Old Age and its Quiet Joys in Later Life
The essay discusses aging with pragmatic optimism, noting fewer false joys after fifty and a content steadiness. It praises tenderness toward children, warns against constant self focus, and urges bonds with younger people while detailing how elders can mentor, listen, and support emerging minds. It also reflects on conservatives versus change and the value of old friends, customs, and shared experience. The text closes with a botanical aside on bladder-like galls of acacia trees that could become a trade commodity if collected regularly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victor Hugo
London
Schweinfurth
Perforating Power of Roots in Plants and Trees
The article explains how plant and tree roots bore through hard soils and even brick to reach nourishment. It describes an awl like root mechanism, microscopic absorbent cells, and the drive of roots to seek moisture and nutrients, comparing plants to hungry animals in pursuit of food.
The Whistling Tree of Nubia and the Soudan
An acacia species in Nubia and the Soudan, known as solus or fistula, earns its name from wind whistling through hollow branches. Insects lay eggs in young shoots. larvae create a one inch gall. When emerged, holes allow wind to produce flute like tones.
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Nubia
Soudan
Oddities of Chinese Chronology and Timekeeping
The article explains ancient Chinese timekeeping, civil lunar years with occasional intercalations, and a solar year with a 4 day leap cycle. It notes adoption of European time division in the 17th century and the system of dating years by reign titles called Nien hao, requiring a catalog to map to the Christian era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Confucius
China
Yaou
Schall
Inter Ocean
He Kissed the Governor's Wife Story Recalls Senator Vance
A Washington letter recounts a tale about Senator Vance then Governor of North Carolina. It describes him as tall and popular with a broad frame and iron gray mustache. He mocks a visitor by claiming he kisses the Governor's wife whenever he meets her, then reveals the stranger is the governor.
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Senator Vance
North Carolina
Vanee
Raleigh
Vance
Not a Cold Bay in Wall Street
Demetrius son of Aro confronts Croesus the Wall Street magnate with quips about rumors and weather. Croesus answers that a southerly wind and a thermometer above zero mean conditions unfavorable to Cruesus. The exchange preserves the mythic names and financial allusion in a fablelike tone.
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Wall Street
Demetrius
Aro
Crosus
Criosus
Croesus
Cruesus
Chicago News
Senator Palmer and the New York bread habit
The Loston Courier reports that Senator Palmer carries a graham bread loaf in his satchel at meals. He cut slices for pocket snacks and uses flour ground at his Detroit mill. He then imitates Senator Mahone by barely tasting courses, keeping his jaws in motion while nibbling.
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Senator Palmer
New York
Jfifth Avenue
Detroit
Washington
Senator Mahone
Loston Courier
Strawberry Introduced into England from Flanders
A note records that the strawberry was introduced into England from Flanders in 1530.
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England
Flanders
Colors in Leaves and Flowers and the Passion Flower
The article explains how chlorophyll gives leaves their green color and how pigment changes create autumn hues and pink leaf tips. It notes that flowers use less active pigments, making them brighter, and discusses plant nutrition, growth, and natural selection. It also touches on world comparisons in age, population, wealth, debt, expenses, and production, then mentions the passion flower and perfume production in Nice and Cannes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
Cornhill Magazine
Sales and reader appeal in magazine publishing
The late James T. Fields argued that magazines must cater to popular tastes to expand their audience. He noted that including two or three popular stories and humor broadens the market, as pictures and illustrations attract readers across social classes.
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James T. Fields
Atlantic Monthly
Cor
New York Times
Great German Remedy Proves Cure For Various Ailments
M M Shoffner of Company Shops North Carolina a postmaster justice of the peace says he used dr Jacobs Oil for rheumatism cuts swollen ankles knees back pain and sore throat with one or two applications curing each time he believes it is the best in the world and will not be without it while he can obtain it.
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Mgr. M. M. Shoffner
Alamance Co
N. C
Mango spread via neglected trees reshapes Jamaica
The Jamaican mango story shows how a neglected fruit, once planted in 1782, spread from sea level to 5000 feet, covering hundreds of thousands of acres after slavery ended. An unrelated ad copy urges Hostetter's Stomach Bitters and Kidney-Wort as cures for indigestion and ailments, touting various benefits and a druggist availability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamaica
Botanic
A Sad Case First Female Sympathizer
A Philadelphia Call column features two women discussing a death sentence and a lack of respite as a condemned man awaits execution. The dialogue condemns the death watch as harsh while noting the man has no wife to comfort him in his final days. The piece juxtaposes grim sentiment with a morbid bouquet habit.
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Death Watch
Philadelphia
Horsford’s Acid Phosphate and Lydia Pinkham’s Compound
Dr Jos Holt of New Orleans la endorses Horsford’s Acid Phosphate for women and children to aid debility appetite and convalescence. Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound gains world wide rep for health. Also a vermin control note Rovay on Rats promises to clear rats mice roaches and other pests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jos. Holt
New Orleans
Lydia TE. Pinkham
Desperate Cases Treated with Compound Oxygen Promoted
Doctors Starkey and Palen of 1109 Girard Street Philadelphia claim many abandoned cases respond to Compound Oxygen and invite inquiries into its nature and action. J W Graham of Austin Texas praises Dr William Hall s Balsam for the Lungs as highly saleable for coughs colds and consumption and requests another gross.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Drs. Starkey & Palen
Girard Street
Philadelphia
J. W. Graham
Austin
Tex
Gault House Chicago Offers Low Price Rooms
The Gault House at Clinton and Madison streets Chicago provides flat class accommodations for two and a half dollars per day. Located in the city center one block from Union Depot with elevator and first class appointments. Proprietor H. W. Hoyt.
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Gault House
Chicago
Clinton and
Madison Streets
Union Depot
H. W. Hoyt
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The
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Legion
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Burlington
Stump
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Dine Museum
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C. M. Heard
Neenszh
Wis
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Wall Street, N. Y
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Caswell, Hazard & Co
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Owego
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Salem
Evy
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National State Bank
Elizabeth
N. J
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Isaac Thompson
Buchu-Pasha
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Norato A. Vogeler
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Janesville
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Aine
Ihe. Ware Specialty Company
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Newark
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Richline
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Newspaper Union
Franklin Street
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
Pan
WWE
Hops and Malt Bitters Co
Detroit, Mich
David Kennedy
Simeon Tidsell
Rondout, N
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Rondout
Perry Davis
Found
Doris P. Simpson
Woinston
D.C
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Satenn
Gh Co
Mes E Lovelace
Muskegon
Mich
Frazer
Larza
Ridze
Ascrife
Woolrich & Col, Manufacturers
Palmer
Massachusetts
Blaine x Locan
Maine
National Committee
A. F
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Outfit
Coburn Publishin CO
Metropolitan Block
Stampa
A. M._ LANG
Cove Vale
Lewis Co
Loomis & Nyman
Tutin
Ohio
Chesebrough Manufacturing Co
Sonly
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