Temple to Li Hung Chang Adored in Lu Chang Fu Temple
A Chinese city 140 miles up the Yangtse from Nanking hosts a new temple honoring Li Hung Chang. The complex includes a superb hospital and school, with a grand sanctuary, and Li Hung Chang is now among the honored county gods. A tomb nearby and ancestral temples reflect the vast Li family holdings. A separate note discusses sugar history from ancient times to colonial plantations.
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Lu Chou Fu
Yangtse
Nanking
China
Li Hung
Europe
America
Sue School
Li Hung Chang
Li Wang Chang
Inventions and profits of famed tonics and liquors
The Philadelphia Bulletin notes that candé cologne’s Italian inventor Giovanni Farina offered his recipe for 33 730 in 1803 but heirs later sold it for 200 000. Chartreuse was the monks Carthusian’s liqueur, sold for 1 750 000 after expulsion. The Oxford Bible paper secret from Oxford University Press is valued at 1 250 000. Absinthe secret once forged by a French chemist changed hands for 50 000 after an initial 75.
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Farina
Cologne
Philadelphia Bulletin
Giovanni Farina
France
Spain
Epicures
Oxford University Press
Navigators Fight Magnetic Pull on Modern Steamships
The Windsor Magazine notes mariners compass must resist Earth's magnetism, steel hulls, and electric currents aboard modern steamers. It details how instruments battle countless magnetic forces and underscores the needle's fragile role amid industrial nations and advancing technology.
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Windsor Magazine
Guy
Curious Facts From An Old Encyclopedia Entry
A collage of trivia covers pearls measured by grain and carat, growth cycles of tagemiail, rain patterns and weather quirks, numerous shorthand systems with Pitman noted, Chinese edible bird nests by the pound, birth month statistics, sloth and animal drinking habits, a vast St. Petersburg room, and a daylight versus night display described with wax taper lighting and iron arches.
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Pitman
Perret
St. Petersburg
Emergence of Imperial China and the Great Wall
The passage traces Chinese history from early tribal unions under a chosen sovereign, through feudal-like feuds, to the rise of a centralized imperial state in 221 B.C. with Hwang Ti as emperor. It notes the Inez dynasty dating from 1643 and cites the Great Wall, about 1500 miles long, 25 feet at the base and 15 feet at the top, with the wall’s height varying from 15 to 30 feet.
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Europe
China
Tasing
Hwang Ti
Inez
Gymnastics of the Eye by Emerson on sculpture
The essay argues painting and sculpture are gymnastics of the eye training perception’s niceties. It praises the living artist as surpassing ideal sculpture, with evolving thoughts shaping air and expression. It denounces art pretensions and urges to see true witchcraft of eternal art in living form.
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Nerist
Mere
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adventurer claims to have visited every floor of Skyby Hotel
In a Kansas City Times excerpt, a man on the ninety sixth floor chats with a resident on the Skyby hotel’s skyline. The traveler boasts at nearly forty years old he has visited all building floors, while another man on the 136th floor questions the claim.
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Skyby
Kansas City Times
Force of Habit Forces Atchison Man to Remain Connected
An Atchison man describes marriage to a schoolteacher, saying for three years whenever bells rang she acted as the horses at the fire department when the whistle blows, a behavior he recalls with a humorous note reflecting local life.
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Atchison
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