Ruth and Baby Ruth Name Debate in Poetry Fragment
A fragment contemplates naming a baby Ruth choosing a graceful name. It weighs meanings beauty virtue and motherhood and suggests cutting the baby Ruth to honor a gracious woman. The piece contrasts gentleness with lasting grave use for a future daughter.
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Darkened Room Mystery and a Haunted Night
In this tale a young man named Ryse recounts a night of terror after staying in a German inn. He describes sleepwalking through a locked corridor to a second room containing a dead man with a throat wound, the strange arm of a man with a missing third finger, and a fear that lingers long after the night.
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Rattlesnakes in Self Defense and Notable Escapes
The article details rattlesnake behavior noting they rarely bite unless provoked, with swift strikes that require close contact. It recounts escapes of several individuals, the persistent venom on trousers, and a naked man who sat on a rattlesnake, plus a London doctor’s brush with the bite odor that lingers on tools for months.
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Chambers’ Journal
German Social Scientists in a Feud Over Trade Policy
Nation notes a division among German social scientists between practical free traders aligned with the Manchester school and historians calling for state regulation of trade and labor. A Congress at Eisenbach sees heated debate, with practicals prevailing so far as they refute the historians’ proposals. The piece also mentions a pig birth in Intana and zephyrs in Quincy Herald.
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Ihe
Meade and Greeley Return to Editorial Labors
The New York special notes Horace Greeley accepting defeat with philosophy and resuming editorship of the Tribune to pursue independent, candor-filled journalism. He vows not to court party wrath, aims to advance science and arts, and declines future political office. Also reported are Meade's death in Philadelphia and election results across states with Republican and Democratic tallies.
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Curious Instincts of the Bee Observed by a Cor. Iowa Nomestead
A cornier from Iowa Nomestead describes bee behavior noting instinct over art in hive management. It highlights foraging patterns, color marking on legs, storage in cells, swarming behavior, nursing of brood, and division of tasks among workers under natural inclination and cellular organization.
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Iowa Nomestead
Hindoo Widow Marriage Stir in Ahmedabad
The Hindoo reform debate surfaces as an 18 year old widow named Jivokre is married quietly by Brahmin priests amid opposition from reformers. A schoolmaster’s ruse failed, the girl was tortured, then released, with five pursuers sent to trial. The widow awaits potential plunder on movable property worth about £1500.
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Snr
Bombay Gazette
Ahmedabad
Reform Party
Jivokre
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Thiers and the French National Assembly debate constitutional reforms
The Paris press discusses Thiers aims to make Thiers life president and create an Upper Chamber with a Vice President. Proposals include restricting universal suffrage and partial assembly remodeling. If he seeks reforms without a popular appeal, a storm may follow. if he asks the people, responses may vary.
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France
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M. Thiers
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Fanny Fern as Broadway Portrait and Mother
Mary Clammer Ames recalls Fanny Fern as a commanding Broadway icon and devoted mother. The 1859-60 images show her regal bearing, elegant dress, and a life centered on her two daughters and infant granddaughter Phos. The piece notes Fern’s pride and resolve, praising her strength and maternal devotion captured in public and private moments.
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Fanny Fern
Jett
Phos
JeMe
Mary Clammer Ames
N.Y
Meaning of Exactness from Practical to Theoretical View
The piece contrasts practical precision in weighing sugar with a theoretical notion of exactness from mathematics. It explains that a grocer’s 1 pound and a chemist’s exact mass are detectable differences, while a mathematician’s idea involves differences invisible even under infinite magnification. It closes with a satirical note about peacocks and millinery.
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