Variety of world notices from drought to poets
The itemized column notes global topics from tourism earnings in Switzerland to Arabian and Islamic history, plus local tales. It mentions a 14 year old public school principal in Florida, Belmonts guarding a Newport grave, aluminium discoveries, Yale graduates in Tokyo, and a Paris agency for dining with thirteen guests. It also covers a Philadelphia art find, a Iowa cooking thermometer invention, a steam plow in Oregon, and a vast New York magazine reach. It closes with notes on Whittier, Lowell, and Holmes aging, plus Robert Louis Stevenson’s next book and New Jersey prison statistics.
Turbulent Viewpoints and Global Affairs Across Europe and Africa
A collage of 19th century reflections covers political unrest, finance with William, 25 million marks borrowed from Herr von Bleichroder, reform talk in New York circles, Edison and Lathrop’s forthcoming novel, Africa colonial carve-ups, Albert Bierstadt’s Rocky Mountain sketches, Booths social schemes, hummingbirds diet, Parnell and women, and Lord Wolseley on African traders. The piece intertwines satire, science, art, and imperial critique with named figures and places.
Correction About Elopement Story With Cincinnati Belle
In a telephone call to the Stranger-TI, a correction was requested for yesterday’s report alleging an elopement with a Cincinnati society belle. The editor notes there is no truth to the tale. the lady is from Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Chicago
Napoleon
Lord Napier
Massachusetts
The Ninety and Mine Labor Parable
A poem contrasts a single wealthy ruler with ninety nine laborers mining for wealth. It portrays harsh toil, barren hovels, and vast riches the lone owner accumulates while workers sustain cities and homes. It ends with a hopeful note that labor will prevail and justice will rise.
Aunt Mehitable’s Courtship and a bashful marriage plan
In a country parlor tale, Aunt Mehitable recalls her romance with Silas Melton, the bashful suitor James Richards, and a Christmas wager. Lydia’s imitation bonnet, a mistaken escort, and a bold little sister Frances push Hetty toward marriage within a week, ending with a quick Christmas wedding and lifelong contentment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silas
Lydia
James Richards
Julia Simons
Julia
James
Silas Melton
Ada
Mary Jones
Sallie Hodge
Fred
Frances
Henry
Wicked Fred
Jim
Father
Hetty
General Greens Strategy From Kings Mountain to Yorktown
John Fiske highlights Greene's Southern campaign, noting he rebuilt a broken army, seized initiative, and used officers like Morgan and Marion to win. He contrasts Gates and his misused commanders, praising Greene's insight and disciplined planning that kept his campaign on track, regardless of outcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Green
King’s Mountain
Yorktown
Greene
John Fiske
Cgate
Morgan
Campbell
Marion
Sumter
Pickens
Otho Williams
William Washington
Robert Edward Lee
Gates
DeKalb
Napoleon
Davoust
Jena
Auerstadt
Unraveling of a Kansas City Adopted Love Tragedy
A Kansas City report recounts an adopted sister and brother who married after decades apart. Disclosures reveal their true kinship through Castle Garden adoption by Asa Barr and Mrs Evans. Mrs Evans later died, bequeathing the fortune to the adopted daughter. Legal separation sought after court investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Kaw
Castle Garden
Asa Barr
Evans
Philadelphia
Chance
Bart
Canada
Welcome as Visitor But Not as Queen in Madrid
The ex-queen Isabella toured Spain as a visitor, after resisting rule, and stayed four months in Madrid rather than a planned week. On travels she carries a box of keepsakes and family relics from thirty years on the throne, placing them in her rooms wherever she stays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isabella
Madrid
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the Register
New Harmony, Indiana
Switzerland
Antioch, Fla
A. B. Hendry
Africa
Italy
New York
Tur Belmont
Belmont
Newport
Burns’ Birthplace
Gex
Boorn
Great Britain
Yale
Tokio
Japan
Atlanta, Ga
Edwin Arnold
Paris
Charles F. Hoffman
E. A. Hoffman
General Theological Seminary
United States
Kiya Hempent
Parnell
Paiuiir H. Hermes
Gardiner
Girard House
Adirondacks
Fiora Grace
Iowa
Jackson County
Oregon
Whittier
New England
James Russell Lowell
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Holmes
Lowell
Robert Louis Stevenson
South Seas
New Jersey
Terrerorn Wiliam
Berlin
Herr von Bleichroder
New York Herald
Thomas A. Edison
George Parsons Lathrop
France
Germany
Portugal
Albert Bierstadt
Rocky Mountains
Plains
Buffalo
Pike's Peak
Gen. Booth
England
Commissioner Smith
Salvation Army
Smith
Mr. Parnell
Lorp Wossney
Lord Wolseley
Europe
Mrs. M.S. Smite
Mehetabel
Lora
Aunt Mehetabel
Pretty Maude
Madam Lovelle
Gains‘borough
Itallus
Maude
Tipton Center
Lydia Perkins
Sarah
Jydia
Old Center Church
Prances
Mother
Grant
Murat
Moscow
Reynier
Calabria
Saint-Cyr
Empire
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