Organic Evolution and the Flatfish Adaptation
A discussion on how nature adapts during organic evolution with focus on flatfish like flounder and sole. It explains side swimming, eye migration, and fin changes as developmental responses to bottom-dwelling life, and notes Pliny's Natural History as an early encyclopedia and its influence on later reference works.
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Ehadevcbenance
Tren Ves
Nature
Harner
N Weekly
First Encyclopedia
Pliny
New York American
One Woman's Way
A short dialogue shows a wife explaining why she buys an expensive gift for Mia, arguing the gesture will provoke her husband’s rival, while the husband questions the expense and plans. The exchange hints at feuding loyalties and social expectations.
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Sach
Mia
Baltimore Amer
Comedy in Court by a French Lawyer Wins Murder Case
A Paris Journal account describes Maitre Lachand using a staged display of tears and facial marks to mock jurors. He then questions their humanity and moral mood, and the ruse arouses laughter before the defendant is acquitted.
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Maitre Lachand
France
Trouk
Paris Journal
Long Welsh Beard Feats and Dazzling Facial Folklore
Howell lists Llewenn as having the longest beard on record, yellow and flowing to the horse’s knees, with mountain Welsh parents noted. Proverbial expressions arise from this feature, and other tall facial hair feats are cited, including George Ellingworth’s five foot three inch beard and Count Ruloff’s impossibly long mustache.
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Howell
Llewenn
Howland
George Ellingworth
Mary
Russia
Ivan the Terrible
Count Ruloff
Poland
The Price of Reform Circus Tale
A circus side show manager recalls a famous glass-eating act once fond of beer bottles before an temperance pledge changed the performer. He now drinks only mineral water, too costly to sustain, ending the act’s run. The anecdote appears in the St. Louis Times.
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St. Louis Times
The Heat of the Sun Theories and Contraction Idea
Lawrence Hodges in New York Tribune outlines competing sun heat theories from attraction by debris to burning mass, then favors the contraction theory where the sun cools and contracts, producing heat. He explains Earth's atmosphere traps heat, compares to a greenhouse, and notes how heat escapes to space.
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Space
Earth
Lawrence Hodges
New York Tribune
Her Name Not Polly Ticks
During a campaign a legislature candidate asked a farmer's wife about politics. The woman replied that Polly was not her name, prompting the man to back off. The judge notes the encounter ended the interview and the prospect.
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Polly Ticks
Keeping His Promises
A dialogue excerpt contrasts Mrs Synnex and Mrs Sever over promises made by Tom. Mrs Synnex asserts Tom respects her wishes, while Mrs Sever calls the assurances hollow. The exchange centers on trust and authority in personal relationships.
Absentminded Champion Seen At Belham
An English paper notes an absentminded champion living at Belham. He visits an old friend, the family doctor, chats two hours, then leaves saying his family is well. He exclaims My heavens and recalls his errand as his wife is in a fit.
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Belham
People Like to Get Into the Picture Across the World
A New York Sun quote notes that people everywhere instinctively pose for photos seeking visibility. The photographer observes rear group members craning to show faces and believes camera presence reveals shared vanity. He argues pictures unite distant peoples by a common human trait.
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New York Sun
General Lee declines offers of high office and riches
After the Civil War General Robert E Lee refused numerous honors and positions of prominence. He accepted only the presidency of Washington College for a modest salary, and when offered a $50,000 a year insurance chair with no work, he asked if his name was worth that much and vowed to guard it carefully.
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Robert E. Lee
Thomas Nelson Page
Washington College
Lee
Fresh Water Springs in the Gulf of Mexico
Sailors have long known fresh water springs in the Gulf of Mexico that spur geyser like rises of ice cold water amid salt water. Discovered by early voyagers these springs kept mariners alive when becalmed in the doldrums and are noted on charts though now less relied upon.
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Gulf of Mexico
Gulf
Wilkins Judgment Sparks Lawyer Banter
A London scraps quip notes a lawyer asked for a professional opinion about Wilkins. The reply calls Wilkins a silly ass in both professional and friendly tones, with the punchline that the friendlier view costs nothing while the professional one costs the first amount.
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Wilkins
London
Absentminded professor’s door notice inspires pause
A professor pins a notice promising a 4 o'clock return. An earlier-than-expected return leads him to study the note, glance at his watch, and wait ten minutes before resuming his activities, in a Bohemian mood.
Lumber guidance from Pinney at Newberg store
M H Pinney of 306 N Main St Newberg Oregon offers straightforward lumber advice. He promises to prioritize customer interests and provide the smallest quantity needed for a square deal.
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M. H. Pinney
N. Main St
Newberg, Or
Animal Mud Bathers
The passage notes how salt water birds seek fresh water to wash, land birds dust and wash in varied earths, and many animals including the tiger bath in water or mud. Elephants use their trunks as a syringe, powder puff and hand to treat wounds, with water mud and dust as primary tools.
Inventory of Mohawk and Hudson Railroad 1833 Document
A dated inventory from January 1 1833 records the Mohawk and Hudson railroad now part of the New York Central and Hudson River system. It lists assets, rolling stock, and property tied to the early rail line and its consolidation into a larger railroad network.
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Mohawk and Hudson Railroad
New York Central and
Hudson River Railroad
Reading of rolling stock and wedding match quotes
A passage cites the road rolling stock listing three locomotives and various carriages with total capacity 183, then shifts to a dialogue where a daughter confirms her choice of Moneyblower for marriage, praising his yearly new motorcar habit as ideal.
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John Bull
de Witt Clinton
Experiment
Tetroit Free Press
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Oregon
Southern Pacific
Newport
Yaquina Bay
Tillamook County
Crater Lake
Celestin Springs
Shasta Springs
Cascadia
Breitenbush
John M. Scott
Portland
Chas. K. Spaulding Log. Co
Hodson Bros
S. A. Mills
Newberg Auto CO
C. B. Cummings
C.B. Cummings
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