Japan Exposition Voyage Through Tokyo To Yokohama
Correspondent chronicles a Pacific voyage from New York to Yokohama for Japan’s art and industry exhibition. It notes hotel participation, travel times, and shifts in Japanese life as foreign influence grows, with Mikado ceremonies and European music framing the royal event.
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Tokyo
Yokohima
Japan
Europe
Mars
Venus
Aaa
Yokohama
Custom House
la Farge
New York
Shoow
Reefing the Sails and Warnings Against Overreaching
A period essay extols clipper ship life and ocean romance, then warns of overmanning sails in pursuit of rapid prosperity. It ties seafaring peril to modern business excess and personal folly, urging reefed sails and steady course.
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Lucre
Discipline and Ambition in Youthful Lifespan Advice
A reflective essay argues that mastering one strong skill beats spreading effort thin. It notes Youth must seek focus, embrace discipline, and resist overreaching. It cites wisdom from Bishop Horne and Whittier to urge purposeful action toward God’s calling.
Opinions on capital punishment split among notable figures
In the New York Herald discussions, Anthony Comstock and revivalist David L Moody defend keeping capital punishment, arguing life imprisonment is ineffective and deterrence relies on swift execution. William F Howe opposes the death penalty, favoring life imprisonment and no pardons, while Belva Lockwood calls for humane, quick punishment and suggests electricity as a method.
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Anthony Comstock
Soeiery
David L. Moody
William F. Howe
Belva Lockwood
Japanese church festival races feature tiny ponies and heavy weights
In Tokio races a ten dollar entry and twenty five dollar prize draw few crowds as ponies race around a mile track with owners riding. Chinese ponies carry extreme weights, jockeys are bold, and the goal is to beat rivals rather than clock time. The noisy crowd cheers as races end.
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Tokio
America
Europe
el Rio Rey
Hanover
Adventures in the Mexican Andes Cavern Tour
A correspondent describes traveling from Cuernavaca to the Cacahuamilpa cavern system near Acapancingo. He details mule travel, rustic Mexican huts, and the cavern’s grand saloons of stalactites with shifting blue and green hues and a dramatic echo from a single pistol shot. An amusing encounter with a pet rat and a cage adds a lighter note.
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Waso
Cacahuamilpa
Jacks
Denly
Chinese asylum need noted by Brooklyn minister in China trip
The Rev. Dr. E. P. Thwing reports from Canton China where no insane asylum exists and explains the dire need for such a facility. He notes a local hospital is well run but urges funds to begin building an asylum with a board already formed to secure support.
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Theatreo Asyiume
New York
Aplr
Ganton
Board of Diren
China
Man offers body for sale to pay debts in Gloucester
Christian Lambert of 47 Perkins Street Gloucester tells Deputy Coroner Dagan he will sell his body for 75 dollars to settle eight weeks of unpaid board to Mrs Kate Harbner. The coroner and officers respond with disbelief as Lambert insists he is ready to die and asks about methods of death. A collection is given to Lambert to pass to his creditor.
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Orereine
Spencer
Acres
Hesperus
Cacahuamilfa
Mexico
Goodby
Jocko
Philadelphia Times
Christian Lambert
Perkins Street
Gloucester
Kate Harbner
Tanabe
Dagan
Lambert
Mr. Dugan
Sherman Tells Joe Jefferson Tale in Fifth Avenue Room
General Sherman recounts a humorous anecdote about comedian Joseph Jefferson in which Jefferson discovers a roll of paper under a chair. Sherman narrates the moment when Jefferson realizes the paper will become the opening chapter of his life story.
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New York Press
William T. Sherman
Joseph Jefferson
Fifth Avenue Hotel
Joe
Sherman
Jefferson
Crofton Man Recalls Summer Health Struggles in Toxic Year
Mathew Armstrong of Crofton Kentucky recalls a troubled summer season with persistent diarrhea and reliance on unhelpful remedies during a difficult period described as his Toxic year.
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Mathew Armstrong
Crofton
The Four Hundred and the Perils of Social Money
A critical essay on New York City society ridicules the "four hundred" for trading status for wealth. It argues wealth shapes status more than birth and praises self-made men like Lincoln Grant Carnegie while condemning women who push into society for money.
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Waittee
Dispatch
New York City
South
New York
Tennyson
Europe
Ins Palace
Astors
Vanderbiltas
John Jacob
Abraham Lincoln
Grant
Garfield
White House
Blaine
United States
Stanley
Andrew Carnegie
Pittsburg
Congress
Western
Wilds
Reid
Ohio
Tolstoi Upholds Temperance and Self Sufficiency
A New York World correspondent reports Tolstoi advocates minimal wants and self production. He praises Brahmin life and a simple diet, milking mares on grass to live off koumiss, and condemns intoxicants and many indulgences.
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Tolstoi
New York World
Littleoumiss
Free Market Street Bath Tied to Child Illness says Dr Freeman
Dr Henry Freeman reports virulent ophthalmy in several children linked to the free bath at Market Street. He notified the Board of Health and the Works Commission, calling for water testing after finding foul river water suspected as the cause. The doctor noted sewer pollution contaminating the bath water.
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Market Street
Henry Freeman
Board of Health
Eecinette of Works
Health Department
Freeman
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Pacific Mail
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Cere
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Tench
Sandwich Islands
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Cavarly
Kalarata
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
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Merry Gem
Urea
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Commodore Perry Sod Elgin
University of Foreign
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Naste
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Tay
Ji Press
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Gulf Stream
Orish
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Huoband
Father
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Amart
Ra Ag
George Eliot
Bishop Horne
Whittier
New York Herald
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Aleep
Republic
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Mississippi River
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Mozimilian I
Moptezuma
Kepa
Cacahuamilos
Eamali
Poll
George T. Hares
Sherman Saves
Old Tecumseh
Joe Jefferson
Four Hundred
Roman Empire
Eugenie
France
Sedan
Paris
Legion of Honor
Ries
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Pozzoni
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