughter, in a North American Review essay. The text links literature and science, then shifts to petroleum industry statistics for the past year, detailing crude oil production 360 million barrels, value about 900 million, 60,500 wells, and stock changes up to Nov 1 1887.
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Dr. Hasmann
North American Review
London
Hammond
Ohio
Wave Motor Nears Completion at Point Lobos Cal
A San Francisco report describes a wave powered pump under construction at Point Lobos to grind water for sprinkling streets flushing sewers and driving cable cars. The device uses one piston with a 3 barrel per minute rate and can operate up to 24 hours if conditions permit.
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Point Lobos
Cal
San Francisco
The Richest Woman in America Miss Julia Rhinelander
A Baltimore American summary notes Miss Julia Rhinelander of New York is the richest unmarried woman in America with wealth over 50 million dollars mainly in real estate and mortgages. It argues she is not beauty, is private about her wealth, and has attracted many suitors despite avoiding notoriety.
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Julia Rhinelander
New York
America
Mary Garrett
Drexel
Philadelphia
Baltimore
John D. Rockafeller
Brooklyn
Cincinnati
Garrett
Rockefeller
Rhinelander
Miss Rhinelander
Amerea
Julia
York Delfer
Sulky Engine Tells of a Locomotive's Temperament
An engineer on the New York and New Haven line at Stamford declares his engine is sulky and stubborn not due to faults but needs rest. He insists the locomotive is large, sound, and well supplied but refuses to perform until laid up for a week, after which it will run fine again.
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New York and
New Haven Road
Stamford
Dutinqury
Harlem
Hell
York Mail and Express
Neck wraps and collars said to ward off colds in winter
An old commentary warns neck wraps and handkerchiefs as common cold causes. It notes coats with collars turned up offer protection, while many men neglect wraps, leading to sore throats and winter sickness.
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Cone
Neckwear Styles and Health Risks in Daily Dress
Journal of Health cautions that changing neckwear daily helps avoid throat discomfort. It notes shirts cut high in the neck and the use of dickey or turn down collars can affect throat health if worn repeatedly. The piece urges varied neckwear to maintain comfort.
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Journal of Health
A Pompeian Lady's Bedroom and Toilet Accessories
A Woman's World article describes a Pompeian lady's private chamber where dressing was an elaborate duty. It details ornate gold clasps, dyed mantles, silk veils, jewelry, cosmetics boxes, ivory combs, and nets for elaborate headwear, reflecting daily grooming as a serious art.
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Egypt
Kilmaroo tale shows that most troubles are imaginary
Eli Perkins notes Blaine told the Kilmaroo story to the Prince of Wales at Hamburg to illustrate that nine tenths of political troubles are imaginary. He recalls a humorous ferry box anecdote about an imaginary Kilma roo beast fed on imaginary snakes, used to satirize public anxieties.
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Eli Perkins
Blaine
Prince of Wales
Hamburg
Kilmaroo
Republic
Fulton Ferry
Africa
Brooklyn
Charitable Critique and the Organist Irony
A humorous anecdote on criticism shows a build up from praise to a sharp quip about a pianist. An English organ builder hesitantly evaluates Mr Blank as both a gentleman and an organist, concluding he plays as if his left hand does not know what the right is doing.
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Blank
Ladies and their unusual pets in a refined home
A narrative describes a South American marmoset kept by a family, a pet spider that shelters under a dirt box, hummingbirds nesting in lace curtains, a dove that sleeps outside but visits, a canary on a mistress head, a bullfinch following, and park swans drifting toward the girl as a known friend.
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South America
Snails Prescribed as Food and Remedy for Consuptives
A medical treatise notes snails, especially red garden snails, equal in value to oysters for nourishment. It recommends daily snail milks and mollusk mucilage as a cure for consumption, with open luemort and raw snails used in some cases, and cites the Roman and garden snails as continental delicacies and remedies.
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Willich
Victim of Cocaine Perils Recounted by Swiss Doctor
A Swiss physician recounts a medical friend who shifted from morphine to cocaine and faced escalating mental decline. Initial euphoria gave way to insomnia hallucinations and compulsive circling. He quit practice to sail abroad then, after temporary recovery, relapsed and died from exhaustion tetanus.
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Usm
St. James Gizette
Two Men Share Rail Car Laughs Over Poets
An Arkansas Traveler joke recounts two travelers discussing poet Illa Wheeler Wilcox on a train. One confesses he once admired her poetry but stopped after marriage. The other reveals he married Wilcox herself, Mr Wilcox, causing a playful twist.
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Illa Wheeler Wilcox
Wilcox
Mr. Wilcox
Amelie Rives
Arkansau
Tramp Declines Office Work Principle Candid Banquet
A housekeeper questions a tramp about work and suggests indoors tasks like janitor duties. The tramp refuses to seek a position, claiming the office should seek him, and he thanks her, noting the banquet before departing for Philadelphia.
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Mada
Philadelphia
A Reporter’s Late Night Interview With Benevolent Ladies
A Detroit Free Press item recalls a night editor sending a courteous reporter to interview two women at a charitable institution. The all night man delays until 2 am, then reveals his aim to verify a statement from the previous evening’s paper about the institution.
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Miss
Detroit Free Press
Gypsy Fortune Tellers
The Chicago Herald reports on Romany fortune tellers who claim to read futures and cure ailments. They charge 50 cents to 10 dollars for interviews, sometimes earning 50 to 100 dollars from a single client through repeated consultations.
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Chicago Herald
Counterfeiters Fate in China
In Hankow two coppersmiths formed a small copper coin ring melting imperial coins. They produced about 10 000 forged coins before capture. The ringleader received immediate decapitation. the coiner was to be decapitated after imprisonment. two others faced transportation and slave labor in Turkestan. others were banished with corporal punishment. The report notes domestic servants got three years banishment and a hundred blows.
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Hankow
Maxi
Turkestan
Pedin Gazette
Maud and the cake office caper ends in a breakfast joke
A playful office anecdote features Maud and a cake sent to the office. A suiting fan, Quimby, lingers over the cake and the exchange ends with a humorous note about him choosing to eat it. An Eastern statistician estimates barber spending for millions of men at three shaves per week.
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Maud
Quimby
Kia Dag
Wabash Avenue
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