Neighbors Meet Through Music Across a City Street
In a quiet street, Maishe Bethune and her grandfather share evening duets with a mysterious neighbor across the way. A refined young man named Harris introduces himself, and a growing bond forms through violin and piano as a thunderstorm passes and words reveal shared histories and distant places.
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Republic of Letters
George Bethune
Maishie Bethune
Landady
Maishe
America
Montreal
Maisiie
Scotland
Glen
Maishie
Ainslie
Jeanie
Sant
Mr. Bethune
Pooring
Helen of
Willie
Wystie
Maaishe
Volkslieder
Zu Strassburg
der Schanz
Speed
Maisrie
Harris
Vin Harris
Bethon
Sarthe
Bethune
Calais
Bethune—Bethune
Duc de Sully
James VI
Bethan
Maximilien de Bethune
Straits of Calais
Maishe Bethune
Toronto Globe
Queen’s Park
Lake Ontario
King Street
Queen Street
Church Street
Park Island
Black House
Royal Canadian Yacht Club
Canada
Idaho
Brooklyn
Adirondacks
Rockies
Omaha
Guatinenshtee
Vin
Malarie
Ras
Young Harris Impresses Grandfather in Bordering Evening Visit
George Bethune praises the young Harris as cultured and bold while Maishe weighs his approach and the social inferences of travel. The two families plan a quiet interlude across the way as tensions with Maishe's guarded feelings rise before the next Sunday continuation.
Progress in Explosives and the Rise of New Agents
Prof. Dewar at the Royal Institution notes gunpowder’s five centuries as the sole explosive ended after 1846 with gun cotton. Since then many compounds including nitro glycerine dynamite and blasting agents emerged. He cites Picric acid and Sprengel’s powder among the innovations transforming mining, engineering and warfare.
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Dewar
Royal Institution
London
A Fortunes in a Dog and the Howard Fielding Tale
A New York writer recounts a famed dog scam run by an aging seller Perkins from Nutmeg Connecticut who peddles a single blue line skye-terrier as a foolproof dog. The tale follows the dog’s sale to Howard Fielding, the strange journey across Broadway and a New Jersey ferry, and a cynical rescue by a trained dog handler who exposes the ruse.
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Perkins
Conn
Trinity Church
Maude
Howdy
Broadway
We Decided to Shoot the Terrier
A chaotic office scene unfolds as a terrier causes panic and destruction. The narrator recalls untangling a dog from a car, the pup’s bold misconduct, and a tense exchange over what to do with the unruly animal.
Forming by Electricity Beneficial to Plants
A report from Practical Electricity describes experiments by N. Speenew using electrified seeds of haricot beans sunflowers rye and other crops. Results show larger leaves brighter color and higher yields in some trials while disease resistance and ripening speed improve with electro culture.
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N. Speenew
City on Stilts: Franklin City of Oyster Flats
In extreme northeast Virginia a landowning Franklin family, once useless, built an oyster-bay city on piles. Dozens of stilt houses rise above the bay with a frame hotel charging 7 cents a day. Wells sit in water, supplying fresh spring water from the salt bay.
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Virginia
Franklin
Franklin City
Powder Marks No Longer Certain in Modern Gun Deaths
A report notes that firearm wounds may show no powder tattooing, challenging prior beliefs of murder evidence. An India case describes a Hindu man shooting himself in a river bed with a 45 caliber revolver, leaving no carbon marks and a suicide note.
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India
Hindoo
The Turkish Bath in Constantinople and Its Social Role
The Aga-Hamman on the Golden Horn draws high society, mothers seek brides, and women of all ranks partake in long baths. Attendants cleanse with soap, heat is dry, and later beautifiers apply makeup and dress for street life. Political deals unfold amid social gatherings and flirtations.
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Constantinople
Americas
America
Dolme-Baktchie
Bosphorus
Constantinenis
Golden Horn
Aga-Hammam
Share
Aga—Hamman
Mary J. Honma
Remembered Their Master At Brussels Menagerie
The celebrated animal trainer Martin who had retired to private life visited his old Brussels menagerie near Rotterdam. At feeding time the animals roared and tore at bars before he calmed them and reached inside to fondle them. A tigress showed joy and licked his face through the iron bars before he departed.
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Martin
Brussels
Rotterdam
Theo Martin
Alligator Trade From Mexico Reaches New York
Mr. Joseph Smith brings a cargo of alligators from Mexico to New York. He explains that alligators are scarce in the United States due to skin demand and reports hunting them by harpoon in Mexico, earning about fifty thousand dollars on hides during an eighteen month stay.
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Dispatch
New York
Joseph Smith
Mexico
Mr. Smith
Florida
United States
Lacan
Sixth Sense Observed in Deaf Individuals Noted
A sixth sense of vibration tolerance appears in some deaf people. One woman with near total deafness felt light blows or footsteps as a tactile sensation rather than sound. Another entirely deaf woman could suddenly notice a distant stroke the bystanders overlooked. The phenomenon is described as a compensatory faculty.
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Grand
Maishe
Leith
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Hyde Park
Serpentine
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Giukel
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New Jersey
Wall Street
Old Virginia
Abesiog
James
Rome
Bella
Sanaheers
Turkey
Mary J. Holmes
Aiuno
Martie
Lion Tamer
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