Unitarian Church Fire and Racial Reactions Across Times
A Pennsylvania clergyman recalls a South Carolina town where a Unitarian church was burned after locals feared it would lure Black residents to hell. A separate note reports a China Japan cultural incident, and Leopoldville Congo scenes show hippos fleeing white stations as soldiers seek meat, forcing longer hunts.
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Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Turhippopotamus
Congo
Leopoldville
Odds and Ends from Courts and Travelers Tales
A New Jersey judge recounts Pennsylvania men fined for possessing dead deer and details a scheme to funnel fines to informants. A Portland gambler defends a win with a revolver, closing the game after sweeping winnings into his drawer. A French paper notes Sir William Draggs hiring a cab to the pier, then world cruising, ending with a £600 bill. An Ohio native now in New York recalls Senator Allison’s suspenders and a boastful chase that ended in a kiss, and finally Coreans sending a minister to Washington.
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New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Gloucester
Portiano
Portland Sport
Sir William Draggs
Brighton
Sir Draggs
New York
Wooster
Allison
Iowa
Disturbing Margin Notes on Punishments and Magician Herrmann
The article lists brutal punishments including chains rods paddles and beheading for parricide with other methods such as bastinado stocks ropes and public drum punishments. It then covers magician Herrmann who doubts supernatural feats and claims accomplice sleights with Alfonso of Spain Louis Napoleon and the King of Spain aiding him in tricks.
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Rous
HerrMann
Alfonso
Spain
Louis Napoleon
Brussels Leads In City Death Rates In Statistical Report
A Belgian press summary of a medical bulletin shows Brussels has the lowest death rate per thousand, 15, while cities like Amsterdam The Hague Philadelphia 16 and Berlin New York Brooklyn 20 follow. The report attributes Brussels advantage to an independent health board.
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Medical Bulletin
Brussels
Amsterdam
Hague
Philadelphia
Stockholm
Baltimore
Dresden
Vienna
Turin
Berlin
New York
Brooklyn
Paris
Christiana
St. Petersburg
Venice
Perth
Bombay
Calcutta
Rotterdam
Breslau
Prague
Munich
Hamburg
Trieste
Copenhagen
Alexandria
Rome
Madras
Cairo
Board of Health
Sayings of Texas Children A Home Trust
A collection of brief, humorous and moral snippets featuring children with parents and a pastor. The pieces cover children's mischief, sniffs of poverty and social contrast, plus a light art anecdote about a nude painting and a closing exhortation to destroy ignorance for progress.
Mexican Flower Show At Mixcoac Draws Local Admiration
A Mexico correspondent for the Boston Herald describes a Sunday flower show in Mixcoac with colorful Spaniards and Mexicans, handsome women, and a lively gambling scene outside the plaza walls. Monte operators, con men, and fleeing blankets color the spectacle as soldiers and spectators observe, with police quietly watching for pickpockets and theft.
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Mixcoac
Mexico
Boston Herald
Castile
Iberian Peninsula
Europe
Monte Sharp
Colorado
Monte
The Pay of Two Presidents Compared
A Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph summary compares the emoluments of the French President with the United States President. It notes the French salary of $120,000 plus lavish state provisions, domestic staff, carriage, gardening, and entertainment costs, versus the U.S. salary of $50,000 with additional allowances for staff, furniture, fuel, and greenhouse repairs, totaling $114,865 per year. It concludes the U.S. overall cost remains lower than France’s bare salary.
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France
M. Gregg
French Republic
Marly
Rambouillet
United States
White House
Pittsburgh Chronicle- Telegraph
Strictly Business Pitcher Salaries and Sermon Tactics
In a back room dialogue a deacon explains why base ball pitchers earn larger salaries than preachers. He notes pitchers train anger, search their text for sermons, avoid political pitches, and aim for moral and physical satisfaction, implying church dynamics influence salaries.
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Rollo
Gnard Rollo
Rollo's Father and a Confused Talk of Terms
The passage follows Rollo and his father as they discuss a potential job in the battery. Rollo comments that his father muddles technical terms, though he mostly understands. The dialogue hints at a willingness to work without salary and cover own expenses, reflecting a cautious, humorous exchange.
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America
Rollo
The Element of Destiny and Great Figures in History
The piece argues that a sense of destiny separates extraordinary individuals from ordinary men. It cites Goethe, Rousseau, Lincoln, and Elizabeth I, noting their confidence in fortune or fate and their willingness to act on it. The narrative cites Greene, Walsingham, and biographers to illustrate belief in an guiding providence shaping great outcomes.
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Schopenhauer
Horace
Lucretius
Ovid
Dante
Shakespeare
Bacon
Goethe
Rousseau
Lahn
Greene
Elizabeth
Walsingham
Lincoln
Puss in Boots and its Moral Question Across Cultures
A London Daily News note discusses the tale Puss in Boots and its origins. It notes Perrault's 1697 French version lacking a moral, compares rewrites by Cruikshank, and traces varying moral content from Zanzibar to India, where no moral version is found. The piece raises whether the story was originally told for a moral or as pure fantasy.
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England
Perrault
Goose
Cruikshank
Puss
France
Lang
Zanzibar
India
Arabia
London Daily News
A Cheap Telephone Made From Cigar Boxes
A Demorest's Monthly note explains a simple home telephone using two cigar boxes and a loop of stove-pipe wire. One half inch holes in box centers, cones at each end, a cord for tension, and a window spacer suffice, yielding a two hundred yard line costing 45 cents. The piece links birth environments to personal agency in life outcomes.
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Demorest
Drinks of Many Nations and Their Drinking Habits
The piece surveys alcohol use across Asia and surrounding regions. It notes low consumption among Persians and many Indians, contrasts with heavy Britons in India, praises the Zat warriors, highlights Japanese and Russian drinking customs, mentions Chinese Rice drink, and observes Turks drinking little alcohol aside from coffee. It stresses cultural and religious influences on sustenance and social life.
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Mussulmans
India
Tommy Atkins
Asia
Japan
Reformed Drunkard's Stay In Kentucky Asylum Tale
A Kentucky inebriate asylum uses whisky flavored meals to repulse drinkers. Old Jethro Mills, sent there, later returns and jokes about the method, saying the soup lacked enough liquor. The piece includes a quip about coffee and a note on enamelled bricks and Emerson on shared treasure.
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Kentucky
Jethro Mills
Jimmie
Arkansaw
Ostrich Feathers Could End Bird Extermination Fashion
Pall Mall Gazette discusses using ostrich feathers for wraps and trims to curb cruelty of fur and bird plumage, noting that feather production rose after 1859 but demand fell, lowering prices. mills shift to hats and fans, with Kingsford proposing uses for wraps, cloaks, and warm garments.
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Pall Mall Gazette
Anna Kingsford
London
Eugenie
Paris
Cape of Good Hope
Heligoland
Two Children in Choir Cause Minister to Pity Father
A Chicago Tribune anecdote tells of a minister who questions a train acquaintance about his grown children. The man says his son and daughter quarrel and cause him pain yet attend church twice weekly and sing in the choir. The minister, realizing the choir explains the family affliction, shares sympathy.
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Yulso
Robert Ingersoll
Chicago Tribune
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New Harmony, Indiana
Wallat
China
Hwang Kan
Washington
Texas
Charlie
Papa
Mamma
Mamie
Savas
Tommy
Emerson
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