Langdon and the Deluded Investor At Home
A narrator visits Langdon in his lavish New York salon. Langdon charms with refined taste, hints at marriage plans, and attacks textile stocks from a detached vantage. The narrator schemes amid market suspicions while a poised wife observes and a looming financial trap grows.
Lunatic Attacks Minister on Visit to Insane Asylum
A minister visiting an asylum engages with a patient who impishly mocks him and other public figures. The lunatic’s barbs target Senator Cameron and ex President Cleveland, with the minister’s measured replies showing his restraint and self-control amid the odd exchange. The column notes the broader fault lines in modern dining and social discourse.
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Youth’s Novel Becomes Comic Opera Then Film
A youth wrote a novel and sent it to his best friend who called it a comic opera. Rewriting as a comic opera, a new friend advised turning it into moving pictures. The youth arranged a skit to be filmed and showed proofs to a third friend.
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