Mean Advice and Reade’s Method of Work
A Norfolk paper quotes Sir Robert Anderson praising Charles Reade as a genius who labors steadily. It notes his scrap-booking habit, collecting and curating cuttings weekly to fuel his dramatic writing and ensure factual accuracy. A playful fragment on marriage humor contrasts a husband’s advice to remember birthdays with prudent gift choices.
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Charles Reade
Reade
Robert Anderson
Westminster Gazette
Inventions that Brought Moving Pictures to Life
A discussion traces early optical toys the thaumatrope and zoetrope, explaining how spinning coins and rotating slotted cylinders created motion illusions. It notes a 1877 breakthrough by Eadward Maybridge capturing moving images of people and animals in New York.
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Eecae Bibel
Nely
Edward Maybridge
New York
Matthew Arnold Hairsparked by Self View in Recollections
E M Sellar recalls Matthew Arnold in 1880 meeting at T C Sanders house with Oxford contemporaries. The anecdote notes his high opinion of his looks and hair, contrasting his hair with others of his circle as time passes.
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Matthew Arnold
E. M. Sellar
Arnold
T. C. Sanders
Oxford
Daffodils Mown in Kirkyard After Minister’s Wife Objects
A London Chronicle note recounts that in a Scottish kirkyard flowers were cut down on a March Sunday after Sir Herbert Maxwell, a minister, ordered the mowing. He explains the action was due to his wife disliking yellow, a vulgar color, provoking laity dismay.
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Espeare
Tennyson
Her Maxwell
Herbert
London Chronicle
The Dak Bungalow as a Shelter For Travellers
Harper's Magazine describes the dak bungalow as a blessed shelter for weary travellers across India. Bungalows are scattered across the country roughly a day's march apart, offering warmth in cold weather and shelter from heavy rain and hail storms that northern planters insure against.
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India
Manute Ee Ee Ae
Harper’s Magazine
Free Library Request for Franked Reports Declined
A constituent asked a member of Congress to frank about fifty well bound government reports for a private library. The humorous note claimed a vacant shelf in a new house and praised public documents. The request was not granted.
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Daily Mail
Congress
Means
King of Spain and the olives that outwitted him
A tale from The Spaniard at Home recounts a banquet in an Andalusian town honoring the king. Mayors sample olives stuffed with peppers. one commits to eat despite fear of a swallowed stone. The king mocks and praises the olives, yet the danger proves real and the tale ends with the king’s wary digestion.
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Cramanse
Alf XIII
Onso
Cecil Rhodes and His Portrait Collection
Cecil Rhodes valued reading over collecting art and avoided amassing works. He kept only one famous painting, a Sir Joshua Reynolds portrait of a young married woman, which hung in his dining room. He admired the Reynolds piece since boyhood and later bought it as an adult.
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Cecil Rhodes
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Bulgarian Honeymoons Echo Ancient Bulgarian Custom
The article notes a tradition in Bulgaria where a newly married woman speaks to outsiders for only the first month after the wedding. She may eat and reply only when spoken to by her husband, a practice said to extend the honeymoon to a full month.
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Bulgaria
You and Your Plans for My Daughter
An indignant old gentleman protests against a match as he recalls a past debt. The young man retorts that he will not be deterred and hopes to prove himself a capable father-in-law despite the history. The exchange is reported with a touch of humor from the London Titl.
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White Mountain
White River
New York
London
Titus
Curious Exchange About Hidden Screen In Room
A mother and child discuss a screen used to conceal part of a room. The boy wonders why the lady placed the screen there and whether anyone looked behind it. The mother answers with a cautious, domestic explanation.
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Little Harry
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