Bottled Light and the Cocuyos of the Tropics
The New York World describes cocuyos or noctilucid insects from Cuba and the Americas that emit bright green light from their eyes and abdomen. Natives read by placing them in bottles or hanging a cocayera above beds, and lightly pressing the stomach causes the glow. Specimens vary in size, with the largest from Pinar del Rio. They feed on sweet potatoes and rotten wood, are easily captured, and can light a cigar when swung. The light is linked to an overproduction of electric phosphorescence, according to Senor Felipe Poey, with glow returning when the stomach is pressed.
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America
West Indies
Cuba
Mexico
South America
Pinar del Rio
Senor Felipe Poey
Humboldt
China
The New Rubber Hose Prank Ends With Wet House
A Dallas News humorous scene shows a family receiving a new rubber hose. Father uses it to spray the open porch and parlor, prompting playful chaos. By next day a scuffle from over-sprinkling leaves the girl with a black eye and all three children soaked. The mother finally urges the chores of watering the yard.
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Ose
Pape
Dallas News
Plovers Eggs A Rare Delicacy In English Markets
England ships hundreds of thousands of lapwing eggs to city markets described as a luxury item. The eggs resemble pigeons in size and fetch high prices, mainly for aristocratic consumption. Gatherers work marshes and wet fields to collect the nests, the London Standard notes.
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England
London Standard
Embryo Architect Cartoon Recounts Costly Estimate
A Metropolitan Magazine quip on a father and his six year old son who began building a model house at an estimated 65 cents and has already cost the father about 3.50, illustrating a child’s early architecture effort.
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Metropolitan Magazine
Small boy cries over nine doughnuts on Philadelphia avenue
A passerby encounters a distraught boy as a caregiver explains the boy is not ill but cannot stomach nine doughnuts. The scene captures a sharp, humorous exchange observed on Philadelphia avenue reported by a magazine.
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Philadelphia Avenue
Turning Point in History Amid May 1637 Emigration Halt
On May 1 1637 eight immigrant ships ready to sail on the Thames were stopped by soldiers guarding the landing. Oliver Cromwell and John Hampden were among those aboard but Cromwell stayed, preventing a mass emigration that Macaulay says could have altered the English civil war history.
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Thames
Oliver Mwell
John Hampden
Cromwell
Macaulay
House of Stuart
Just a Guess Skeleton in the Closet Spooks Visitor
A physician’s corneas and a friend play in the office when an articulated skeleton is revealed in a closet. The startled visitor recovers and the other asks if it is the doctor’s first patient, prompting a wry exchange.
Roland and Oliver in a Rhine island duel
The text recounts a five day battle between Roland and Oliver, two of Charlemagne's generals, on a Rhine island. Each blow from Roland was answered by Oliver, illustrating the saying a Roland for an Oliver as a blow for a blow.
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Roland
Oliver
Charl
Rhine
Not So Far Wrong Translation Mishap Comic Exchange
James faltered in Latin class as Miss Graham urged him to recall the word for left. After a tense moment he finally blurted Spinster, prompting a humorous miscue from the pupil.
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James
Graham
Deep Sea Life and Its Fantastic Fishes
An 19th century account from Harper's Magazine details exploration of deep ocean zones three to four miles deep. It notes life in perpetual darkness, extreme pressures, and near-freezing temperatures, revealing new species and forms once seen only as fossils.
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Challe
Britain
Great de
Alexander
Prince of Monaco
Harper’s Magazine
One on Grandpa and the Cold Bath Challenge
A short exchange from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat recalls a grandson persuading Grandpa to honor a summer promise about cold morning baths. The boy reports starting the routine this morning as proof of his commitment.
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Grandpa
Henry
Hat price tricks spark domestic quarrel tale
A man recalls buying a hat for five dollars and marking it up to fifteen before sending it home. He jokes about how his wife Cleverly will not notice the difference and laments the deception she might face from his hat purchase.
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Cleverly Bester
Young couple seeks wedding vows in prayer meeting
In a Midwest town a young couple asked a minister to marry them during a prayer meeting. One guest interrupted to assist, and after the ceremony the speaker took a front seat while a hymn was sung. The line declared Deluded souls look for heaven. Lipincott's.
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Middle West
Lippincott’s
Figure 3 Question Appears in Father Son Exchange
A fragmentary dialogue reads Easy and his father discussing schoolwork and making a figure three. The source shows an exchange about education and a child learning.
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