Wisconsin timber for masts and a chorus of odd sayings
A collage of curiosities from varied topics. notes include timber for ships, crowds of old maids, striking facts about post offices in Iowa, a Vienna type-setting school, English tobacco pipes, temperance trends in the West, and a Quebec winter quip urging a summer visit to Quebec.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisconsin
Wissewn
Trem
Iowa
Cirts
Vienna
Cannmat
Texas
Ohio
Orient
Vermont
Kansas
Bret Hanne
England
Derby
Alabama
Palestine
Jerusalem
Safet
Tiberias
Hebron
Delaware
Delaney
Congress
California
Japan
Puck
Quebec Mercury
Quebec
Transfusion Experiments of Denis Mark Pioneering 17th Century Trials
Denis recounts the first blood transfusion on a 15 or 16 year old with lamb arterial blood, followed by a second trial on a 45 year old, who felt improved and later refused new subjects. He also experimented on dogs, including sequential transfusions, and pondered transmigration of souls. Denis planned public lectures on March 10, 1667, at the quay of the Augustins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denis
Ile
Jamb
Cone
England
Augustins
Adjutant Bird Outwits Poisoned Bat Carcass Trick
A Science Gossip correspondent recounts an Indian scavenger bird attempt to be fattened on a poisoned bat carcass. The bird swallowed the arsenical bait and fled unharmed, with its flock. search afterward found no remains, showing the bird’s stomach cannot be easily filled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
A Queer Phase of Insanity In Early Public Views
A essay discusses public mistrust of scientific tests for insanity and cites a Middleburg case of Kilsworth, a Hartford migrant who wore patched clothes and lived on corn meal to print a pamphlet claiming a demonically controlled era had begun. He died from his harsh diet and labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleburg
Kilsworth
Hartford Conn
Satan
IV. Y
A Vision of Architecture on Wheels in America
The Galaxy essay argues railroads shape a native American school of architecture. Stations should rival cathedrals in grandeur, with arches and sculpture. Cars could merge design with motion, though current interiors offend with clutter and flamboyance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Europe
New York
Galaxy
Beauty of Old People And The Duality Of Age
An essay argues that beauty grows with age and is found in the elderly as well as the young. It contrasts youthful charm with holiness and notes couples aging together often resemble each other in looks and voice. It claims aging deepens character, shifting gendered traits in surprising ways.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Lytton
Ladals Magazine
Walter Savage Landor
Attitude of Attention Seekers in Society
A passage from Lady's Magazine describes people who crave constant attention. They become miserable if not center of notice and may use extreme dress, audacity, or eccentric behavior to command eyes and admiration despite ridicule or contempt from others.
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Lady’s Magazine
Tyas
King
Chamor
S. Santi
Columbus
A Good Reason A Negro minister Justifies Remarriage
A Negro minister explains his quick remarriage after his wife’s death. He says relief overwhelmed him, he searched the Scriptures for comfort, found promises to the widowed but none to the widower, and believed God allowed him to marry again. He cites Patsey’s young death at eighteen as part of his reasoning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patsey
Socrates Snooks
Ostreiches in a warlike vein and a Vienna Exposition tease
A fragment from the Ottumwa Democrat mocks Austrian affairs and the Ostreiches, recounting 1866 Prussia battles, Haynau brutality, and Italian crossings with satire. It notes a $5,000 prize for an editorial under four columns and hints the piece will be read by Emperor Joseph at the Vienna Exposition.
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Norx
Austria
Democrat
Ostreich
Ostreiches
Margaret
Hungary
Galicia
Bohemia
Salzburg
Carinthia
Tyrol
Frederick the Great
Napoleon
Moltke
Wilam
Mack
Ulm
Bonaparte
Waterloo
St. Helena
Haynau
Gorgei
Ticino
Ape
Lombardy
Prussia
Benedek
Vienna
Gesler
Europe
Joseph
Joe
English Women and the Limits of Ambition in Society
Z. S. Nadal argues in the Atlantic that English women are naturally modest and uninterested in vying for recognition. He critiques a societal code that suppresses ambition in character while praising propriety born from elevation of conduct, warning it weakens a sense of superiority and individual growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agarue
Bards and Artists
Z. S. Nadal
Atlantic
Lord O'Baldwin Retires From Prize Ring Amid Reform
From Steubenville jail the Irish pugilist O Baldwin issues a manifesto condemning prize fighting as unworthy. He laments the sport’s decline, vows to quit the ring, and hopes his retirement signals the end of its brutal era in America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O’baldwin
Lord O’baldwin
America
Efe
O'Baldwin
Steubenville
Riley
Geohegan
Rattlesnake Rattle Studied and Debated in 1870s Field Notes
The American Naturalist discusses Prof Samuel Aughey’s tests on rattlesnakes rattles. He questions the mimicry theory and suggests the rattle calls mates or alarms enemies. Observations include a Nebraska encounter, a Baltimore oriole moment of paralysis, and a seven hogs versus snake attack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Aughey
Aughey
IF. W. Putnam
Wayne County
Nebraska
Dakota County
Cheerful Philadelphia prophecy warns of planetary pestilence
Dr. R Tifrall of the Philadelphia Star predicts a climactic pestilential period as Jupiter Saturn Uranus and Neptune align from 1880 to 1885. He links near approaches to disease famine and extreme weather and urges strict sanitary measures to avert danger, warning of moral decline for certain groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Tifrall
Philadelphia
Jupiter
Saturn
Neptune
Earth
Practical Household Recipes and Odd Anecdotes
A collage of domestic instructions for dusting hands with starch to reduce chafing, washing with club moss to curb perspiration, fruit decoctions for health, coating trays with varnish and bronze powder, a rice based glue for fan work, dye making, plantings along roadsides, and a lengthy anecdote about a judge. It includes coffee preparation tips and medical advertisements for tonics and remedies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conor Black
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Socrates
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Love
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Amos Woolly
Roselusco Co
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Anya
Tom
Insane A. Doran
Logan Go
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Middlebury
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Ir. Fletcher
Lexington
Wigon & Ward
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Jd. N. Harris & CO
Cincinnati
Compton
Mall
B. K. Bliss & Sons
Park Place
Washington
Credit Mobilier
National
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St Louis
S. Simons & CO
West Lake Street
Chicago
Algo
Arle
Btorrs
Harrison & CO
Painesville
Lake County
WW CO
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T. Onders
B. Wannaronn & Co
Cininnati & Chicago
TOWE
Henry
Howe
Council Binds
Towa
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Hill
Lee & Walker
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Chestnut St
Erritors
Radway
REDIO
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Rapway
Wss
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Radwa Perfect LP
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Draggista
PALSE
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Radway & CO
Neo Warren §T
N. X
St. Louis
Home Cotton Mills
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Cheever, Burchard & CO
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S. C Davis & Co
Boots & Shoes
Washington Ave
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St.Louis
Eastern Pilece
B. R. Lippincott
Western Depot
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Delmay Wine Co
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Sipbet
Travour
Ludlow, Saylor & CO
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Great Atlantic
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Chartes Sfreen
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Mount Renowned
Pomide
Lows Matrina&co
Chick Stregg
pAice
Mercantile and Ladies
W. McIntyre
Richard Wailes
Jecurney
Buffalo Co
Adness Bow
Alan & Matthews, Publishers
Hird Street
Welch & Criffiths
Welch & Griffiths
Boston
Maas
Betroit
Mich
C. S
Retsinger Sash Lock Co
Harristarg, Pa
Wood's Household Agua
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Penden &Cy
David BE
Foutz
Baltinore
EAU Boots
Little Street
Denzgists
Storckerperarou
ACEI
Imctiows
Great
Pratte Valley
Pyeng
Raraga Utsh
No- Yada
F. Davis
U.P. R
Oyama
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Madison
George Avheard
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Sams
Young G CO
Darticulara
Stinson & Con
Portland
May
Ps. Madiress DE
An.k
Sle
Whittier
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