Curious old world notes and Western warnings
A miscellany of brief items and anecdotes appears from the era, including a sorrowing family in Mechancaville linked to Colonel Ellsworth, a Macon Georgia telegraph snag caused by a rat, Dalmatian pyrethrum growing in Stockton California, a San Francisco marriage prank, and references to Emperor William’s birthday gift. The piece also covers Flipper the famous West Point cadet now in Mexico, Russia’s Central Asia pressures, and reactions to Grant’s doctors. It ends with cholera debates from Koch and Ferran, and Ferran's inoculation efforts spreading through Spain.
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United States
Flipper
West Point
Henry O. Flipper
Mexico
Russia
Central Asia
Constantinople
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Baltimore
New Orlean
San Francisco
Czar
Dardanelles
Afghanistan
Great Britain
Mediterranean
Asia
Reforming Virtue by Gradual Self Control
James Freeman Clarke argues against piecemeal reform, advising a Napoleonic, one-vice-at-a-time approach. He notes character grows like a seed through development and stresses temper as the hardest to conquer, yet essential for happiness and others’ welfare. He urges consecutive abstinence from drinking, smoking, temper, and profanity.
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Franklin
James Freeman Clarke
Amy's Cruelty Poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The poem contrasts Fair Amy of the trellised house with a lover's devotion, depicting how kindness to animals hides cruelty toward a beloved. It explores entangled love, jealousy, and possessive fear, ending with a plea that a man should never murmur nor be dotted upon forever.
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Amy
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Glen Cove Station Race With A Lunatic Crowd
A midday crowd at Glen Cove watchs a mentally impaired youth race a locomotive toward a tunnel. The engineer halts, the youth is hauled to safety, and the train vanishes into the tunnel. A bystander narrator recalls the event and its dangerous spectacle amid heat, taunts, and moral reflections.
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Glen Cove
Mugby Junction
America
Quartermaster’s Department
Chicago
Justin
Len
Keen observer recalls a stair kick incident
A fragment from the New York Graphic quotes Brown describing how Jones reacted to criticism and kicked him down stairs while Smith notes the offender’s visible emotions, followed by a stray reflection on trust in beauty and a humorous misquote about medicine and a misnamed Venus.
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Sioston Sunday Courier
Chicago Sun
Guidman
John
Barry Scruptray
Shrewsbury
England
Sullivan
Bill Scrap
Dill
New York Graphic
Jones
Brown
Smith
Compulsory Religion in College Contested at Princeton
Dr. McCosh of Princeton College warns a great crisis in higher education as to prayer and religious instruction and student choice of study. The fight, he says, has only begun and Princeton and its community will participate. Also noted is a New Bedford visitor’s remark about Sumner and a country inn sign warning about believing a landlord’s word.
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Grant
Koch
Calcutta
Ferran
Madrid
India
Ble
Chicago Inder Ocean
Spain
New York
Deputy Register
New York City
Averance
Cincinnati
Seligman
Fur Seal
Wohl
Lidlitz
Gambetta
Disrel
Cath
Minneapolis Tributle
Patrick
Bridget
Pat
Chicago Sian
Xenia
Ohio
Henry Warrington
Second Adventists
Warrington
Henry
Burdellr
McCosh
Princeton College
America
Princeton
Troy
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the Register
NEW Harmony
Ind
Eparait D. Elisworth
E. E. Ellsworth
Alexandria
Mechanicaville
Macon
Georgia
Chalon
Excise Office
Dalmatia
Stockton
California
Grover M. O. Broorrnck
Lizzie Jones
Lockeford
San Joaquin County
Miss Jones
Sim
George
Lizzie
John Paul Jones
William
Gamin
Brunswick
Ziven
Dean
Luyy Len
Ornary Cusses
Conrad
Mary Grubbs
Polly
Conrads
Len Conrad
Yourope
Jes
Smary
Neerest
Jedge
Donn Pratt
the Jews of
Aswell
Bloonington Pariagraph
Prolpe
Venus
Apollo
New Bedford
Charles Sumner
Sumner
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