Religious and Educational News across the Americas
A survey of religious and educational topics notes Washington’s colored Catholics’ church strength, Toronto’s school attendance, Connecticut’s college and school counts, and Brooklyn school funding. It covers church missions, boy scouts, and a Boston substitute’s classroom misstep, plus notes on Bible revision, Massachusetts school book rules, and unfermented wine for sacraments.
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Toronto
Connecticut
Brooklyn
Young Men's Christian Association of the
United States
Canada
Shaftesbury Hall
the Southern Baptists
Richmond
Board of Foreign Missions
Board of Ome Missions
Boston
Coromittee
Massachusetts
New York
London Missionary Chronicle
South Africa
Mechanical and Scientific News Snippet
A long list of scattered notes on science and weather from historical sources. Mentions Sir W Thompson estimating Earth's habitable age around 100 million years, Tait revising, Leverrier proposing warnings for mine air pressure drops, and Ammonia injections for snake bites in Australia. Includes dental and ventilation notes, climate musings, and greenhouse carbon dioxide observations.
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W. Thompson
Tait
M. Leverrier
Australia
Melbourne
A California Mode of Disposing of Bally
Gen John Gosch wilder recalls a California encounter where a pale young stranger with a girllike hand outdrinks a bully in a pioneer saloon Then after four rounds the youth calmly pays a dollar and shoots the bully through the heart before leaving the bar with a sharp remark about collateral harm.
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John Goschwilder
California
Everlasting Fire of Baku Described by Travelers
A distant Caspian Sea phenomenon near Baku in Shirvan features an everlasting flame worshiped by Indians and Persians. A shrine hosts a blue flame from a hollow cane and a nearby gap emits a continuous fire. Ground ignition occurs with small surface disruption, flames heat but do not burn nearby, and can fuel vessels or cook with several lit canes.
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Detroit Tribune
New Zealand
Nature
Taranaki
N. Z
Iean
Faline Solomon
Baku
Caspian Sea
Shirvan
Religious affiliation and crimes of royal marines report
A historical fragment cites a survey of royal marines religious affiliation. It lists 22 516 Church of England members, 1 150 Presbyterians, 2 675 other Protestants and 3 866 Catholic, with religious crimes: Church of England 9 545, Prussian byteriany 462, other Protestants 1 290, Trovian Catholics 226.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perauseline
Navy
Royal Marines
Church of England
Oman
Short Talk Reflections on Fear, Fortune and Character
A compilation of maxims and aphorisms on fear, luck, temperance, friendship, work, honesty, and human folly. It wittily critiques misfortune, laziness, arrogance, and hypocrisy while urging prudent judgment, sympathy, and self-awareness. Quotation from Josh Billings appears at the end.
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Josh Billings
N. Y
Curious Growth of a Tree at Blandina Street
Near No 58 Blandina street a maple stands with two neighboring maples, girdled for three years up to about three feet above ground. The inner section shows decayed pith and a vine resembling ivy grows inside the hollow heart. Experts suspect the vine and tree life mingle to keep the tree alive, offering a curious study in sap and growth.
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Blandina Street
Merald
Defense of the Coaching Experiment Critique in Western Journal
A Western journal ridicules Col Kane's coaching experiment as New York folly. It questions the editor’s contempt, arguing fresh air and outdoor recreation benefit health, urging American cities to adopt similar coaches for suburban health and pleasure, noting the New York effort mirrors London's attraction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col. Kane
Coashing
New York
London
Appletons' Journal Opinion on Coach Lines Profitability
A fragment from Appletons' Journal argues that true permanence of a coach line hinges on profitability. It states that one coach per day is insufficient for the public's demand for a convenient, healthy mode of travel second only to horseback riding, and calls for expanded service.
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Appletons’ Journal
Does It Pay to Live Too Fast in a Clergyman’s Life
Rhode Island and New York papers report the death of a Westerly pastor at thirty eight from chloral overdose. The obituary notes his early piety and college honors, then years of overwork ending in rest only via chloral. The piece asks if it pays to live so fast and urges balance, rest, and prudent limits on labor.
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Rhode Island
New York
Westerly
Rey
Juledo Blade
Spelling machine tale ends in tragedy at lake Mephagaga
A humorous Lake Mephagaga anecdote about a man who builds a spelling machine to spell the longest lake name in the state ends violently. Spectators witness a fatal blast as the device shatters, killing two and injuring several, leaving the inventor demoralized and abandoning the project.
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England
Mephagaga
Mujine
lake-Lake
Lake Woonsockity
Atick House
Norrtatown
Execruciating death by kerosene fire in Wilmington
A young man Elias Wilson of Campbell Street between Fourth and Fifth in Wilmington set his clothes and body aflame with kerosene after a mental disturbance. He ignited a match, producing a pillar of fire that consumed him while his mother fled in terror. He died from the flames, a charred corpse found beside his bed after the attack. A separate notice mentions a leather and shoe dealers and feather workers meeting in Philadelphia on July 11.
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Elias Wilson
Campbell
Fourth
Fifth
Tie
Weimington
Journal
Coxoneus
Philadelphia
Fire Music Pyrophone At Paris Witnesses A Strange Instrument
Paris London Times correspondent reports at M Kastner s house in Rue de Lichy a large audience heard his pyrophone a gas jet driven instrument with organ like pipes and a keyboard mechanism enabling sounds to be turned on and off by fingered gas jets. The device produced powerful moving tones though perfected operation awaits improvements.
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Paris
London Times
M. Frederick Kastner
Kastner
Tl Hugten
The Wedding Present Question Prompts Save Day Gift Ban
A tense dispute in fashionable circles arises over wedding gifts as Mrs Henry CM Quand plans a silver wedding at No 21 West Twentieth Street on the 20th. A request to abstain from presents, backed by Mr Marquand and the old aristocracy, aims to curb the prevalent custom of giving silverware and finery, seen as a moral burden and source of agitation among social circles.
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Henry CM Quand
West Twentieth Street
Marquand
Uhieayo
Causes of the Coagulation of the Blood
A Glenard communication to the Journal of the Chemlend Society argues that blood loses coagulation when segment blood is removed and air acts on it while flesh turns hornlike. Coagulation depends on contact with foreign bodies and remains stable inside vessels. Blood stays alive and spontaneously coagulable if kept fluid. concentration delays but does not stop coagulation. water addition restores coagulation conditions.
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Glenard
Journal of the Chemlend Society
Ap Ox
Woman drives team and harrow on Bethel farm
Ti Reading Pa correspondent recalls a wealthy Bethel township farmer's daughter guiding horses hitched to a large spike harrow in plowed ground. She says she rises at four fills cows, feeds pigs, helps with breakfast, and starts work again at six in damp fields, proving skill beyond her sex.
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Layle
Bethel Township
Fency
Kugle
Grubifields
Wather, Inc
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