Napoleon and Fulton Missed Sea Power Turning Point
A historical note from the New York World discusses how Napoleon Bonaparte ignored Robert Fulton’s early steam vessel concept. The piece recounts trials of the Nautilus and a Paris drawing, noting commissions rejected the devices. Fulton later proved steam power could propel ships, changing naval history.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Robert Fulton
Napoleon Wroe
Great Britain
Fulton
Napoleon
United States
Paris
New York World
Oxen as Police Guard Bulls in Seville Bulls
A visitor describes Spain's bullring culture where tame oxen act as a guarding force to restrain wild bulls. Picadors drive bulls along boulevards while aristocrats ride ahead. Nightfall brings a chaotic march into the ring, lights go out, and police oxen herd bulls back to paddocks after the spectacle.
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Spain
Sir Albert Rollit
Seville
Albert
Country Life
Asthenic Persons and General Debility Across Life
The article defines asthenia as general bodily weakness present from birth and details its effects on infants and adults. It contrasts asthenia with neurasthenia and myasthenia, notes slow development, fatigue, and limited motor power, and emphasizes conserving vital forces and using willpower judiciously to cope in life.
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Botetieabe
Oregon Items and Local Notes in Polk County
Brief rundown from Oregon papers covering Polk County agriculture and schools, dry election talk in Oregon City and Milwaukie, a Holland-backed sale of Byers flour mill, Lewis and Clark stake winner Alberta Dillon at Salem, tax implications for Oregon under the Underwood tariff, timber land cruises in Clatsop County, water supply shifts, land-openings near La Pine, lectures by Bailey Leach, librarian changes in Pendleton, minor auto accident at Dallas, pheasant losses in Linn County, and educational funding and reform pushes statewide.
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Deen
Watane
Polk County
B. C. Olinger
The
Elks Lodge
Oregon
Oregon City
Milwaukie
Dalles
W. A. Barr
Oregon Agricultural College
Byers
Pendleton
Holland
L. C. Lens
Spokane
Alberta Dillon
Joe Carson
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Lewis and Clark
Salem
United States
Clatsop County
Neal Timber Company
Clackamas
Crook County
la Pine
Bailey K. Leach
Coos Bay
Astoria
Lottie L. Fleet
Portland
Dallas
George Krebs
Ross Nelson
Genevieve Wilcox
Bertha Potterfield
Lina County
University of Oregon
Tygh
Wasco County
H. C. Foster
Hattie Long
San Francisco
Houston
Sinnott
Deschutes National Forest
Secretary of the Interior
Lane
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Treasury Department
Marshfield
Senate
Percy B. Kelly
Marion County Circuit Court
Crawford
West
Kay
Dsad
Spencer and the Decimal System
Herbert Spencer warns that the decimal system is dangerous and stipulates in his will that if a bill for metric adoption is passed within ten years he bequeaths a reprinted pamphlet Against the metric system to be distributed gratis to members of both houses and sold at nominal price by his publishers.
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Spencer
Herbert Spencer
Liament
Gladstone and Wet Sponges Method Revealed
At a country house breakfast a discussion on drying waterlogged sponges ends with Gladstone declaring the true method. He instructs to wrap the sponge in a bath towel, stamp on it, then place it in the sponge bag for perfect drying.
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Gladstone
Mr. Gladstone
The Vatican Library Collection Highlights
The Pall Mall Gazette notes the Vatican Library as perhaps the world's most sumptuously housed repository. It houses rare manuscripts such as Codex Vaticanus from the fourth century and Cicero's De Re publica palimpsest, plus over 2,500 fifteenth century printed editions on vellum. The library totals 220000 volumes and 30000 manuscripts though it remains under catalogued.
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Vatican Library
Pall Mall Gazette
Dreaming as Muse in Classic Novels Across Ages
The passage notes how Robert Louis Stevenson crafted most of Jekyll and Hyde by continuation of dreams from the previous night. It cites Dante and Voltaire as writers who credited sleep for guiding major works like the Divine Comedy and the Henriad. The excerpt emphasizes ideas arriving in sleep regardless of daily disruption.
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Robert Louis. Stevenson
Dante
Voltaire
Henriade
Meness
His View of Love
An alienist narrator quotes a flirtatious exchange between Lucile and her suitor as they anticipate meeting her father. The daughter urges proceeding with the engagement while predicting the father's wary, sharp reading of their romance.
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Leeas
Axsath
Lucile
Spea
St. Louis Republic
Naming Children In Order Brings Odd Monikers
A Condensed note from Condon Chronicle humorously critiques unusual Christian names given to children. The writer cites a Canadian named Cum ber who became Quintus, and mentions other names like Primus and Secundus to illustrate the playful yet odd practice of naming by arrival order.
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Primus
Secundus
Cumber
Quintus
Q. Cuher
Condon Chronicle
Steer For a Goal Beyond Daily Work
A Hartford Post quotation urges readers to pursue real ambition beyond mere day to day work. It contrasts living as a routine machine with striving to build a home or chicken coop and becoming a true human being.
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Hartford Post
It Was His Own Baby Cries For His Way
A humorous exchange quotes a mother and father over a crying baby. The father jokes about stock quotes while the mother explains the child wants his own way. The snippet captures domestic banter and a stock-reference aside.
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Hubby
Lippincott
Hereditary Thieves of the Bhampa Tribe
The Bhampas, a central Indian tribe, are described as hereditary thieves who ritualize their raids. Before an expedition they use a goat and drops of mars in its ears to read omens, and always visit the founder's shrine in Rui, Satara district, regardless of omen.
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India
Rui
Satara
Natural Barometers in Odd Weather Signals
The article describes living and facial indicators of weather. Leech behavior, beards, and catgut strings in old cottage weather devices supposedly reflect atmospheric changes. In fine weather strings contract and figures move, while in wet weather they expand causing beards to curl and resist cutting.
No Judge of Scenery
A humorous exchange recalls Hell's Glen between Glasgow and Inverary as a rugged scenic marvel. A miner in a coach yawns at the landscape, noting he cannot see the scenery for the hills while his companions admire the wild, awe inspiring scene.
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Hell’s Glen
Glasgow
Inverary
Scotland
Stylized accident scene with medical questioning
A dramatic exchange follows a street mishap where a person asks if they are badly hurt. The doctor downplays serious injury, noting a severe sprain from twisting an ankle after slipping on a curb. The patient asks about high heels as a possible cause.
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