The British Museum's Origins and Rich Collections
The British Museum in London houses vast curiosities and a famed library with forty five miles of shelves. It began from a lottery funded Sloane collection and expanded with other major gifts, moving to Montague Palace in Bloomsbury. It now houses a Chinese encyclopedia of five thousand volumes and an enormous manuscript trove.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
The Plant's Eyes and Leaf Light Response
The article explains that leaf surfaces host a transparent skin withCells counted in thousands and containing watery sap. These cells act like lenses guiding light inside the leaf. Professor Haberlandt notes they help distinguish light from dark and trigger leaf movement to maximize light absorption.
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Professor Haberlandt
No patronage for the daughter's stubborn tunes in Pennsylvanian home
A venerable Pennsylvania gentleman endures a whole evening of his eldest daughter's songs for guests. After one number, she claims some songs never die. He quips that she spends time trying to kill them, but the tunes persist despite his scorn.
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Pennsylvania
Harper’s Weekly
Paying Him Out. A Penny Trick at the Bakery
A boy asks for a threepenny loaf and protests it is small. The baker dismisses weighing it. The boy then pays two pence halfpenny, offers more, and humorously ends by suggesting the baker should not count the extra as it would be easier.
Dream of Lead Globes Brings Bristol Plumber Fortune
Watts, a Bristol plumber, dreamed while repairing a church roof that molten lead he carried became countless tiny globes. He repeated the accident upon waking and the dream allegedly produced a fortune, a tale chronicled with curious luck.
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Watts
Bristol
Siberian hard tack used as candle and counting aid
An account from Scientific American describes Siberian ringed bread baked hard and used as a heat source by soaking in tallow, serving as a makeshift candle and tent heater, and even as an abacus with strings displaying rubles and kopecks for small sums.
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Oem
Siberian
Scientific American
Too Tight a Squeeze
Historian John Fiske, noted for his enormous stature, faced a social dilemma in a Connecticut town when offered a shortcut through a field. A narrow stile blocked passage and climbing seemed impossible, prompting him to suggest continuing the drive rather than attempt the obstacle.
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Connecticut
Mr. Fiske
Pretty Tough For the General
A French general's wife demands dismissal of an old servant who served with her husband in the wars. The general orders the servant to pack and depart, while the servant protests with melodramatic lines about leaving a poor general behind.
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Jacques
Town Literary Club Draws Suspicions Over Neighbor
In a note from a humorous critique, Harper's Weekly recalls a town literary club where members discussed a newly arrived neighbor described as a brazen looking woman and Longfellow, provoking a wry, gossiping moment in the community.
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Alice
Longfellow
Harper’s Weekly
Dancing Birds of India Pose in Dawn Minuet
Giant cranes in India reach six feet and pair for life. At dawn a pair performs a grotesque minuet beneath a craggy tree near a creek or water hole, dancing gravely in a remarkable display of courtship.
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India
Husband seeks perfect wallpaper wife disapproves of every option
A worried husband tests wall paper samples with a Wall Herald clerk. Each option fails his wife’s taste from light colors to dark tones to large roses as the husband frets about which pattern to choose. The clerk, in desperation, suggests divorce as a punchy final line.
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Employers judge fit by tunes and whistles
A Cleveland Plain Dealer anecdote notes an employer rejected a job candidate who whistled softly to tunes like Auld Lang Syne and The Suwanee River while waiting. The contractor said he preferred a slower, livelier whistling man who enjoys A Hot Time or Hiawatha, illustrating bias in hiring based on personal habits.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Origin of the menu and the Regensburg feast tale
A German legend traces menus to Duke Henry of Brunswick who studied a bill of fare at a Regensburg feast in 1541. The Count of Montfort questioned him as he read, and the practice of listing dishes spread from that intelligent kitchen habit.
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Mahogany’s Early Trade and Global Reach
Mahogany wood reached England in 1724 linking Caribbean sources to European markets. Earlier demonstrations by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1597 highlighted its value used in ships at Trinidad. From 1724 Europe and Stanley England opened global demand as forests in Africa were later discovered. West Indies Honduras Mexico supplied much of the early timber.
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Anonymous Author Recognized for Prolific Periodical Work
Quiller and Pogum discuss authorship with Quiller revealing he writes under the pseudonym Anonymous. The exchange notes admiration for twelve of Anonymous' productions and congratulates the anonymous writer's quality.
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Quiller
Oregon Agricultural College Opens Fall Semester
The institution announces fall term begins September 20 at Corvallis with courses across agriculture, engineering, sciences, arts and professional fields. Catalogue and illustrated literature are mailed free on application to the Registrar.
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