Rabbit hunting goat and bear attacked by cows tale
A Georgia farmer trains a rabbit hound and a goat follows suit as the trio hunts rabbits. a Nova Scotia farmer encounters a black bear at dusk while his three cows charge, chase the bear away. a Skye terrier is mauled by a Newfoundland dog in Pittsburgh after persistent barking. a Portland resident studies Oregon morality and notes long life spans. a legal prank yields fake aqua pura water sold as medicine.
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Georgia
Gohead
Pittsburgh
Vast Texas Paper Names and a Marble Barrington Residence
A list of curious Texas newspaper names appears, including Cyclone and Gospel flame. The piece notes Mrs Mark Hopkins’s grand Great Barrington home under construction in Massachusetts, featuring a 40 by 60 dining room with Italian marble walls, multiple towers, a 100 acre lawn, and a near 3 million dollar price tag. It closes with a medical claim praising sleeping with feet higher than the head as the rational posture, predicting a future advocate for sleeping on the head.
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Mark Hopkins
Great Barrington
Mass
Honduras oranges and evengelists spar with reformers
Col Patr Donan extols Honduras wild oranges noting their size and juiciness that burst from branches as he jokes about banana mishaps. Robert J Burdette in the Brooklyn Eagle defends evangelists amid reformer and anarchist chatter, suggesting no clerical figure faces indictments for violence.
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Robert J. Burdette
Brooklyn Eagle
Herr
Sam Jones
Chicago
Beehives and Spirits Through Receivers and Robed Lectures
A curious column notes English papers on bees and drunken habits, mentioning Kennington bees drinking, magistrates, and Sir Wilfrid Lawson’s worries. It also reports Shanghai China Asiatic Society’s "listening tubes" toy and the long-lost "thousand mile speaker" by Chiang Shun-hsin, from Kangxi to Qianlong eras, with details on its workings and fate.
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Kennington
Charles Warren
Mr. Chance
Wilfrid Lawson
Alliance
China Asiatic Society
Shanghai
Macrowan
Wenchow
China
Chkiang
Kiangsu
Chiang Shun-hsin
Huichou
Kang-hsi
Kien Lung
Thoughtful Thoughts on Life and Virtue Across Time
A collection of aphorisms extols living slowly to achieve longevity and contentment over wealth, urging restraint, punctuality, and self-reflection. It contrasts folly with wisdom, notes firmness in belief, and celebrates brave, selfless acts without witnesses or praise.
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Coxcrut
Draye
Woes of a Fat Man from Albany Argus
A humorous Albany Argus piece recounts a man nearly 300 pounds detailing daily struggles with weight. He describes rising, dressing, squeezing into shoes, missing buses, and caustic remarks from strangers, ending with a nightmarish memory of a family feud and a deadly duel.
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Albany Argus
Tam
Cain
Barnum’s Circus
Heaven
A Furious Old Lady in Vicksburg War of Words
A Louisville Commercial notes prewar Vicksburg journalism faced peril amid pistol culture. A young reporter recalls his father, thirteenth editor killed on the streets, and a rival paper edited by a vigorous woman whose son ran the opposing side.
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Vicksburg
Louisville
Ball Park
Absinthe Origins and Effects Warned by Medical Opinion
The New York Mail and Express reports absinthe is mainly from France or Switzerland with labels and a red seal. It discusses illicit adulterants, its powerful stimulant effects, rapid action, and potential to ruin nerves, digestion, and moral sense, noting French military bans and historic Algerian war use.
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France
Switzerland
Paris
New York Mail
Hupress
Barbara Frietchie legend examined by Philadelphia Times
A Philadelphia Times contributor argues the Barbara Frietchie legend lacks factual basis. She was Barbara Hauer Frietchie of Lancaster and Frederick, not the famed heroine of Whittier's poem. accounts differ on her waving a flag for the Federals and the porch scene.
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Philadelphia Times
Barbara Frietchie
Barbara
Hauer
Lancaster
Frederick
John C. Frietchie
Washington
E. D. E. N. Southworth
Whittier
Frietchie
Mary §. Quantrell
Stonewall Jackson
Night Attack by Lions on a Trader’s Cattle
In darkness a lion’s roar unsettles a caravan, horses and bullocks panic, and a narrator details the lions’ pack-hunting tactic as observed by a trader. The scene explains how old males lead a coterie to target cattle, prompting fear and stampede.
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William
Leeward
Popular Science Monthly
Martha the Scotch servant in Portland sparks beliefs and blunders
A Detroit Free Press excerpt describes Martha a devout Scotch servant in Portland, noting her zeal and practicality, her playful misstatements about life and death, and a humorous clash with Aunt Phoebe over doctrine, illustrating everyday religious satire.
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Portland
Oregon
Mrs. Scott
Martha
Aunt Phebe
Poll
Phoebe
Detroit Free Press
Buddhist View of Nirvana and Rebirth in The Quiver
The Quiver outlines Buddhism as denying a creator God, teaching no soul per se but a stream of life advancing toward Nirvana. It describes moral progress through repeated lives, with nirvanic perfection as the vanishing point, and notes no ultimate absorption into God.
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Gautama
Dangers From Dust and Its Effects on Health
The Sanitary Engineer warns of health risks from dust in workplaces. He notes mechanical and chemical dangers from mineral and lead or arsenic dusts, cites arsenical paper hangings, and describes ordinary street dust as a household nuisance. Yet dust also seeds cloud formation and rain, a paradox of its necessity.
The Foreign Diplomates in Washington Do salaries differ greatly
A Cleveland Leader summary notes various foreign ministers in Washington receive high salaries from 20 000 to 50 000 annually. It highlights British German Turkish Russian and French envoys with rents and lifestyles including Chang Yin Huan of China paying 11 000 yearly, and Col Emil Frey of Switzerland. It mentions attaches staff and incidents of drunkenness among some young diplomats while most are bright respectable and studying to become ministers.
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Washington
China
Chang Yin Huan
New York
Baron de Struve
Blaine
Col
Emil Frey
Union Army
Switzerland
M. Rouston
Tunis
Hese
Don't Blind the Babies Bright Sun Shields Warned
A Boston Cultivator note cautions parents against using bright colored baby window shields as they may injure infants vision. An experienced nurse advocates darker denser shades for children's eyes seeking safer, wiser choices. The piece also advises men to marry cheerful, happy women who stay positive under all circumstances.
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Boston
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Olneyville
BRL
Texas
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Cyclone
Gospel Flame
Seven Manions
Criterion
Dot
Red Man
Rustler
Maverick
Trumpet
Rocket
Breeze
Simoom
Simplecute
Ball
Success
Honduras
Pat Donan
California
Florida
Sir Henry Thompson
the Foreign Diplomates
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