Fragmented Register notes on love crises and politics
The Register cites personal crisis reports of youths disillusioned by love and reflects on the 1864 Republican ticket offers to Grex Buker, then recounts a Maine physician wife’s rising practice, Montreal officials’ vaccination on a junket, and Panama’s De Lesseps canal outlook with dredging and river crossing challenges.
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Grex. Buker
North American Review
Chase
Lincoln
Boston Record
Abe Lincoln
de Lesseps
Panama
Riles
New England Relics and Michigan Cabin Dream
The piece notes Senator Paumner of Detroit moving old Ashford homestead relics to a Michigan cabin, planning to transplant trees and haul New England rocks. It also reports Dr Beucktanp's experiments with toads showing survival in water-permitting burials, suggesting toads thrive where moisture reaches them.
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Senator Paumner
Detroit
Michigan
Ashford
Connecticut
New England
West
Beucktanp
Chambers
Magnifico Capitole Joke Sparks Washington Banter
A Washington newspaper man touring with Mexican editors in the capital tried to speak to a silent companion. He pointed to the capitol and said it was magnificent in Spanish. The lady replied simply You bet your life it is.
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Washington
Capitol
Capitole
Earthquake Shakes Benares Challenging Hindu Belief
An earthquake in Hindostan damaged Benares shocking Hindu faith as flimsy myths about the city resting on a tortoise crumble. Mohamadans jeered, Brahmins defended tradition, and Hindooism faced a notable setback.
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Benares
Hindostan
Browning lecture in Boston and Verona veteran actress
Canon Farrar plans a Boston only lecture on Hubert Browning, praising Browning as second to Shakespeare. An aged Verona actress Rosalinda Caruso, born August 27, 1785, nears her 100th birthday and offers to perform in benefit nights for old actors, though her savings were consumed by stage troubles and a fire.
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Canon Farrar
Canada
Hubert Browning
Boston
Browning
Loston
Farrar
the Adige of Verona
London News
Rosalinda Caruso
Verona
Ocean steamers and the myth of seven day passages
The Detroit Free Press disputes the notion of ultra fast Atlantic trips. It notes fewer than a dozen cruises beat seven days in history, mostly New York to Queenstown, while typical routes to Liverpool Glasgow Plymouth or Havre take nine or ten days. It recalls the Baltic’s nine day voyage from Liverpool to New York thirty three years ago and argues horizon-based pacing is misleading.
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Detroit Free Press
Atlantic
New York
Queenstown
Liverpool
Baucombe
Glasgow
Plymouth
Havre
Sandy Hook
Bear Trap Prizes a Burly Negro in Mississippi
In a Mississippi planter’s smoke-house a big bear trap ensnares a burly enslaved man who begs to be freed. After a comic exchange with the colonel about smoked meat and appetite, the trap is opened and the prisoner is released, vowing to avoid the plantation trade.
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Mississippi
In the Hands of Friends symposium remark
A Lowell Times note reflects on a recent symposium invitation and a dictionary sense of symposium as a drinking party, concluding that they feel they are in the hands of friends.
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Lowell Times
Reminiscences of Public Men by Ben Perley Poore
A condensed reminiscence recounts 19th century Washington politics including Col Irwin’s $120,000 split and payments to Forney’s McFarland Berrett and Shaw. It notes Jay Cooke Henry D Cooke and postwar finance, the 1866 Freedmen Bureau debate, Wade’s term limit proposal, Trumbull’s legal assault, and the reaction to President Johnson’s veto. It closes with Gen Robert E Lee’s death and his revered postwar life at Washington College and within national memory.
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Col. Irwin
Col. Forney
Washington
McFarland
Berrett
W. 3 B. Shaw
Nestor
Jay Cooke & Co
Philadelphia
Henry D. Cooke
District of Columbia
Georgetown
Cookes
Jay Cooke
Robert Morris
Washington House
Shepherd
National Capitol
Senate
Johnson
Freedmen’s Bureau
House
Wade
Congress
Garret Davis
Trumbull
Morgan
Cowan
Robert E. Lee
Lexington
Virginia
South
North
Europe
Lee
Appomattox Court House
Hill Passes Quietly After Illness at 9 30
The note states Hill should be sent to the front. He suffered but comparatively little pain during his illness and expired very quietly and peacefully at 9:30 on Wednesday morning.
Comfort and Longevity in Budapest Society
Josef Korosi, Director of the Budapest Bureau of Statistics, presented findings on wealth, longevity, and disease patterns at a Berlin hygiene association talk. He classed society into rich, middle, ordinary poor, and very poor, estimating life expectancy from eight years of death data. Rich average 52 years, bears 40 years 1.1 months, poor 41 years 7 months, implying wealth extends life by nearly ten years. He also linked epidemics to wealth, noting overall poverty elevates some diseases, while specific illnesses track with wealth levels across classes.
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Josef Korosi
Bureau of Statistics
Budapest
Association of Hygiene
Berlin
Handkerchiefs Through Time Show Fashion and Trade
A compact history notes handkerchiefs from fifteenth century wardobe accounts to modern varieties. It details fabrics silk cambric cotton and muslin with bands borders and embroidery. It mentions bandana patterns Indian exports lace trimmings from Queen Elizabeth's era and literary references to bandkerchiefs in Shakespeare.
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Edward IV
Alice Shapster
Elizabeth
Friar Bacon
A. D
The Nerve-Starter in City Street Cars
A deranged individual stalks streetcars, spying on women's feet by looking at the floor. He makes them uncomfortable, causing their feet to shift and skirts to adjust. The torment grows as he moves to another passenger, leaving many women embarrassed and agitated. The behavior is described as fiendish and intolerable.
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Wai
Distance Does It In War Slaughter Rates
The writer notes that despite longer ranges and better firearms, slaughter has not increased and may have declined. The bow caused far more deaths than rifles with breechloaders. At the Battle of Crecy French casualties exceeded 30,000, largely due to 5,200 archers per Froissart.
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Crecy
Froissart
A Brooklyn Social Memory Joke Tale
ABrooklyn social circle recites a convoluted joke about a man who forgets names on a Wisconsin town hotel and an insurance company punchline, highlighting memory vacuums and witty conversationalists in Brooklyn society. The shard ends noting Brooklyn lights compare in conversational genius.
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Louisiana
St. Louis
Keokuk
Arkansas
West Bank
Mississippi
Cairo
Fulton
Wisconsin
Jefferson
Brooklyn
Brooklin Lyle
Rochefort the Quiet Paris Pamphleteer and Editor
Henry Rochefort, famed Paris pamphleteer, is described as shy and ill at ease before crowds. He speaks briefly, writes rapidly, and relies on editors and office boys to produce tomorrow’s issue, avoiding public oratory at all costs.
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Henry Rochefort
Paris
Nochefort
Rochefort
Victoria
Fra Transtgeant
Cor
Chicago Vines
Republics of Andorra and San Marino
Andorra sits on the Pyrenees with a mixed monarchy democracy, twenty four consuls elected by all, Catalan speaking shepherd communities, independence dating to Charlemagne 790. San Marino in Italy has a sixty member Senate for life drawn from nobles citizens and peasants, with an executive council of twelve since 1847.
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Andorra
San Marino
Pyrenees
Isix
Urgel
Spain
Republic of
Italy
Regency governance details and small military guard
The passage describes popular election of members, two capitani regents chosen every six months, and a justice system including a foreign appointee for three years with limited re-election. It notes two legal functionaries, two Secretaries of State, and a military guard of eighty men for the regency.
A Queer Way to Get Fresh Water in Babrin Gulf
A sailor recounts divers fetching fresh water from submarine springs off Babrin in the Persian Gulf. Men dive with goatskin bags and heavy stones to reach cold saline-free water, then rise with filled bags. Water soon warms and thirst returns, yet natives depend on these shallow ocean springs all day.
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Persian Gulf
Babrin
New York
Emery Storrs and the Millionaires
A dramatic scene on a Saratoga piazza has Emery Storrs rebuking a circle of millionaires who confess bankruptcy and boast wealth. He argues money-making is not intellectual, cites beaver and chipmunk traits, and questions the legacy of stockholders and Phidias. The exchange lasts about thirty minutes, leaving even the wealthy unimpressed.
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United States
Saratoga
Storrs
Dives
Croesus
Parthenon
Athens
Phidias
New York World
His Honor and the Mayor Ticket Dilemma
A city story recounts how a private secretary refused a travel ticket for a needy person claiming the mayor handles such favors personally. The visitor pressed, asking for a microscope to inspect the matter before the P S called the police.
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St. Louis
P. S
Taste of Mutton Fueled by New Zealand Owls
A quirky tale from New Zealand describes owls shifting from harmless birds to sheep-killers after an early settler nailed a sheep skin to his roof. The story details how these owls began devouring sheep, pecking through carcasses to reach kidney fat, and multiplying as they prospered.
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New Zealand
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