The Lookout of the World by Col. New York Sun
The narrator visits Samuel Clemens at his mansion to gauge his comet watchfulness. Clemens laments public ignorance, defends tail logic, and jokes about duty and danger while debating celestial facts and fatigue. An anecdote about a duel in the dark with a mysterious elder ends with the elder being Excelmans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Sun
Samuel Longhorn Clemens
Mark
Teo
Clemens
New York
Boston
Coggia
Great Creser
Bravery Debate at Waterloo Survivors Dinner
A veteran correspondent recalls a Waterloo survivors dinner where a ex-king guest and young relatives listen as Excelmans claims men are cowards in the dark. An anecdote follows of a hot-headed emperor’s servant who challenges an old officer to a duel, challenging rank and duty.
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Miraculus
Pardieu
Messieurs
Excelmans
Scxze
Waterloo
America
Sshcle
A Miner's Romance at Wilton Iowa
Two Amherst College friends diverged in life when one became wealthy in New York and the other remained in mining. The gold digger left with success, later marrying a longtime love from Western Iowa who had become a school principal. They arrived in Wilton seeking a minister, registering later as Mr and Mrs Shearburn Leadville Colorado.
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Washington Post
Amherst College
New York
Sanrancisco
Nevada
Leadville
Southwestern
Wilton
Iowa
Chicago
the Sherman
Mrs. Shearburn
Colorado
Gath
New York Pathological Society
H. B. Sands
If I Was President
Detroit Free Press sketches a comic debate at a family breakfast where Mr. Butterby imagines being president. Each family member riffs on imagined powers and social schemes from fun to fame and public life in a satirical domestic scene.
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Detroit
Mrs. B
Mr. B
United States
Gertrude
Sammy Dogan
Thomas
White House
President's Son Sparked Plot in Candid Dinner Table Talk
Master Tom quarrels about being Prince of Whales while Mrs. B asserts the President's wife holds ultimate authority. Butterby calmly says he would resign if he became President. The family falls into a meditative silence as the meeting ends.
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Tom
Lefebvre's Dreamlike Paris Studio Displayed for Vanderbilt Room
Paris correspondent notes Jules Lefebvre creates a dreamlike, ideal scene in a vast studio. The painting features Phoebe guiding Morning Hours in a silver chariot above Sleep and a dawn seaward glow. A rare medical note reports a liver wound recovery linked to a long-embedded bullet in an 1881 pathology bulletin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Philadelphia
Jules Lefebvre
Aurora
Phoebe
Apollo
Rosy Cupid
Barnum Advertising Car Destroyed in Fire Near Stevensville
One of three Barnum show advertising cars burned early yesterday near Stevensville Canada Southern train en route to Detroit. Thirteen crew escaped with only clothes saved as car a 63 foot model by Barney and Smith of Dayton burned completely. Interior finished in black walnut and ash. exterior by James Walker of New York. Loss totals about 28000 with 5000 in bills burned and unknown origin of fire.
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Barnum
Stevensville
Can
Buffalo
Express
Detroit
Tts
Barney & Smith
Dayton, O
James Walker
New York
Married life begins with rose wood and mahogany
A concise proverb notes that marriage starts with fine wood furniture but over time households drift toward simpler pine pieces. It reflects on changing tastes and the evolution of domestic life.
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Mark Twain
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J. FE. Ede SI
South Side
Sullivan
Indiana
WWE Wei
Oliver
Richmond
Hamillion
Pittsburg
Grand
Brown Cultivators
Champion
Reaper & Mower
Studebaker Farm Wagon
Gilpin Sulery Plows
Climax Corn Planter
Ind
P. McEneney
Marble Works
Sullivan, Ind
J.P. Watson
Christina Church
Troy
Rter Medicine CO
SE Orth Main Street
ST. Louis
Corist and Walnut Sts
Terre Haute, Ind
Castings
Ua, Parker & Bros
Commercial Row
Sullivan Or
Terre Haute
J. P, Stratton
Prof
Harris
Radical Cure
Tilde Mark
Harris Remedy CQ
Ben Vandels & Co
Beekman &T
M. L. Byrn
Nassau St, NY
E. Rev
A. Wilson
Penn St
Willamsburgh AN
Wren
Ford
LJ 1, CO
Florence
Maes
Ben't
Jackson Bt
Battle Creek
Michigan
Wean
Nash Biron
Rant
Tecis Tepard & CO
Creek, Tdichigans
DAVIS
John Davis & Sons
Sullivan, Indiana
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