Variousworld items mix of news and anecdotes from 19th century Register
A miscellany of short notes and curiosities from The Register including debt totals for New York City, livestock and animal anecdotes, a Pennsylvania hair-cutting incident, and comments on South American exhibit plans for 1892. It also covers European population growth trends, Sullivan Kilrain trial testimony, a Missouri dress-wear permit for Emily Paxton, a botanical middle name coincidence involving Sarah Althea Hill, British ironclad display rumors, Sioux reservation settlement prospects, a locomotive cowcatcher patent claim, red rear lights on trains, an Albany bank anecdote about checks and signatures, Justice Field’s appearance, and a Bath Maine widower with a beard and romantic attentions.
Blue beard and a talking pony tease a curious day
A man in Richmond, Indiana buys dye to blacken his whiskers but the result turns sky blue and resists removal. A local resident keeps a pony with a taste for young chickens and kittens, while notes on geological erosion discuss wind driven sand shaping rocks at Capend and a Corinthe theatre cavern.
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Richmond
Ind
Leeland
Iceland
Capend
Rocky Mountains
M. Contejean
French Academy
Corinth
Medieval Poison Rings Across Italian Courts
The London Standard describes poison rings perfected in Italy with hidden hollow bezels and springs to dispense poison when grasped. Varieties include a back slide to drop poison into wine, a bezel key to a casket, and a signet ring inscribed Fais ce que dois avien que pourra.
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Italy
Enuire
Paris
Civsar Borgia
London Standard
Origin of Arithmetical Signs
Marysville Budget notes a concise history of math symbols. It explains how the plus sign evolved from a careless P, the minus from mins with a line, multiplication from plus to X, division via a compact left-right format, radical from radix, and the equality symbol first used in 1557 to avoid restating equal phrases.
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Marysville
Cal
Justly Rebuked by the Trimmed Baker
A hungry man recounts a tale of a baker whose loaves grew smaller as he served customers. On his round, the baker knocked at a door and the lady asked who was there. He answered he was the baker and asked to leave bread. She urged him to push it through the keyhole.
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Tur
Albany -Journal
Justice Field
Supreme Court
Harrison
Earle
Raymond
Havana
Moro Castle
Thad
Carolos
City
Mentel
Malviro
Jonez DeVallejo
Senor
Tean
Nantucket
The Tapping of the Clubs in the Evening Streets
A vivid scene portrays police clubs clashing as a raucous street disturbance unfolds. Witnesses describe a patrol's presence near a park shadowed by a man and his children seeking aid. The write up emphasizes the danger of night crowds and the patrol’s role in enforcing order.
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Alv
Ionez A Tale of Sea and Shore
An unnamed narrator, a New York firm member, travels by Jenny Lind to Havana for rest after a financial crisis. On a moonlit Atlantic night a phantom Cuban woman appears, guiding a romantic fantasy that blends adventure with danger. In Havana the story leads to rescue and a later stormy event. Two years later, the narrator reveals a happy life with his wife Tonéz De Vallejo.
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Geoffreys
Wilden & Marston
New York
Havana
Carolos
Gallet
Gin
Heaven
Cuba
Tam
Bits About Babies And Syrup From Melons
A physician says infant head control rests on will power, not neck strength, and smiles and tears emerge from development and imitation. The piece traces early senses and memories in babies, then shifts to Col William Duncan’s idea to make syrup from melons as a substitute for sugar cane, noting claimed ease of growing melons and the syrup’s preservation-like quality.
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Darwin
Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Col
William Duncan
South Carolina
Duncann
The Trade Moral Debate Behind a Nantucket Tale
In a brisk exchange merchants discuss sharp practice and honesty in business. The speakers contrast deceitful pricing with blunt offers, noting a double moral code between private life and commerce and concluding patience with bad temper is a poor excuse in trade.
Butte Hill Coulson Ghost Town Tales In Montana
A traveler’s sketch of Coulson near Billings Montana recounts a ghostly landscape of deserted houses and Butte Hill burying ground where twenty four men lie buried eight with boots on. The piece recalls California Jack and Liver Eating Johnson and Coulson’s frontier past before Billings eclipsed it.
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Billings
Montana
Coulson
Butte Hill
California
Jack
Faro
California Jack
Chicago
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Waterville
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Terry
Tie
United States Senate
Senate
Missouri
Emily Paxton
Sarah Althea Hill
Sharon
Sarah
Dakota
D. B. Davies
Columbus
Ohio
Swisshelm
Bath
Ionez
BY Silas Butler, JR
Flora Montgomery
Carl Raymond
Malyko
Honeless
Jonez de Vallejo
Hotel Delino
Minalee
Butte Hill Burying Ground
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