Lady Hester Stanhope Seizes Dijon House For Twenty Years
An old Paris publication recounts Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope taking and keeping a Dijon house. She refused to relinquish or rent it, prompting a European chase led by Emir Beshyr. A courier from Constantinople confirmed her authority, and she lived as a recluse for two decades until her death.
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Stanhope
Paris
Levant
Hester Lucy Soskoan
Dijon
Europe
Milady
Riis Tale Of Unwritten Loan To Austrian Heirs
The anecdote recalls Jacob A Riis telling of a loan to an Austrian acquaintance on Long Island. No written record existed and the borrower later left most of his estate to Austria. Riis testified in court and, after Austrians won the suit, demanded repayment of the unrecorded loan which Riis paid.
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Jacob A. Riis
Long Island
Riis
Austria
Biis
Soaring youth forced to study Rhine by father
In a playful anecdote from A Winter Pigrimage, the narrator recalls being taken on a Rhine voyage to “study it” for a mind improvement. A family betrayal and tears lead to the deck, and the father declares he has paid six thalers to ensure the lesson proceeds.
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St. H. Rider
Riine
Olla Ea
Old Table Manners From Fra Bonvesin’s Fifteen Courtesies
In the Ambrosian library at Milan a thirteenth century manuscript titled Fifty Courtesies of the Table by Fra Bonvesin offers simple precepts. Sample rules urge clean hands, no scratching, no finger licking, and modest spoon portions to avoid stomach trouble and offense at table.
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Ambrosian
Milan
Manuscrip
Fra Bonvesin
Conversation Between Mistress and Maid in Yonkers Star
A short dialogue excerpt shows a mistress admonishing her maid to listen. The maid replies she has always listened, noting she was on the other side before becoming visible to the mistress. The piece highlights class and perception in a domestic setting.
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Katie
Yonkers Sta
Brain Weights by Sex and Infant Size Reported
The record cites average brain weights for males and females with ranges from 34 to 65 ounces for males and 31 to 56 ounces for females. Newborn brain weights are about 11.65 ounces for males and 10 ounces for females.
German artist Menzel sketches a goose of a heckling couple
In Berlin a man and wife dined at artist Menzel's wine shop table. The wife mocked him until he drew his sketchbook and completed a quick cartoon of the wife as a goose, then asked the husband if it was his spouse. The couple left.
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Menzel
Berlin
Understanding nautical speed units in historical note
A New York Times quotation explains that one knot equals one nautical mile per hour and is a velocity unit. It warns against saying a vessel runs twenty-three knots an hour or a day’s run in knots, advising instead twenty-three knots or twenty-three miles per hour and nautical miles for distance in a day.
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New York Times
Famine Soup Tale At Dublin Retold In Quip
A fragment recalls Stokes sent to Dublin during the famine to teach soup making. He asks a starving beggar why she didn’t fetch free soup. The woman replies that the so called soup is merely a quart reduced to a pint to make it strong, a tale of hunger and satire.
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Stokes
Dublin
Dust a Thousand Feet Thick and Chinese Dust Zones
The article describes vast dust regions in China including the Gobi desert and northern plains. It notes irrigation wheels and the Great Wall near dust-filled southern boundaries. Fertility of northern China relies on this dust, which Chinese call ginger powder.
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China
Gobi Desert
Great Wall
Driving a Nail Techniques and Effects on Wood
A reader explains that nail driving is more complex than simply sinking the nail. Proper angles, multiple nails, and controlled force improve hold, with tips on aligning nails and oiling the point for hard wood to ease driving.
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Ile
Lord Monboddo Courted by Garricks in Youth
A fragmentary reminiscence recalls Lord Monboddo, noted Scotch judge and Boswell subject, as a Beau at Hampton Court. He admired a fair, sprightly maid, offered his heart, faced a firm rejection, and lamented not teaching her Greek in the aftermath.
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Lord Monboddo
Boswell
Johnson
Garricks A
Hampton Court
Hank More
The Clarinet and Other Tiny Tales from Old Papers
A passage on the clarinet praises its voice in woodwinds and its role in military bands, noting its lower range and tone compared with the oboe and bass clarinet. The excerpt shifts to a quip about ignorance from Youth's Companion and then to a humorous anecdote about the hot air balloon's origin and a map forged night letter joke from Birmingham Age-Herald.
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St. Nicholas
Birmingham Age-Herald
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