The Duke of Richmond Receives World’s Largest Pension
A historic list notes the largest pensions: the Duke of Richmond receives 95,000 dollars yearly in a perpetual grant dating to Charles II. Other high annuities include Earl Nelson at 25,000, the Duke of Wellington at 20,000, and Lord Rodney at 10,000 with similar perpetual or life terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duke of Richmond
Charles II
Earl Nelson
Duke of Wellington
Lord Rodney
Far Nelson
A Mother's Help Nursery Chair for Dressing Baby
An illustrated article describes a nursery chair with built in drawers for all baby dressings and toiletries. It explains how to adapt a sturdy chair with sliding drawers, brass tacks, and a padded seat to ease dressing, bath prep, and keeping supplies handy.
Bubble games and soap bubble battles described
The description outlines using Japanese fans or stiff paper to propel bubbles toward a goal, with players blowing bubbles from a start point and allowed a second try if a bubble bursts. It likens this to a soap bubble battle with a string line dividing players into reds and blues on opposite sides.
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Reds
Blues
Wise Mandarin Wife Solves Baby Claim by Test with Fish
A Chinese tale shows a mandarin consulting his celebrated wife who declares to fetch a large river fish to test motherhood. The infant is dressed in silk and placed on the fish, then carried outside to be tossed into the river. One claimant dives in to save the child and is deemed the true mother. The impostor flees, while the wife basks in her reputed wisdom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Stuttgart
Leipsie
China
A Royal Funeral Amid Strange Ceremonies
A royal Spanish funeral involves the Escurial pantheon high above sea level with a royal procession from Madrid. The coffin is sealed in the vault after a loud proclamation and ritual breaking of the staff, followed by gun salutes and bells to announce the king is dead.
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Ce Eseurial
Madrid
Senor
Queer Telegraph Poles Made of Adobe in Bolivia
The Chicago Tribune reports on an adobe telegraph pole line in Bolivia from La Paz to Oruro where timber is scarce. Poles stood about fifteen feet high on stone foundations, spaced 861 feet apart, with a 156 mile total length to keep lines above llamas and donkeys. Also notes Uganda’s growing pole idea and Dutch East Indies methods with middle suspended insulators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bolivia
la Paz
Oruro
Chile
Uneg
Uganda
Dutch East Indies
Chicago Tribune
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Nottingham
Reynolds Bros
England
New York Journal
Smith ST. Cor Oak
Smith ST
J G. Millais
Philadelphia
Uncle James
Bobby
London
Lippincott’s Magazine
Mr. Robinson
Miss Jones
Real Estate News
Cosmopolitan
HOTEL
Ronorzen
Cor
Chambers St
West Broadway
New York City
Wilbey & Son
Tacitus
M. L. Scott
Mgr
Oak
McCormick Building
Mozart
Hamlet
Hamburg
Salzburg
W.h.mccormick
Perth
Amboy, N. J
J. Kreielsheimer & Son
Union Sq. W
Perth Amboy
I. Singer, Prop
Gibraltar
David
Africa
Bill
Jill
Goethe
the Fur Shop
Smith
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