The Register Highlights Diverse 1889 Notes and Oddities
A digest of varied items from 1889 covers women preaching in the United States including a deaf college graduate with a talk on The Mind of the Spider, fire theater fatalities statistics from Captain Suow in London, a French railway car ventilation method, legal quirks about survivor inheritance, an elderly Mapleton wood-cutter in winter, and Higgin’s austere breakfast helping vigor.
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Suow
London Fire Brigade
Senator Evart's Luxurious Living Expenses Revealed
The article notes Senator Evart spends about 100000 dollars yearly to maintain three homes in New York Washington and Windsor Vermont. Each house features a library stocked with top works of law history political economy poetry and prose fiction. He aims to live like an English gentleman on a liberal budget regardless of economies.
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Evart
New York
Washington
Windsor
Two New Sovereigns Open Stands in Pacific Ensign Adopted
Two new sovereigns have opened stands in the Pacific. The King of Tari Tari rules part of the Gilbert Islands and has adopted the American flag in a new arrangement, while the Marshall Islands head potentate flies an ensign. The U S Navy would salute their flags, though their navies may be dugouts. The piece also notes Senator Sherman recalling early political offices and immigration anecdotes, and a gunboat captain's courteous reception in a Japanese port.
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Pacific
Gilbert Islands
Marshall Islands
Uncle Sam
Salute and a joke on Ohio from a frontier captain
A naval tale opens with a captain surprised by a Japanese greeting Ohaye meaning How do you do. He recalls their bow and wonders how locals knew he was from Ohio. The rest of the piece notes Alexander Mackay the Africa missionary death and reflects on Jewish emancipation in the United States and Germany.
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Ohio
Africa
Alexander Mackay
Mackay
Usambiro
Church Missionary Society
Stanley
Victoria Nyanza
Berlin
England
Great Lake
Emin Bey
Population of Ancient Rome Questioned by Roman Spectator Figures
A Black Wool's Magazine writer argues Rome may have housed more than 4 million inhabitants. Citing Circus Maximus capacity and viewer demographics, the piece muses whether a population of 4 million or even 1 million could fit the crowd, suggesting many residents were non spectators.
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Blackwool
Raven
de Quincey
Rome
Circus Maximus
Victor
Why He Couldn't Pay More. A Store Sign Clash
A proprietor challenges a disgusted citizen over a sign claiming the shop pays the highest prices for cast-off clothing. The proprietor insists the sign is costly to him, citing a 800 currency value and the idea that a doctor of divinity should be a church pillar.
Man with the massive brain counsels me to follow
A narrator declares resistance to a dominating elder who rules by a persuasive, relentless monologue. The repetitive voice, “you better do this,” contrasts with the speaker choosing personal judgment over the man’s strict guidance. The setting shifts through seasons and locales as the narrator rejects the urging.
The Parson's Daughter on the Ocean Voyage
Captain Lefevre, a lover of Mrs Vanstein, bonds with her ward Alice Dormer and the sickly boy Harry aboard a voyage from India. Aboard, Alice’s hidden past and a child’s trust reveal true kindness, spurring the captain to reconsider life at sea and plans to propose to Mrs Vanstein as the voyage ends.
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Harry
Thames
Twickenham
Alice Dormer
Victor Lefevre
Chance
India
Faney
Victor
Liverpool
Ocean
Lefevre
Mr. Vaustien
Alice
Capt. Lefevre
Tom
Miss Dormer
Love Confession On Thames Steamer Seals a Match
On the London bound steamer, Victor declares love for Alice Dormer, ending his engagement to another. Mrs. Vanstein reacts with anger as Alice accepts, and Captain Lefevre warns of legal guardianship concerns. Victor reconciles with the parson’s daughter, Imogen, and the true character of his former beloved is revealed.
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London
Thames
Harry
Victor
Imogen
Lived A Hundred Years by Frugal Living
A Venetian nobleman Lewis Cornaro who lived to age 100. He followed a strict diet of twelve ounces of food and thirteen ounces of drinks daily for sixty years, avoided extremes, and maintained health and calm despite a late lawsuit and a carriage accident. His life is cited in Medical Classics.
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Charles Hirain
Mapleton
Higgin
Lewis Cornaro
Wouldn't Hurt the Trains Tourist Bogardus Passes Time Card
Tourist operator Bogardus known to telegraph operators nationwide arrived in the city yesterday and plans to walk to work at the leg board in Memphis. He has long sought railroad passes, including an infamous attempt with Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton General Manager Williams, who finally issued a time card after Bogardus joked he would walk to avoid regular trains. Chattanooga Times reports.
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Bogardus
United States
Leg Board
Bocy
Williams
Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton
Bogg
A Lesson in Manners From an Old Lady on Courtesy
An elderly woman recalls bygone courtesy and rebukes a young man for wearing his hat indoors. She notes the lad's father as a Harvard student and questions whether the son resembles him, remarking she never saw his father with a hat during conversations with ladies. Burlington Free Press.
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Harvard
Elocution by Chesapeake Terrapin Impresses Lord Brougham
Reverdy Johnson captivates Lord Brougham at a London dinner with a vivid tale of Chesapeake terrapin. He describes washing boiling and serving the dish to evoke the animal’s struggle, ending with the guest’s exclamation that the tale was eloquence as the Madeira seasoned finale arrives.
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Reverdy Johnson
Lord Brougham
Boston Globe
London
Earl
Brougham
Chesapeake Bay
Johnson
Chesapeake
Mr. Johnson
Peculiar Plants at the Botanical Garden Tonight
A Boston Transcript piece notes odd garden curiosities. The Barber plant is used to prevent facial hair, while the cruel plant traps and kills butterflies for sport. A Panama tree bears a red fruit whose juice tenderizes meat. Three greenhouse plants show a lung disease by leaves turning white, with gardeners discarding overhealthy specimens.
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Government Botanical Garden
Botanical Garden
Panama
Boston Transcript
War Ships Mottoes and naval traditions in the navy
The piece discusses why US ships lack mottos while British and French vessels carry Latin or distinctive lines. It notes the dying Lawrence quote Dont give up the ship and suggests future ships bear names on sterns with crew chosen mottos on the forward poop deck. It cites a naval officer proposing a three year raise period to finalize a motto and emphasizes dignity and inspiration for the crew.
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Lawrence
United States
Second
United States Cavalry
N. S. Times
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