Curious Animals and Human Foibles Across Eras
Curiosities of Animal Life discuss dogs showing shame and modesty when begging, apes using tools, parrots mimicking voices, and cats nursing puppies. The piece notes memory, imagination, and the social traits of animals, then shifts to diverse items including a bashful minister, Indiana senators, a sidewalk law in San Francisco, and Miss Sarah Colt's role in early Sunday schools.
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Darwin
Zoological Gardens
Dos
Aly Man
Sarah Colt
Paterson
New Jersey
United States
Colt
Train and Grant clash in raucous party rhetoric
Quotations from a fiery speech by George Train rail at the political fray point to Train and Grant as the central duel. The remarks attack Grant on finance, monopoly, military rule, and debts while praising Train on fair play and American industry. Other items note veal loaf recipe, New London mishaps, Greenland migration, and a Maine railroad name.
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George Francis Train
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Train
Dent
Ulysses
Republican Party
Dent Dynasty
Cincinnati
Trands
Congress
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Conkling
Morton
Puritan
Pedigree inquiry yields antediluvian claims and ark scene
In northern England two families Spenser and rival hunters clashed over ancestry. One sponsored an artist to depict the ark and the Spenser relics, a coup de etat. The other sought a grand record of antiquity while describing an early ancestor as a powerful figure, noting that Adam and Eve were driven from Paradise that year.
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England
Spenser
Nash
The
Adam
Eve
Paradise
Old Times Fashion in Early American Leadership
A retrospective on 18th century attire shows Gov Hancock in a red velvet cap and blue damask gown, while Massachusetts judges wore scarlet robes with velvet trim. Washington’s 1780 New York visit featured Virginia homespun attire and a continental uniform, with later levée dress in black velvet and ceremonial accessories. John Adams, as Vice President, carried a sword and hat, and Washington’s levees displayed black velvet dress, yellow gloves, buckles, and a cocked hat with black feathered cockade. Boston Fraceller.
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Gov. Hancock
Supreme Court of Massachusetts
Washington
New York
Jount Vernon
Ife
Virginia
New England
John Adams
Philadelphia
Boston Fraceller
Advice to Young Wives on Prosperity and Patience
A compact admonition to young wives stressing loyalty and kindness during hardship, noting that husbands bear the primary burden of provision in civilized society and wives should support them with affectionate conduct to avoid worldly censure. Includes anecdotes on affection, poverty, and marital dynamics. Also mentions cockroach deterrents with carbolic acid and a quip about a wife’s looking-glass as a foe.
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Ipon
Tongues from beasts to human speech compared in health journal
Hall's Journal of Health surveys tongues across species noting a giraffe tongue’s strength for grasping leaves, an ant bear tongue’s whip-like reach, and a dog’s tongue shaping lapping water. It extols human tongue articulation as surpassing animal motion and remarks on the complex physiology of deglutition.
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Hall
Journal of Health
Hard on the White Folks story of a New Orleans bank scam
Sam Johnson leads a satirical scheme in New Orleans where followers are told to save money and form a bank. The plan yields quick earnings but collapses as withdrawals surge, exposing the bank as busting. The narrator repeats a grim refrain about how white folks operate.
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Sam Johnson
New Orleans
Sam
Idkis
Allegory in Kentucky defense ends with mercy parable
The article recounts Crittenden of Kentucky defending a man indicted for nepital offense. In a lengthy oration, he closes with a flowing allegory where Truth Mercy and Justice debate whether to create man. Mercy pleads to protect humanity, while God exhorts man to mercy toward his fellows.
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Crittenden
Kentucky
Cap
Mercy
Gaul
Mercyro
Warn Mothers Against Giving Liquor to Children
Dowd urges temperance and child protection in early American letters. He recounts personal battles with alcohol starting in childhood, noting a brother who died a drunkard and stressing never to feed a drop to any child. He appeals to writers and mothers to heed this warning.
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Dowd
United States
Original Thinkers Face Hostility for New Ideas
The passage notes that few people dare to present new ideas and most of humanity merely uses others’ thoughts. It argues that true originators risk severe backlash from a society reluctant to abandon long standing beliefs.
A Little Dead Sea in Nevada
A miniature Dead Sea is described in Nevada an oval basin 140 feet deep with shelves tapering inward. The dense salty water, rich in borax soda and salt, allows effortless floating. The lake lacks visible outlets or inlets and is likely fed by underground springs. The piece closes with a reflective aphorism on ignorance.
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Nevada
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