Locusts and Crickets Destroyed in Algeria Peace Effort
The Governor of Algeria reports a peaceful use of standing armies to save grain by destroying 271 cubic meters of locust eggs and 9,500 cubic meters of crickets. A day’s work by 1,700,000 natives is cited as a sobering measure of desert inhabitants’ labor. In Columbus, pugilist Winton Evans blindfolded Miss Lou Sanders and faced a $20 fine and ten days in jail after claiming guilt, while Boston hosts a notable Italian funeral with vivid attire and minimal mourners’ head coverings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Algeria
Winton Evans
Columbus
Ohio
Lou Sanders
Eccentric Garden Has Rising Patch in South Sodus
Albert Smith's garden in South Sodus New York has a patch that rose steadily over two weeks. An area of 38 square feet climbed three inches in one night and seven inches by the next day eight days later. A Cornell professor will visit to explain the yeast-like rise.
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Albert Smith
Sodus
N. Y
Cornell
Virginia City man stops fire after kerosene lamp blast
Lewis Morais of Virginia City returns home late and mistakes a lighted window for a blaze. He smashes in and battles a fire from an exploded lamp. A woman in white appears with a revolver, but Morais pleads and continues to extinguish the fire before leaving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis Morais
Virginia City
Lewis
Mr. Morris
Conflicting Portraits of Mrs Cleveland Spark Debate
A Washington lady correspondent praises Mrs Cleveland as beautiful and accomplished, while a Buffalo-born male correspondent recalls an old remark calling her a fresh-looking plain young lady and a great favorite of the President despite not being handsome or quick-witted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Albany Journal
Cleveland
Buffalo
Virginia writer plans shorter volume before sailing
Tomas N. Paar, a 33 year old Richmond lawyer and descendant of Gen. Thomas Nelson, aims to publish a collection of short stories after two or three more works appear. He is ill and will sail to Europe soon. A geologist claims recent finds of diamonds and topazes in Sangamon River gravel, with pearls in mussels, though no large discovery is claimed.
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Tomas N. Paar
Marie Chan
Meh
Richmond
Thomas Nelson
Virginia
Europe
Sangamon River
Illinois
Sangamon
Brazil
Ansys
Limestone find near Sprinfield prompts cautionary note
The article discusses a limestone find within eight miles of Sprinfield while the Philadelphia Ledger warns that mortality rises in warm months. It attributes much to intemperance and overeating, noting death in both pot and bottle and urging simple, moderate eating as a health prescription.
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Sprinfield
Tuer
Philadelphia Ledger
the Ledger
King Louwing's Secret Bavarian Printing Venture
Years ago King Luwing of Bavaria inquired into Munich print shops for a hidden project. He sent a nameless manuscript to Herr Muhlthaler for a deluxe edition to be kept unseen by all but the compositor, with proofs to be returned. The poems are said to resemble Wagnerian opera texts and may appear in the royal papers.
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Luwing
Bavaria
Munich
Muhlthaler
Liegende Bleetter
Curious Italian claims on a ritual liquor from Africa
In Forli a man named Succi reports discovering a herb extract that purportedly luminesces and renders the body insensible to hunger or thirst, and allows poisoning without harm. Doctors find the case curious and no fraud detected as Succi plans more fasting and poison trials in Bologna. Also recounted are tales of Lincoln and Davis linked to Fort Snelling and a Lincoln oath anecdote. A separate note discusses egg import trends into the United States, contrasting American poultry enthusiasm with English indifference, and detailing import volumes from Denmark, Germany, Belgium, and France and the distribution points along the coast.
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Italy
Succi
Forli
Romagna
Africa
Lucci
Peruzzi
Bologna Academy of Medicine
Tur
Harsha
Omaha
John Dixon
Dixon City
Winfield Scott
Fort Snelling
United States
Illinois
Scott
Dixon
Lincoln
Sumter
Anderson
Jefferson Davis
Carter Bros
New York
Ude
Atlantic
England
Harwich
St. Gothard
London
Denmark
Germany
Belgium
France
Weymouth
Newhaven
Southampton
Hartlepool
Grimsby
Newcastle
Leith
Chicago Times
Lady Lecturer Joke Sparks Henpecked Reply
A London crowd hears a Lady lecturer proclaim women have suffered for ages then a henpecked man quips they never suffered in silence. The anecdote ends with Joseph gifting Phebe an onyx ring, which she calls entirely unexpected.
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Guying
Hoston
Joseph
Phebe* An
Where Laces Are Made In Belgium France And England
The text details lace production by hand and machine across Belgium France and England. It notes Belgium’s large real lace industry with over 150000 workers many at home and 900 lace schools, Brussels Mechlin and Valenciennes centers, and Mechlin Antwerp Turnhout. France shows many lace makers reduced by machinery with Bayeux Caen Lille Arras and Le Puy centers. Auvergne region centers. Calais as machine lace hub.
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Belgium
France
England
United States
Brussels
Mechlin
Antwerp
Lierre
Turnhout
Valenciennes
Flanders
Ypres
Bruges
Courtrai
Menin
Ghent
Bayeux
Caen
Chantilly
Lille
Arras
Bailleul
Auvergne
le Puy
Calais
English lace making centers and history noted
England leads in hand lace with Honiton from Devon and key centers in Buckingham, Bedford, and Nottingham once prospered. Machinery diminished Nottingham hand work, shifting focus to fine machine-made designs. Lace also produced in Ireland, Limerick, Scotland, and across Europe to varying extents.
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England
Buckingham
Devon
Bedford
Devonshire
Nottingham
Ireland
Limerick
Scotland
Europe
Inter Ocean
The Penny in Scripture and England's Coinage History
The text traces the penny from biblical mentions to its Anglo-Saxon silver origin as a 130th of a pound. It explains half-pennies and farthings, 13th century copper issues, Edward I’s war coinage, Charles II’s copper coins, and Matthew Boulton’s 4000 tons of copper coinage at Soho. It notes the Birmingham mint, the shift to bronze coinage in 1850, and coin composition 75 copper, 4 tin, 1 zinc.
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Edward I
Charles II
Matthew Boulton
Soho
Birmingham
London
England
Messrs. James Watt & Co
Messrs. Heaton & Co
Bore Story Captivates Brooklyn School Audiences
Ex Senator Charles H Russell delivered a humorous tale at Public School No 13 in Brooklyn as he asked students to define a bore. A quick-witted boy answered Bore as a senator, provoking roaring laughter from the entire crowd and leaving Russell flustered and impressed by the sharp reply.
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Charles H. Russell
South Second and Tenth Streets
Russell
Sonny
Mr. Russell
Silenere
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Lagle
Longoturds and beards through history in brief
Dr. Howard forecasts baldness or beards for white men in a thousand years. Chinese chronicles praise beards, Confucius portraits show a large goatee. Beards now linger in Corea and Yunnan. Lombardy origin myths link Longobards to leonine beards. Rudolph the Emperor rode with a ground-trailing forked beard. Longobards remain Armenian highlanders, then Persians and eastern Turks. Providence citizen Waterman dies at 99, survived by a daughter and four grandchildren.
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Dr. Howard
Confucius
Corea
Yunnan
Lombardy
Rudolph
Chevalier Rauber
First Steam Vessel Savannah Crossed Atlantic
The Savannah 380 tons, built at Corlear's Hook, New York, crossed the Atlantic in 1819 under steam for seven days, then to Liverpool in twenty-two days. It sparked a British chase and public curiosity in Cork and Liverpool, with offers and losses totaling over $50,000. The voyage highlighted coal consumption and space limits, delaying profitable steam navigation until about 1838, after which English lines and the Royal Mail propelled global steam trade.
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Atlantic
Savannah
Corlear
Liverpool
Great Britain
St. George Channel
Cork
St. Petersburg
Sweden
United States
Norway
Long Island
Europe
New York Harbor
Royal Mail
Cunard
The Bay of Naples and Vesuvius's Quiet Pulse
A descriptive note on Naples bay and Vesuvius: observatory, railway to the crater, and scientists studying tremors while travelers gaze into the volcano. Sir William Hamilton's historic eruption described with smoke, ash, and columns of fire towering over the mountain.
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Bay of
Naples
Vesuvius
William Hamilton
George Eliot’s vigor and fragile health discussed
Julia A. Flisch notes in St. Louis Magazine that George Eliot’s strong intellect contrasted with a frail body. She suffered chronic nervous headaches that could debilitate her at crucial moments, shaping her imaginative gifts and possibly altering her temperament if her physical form were different.
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George Eliot
Julia A. Flisch
St. Lowia
Different Styles of Riding and Their Masters
Theodore Roosevelt compares cowboy and cross country riding styles from western Dakota to Iowa and beyond. He notes stock saddles and long stirrups, balance versus control, and how each tradition excels in its own domain. He suggests cross training benefits both sides and praises a West Point cavalry officer as a potential all-around horseman.
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East
Dakota
Theodore Roosevelt
Iowa
England
Great Western Plains
West Point
A Husband's Devotion
Paris letter reports a young husband’s grim sacrifice after his wife’s carriage accident. The chemist mutilated her wound, the doctor planned grafting skin from the arm, but the husband offered his own arm. He endured the procedure with a smile, saying they vowed to share pains as well as joys.
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Joe
Paris
Extreme Temperature Records and Limits Across Regions
The Chicago Times notes 151 degrees in shade in Central Africa measured by Capt. Rigaut, implying man’s endurance range around 236 degrees Fahrenheit from a Sea of Kara minimum. Pumpelly logged seven days near Irkutsk with temperatures between sixty and seventy degrees Fahrenheit, highlighting extreme cold and heat contrasts.
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Rigaut
Central
Africa
M. de Nadaillac
Sea of Kara
Irkutsk
London
Pumpelly
Chicago Times
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the Register
New Harmony, Indiana
Boston
Oue
Waterman
Providence
R. I
Plains
Journal of Education
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