Petrified Man Swindle Draws Crowds At Lancaster Exhibit
A tale from the New York Sun recounts a Cardiff giant proxy scam where two youths claimed to have found a petrified man in a field near Lancaster. The display charged 60 cents, an inquest was held, a coroner’s report blamed excess iron, and the "man" was sold to a traveling showman for 60 dollars.
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Lancaster
Jim
Requisitor
Ozarks
New York Sun
Leng Canals Build World’s Longest Artificial Waterways
The Grand canal of China from Hangchau to Pekio spans almost 700 miles and was unified into a continuous waterway under Kublai Khan who began rule in 1280. Other vast waterways include a 4472 mile link from the Chinese frontier to St. Petersburg and a 1434 mile route from Astrakhan to St. Petersburg, projects begun by Peter the Great.
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Leng
China
Hangchau
Pekio
Yellow River
Yangtxe
Kublai Khan
St. Petersburg
Astrakhan
Peter the Great
Aghast Tourist Questions Sermon at Haunted Church
An American touring an old church with hundreds buried beneath it quips about the preacher. The guide notes many sleep beneath the roof, provoking the American to remark that a more interesting sermon would be welcome, reflecting cross cultural humor.
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Liverpool Mercury
Americans Get Paid to Be Soldiers in Europe Tale
A traveler recalls a Harpers Weekly piece on European peasants who cannot imagine a state with no conscription. A lively inn discussion in Italy reveals Americans “volunteering” for military service is paid work, provoking disbelief about war and duty.
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Europe
H. A. Fouck
Harper's Weekly
America
Italy
Irreverent Exchange Reveals Hostile Views Of Americans
A fragment shows a host disparaging Americans as strange liars while discussing government payments to a man chosen in a draw and soldiers. The speaker questions who bears the cost of royal expenditures and the handling of entrusting duties.
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Mage
A Question of Usage in a Choir Performance
The London Stand notes a choir hymn line where soprano, alto, and bass voices debate pronunciation. The alto alters the syllable. the bass, an Irishman, delivers "Nay-ther are they afraid," prompting a lingering question of usage.
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London
The Three Eternal Roots Of Altru Chesterton View
Chesterton argues three roots of altruism: justice ensuring equality before a moral law, charity granting finite tenderness to all regardless of worth, and free will allowing genuine choice to help. He adds a later judgment in which the helper and the helped are affected by the act.
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Altru
G. K. Chesterton
Flowers as Food in Old Time Epicurean Practice
The essay contrasts historic edible flowers and herbs with modern vegetarian tastes. It notes buds leaves and blossoms called sallets and cites violet and cowslip in custards elder tope burdock broom and marshmallow used in pickling and coloring syrups. Today a cooked flower is a curiosity.
Australian Tornado Describes A House Destruction Narrative
An account of an Australian tornado describes a night of unnatural silence followed by a fierce storm. The narrator sheltered in a bed as the roof tore away and furniture flew, witnessing trees stripped and a flooded landscape as the dawn revealed desolation along the river and lawn.
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The
Pacific
Australia
Equator
Quiet Lesson Turns to Quarrel in College Meeting
In a college faculty discussion the group erupts in heated debate as voices rise over a proposed measure. A calm professor speaks to restore order, sparking a whispered Kipling line and further quarreling as the gathering resumes.
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Kipling
McAndrew
Almanacs Through Time and Prediction History
The text traces almanac origins from Arabic roots to Alexandrian use, notes 1150 AD script publications by Solomon Jardhus, and cites the first printed almanac in Vienna 1457 via Purbach. It highlights Nostradamus as a famed almanac maker and notes mid fifteenth century emergence of predictive almanacs with weather lore appealing to many.
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Europe
Solomon Jardhus
Vienna
Purbach
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