Kitty Rays Count Impostor Romance Tension Ends
A wealthy Squire pursues marriage for his daughter Kitty with a French Count in a tale of deception. Kitty favors her lover Edward Grantley, disguises, and an English Earl named Danby prompts revelation. The impostor Count is exposed, Kitty marries the true suitor, and she rejects foreign titles for a plain married life.
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Kitty Ray
Squire Ray
Kitty
Count of
Nuremburg
France
Ray
Catharine
Edward Grantley
Edward Granbey
Edward
Spain
Earl of Danby
Mr. Danby
England
Danby
On the Choice of a Wife Poem Fragment
A reflective verse on selecting a wife, balancing beauty and sprightliness with modesty and docility, seeking a candidate who combines affection, protection, reason, and controlled passions, offering just enough faults to avoid perfection. The speaker vows to choose once meeting such a balanced match.
The Rosebud and Pride in a Lost Love
A speaker recalls a rosebud given in youth and a love that faded when pride kept them from seeking it. The poem laments lost treasures and the cost of pride, ending with the plea that pride stole the rose and the heart.
Love's Prayer and the Quiet Window Gaze
Poem excerpt expresses longing and sad devotion as the speaker imagines a loved one passing by the dwelling. The voice asks for understanding of the ache of absence and the comforting, sisterly presence felt at the window and doorstep during moments of yearning.
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Tope
Spark of heavenly fire cited in adversity quote
The Chicago Journal notes in a queried proverb about women and resilience while the Mississippi Pilot Republican fades, dying a natural death as the party disappears in the state.
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Washington Irving
Chicago Journal
Weg
Mississippi
Question on brains and age in a rustic tale
A professor asks a rustic how long a man can live without brains and receives a puzzled reply. Mrs Barnum is stated as twenty seven years younger than Phineas, a detail revealing a jokey contrast in age.
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Sar Mrs. Barnum
Phineas
Dundreary Star Sothern Switches to 70 Percent Share
The actor known for earning about 8500 a night and half the house take now hires his own company and takes 70 percent of gross receipts. With a Park Theater nightly take around 1200 dollars, his weekly gross could reach 7000 dollars making him about 4900 dollars weekly after expenses. The current new play minimizes high priced casting, keeping weekly costs near 800 dollars and yielding roughly 5000 dollars net.
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Sothern
Couple wed in Georgia under unconventional vows
A couple tied the knot in Georgia officiated by a Justice of the Peace. The ceremony quoted state and US constitutions, invoking the new Georgia constitution and presidential uncertainty, with asides about public figures like Tweed and Mark Twain.
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Georgia
Porpoises to oranges in James IV era Scotland
From 1473 Lord High Treasurer accounts we learn delicacies like porpoise seal and polypus, French wine for the rich, beer common, and women brewaters wives running brewing. Whisky rare, oranges bought, amusements funded, hawking and hunting favored. a hawk cost £100 while a galley outfit ran to £22 6s 8d, with other oddities noted by Saturday Review.
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Scotland
James IV
Perkin Warbeck
Earl of
Angus
Saturday Review
Fresh Eggs and Fashion Trends Report From The Era
A satirical slice notes old egg preservation tips using gum arabic and mutton fat, claims hens hatched from aged eggs, and jokes about fashionable dresses with shorter skirts. It playfully contrasts Victorian royalty income, stating Victor Emanuel earns about 8.5 million dollars while remaining deeply in debt.
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