The Pharisee and Publican Sermon at the Tabernacle
A sermon recounts the Jesus parable with the pharisee and the penitent publican as contrasting worshippers. It emphasizes mercy over works, urges earnest prayer, and portrays mercy as open to all sinners who seek God’s forgiveness. A nephew recounts a Black man’s conversion story inspired by the message.
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Saropet
Mount Moriah
Satan
Christ
Westend
Ion
Phasiisee
Sixner
Hely of Holies
Holy of Holies
Umvrorthy
Cicero
Hari
Lord Jesus Christ
Simon
Charleston
San Francisco
Chicago
David
Isaiah
Ezra
Pas
Prophet
Apostle
Evangelist
God
Hell
Bes
Mary Magdalen
Heavenly Harper
Celestial Gate
Mercy
Long Island Sound
Peter
Jesus Christ
Samuel K. Talmage
Augusta
Massa
Notoriety and Actresses in Public Life
In a Chicago women’s congress address Miss Cayvan denounces public prurience toward actresses. She notes sensational rumors harm careers and that notoriety often seeks the player. The piece also mentions intrusive interview questions and the public craving luxury in stage dress and the cost to small salaries. A New York letter adds a novel birthday gift tale of roses for a fiancée.
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Women's Congress
Chicero
Miss Cayvan
New York
My Calling Card Proves Honest Thieves Do Not Steal
A correspondent recalls carrying a pocket calling card with “My address in case of accident” as a safeguard after losing a purse near Madison Square Garden. The purse was recovered thanks to the card, and the superintendent’s note confirmed the honesty of the finder, with some valuable samples returning as well.
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Madison Square Garden
Treasury Department
New York Times
An Old Scottish Doctor and His Fiery Wisdom
An 18th century Scottish physician Dr Dougal is portrayed as hot headed yet compassionate in a Keith shop tale. He forcibly extracts two teeth in a chaotic market chase after a patient demanding relief. His blunt quips reveal rough wisdom amid stubborn pride and pain.
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Dougal
Scotland
Keith
Geary Act upheld by Supreme Court clarifies Chinese laborer removal
A Youth’s Companion summary explains that the Geary act of 1892 authorizes removal of Chinese laborers lacking residence certificates, with deportation and penalties for noncompliance by May 5, 1893. It notes the act preserves certain rights under treaties, the political debate, and potential reciprocal responses with China.
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Supreme Court of the United Sates
United States
Congress
China
Collector of Internal Revenue
United States’ District Courts
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Doubtful Compliment Sparks Honest Campaign Talk
An amateur politician spoke in a New York town and drew a surprised face from a local driver who asked if the speech was written. The man admitted improvising yet said the address convinced him to vote the speaker’s ticket.
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New York State
Jess
Ff K
Creatures and new trades in old London tales
A sprawling survey blends natural history at the zoo with social curiosities. It compares alligators and crocodiles from distant lands, then notes two new professions the glorifier and the cutter out, before critiquing the decline of the Comedie Francaise and ending with Franklin Kinsey on the social signals of small white hands.
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Smith
Bnufialo Commercial
Franklin Kinsey
Tindell
Factual Perceptiveness and Tactual Discrimination
A contemporary excerpt discusses tactile acuity, noting that blind readers and trained laborers show heightened sensitivity. Tests with youths at a Bund school reveal discrimination at one fourteenth inch, while two compositor apprentices distinguish at one seventeenth inch, arguing constant tactile use sharpens perception.
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Upper Avenue Road
Skillei
Herbert Spencer
Ghost in Hamlet debated by Egan on purgatory and Catholicity
Professor Maurice Francis Egan argues the Hamlet ghost is a purgatorial spirit seeking justice rather than a devil. He contends Shakespeare knew Catholic doctrine, citing cross gestures and Catholic rites in the play, while noting archaisms in other matters. The piece also relays a bank identification anecdote from New York.
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Egam
Purgatory
Maurice Francis Egan
Hamlets
Egan
Hamlet
Claudius
Hamlet Werime
Mr. Egan
Ananel
Mayle
Shakespeare
University of Wittemberg
Horatio
Booth
Barrett
Philadelphia
Trying Their Luck and Dynamiting Condemned Cannon
The piece recalls 1853 Ischia earthquake aid and a Neapolitan lottery book involving the word earth quake and a tern o. It also reports dynamiting condemned cannons at Monocacy and Birdsboro, where 2 to 3 pounds of dynamite are used per blast to break steel guns weighing up to 33 tons and requiring 25 horses.
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Ischia
Bay of Neples
Naples
Cansean
Wey
Monocacy Station
Birdshero
Cor
Philadelphia
Reading man boasts nation’s largest button collection
4 collection items by John A. Hepler Sr superintendent of Charlies Evans cemetery Reading Pennsylvania claims the largest button collection in the country. He started 30 years ago and now has about 59 000 buttons properly mounted in cases not worn. The buttons vary in size shape and nationality spanning from colonial times to the present. He spends much to acquire and displays in a large room.
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John A. Hepler
Charlies Evans
Reading
Ie Tep
Notable Women in Astronomy and Quirky Anecdotes
A feature on Elizabeth Preston Brown Davis, a pioneering woman who calculated sun ephemeris and orbits for Newcomb and Barnard, her education at Columbia, and her connection to Congressman Davis. Also includes anecdotes about Josh Billings and a practical column on saving and repurposing old linen for households.
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Elizabeth Preston Brown Davis
Mirs
Mary Brown
Pension Office
Davis
Athur Powell Davis
Geological
Sulver
Simon Newcomb
Newcomb
Howard Gore
Los Angeles
Major Powell
Geographical Survey
Civil Service Commission
Barnard
Lick Observatory
Washington
Columbis University
Farmers’ Alliance
Kansas
Front Royal
Laplace
Washington Public Service
When One Wants to Be Alone in a World of Companions
The piece reflects on women's desire for solitude during emotional moments and self care. It cites Goethe and mentions varied, quirky facts about Hungary, ghost lore journals, and Southern workers wearing tennis shoes, concluding with house hunting critiques by matrons.
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Goethe
New York
Cleveland
South
East
Tennessee
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the Tabernacle
New Orleans
Unies Arty
General Butler
Crescent City
Julia
South Peters Streets
Onter
South Peters Street
New Orleans Picayune
Columbia
India
William the Conqueror
Windseer Park
Epee
Reat
Inia
Ceylon
Loendoo
Comedie Francaise
Comedie
M. Perrin
Mile Sarah Bernhard
Mlle. Croizette
M. Bressant
M. Delaunay
MS Coquetin
Napoleon
Wissembourg
London
New England
Josh Billings
Missouri
Josh
Fritz
Christian Union
Stiel
BCH
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