Indian Tracker Skill Deepens Prairie Pursuit Story
A Western hunter explains that true tracking is born not made, recounting a 16-horse theft case near the American border. He describes pursuing the culprits across prairie and badlands with Indian allies, using interpreters and vigilante scenes before the horses were recovered and suspects captured.
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Old Country
Colonies
Ian
Palat
White Wings
Jack
Charlie
Indiana
Priirie
Ao Smart Clauter
Rand
Yellowstone Park
Fort Beaufort
Canada
Sherif Chapleau
States
Jell
Rank of Sainte-Beuve as the foremost 19th century critic
Brander Matthews argues Sainte-Beuve embodies the four essentials of a top critic: keen insight, vast and diverse erudition, disinterested integrity, and empathetic understanding. He praises Sainte-Beuve as the century’s leading literary critic, noting his extensive body of work and intellectual honesty despite occasional judgments.
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Goethe
Sainte-Beuve
Acuven
Parison
Sainte-Heure
Fish breathe dissolved air through gills in water
The article explains fish absorb oxygen from air dissolved in water rather than the water’s chemical oxygen. It notes fish die if lake water is cut off from air long enough, and that aerated water is essential as they continuously take in air through the mouth and expel it via the gills.
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St. Nicholas
The First Elevators and a Royal Elevator Incident
The piece traces Velager's mid seventeenth century anticipation of elevators with early letter boxes in Paris in 1653. A royal mishap at Versailles ended with a daughter stuck three hours until wall removal, tarnishing Velager's chairs. It notes a primitive chair on a rope, pulley, and counterweight, and cites a 1860s revival leading to modern hydraulic or electric lifts.
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Velager
Paris
Versailles
Mystery of the Door With Seven Locks at Westminster Abbey
An article tours Westminster Abbey revealing hidden eras and chambers. It describes the eastern cloister door with seven keys guarding the chapel of the Pyx once England’s treasury, the king's jewel house, chapter house, crypts, and the Jerusalem chamber where Henry IV died. It notes ancient bases, monastic remains, and historic relics guarded for centuries.
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Westuslnster Abbey
Edward the Confessor
WillMam
Amin
Privon
Iust
Westminster
England
St. Stephen
Weetminster Palace
Heneath
St. Faith's Chapel
Jerusalem
Henry IV
Holy Land
Addison
Congreve
Behind the Mask at Fifth Avenue Art Store
An elderly New York socialite pays a small on account at a Fifth Avenue art shop and warns the clerk not to bother her with collection efforts. The clerk answers politely, and a friend notes the need for patience in business, while privately lamenting nonpayment.
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Fifth Avenue
New York
Madaim
Birthdays in Japan celebrate dolls and carp banners
A St. Nicholas article describes Japan's birthday customs. February marks a girls festival with family dolls, including heirlooms, then May brings a boys festival with carp banners and a golden ball symbolizing treasure. The carp's struggle upstream stands for future perseverance.
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AML
Little O'Tatsu
Alice
T Ann
Daimie
Japan
Tia
A Gentle Kuneck and the Waking of the House
A New York Evening News item recalls a man banging a door and police advice. An officer uses a board to rattle a house to wake sleeping residents, provoking a startled voice from inside as the window opens. The tale highlights the comical risk of waking a household with a loud, improvised method.
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New York
Appearance and charm in men and women, per London Chronicle
The piece contrasts male beauty as a comely, well dressed figure admired by women for rugged or ascetic strength and nervous vigor while noting a good looking man’s vanity. women’s prettiness invites less envy as nobler beauties go unremarked, shining with ease and preoccupied with other matters.
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Apollo
lLondon Chronicle
Marriage Plot in Isle of Wight Tale of Grandmother
In Arreton Isle of Wight a poor couple’s betrothal is complicated when the young man’s rich grandfather proposes to wed the woman. The plan, laid to secure wealth after the grandfather’s death, leads to a marriage that makes the woman the young Jean’s grandmother as the elder dies, and the tale ends with her grief.
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Arreton
Isle of Wight
Ufe
Jean
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Chicago
Union Pacific & North-Western
Points
Nebraska
Union Tae
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St. Paul
Minneapolis
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Agency For Schlitz -Beer
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M. E. Washburn
Oridbury
Chaplenau
Athens
Rotunda
Northwest Mounted Police
Wall Mall Gnavette
Westminster Abbey
Treasury of
Kuneck
Geed Leeks and Concelt
Grandmother
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