Various World Tidings and Oddities From Early Times
A collage of notes reports Secretary Warner’s railway carriage and guard details in England. Sydney quarantines dogs on Suanx Island at cost. Geneseo girls betrothal rails tale. Cave found near Alderson. Buck Taylor recovers amid fanfare. A Salt Lake City incident links clothes air to poultry deaths. Prince Louis Naroron serves in Italy. Ruskry denies health rumors. Spokane Falls glove factory faces shaping issues. Elisha Gray touts telegraphic autographic copying 300 miles distant. A New York cure for consumption claims bizarre dinner trial. Lincoln’s reply to Butler grievances ends with a sharp rebuke to the delegation.
Butler and royal fears mix with arithmetic debate
The piece blends a quip about Gen Butler sanitizing measures delaying yellow fever with royal intrigue and a critique by Gen Francis A Walker of modern arithmetic in schools. It questions sanitary grandstanding, courtly precautions, and calls Walker’s critique a needed push for practical numeracy.
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Francis A. Walker
Boston
Mrs Cleveland and Her First Sweetheart Story
A Baltimore American item recalls Mrs. Cleveland's early romance with a newspaper man. The tale notes her lasting interest in journalists and inclines to commentary on her fondness for Washington correspondents and literary work she pursued. It suggests Harvard dinner remarks colored by bitterness toward the press.
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Washington
Harvard
Baltimore American
Gathering Sea Fowl Eggs by San Francisco Fishermen
San Francisco fishermen have long ventured to the Farallones during the egg laying season to gather eggs. The task is dangerous, requiring rope descents and risk from aggressive birds. Eggs of gulls and murres are collected for baking uses, sold through wholesalers, averaging 15 to 20 cents per dozen, with several thousand dozens per trip.
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Farallones
San Francisco
Devil-Worshipers of Mesopotamia Stage Annual Peacock King Rite
A St James Gazette account describes the Yezidis near Mosul holding an annual procession to honor a bronze bird statue. Kurdish villagers in white attire, with black robed priests and kawals, enact a mystic rite ending in a shared meal after the sacrifice of a sheep. The Yezidis reject proselytism, insisting one is born a Yezidi.
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Mosul
Mesopotamia
Meslenia
St James
Minister confronts town on gambling and vice in Dakota boom town
A newly graduated eastern pastor arrives in Murray Cour d'Alene country to lead a church. The biggest gaming hall is cleared for his first Sunday, with a Bible-like stock book on a monte table. Citizens warn him to preach only on hoss-stealing and mineral claims.
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Eastern Theological School
Murray
Cour d’ Alene
Divine
Pardner
Vigilance Committee
Dakota Beli
Woman Power and Whipping Post Debate in Press Echo
A St Paul Globe piece contrasts abolition of the whipping post with the claim that horsewhip remains a moral regulator. It argues women should use the cowhide to enforce justice against male abuse, while warning against indiscriminate violence. The column also includes Carl Dunder’s fairy tale sermon about hard work versus luck and a moral tale about honest toil leading to contentment.
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St. Paul Globe
Carl Dunder
Det Sheriffs
Language of Noses in Historical Thought
A survey of nose shapes tied to character traits. The Roman nose signals adventure while a wide nose reflects sensuality. Clef nose links to benevolence, straight nose to judicious mind, curved nose to domination, and long noses to merit and genius. Re-entrant noses imply weakness and playfulness.
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St. Vincent de Paul
Catherine de Medici
Eliabeth
England
Napoleon
Caesar
Four Men Die in Frontier Killings at Shakspere Hotel
A New Mexico cor respondent reports a chain of killings in Shakspere led by Charlie Williams of the Curly Bill gang. Molliter is shot, Williams is killed, and rival Crittenden dies from a rattlesnake bite after a long, fatal duel with Williams. The New Southwest notes the bizarre sequence with a dry line about the events.
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Shakspere
New Mexico
New York Star
Molliter
Lisa Lincoln
Curly Bill
Charlie Williams
Williams
Old Molliter
Rocksy
Eivery
Silver City
Centennial
Crittenden
Pinos Altos
The
New Southwest
William Ia
Greedy Turkish firemen spark fear through Constantinople
A Constantinople correspondent describes panic over fire alarms along the Bosporus, detailing the beggar-like firemen who charge for water and loot belongings, the beckgee watchman, and the ominous pounding of his iron staff as night patrols flood the streets.
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Constantinople
San Francisco Chronicle
Galata Tower
Bosporus
Peru
Eara
Dumb Animals and the Power of Sound
The author discusses the phrase dumb animals and argues most animals are not truly dumb. He notes humans misinterpret animal sounds and stresses kindness to animals, comparing animal speech to a human infant's cries that control a household. He cites Arthur Helps on animals suffering without the ability to protest.
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dArthur
Well-Dressed Believers Turned Away at English Parish Door
An English parish church witnessed an odd scene as reform school lads wearing corduroys were refused entry during a Te Deum resounding in the church. A parishioner, following the vicar’s orders, shut the doors claiming the boys’ attire carried an odor.
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Kingdom of Heaven
Boston Transcript
Colored hod carrier’s violent fit ends in quiet cell
A color hod carrier entered a Baltimore policy station and told Lieut Scott he would have a fit. He was shown a cell and for half an hour endured a violent convulsion before leaving, claiming he would go to work and fear docking for lateness.
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Western Policy Station
Baltimore
Lieut
Scott
Chicago News
Fineness of Platinum Wire Demonstrated
The article explains that platinum wire can be drawn to a fineness invisible to the naked eye yet detectable by touch on a perfectly white card. It becomes visible with a small magnifying glass when the card is tilted so the wire casts a shadow. Boston Bucket.
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Boston Bucket
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