Five Bad Twenties and the Judge’s Counterfeit Fee
A Southern lawyer recounts a case where an acquitted man offered a $1,500 fee in counterfeit bills. The judge, suspecting fake money, deposits it as credit to discover it contained five bad twenties. The tale ends with the judge joking that his wife later brought home a new hundred from the treasury.
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Geome
Washington
United States Treasury
Treasury Department
Chicago Record-Herald
Enlivening the Table in a Family Dinner Scene
A New York Tribune passage describes a matriarchal host praising lively chatter at the dinner table. The house rules include remembering amusing happenings to “serve up with our food,” while noting the family’s social circle of financiers and friends. The tone mirrors warm, social dining and anecdotal storytelling.
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Materfamilias
Fred Iatty
Bat
Ned
Edith
New York Tribune
Origin of the Word Sterling from Easterlings
The term sterling traces to eastern German minters invited to England to mint metal money. Known as Easterlings, they influenced the coinage, and over time the word evolved to sterling, denoting genuineness in money, plate or character.
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Europe
Germany
England
Word curiosities in English rhymes and endings
Harold M. Haskell notes in the New York Tribune on the quirks of English word endings. He discusses rhymes for ion sion cion and dous endings, lists rare rhyming groups, and observes many words have no rhymes such as gulf mouth orange scarce and silver.
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Ion
Victo
Harold M. Haskell
New York Tribune
The Orchestra Etymology Through Dance and Seats
The piece traces how orchestra originated as the dance space between audience and stage and later signified the senate seats, with Roman and Greek roots. It notes that modern orchestras retained only vestiges of the dancing meaning and mentions related terms like chorus ballad and ballare.
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Juvenal
The Difference. A nobleman’s joking parable about sheep
A fragment from London Tatler recounts a nobleman’s riddle about a live sheep with four legs and a dead sheep with two, posed to a chancellor who notes the difference lies in the shoulders.
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London Tatler
Baboon Warfare In Africa Described By Naturalists
From Harper's Weekly: naturalists report baboons organizing in warlike bands in Africa. A group stones intruders, two baboons cooperate to roll heavy rocks, and a monkey carries a stone up a tree for impact. When dogs attack, males form a front, rear guard protects young, and an old baboon rescues a baby by lifting it to safety on a cliff while the troupe deafens foes with cries.
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Africa
Ien
Ledger
Harper’s Weekly
Patrick the thrifty tradesman and the road charge
A Dublin dockside tale features Patrick a frugal craftsman who refuses to pay a shilling for a messenger's distance quote. After bargaining he offers sixpence and proposes to accompany the messenger to provide company, revealing his sharp wit and humor.
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Patrick
Dublin Docks
Water Wheel as Ancient Source of Mechanical Power
The water wheel is described as one of the oldest methods to harness mechanical force next to animal power. Early use relied on rivers and streams, later aided by damming to create a continuous water supply even in droughts. Water storage offered reliable motive force with minimal upkeep, and Roman water clocks expanded this concept into a motor-like device.
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Condon
Roses in Ancient Feast and War Elites
The text recalls roses as central to ancient Greek and Roman culture from feasts to perfumed wine. It notes Spartan warriors after Cirrha avoided unperfumed wine and references the Lucrine lake at Baine regatta shimmered with flowers, illustrating rose symbolism across eras.
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Cirrha
Baine
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Newberg
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Chas. K. Spaulding Log. Co
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