The British Museum's Vast Volume and Shelving
The Register reports the British Museum now holds just over 1,300,000 volumes with 160 miles of shelves and about twenty more miles to fill. It notes a daily intake of about one ton of literature. Also included are curious items: a Newport tomb inscription about Christopher Ellery, General Washington’s kin, and a tale of a log journey by Dock Kennedy down the Pitt River in California.
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British Museum
Treere
Newport
R. 1
Christopher Ellery
Dock Kennedy
Pitt River
California
Shasta County
Kennedy
NYC Building Boom Seeks Islandwide Development in Ten Years
NYC has 107300 buildings with 2600 added yearly. Most new structures are dwellings valued 16000 to 35000 dollars, rapidly filling Manhattan vacant ground. experts predict nearly the entire island built up within a decade. A Cleveland woman pays damages after a rooster incident. a Chinese tree in Alabama sprouts two new trees after a storm. An editor argues today’s readers demand facts over fiction, while a Japanese wedding gift features floss silk rolls symbolizing an enduring marriage bond.
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New York City
Manhattan Island
Wedding Gifts Robbery in London and Noted Personalities
The article recounts a daring theft of wedding presents valued around $5,000 sent to Dr. Bull Run Russell and his bride in Paris. A porter, posing as delivering the boxes, stole them in Eaton Square after they were entrusted to a friend. It also cites Mignet’s life, and Dr. Rinsch’s findings on bacteria on long-circulating coins, urging washing coins in caustic potash to cleanse them.
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London
Bull Run Russell
Paris
Eaton Square
Rinscn
Germany
Rinsch
The Saltness of the Ocean and Salt Lakes
The article explains why oceans are salty, noting chemical changes in Earth's crust over geological epochs. It compares sea salinity in the Mediterranean and Gulf of Mexico to open ocean waters and discusses bottom water salinity. It mentions Dead Sea and Great Salt Lake origins and cites De Smet near old Phil Kearney as a U S salt lake. It closes with a moral aside and a Connecticut obituary remark.
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Mediterranean
Gulf of Mexico
Dead Sea
Great Salt Lake
United States
Old Phil. Kearney
de Smet
Inter- Ocean
Victor Hugo Faith and Creed Across Time
Excerpted reflections compare Victor Hugo's faith and view of death with a modern free verse translation. The passages celebrate the soul’s ascent, the triumph of imagination, and the idea that work begins anew after death. A Detroit Free Press excerpt humorously contrasts a woodlands tale with a local encounter.
A Word to Mothers on Independence and Fashion
From Cincinnati Saturday Night, advice urging modern mothers to seek independence and common sense. It cautions against overworking for fashion, warns that strained nerves harm marriage, and suggests dressing children within means to protect health and future sensibilities.
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Susie
Flossie
Cincinnati
Bear trap catches porch wood thief in Antoine Street
A resident on Antoine Street sets a large bear trap after wood theft from his back lot. A scavenging colored man, about 40, is found with a leg trapped and explains he was returning wood stolen by the neighbor, saying the trap sprung as he tried to flee.
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Antoine Street
I Love You Was Said By Who In The Past
A reflective Cincinnati Times piece recounts a scene of domestic life and love. An old lady muses that a husband should quietly affirm love to ease a wife’s burdens, promising that sincere words can be worth more than diamonds.
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Mary
Cincinnati
Pulque and the maguey plant in Mexican uplands
In Mexico pulque is cheap and widely consumed with 20 000 gallons daily in this city. The maguey plant grows on uplands 7 000 feet above sea level, matures in 8 10 years to yield sap for pulque, and later forms a century plant stalk. The plant provides bark, fiber, needles, thatching, ropes and drinks including pulque mescal and tequila. There are 30 varieties and admiring notes from Prescott.
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Mexico
Byron
Prescott
Duel of Texas Bulls Ends in Murcheon Victory and Texas Wounding
On a dusty prairie dawn a planned neutral duel between Murcheson and Zingman’s bulls, Texas and Wild Bill, ended with Wild Bill victorious after a fierce three hour melee. Texas collapsed from injuries and wandered off wandering alone.
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Murcheson
Zingman
Texas
Wild Bill
Bill
Vexas
Curious rainfall patterns and ancient coins in Britain
The document notes varied rainfall across U S states and British regions, Paris water adulteration, a rare 16th century coin find near Portree, and global mining shares. It also covers sponges whitening via chemical baths, the first lucifer match by John Walker in 1839, Vienna’s match factory, phosphorus-related disease, and tobacco juice vapor as a greenhouse insect deterrent.
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New Mexico
California
Oregon
Alabama
Plains
England
Paris
America
Foote
Portree
Scotland
Elizabeth
James VI
United States
Great Britain
John Walker
Stockton on-Tees
Vienna
France
Competitive Examinations Reveal Training Not Brain Power
A Panular Science Monthly article argues that exams are an imperfect brain test. It contrasts Brown, hindered by poverty, with Smith, coached by a crammer to predict questions. Twenty years later Brown earns fame, while Smith relies on exam training, exposing the flaw in judging intellect by tests.
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Brown
Royal Military Academy
Woolwich
Smith
Smith and Brown
Panular Science Monthly
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NEW Harmony
Ind
George Washington
Lee
Robert E. Lee
Virginia
Richmond
H. Stuart Worrey
Malakoff
Wilcox County
Ala
Mary Gazell
Cleveland
Mignet
Thiers
Jules Simon
Emerson
Connecticut
Victor Hugo
Voltaire
Marth
Earth
Bo. Whitehead
Ebery
Detroit Free Press
Michael Angelo
Liz
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