Despise Ye The Church Of God Reflections On Church Attendance
Chicago August discourse by Rev. Frank D Tal mage argues against despising the church over Bible understanding or member flaws. He urges belief in Christ and church membership as the path to spiritual strength, support, and salvation, citing examples and urging public confession at the altar.
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Fat Crystals From Butter Lard and Beef Fat
Small quantities of butter lard and beef fat boiled and cooled for a day form distinct crystals under the microscope. Butter crystals are large globular with a St. Andrew's cross, lard crystals are stellar, and beef fat crystals are foliated. Over time butter crystals degenerate into rosette forms.
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St. Andrew's Cross
Old Verb Laze Described In Early English Verse
The passage notes lazing as an old verb in Samuel Rowlands 1610 Martin Markall with linchpin lines about layabouts in streets and alehouses. It mentions Mortimer Collins lyrics where Cupid lazeth among latery lasses and is swearing to pass.
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Samuel Rowlands
Martin Markall
Mortimer Collins
Cupid
No clear event or person inferred in the excerpt
A fragment from the Atchison Globe notes a reflective remark about staying awake being driven by willpower rather than external force, without a specific incident, date, or named individuals.
Choosing a Minister at Directon Parish Meeting
In the Directon parish kirk, vacancy debates follow two recent ministerial declines. Women discuss voting plans as candidates are narrowed. one woman plans to abstain while another opts to back the candidate with the soundest lungs to avoid further deaths.
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Directon
Marget
Odd dish described in antiquity with fig leaf wrap
A fragment discusses an ancient Greek dish mixing boiled bogs lard with milk and thick gruel, cheese eggs and brains. It is wrapped in fig leaf and boiled in poultry gravy then soused in honey. The word appears in Aristophanes and Frogs as a joking reference to fig leaves.
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Aristophanes
Two Babies For a Cent Poster Stirs Nova Scotia Notice
A pamphlet seen by a traveler in Nova Scotia advertised a concert and fair in Mrs. Parsons’s sitting room at 2 o'clock. The poster listed admission as 7 adults, 5 cents, children 2 cents, and babies two for a cent, printed in red on rough paper and tacked to a telegraph pole.
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Nova Scotia
Soor War Cattle Skin Blunder Ends With Payback
In 1866 Prussian forces during the Soor campaign faced a missing cowskin after the Grenadier guards failed to recover it. An extended inquiry traced the loss to administrative red tape and delayed accountability, finally demanding 3 thalers from the regiment's colonel. The case closed after the payment.
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Germany
Prussian War Office
Soor
Grenadier Guards
War Office
Costly mine disasters lure lessons from old storms
The article recounts two doomed English mining ventures. A tin mine near the sea failed when a storm flooded workings despite pumps and a seawall after tapping a rich ore vein. In Derbyshire the Speedwell mine bore 3,000 feet into a mountain and flooded, trapping 40,000 tons of ore within a Hidden cavern called the Bottomless Pit.
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Speedwell
Derbyshire
Yawning Among Primates Aims to Frighten Adversaries
The article notes yawning as a unique sign of threat within the monkey tribe, especially baboons, with Gibra tar apes also exhibiting the habit. It suggests the gesture originally signals teeth display to deter rivals, and that repetitive mouth opening can trigger yawns in humans too as a reflex. When two baboons meet they instinctively yawn at each other, and they repeat the act when annoyed by visitors.
Russian Working Women in Textile Mills
The report notes Russian women in spinning mills earning about five dollars a month while weavers receive around eight dollars and fifty cents. This contrast highlights gendered pay in early industrial labor.
The Cobweb Language Play
A child’s line See the cob run lights on a cobweb joke. Cob or cop refers to a spider, explaining cobweb as copweb and attercoppe origins.
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