The Della Cruscans and their Florence folly
In 1785 Gifford noted a few forestalled Amorini by Florence writers who formed a society named the Della Crusca. Key figures included Mrs. Piozzi, Parsons, Bertie Greathead, and Robert Merry whose verse led to social fame, jealousy, and exile as rivals slandered him. The trend spread across England, infecting many writers with fashionable nonsense.
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Gifford
Chance
Florence
Watt
Piozzi
Merry
Della Cruscan Academy
Orlando
Della Crusca
London Academy
Hotel Labels Reveal Hidden Traveler Tipping Codes
A London Notes sketch describes hotel luggage labels stuck on trunks in Switzerland and other tourist spots. Porters and staff attach hotel names on arrival and departure, forming a covert system that signals generosity and tipping habits through label placement and orientation.
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Globe
Switzerland
London Notes
A Child's Logic by Oliver Wendell Holmes
An anecdote shows a child at a refreshment table longing for food. Holmes asks if she is hungry and offers a sandwich. She says she has no fork, he jokes that fingers were made before forks, and she retorts that not her fingers.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Waves of the Atlantic Size Measured by Navy Officials
The hydrographic office of the navy reports Atlantic waves typically reach thirty feet, with rough seas rising to forty to forty eight feet. Storm waves stretch 500 to 600 feet in length and last ten to eleven seconds. The longest measured wave was about a half mile long and lasted twenty three seconds.
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Atlantic
Atlantic Ocean
Hydrographic Office of the Navy
Hydphic Office
Gestures in Cuba Explain Salutes and Cab Hails
A Chicago News note describes Cuban gestures observed by a man returning from Cuba. It details how natives salute with a high hand and wiggling fingers, hail cabs with a flat palm thrust forward, and end arguments with a closed fist and a wagging head, comparing these to our nods and hats.
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Cuba
Jim
Chicago News
How Sparks Form From Combustion in Wood and Coal
The text explains sparks form when heat causes air in tiny wood or coal cells to expand. If internal pressure exceeds the material’s strength, cells burst, sending burning splinters upward. Cracking sounds occur as sparks explode, flame fans spread, and carbon ash glows until consumed by air.
Feuding Silence Breaks With Feather on Apron
In a rural Forfarshire district a shy plowman faced two hours of silence on a Saturday night as a girl waited. At last John blurts out a feather on Jenny's apron prompting her quip about a goose all night.
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Forfarshire
John
Jenny
London
Where He Missed It Lovers Lane Scene Described
A Chicago Record-Herald excerpt recalls a tense moment as two youths debate kissing on a dark, rocky spot called Lovers Lane. The dialogue hints at secrecy and risk, with a suggestion of romance amid a secluded, dangerous setting.
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Aemsong
Familiar Proverbs From Classical Sources
A collection of well known proverbs with attributions to ancient authors including the Odyssey Plutarch Cato Plato and Quintus Cortius. The items include It is a wise child that knows his own father Set a thief to catch a thief and His bark worse than his bite.
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Plutarch
Cato
Plato
Quintus Cortius
Etiquette in the Eighteenth Century Explored
A Strand Magazine piece reviews a Salisbury 1765 book on politeness detailing table manners and decorum. It cites advice on salt use, not laughing at table, bowing to companions, dress etiquette, and restrained hand placement, concluding with a reflection on manners and a note about Samuel Wilberforce.
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Department of AQ
Beltyee
Ron Collins
Salisbury
Strand Magazine
Distinctive Leeds Vicar Interacts With Lone Visitor
A church scene in Leeds unfolds as Dr. Hook the vicar encounters a lone young man after the service. The doctor contemplates a personal approach but offers an alternative plan to walk across the park together for the sermon talk.
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Samuel Wilberforce
Oxford
Hook
Leeds
Faithful Unto Death Sermon by Dr Patton at Fifth Avenue Church
Former Princeton president Patton delivered a sermon on faith in a law pursuit and trust in doctors. He warned about blind faith in prescriptions and the patient surrendering to medical authority. The moment caused a ripple through the congregation according to Illustrated Sunday Magazine.
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Patton
Princeton University
Fifth Avenue Colrect
Cold Winters Through Centuries
The text records a series of severe freezes across Europe from 1269 to 1709. It notes the Baltic Sea widening with ice, mass deaths of birds and animals, Danube freezing to the Black Sea, frost killing vines in France, Marseille port freezing, and France described as icebound with distress along the coast.
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Baltic Sea
Danube
Black Sea
France
Marseilles
Merely a Suggestion Echoes in Town
A citizen recounts a plan to leave town after amassing money through questionable means. He recalls a suggestion to use the wealth for the town’s benefit while noting the group of otherwise honest citizens. The exchange hints at moral tension in Chicago.
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Chicago
Colors In Fireworks Ingredients and Color Types
The article explains chief components of fireworks gunpowder and additives. It notes iron filings cast iron borings and copper salts yield bright sparks and colors. It describes green from barium salts, red from strontia, blue from fine filings, and yellow from amber resin and salt.
Clever Woodpeckers and Their Food Storage Tricks
A Philadelphia North American excerpt discusses woodpeckers in western forests, especially California, storing acorns with worms for scarce seasons. The birds drill holes, push acorns in point first, then extract worms later, showing planned food gathering and seasonal provisioning.
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Philadelphia
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H. D. Bowers
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Bowers
Osteopathic Physicians
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Oregon
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First St
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Newbery Building
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McMinnville
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Elsia Wright Building
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Della Cruscans
Chicago Record- Herald
Rich
Yamhill County
Brussels
W. Hollingsworth & Sons
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Howard
California
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