London to New York: a curious miscellany of items
A scan of brief notes reports New York City artists, a Yorkshire discovery of natural gas in Cleveland, and absurd values such as a ton of diamonds at 35 million dollars. It notes a sewing machine, a Missouri divorce suit, Australian imports, mint weights, peppermint oil for itching, and postal facts. It also mentions a Wives justice of the peace, a moving wagon in Atchison, Indian society charges, a Georgia clock coincidence, an English tourist, Canadian arrests, milk testing with a knitting needle, Wooster pronunciation, and ship oil affecting wild fowl plus an English begging letter asking for trousers.
Remarkable Eggs and Public Subtle News Digest
A long collage of brief notes covers varied topics from a giant egg laid by a Brownville hen weighing 64 ounces to a Chicago inventor's electric device for stopping runaway horses. It also notes a fatal fence dispute in Crawfordsville, press attitudes toward Indians, Italian brigand captivity, South Dakota hotel menus, Bangor Maine classroom punishment, and an escaped Baton Rouge prisoner returning to finish his term.
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Crawfordsville
Ind
L T. Bratton
Brownville
Neb
Chicago
Baton Rouge Penitentiary
Island of Juan Fernandez Home to Ex-Austrian Seeker of Adventure
The island once called by many as Selkirk’s home is now inhabited by a former Austrian officer who left army after wounds from the 1866 Sadowa battle. For fifteen years he has lived with natives and deserters, sending his yacht to Valparaiso annually for provisions. Abe Bunter, a local figure, is famed for a horn-like skull and extraordinary head strength, reputed to split wood and break hard objects. Born a slave in South Carolina, he drifted to Williams College around the Civil War era.
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Juan Ternandez
Alexander Selkirk
Sadowa
Europe
Juan Fernandez
Valparaiso
WinitarNs
Abe
South Carolina
Williamstown
The Summer Girl Descriptions and Delights Return
The poem paints the summer girl reappearing with flowers breezes and sunlit curls. Cupid guides romance as crowds gather at the hotel and shore while tennis greens and percale attire frame her charm in a breezy seaside scene.
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Robin Redbreast
Murmer Hotel
The Sacrificed Flag Bearer of Metz
In Metz a battered regiment holds the line against Prussian forces as Sergeant Hornus, the twenty third flag bearer, valiantly guards the colors amid smoke and fire. After the fall of the city and the flag’s surrender, Hornus reclaims the banner at the arsenal and dies protecting it, a symbol of pride and loyalty.
Judge confronts starving woman over gold watch riddle
In a private office Judge Davis, then president of the Senate, listens to a poverty scarred plea from a well dressed woman claiming her family has not eaten for two days. She exposes a gold watch, prompting the judge to question the moral contrast. she exits insulted as a professional dead beat.
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Senate
Laughing Gas Exchange From A Dental Visit
A cartoonish dialogue shows a dentist giving laughing gas to a child. The girl confirms feeling “flaugl go ing” after the tooth extraction, highlighting seaside era humor about dental anesthesia.
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Flaugl
Second Advent in 1899 Promises Biblical Return
Yale professor C A L Totten asserts a biblical calculation fixes the year 1899 for the Messiah's return, framing his claim as non prophecy and detailing generations, hours, and eclipses to support the date. He says the bridegroom will come and wake the virgins, yet maintains the millennium is distant.
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Soa
Yale
C. A. L. Totten
Sheffield Scientific School
Prof. Totten
New York World
Dam
Christ
Herod
Josephus
Bow Legs and early walking warned by health column
The article urges mothers to delay walking for infants as bones are soft and easily bent. It notes many cases of lasting bowing from premature standing, recommends creeping under a year, limited walking until 18 months, and even suggests removing shoes to allow free foot movement to straighten bow legs.
Highest inhabited places in the world
The highest regularly inhabited place is the Buddhist monastery Halne in Thibet at about 16,000 feet above sea level. The next is Galera railway station in Peru at 15,435 feet, with a nearby tunnel 3,847 feet long being driven through the mountains.
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Halne
Thibet
Galera
Peru
Snow Bird Returns to Warm Window Promise
A New York Evening Star tale recalls Mrs. A on an uptown street feeding a weak snow bird from a window pot. The bird visited daily, then came inside, and a silken thread bound to its leg remained as it later flew north. The bird reappeared to peck at the glass and rejoin Mrs. A, the gold thread still shining.
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New York Evening Sur
Mrs. A
Parlor Majic Sus Pension Trick With Salt Water Thread
A 19th century parlor illusion explains suspending a ring or an egg by ash or a burned string. Dip a thread in salt solution, dry it, repeat secretly to look normal. Light the thread and observe the object stay suspended as the string burns away. A muslin hammock variation with an empty egg is described.
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