The Value of Ciphers From the French
A clerk reads a letter from Hamburgh mentioning a fortune of twelve thousand francs, revealed by a cipher. The narrator imagines various social roles for the imagined wealth, debating the man’s worth and possible identity as income escalates to 1200, 12,000, then 120,000 francs. He plans to entertain a “rich and interesting” stranger at dinner, instructing his servant to invite a Baron de Biedmann by name.
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A. Biedmann
Hamburgh
Mons. Biedmann
M. Biedmann
Helas
Biedman
Monster Biedman
Geneva
Reading Society
Jean
Monsieur
Monsier
Madame
Monsieur de Biedmann
Baron de Biedman
Romance of Pulaski wreck tale of Ridge and Onslow
The Pulaski disaster yields a tender tale of heroism and sacrifice. Mr Ridge of New Orleans and Miss Onslow of the southern states endure five days at sea after the explosion, sharing danger, hunger, and a deep bond formed in mutual peril, with the sailor saving the young woman when all odds seemed against them.
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Pulaski
Ridge
New Orleans
Onslow
Sle
Ile
Secret Engagement Tested by Poverty and Wealth Reveal
In a dramatic scene a man confesses poverty of 25 000 dollars tied to debts and hunger and offers to break the engagement to spare his beloved. She weeps, asks if poverty could deepen their fate, and accepts his endurance. Soon after, she learns she is heir to an estate worth 200 000 dollars.
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Pan
Early Potatoes Pranks and a Capital Debate
A fragment from the Saturday Rambler recounts Uncle Ned’s potato pranks in a Bay State tavern, with a witty safe disposal joke, plus a dramatic courtroom speech against capital punishment appearing to contrast a light tale with a serious legal discourse on murder and justice.
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Ned
Bay State
Mr. B
Jed
Windsor justice scolds thief in empty boots case
Old Elise Keys, Windsor county Vermont judge, lectures the accused for stealing boots, condemns poverty and pride, and sentences the thief to three months in county jail in Windsor. Velocity of electricity studies note Paris to Rouen wires show speeds over 60 thousand miles per second in iron and over 110 thousand in copper.
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Elise Keys
Windsor Couty
Ino Ome
Windsor
General Curtis
Curtis
M. M. H. Fisean
E. Gounelle
Paria
Paris
Rouen
Pariate Amiens
Hungerford Bridge traffic and storm safety tips
Mr. Stephenson cited in a debate that in fine weather fifteen thousand pedestrians daily cross the Hungerford Suspension Bridge and twenty five thousand pass via its piers to the river steamer, totaling about forty thousand daily in free passage. A thunderstorm advisory warns to avoid trees and metal, noting a youth killed whittling beneath a tree while another escaped.
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Stephenson
Hungerford
Cholera Cure Idea Circulates With Salt Pepper Mixture
A self-claimed remedy suggests mixing a tablespoon of salt and a teaspoon of pepper in half a pint of water to cure cholera. The claim notes it has worked on some Liverpool and New York steamers, cited by Scientific American.
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Liverpool
New York
Sci. American
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