Foreign Gossip Highlights royal jewels and world notes
A roundup of distant curiosities and odd facts mentions Princess Louise’s wedding jewels valued at £200,000, a six ton electric cab test in London, and royal service standards for Maids of Honor. It also notes Bismarck’s vast lands, press circulation, river debris counts, and quirky transit schooling ideas in Russia and India.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Switzerland
Louise
London
Rentoul
Lancashire
Anl
Prince Bismarck
Varzin
Stening Papers
Seine
Legisiatura
England
Princess Louise
Grave-Yards in London Expose Cemetery Practices
Home Office report on metropolitan cemeteries notes 23 cases with City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery led by a phastry cenantry of about 247000 bodies. Kensal Green remains largest area at sixty nine acres and oldest. Grave space per grave averages nine by six feet six inches. Common interment widespread with eight to ten adults or mixed groups in a single plot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Home Office
City of London and
Tower Hamlets
Mile-end
Kensal Green
Lonion Telegraph
Youngest and oldest British Admirals noted in a tribute
The piece venerates Sir Geoffrey Hornby as the fleet's youngest admiral and Sir Prove Wallis as the oldest. Wallis, ninety eight, recalls first going to sea eighty five years earlier and fighting in the Trafalgar era. The cor expresses hope this enduring seaman remains robust as a Nelson era figure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geoffrey Hornby
Prove Wallis
Wallis
Chesapeake
Boston
England
Nelson
Cor
Detroit
Edison’s Lab Life and Night Work Revealed by Edison
In an interview with the New York Star, Thomas A. Edison describes life in his Jersey workspace No. 6.2 where he labors intensely on new ideas. He recalls phonograph experiments, sleepless nights, and the bond with colleagues as he prepares for a Paris trip and future discoveries.
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Edison
Morca
Thomas A. Edison
Menio Park
Paris
Jersey
Thad
Alonay
Den
Mr. Edison
N. Y. Star
Food and poultry tips from Farm and Home column
Household advice for cleaning bags and strainers, feeding oats to work teams, startling hens with red flannel, and labor notes on farm life. guidance on sheep pasturing for weed control and a crab apple shortcake recipe with Siberian crab apples. describes oat quality tests and storage traits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. Y. Tribune
Sal lows And Noose A Digest Of Hangman Implements History
A concise historical note on Jack Ketch, England’s public executioner under Charles II, and the terms and tools of the hangman. It cites Dryden, Dekker, Butler, and Gentleman's Magazine, tracing phrases such as hangman’s wages and the triple tree, with references to old coin values like the Scotch merk and thirteenpence halfpenny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Ketch
Charles II
Dryden
Duke of Guise
Herman
Rowlands
Ty Burn Tiffany
Butler
Dekkers
James II
England
Gentleman's Magazine
Gas and water well taps fresh and salt water at depth
A Pittsburgh well bored for gas now yields fresh water at one level and salt water with gas at another. The structure features two casings an outer at one hundred feet and an inner pipe reaching two hundred feet to access the deeper salt water and gas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Two men compare size of thunder and first sight of falls
A fragment notes men who feel small beside nature's vast displays. It contrasts symbols of power with the awe inspired by Niagara Falls and the Catskills, suggesting pride versus humility in the face of grandeur.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catskills
Niagara Falls
World’s Colossi from Antiquity to Modern Times
A survey of famed statues from Memnon in Thebes to the Colossus of Rhodes and Phidias works. It notes heights, locations, and historical details including Bamian figures, San Carlo Borromeo, Bavaria, Arminius, Germania, and Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty with distance to the torch and lighthouse features.
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Memnon
Thebes
Nile
Greece
Rhodes
Apollo
Chares
Phidias
Zeus
Athena
Parthenon
Jupiter
Capitol
Palatine Library
Nero
Colosseum
Bamian
Cabul
Balkh
San Carlo Borromeo
Arona
Rudesheim
Bartholdi
Liberty
United States
Fucure
New York Harbor
Country and City: Worthy Respect for Rural Life
A column argues city folk should stop sneering at country people and recognize farming’s public value. It notes modern farming demands educated, skilled labor and current information, with many American farmers rising to a high standard despite changing conditions. The piece highlights rural life deserves thought and deference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pates
Europe
Marriage as Foundation and Remedies for Female Ailments
Opinion piece extols marriage as foundation of nation and family health. Promotes Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a guaranteed cure for leucorrhea prolapse and related female disorders with money-back guarantee. Mentions Dr. Pierce’s Pellets and notes fashion of women wearing an eye-glass in London among theatre circles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Health Resort Ad Promises Cure and Pleasing Waters
An Excelsior Springs Missouri notice touts the town as a premier health and pleasure resort with the Watering Place Hotel as the finest in the West. It claims the waters cure kidney and liver diseases dyspepsia diabetes female complaints skin and blood diseases and other ailments. A pamphlet offer is directed to F Ciaspver G P TP A Wabash Line St Louis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Watehng Place
F. Ciaspver
G. P
TP. A
Wabash Line
St. Louis
What the Dickens is the Matter
A stifling sense of drowsiness and chills prompts questions of an incipient malaria. The text promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a sovereign remedy for malaria and a range of ailments. A flirtatious line follows about a young man and a maiden.
Wabash Line Seeks Holiday Excursions to West Regions
Cheap Harvest Excursions will run via Wabash Line to Kansas Nebraska Oklahoma Dakota and all West regions on September 24 and October 1889. Rate one fare for round trip. Details at nearest Wabash Ticket Agent. Also notes severe floods in Pennsylvania with losses and lives. Includes assorted ads for patent medicines and products from the era.
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Kansas
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Dakota
Coloradd
West
Alabama
Mississippi
Mobile & 0
Alasgama Land & Developm Co
Henry Rose
Penne Mobile
Fas
Ebfrle. L
St. Lo Ho
Mobile & Ghia HK. R
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Johnny Get Your
Gun
Terre Haute Express
Bridget
Roxbury
Push and Pull’s
Washington Street
Push & Pull
Boston Herald
Excelsior Springs, Mo
Cleantnes
The
Pennsylvania
Carter
Amsor
Pu Dlins
Syrus
Terrence
Boidetus
Protacoras
Propie
Hale
Tike
Smaarttneess
America
Tansil
Hood
C. S. Hood & CO
Lowell
Mass
de Heriati
L’art de la Mode
New York
W. J. Morse
19Th &T
Cincinnati
Ly Estock
Castle
Nantes Caerermres
Western Steam
Chicago
Wisconsin
Tee Geo Baltimore
Indianapolis
Louisville
GuAeens
Little Rapids
Wis
B& Jacobs
Carl Scheibe
Charles A. Vogeler CO
Baltimore
Tad
Bradfield Regulator
Basolo
ALL Drvesids
Agres Lane
Price
Warren St
Paaceaven
Psce
W. T. Fitzgerald
Attorney At Law
Washingto, D.C
Eustis
Gene
B&q. R
Agenta
F. Johnson & CO
Main St. Richmong
Chadwick
Theodore Holland
P.O
Phila
Dirshillir
Burkire & Reppert
X.W
Wasnington
D.C
Kiaminers
U. S
Y Semple
Iveet
Wis Afennicet OH Hs
Lock Boz
Isoston
Secret Service
Grannan Detective Bureau Co
Arcade
Dre. Gratigny & Bush
Elm Street
Ohio
Cale
Butalu
Bryant’s College
Buffalo
Sare Suerte
Valentine Bros
Janesyulie
Warname
Bartlett’s College
No. 2
Fourth St
Ftreen
BM. Bartlats
Reel
Eenla
Bryant & Stratton Business
Pi Hemi
Piso’s.cure For
Van
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