Unusual Bay Balloon Ascent And Miscellany From The Register
Lord Wolseley ascended in a captive balloon at Chatham reaching 500 feet and staying aloft amid royal engineer experiments. A Canton jail court hanged a rats’ trialed prisoner while Sheriff Edward Maguire oversaw, and Charles Danzisen cut him down. The Kentucky and Great Western road debt and sale yielded only 500 after valuation. Mrs. Mary Horngius inherits about 26 million from her husband as the estate nears 30 million with a Great Barrington home planned for 1888. Boston’s Kapiolani reception cost rose to 16819 with lavish expenses for flowers, hotel, printing, catering, music, carriages, and more.
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Lord Wolseley
Royal Engineers
Chatham
England
Canton
Edward Maguire
Charles Danzisen
Mary Horngius
Great Barrington
Mass
Housatonic Meadows
Boston
Washington
Victoria Hall
New York
Mount Everest Loses Title to Oceanica Peak
The article notes a contested claim that Mount Everest in the Himalayas at 29,002 feet is surpassed by Mount Hercules in Papua New Guinea at 32,786 feet. It suggests Oceanica may outrank Asia in height until the figure is disputed.
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India
Papua
New Guinea
Mount Everest
Asia
Oregon lovers race for Warner Valley bride ends in standoff
Two men from Lake View competed for the same Warner's Valley bride after each secured a license. One left first with a minister and friend. the other learned of it next day and mobilized a minister as well. A townsfolk sent an Indian after the second party for the friend carrying the license. No word from the field yet as betting ranges from twenty to ten dollars on the first man.
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Lake View
Oregon
Warner’s Valley
Enormous 1889 balloon to hold 100 aboard at 1009m
A French exhibit balloon proposed by M. G. Yon will have 60 000 cubic meters of volume with a 100 passenger capacity. The craft rises to 1009 meters, powered by a 600 horsepower winding engine. An inner small balloon adjusts volume via air pumped by an electric motor.
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M. G. Yon
Electric railways grow rapidly. horse to electric car shift ahead
Five years ago no electric railway operated practically in the country. Now more than a dozen exist with expectations of up to a hundred in two years. Experts predict horse displacement by electric motors for city cars and one authority argues the switch will accelerate as electric pivots are produced.
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Dynsaap
The Paragrapher Padman Weds Temperance Lecturer
DownaLd Padman, noted for witty editing at the Louisville Courier Journal, refused a managing editorship as too bothersome. A temperance lecturer visited his office, provoking sharp humor, and a week later they married. The union is said to be a happy one.
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DownaLd Papman
Louisville Courier- Journal
Louisville
Padman
Widow Bares Ankles To Win Hosiery Dare
A New York Truth tale recounts a fancy dress tea where a widow parmi audaciously strips stockings to bare ankles. Her plan, aided by warm rooms and patterned hosiery, proves successful as the wager is won without detection.
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Kettledrum
New York
Agassiz Pays It Forward at North Cambridge Station
A Boston Gazette note recalls Prof. Agassiz losing and later reclaiming his lost portmanteau at the North Cambridge Fitchburg station while en route to Concord. Station agent Murray lent two tickets to help. Agassiz later repaid the kindness and thanked the agent for the gesture.
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Fitchburg
North Cambridge
Boston Gazette
Prof. Agassiz
Concord
Mr. Murray
Agassiz
Louisa
Saxe and Sarah at Saratoga in a Greek meet Greek tale
A Kansas City Journal anecdote recalls John G. Saxe and his favorite daughter Sarah. At Saratoga their summer custom: Sarah stayed home with younger children while the parents visited. One August, Sarah, aged 16, arrived in velvet gown and jewels, prompting a stinging clash as they kept separate courtship and were eventually reconciled with her ignominious return home.
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Kansas City Journal
John G. Saxe
Sarah
Saratoga
Saxe
Famou
Gathering India Rubber How the Natives of Costa Rica Take
The chief Costa Rican rubber trade centers on caoutchouc gathered by Yularces. Production has plummeted from 100000 pounds monthly to about 62000 due to unregulated tapping and tree damage. Government land grants seek to encourage rubber tree culture while import attempts fail to preserve the sap in liquid form.
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Costa Rica
Providence Journal
Graytown
Paris
Africa
Odlor
British India
Mauritius
Great Britain
Mexico
Dazzling Cartagena Ball Customs and Jewels of the Jungles
A New Granada correspondent describes Cartagena society and ball rituals with servants supplying fabrics and sweets for the dress of young ladies. The cacullos or firefly jewels light up outfits, are stored in sugar cane, and worn in hair during dances. The narrator recalls courting freely at balls and flirtatious customs.
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Cartagena
New Grenada
South America
Sign Talk in Naples Showcases Silent Gestures
Youth's Companion notes Neapolitans excel in pantomime, using facial expressions and hand signs to communicate without names. Observers describe signs for adieu come, stop and more, with people conversing across streets by coordinated gestures.
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Naples
England
Nitro-Glycerine Hazards and Historic Shipboard Explosions
A San Francisco Call writer notes the extreme danger of nitro glycerine explaining its instability in air and water burial methods. It details properties boiling and dissolution, and recounts the 1867 voyage where a caps mishap caused a catastrophic explosion killing 100 natives and others near Aspinwall.
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San Francisco Call
Europe
America
Panama
San Francisco
Aspinwall
Cheap Swells in Boston Criticize Anglomania in Dress
A Boston writer denounces a group of “cheap swells” who pool for colorful neckwear and trade outfits to boast of generosity. He says their imitation of English fashion shows poor taste, excess, and ignorance of proprieties, and notes the trend is waning in Boston.
The History of Mirrors Through the Ages
Ancient writings note bronze and obsidian mirrors at Rome’s entrance to catacombs and Demos thenes rehearsing orations before a silvered glass. Venice Murano refined glass mirrors with tin and quicksilver, later improving with an ammonia tartrate silvering method to reduce health hazards.
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Rome
Pliny
Plutarch
Demosthenes
Johannes Peckham
France
Europe
Venice
Murano
Germany
Lucas de Nehonu
Insurance Premature Policy Sealed Before Shipwreck
Josiah Miller sought a policy for a West Indies bound vessel from New York Sun consulted insurer heavy premium due to Lloyds rating. The policy was signed and waiting but delayed. ship wreck reported near Montauk Point, ink still wet on signature, total loss claimed as the ship gone to pieces.
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Josiah Miller
New York Sun
West Indies
New York
Lloyd’s
Miller
Mr. Miller
Montauk
Monntauk Point
Montauk Point
Total Losa
Tempering and forging insights from early industrial notes
The article discusses tempering in steel production, heat treatment techniques for parts, and the impact of hammering on metal. It praises American manufacturing reliability, contrasts English machinery quality, and describes J. C. Leslie’s crane device at St. Albans for pouring and pitting car wheels, highlighting efficiency and safety.
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Egypt
England
St. Albans
J. C. Leslie
Messenger
Private heroism at home in steadfast virtue and duty
A reflection on everyday courage within families. It extols spouses and children who endure hardship with grace, highlighting a wife who bears limits of a difficult marriage, a husband who supports an ill wife, and a daughter’s filial fidelity as acts of quiet heroism.
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Zenobia
Charles Lamb
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Newport
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