Curious Miscellany Quips Hit From History
A string of short anecdotes and jests appears, featuring voices from the prince of Asturias to a New Yorker at Boston’s anniversary. Included are married couples, age riddles, a Highland train remark, and a Columbia College professor’s riddle about sensing versus sight. The piece reviews Baptist church growth with 19th century statistics and property values across years.
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Prince of Asturias
Chillicothe
Herbert L. Rollingstone
Emma J. Moss
New Scotland
Boston
Caddy
Twinkle
Columbia College
Baptist Church
America
Usll
Boiling Water Lessons From Paper and Lead Experiments
Nature presents experiments under Physics without Apparatus showing boiling water on a wet folded paper scaffold and melting lead on a cardboard tray. A lamp heats the setup. water protects the paper, while a lead melt occurs without igniting the tray, though edges may char slightly.
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Nature
Simple faith on a dying bed in London hospital
A street boy with crushed legs lies dying in a London hospital. A famine fever patient nearby asks about Jesus Inspiration from a Mission School story shows the boy lifting his hand to signal for Jesus as dawn comes, dying with faith intact.
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John B.gough
London
Bobby
Jesus
Mission School
Toney
Littl
Meaford Woman Under Doctor Maclean Care After Prolonged Fasting
A Meaford area woman who stopped eating a year ago and fasted for six months then a second six months has been under Dr. Maclean’s care for nineteen days. She remained on minimal liquids and lost about a pound daily, weighing eighty pounds but in good spirits and able to walk with light work.
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Meaford
Tanner
Maclean
Widow Learns of Mine Death After Midnight Accident
At midnight following a mining accident at the Consolidated Imperial works, Mat Winnie was found by Officer Sheehan. He confirmed Winnie had died in the mine and accompanied his wife to their home to inform her and care for their children. The account presents a puzzling situation for observers.
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Gold Hill News
Consolidated Imperial
Mat
Winnie
Sheehan
Imperial Works
Mr. Shehan
Dog Guards Child Then Dies On Track
A traveler from Canada recounts a tragedy near Montreal where a loyal dog barked at a passing train to warn of danger. The engine struck both the dog and a sleeping child who had wandered onto the track, the dog dying as it protected the child.
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Canada
Montreal
Ridiculous sight in Assynt as cook finds double cock
In Assynt Sutherlandshire a favored cook discovers a mirror image of himself in the master's bedchamber. Startled by the sight of another cock standing opposite, he realizes the reflection mirrors his own appearance and actions.
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Assynt
Sutherlandshire
Chanticleer
Prison Fight Sparks Quiet Confrontation Among Inmates
A tense standoff erupts when a man challenges another inmate to a fight. The challenged party accepts and the disturbance draws the attention of a fellow inmate who enters the apartment. The intruder is forced to retreat without resolution.
Old Shakey the peripatetic preacher in Glenbrook
Carson Nevada appeal describes Old Shakey a traveling preacher who bets on biblical miracles and exhorts a small crowd in Glenbrook. He proves the Jonah and the whale tale to skeptical listeners and ends with a charity appeal, then laments the crowd’s lack of coins. In Paris, Thiers statue unveiling sparks a political protest by M Pain, who shouts a protest against the statue. He is led away as crowds cry down with Prussians. Mme Thiers stays calm.
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Carson
Shakey
California
Glenbrook
Leing
Jonah
Thiers
Paris Cable Special
M Thiers
M. Jules Simoun
M. Oliver Pain
Herald
Official Tribune
Mme. Thiers
M. Pain
Prussia
A Dog Chooses His Own Church in Toronto Tale
A St Thomas resident owns a dog with strong Sunday instincts. The animal avoids weekday play, attends the Presbyterian family worship, then slips to its own Methodist church upstairs, where it listens intently to doctrine while ushers struggle to keep view.
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Toronto
Canada
St. Thomas
Presbyterian House of Worship
Hairy Contribution In Montanaro Parish
In Montanaro, Italy a parish priest persuaded 212 women to donate their hair for an altar after a pulpit sermon. The act left the village with significantly less hair as the women followed him to the sacristy for the “sacred” cut.
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Montanaro
Italy
Montonaro
A Bridge of Size Across the Volga in Russia
A vast bridge over the Volga connects Syoran in Simbirsk with Samara on the Syoran and Ornberg Railroad. Fourteen piers rise one hundred feet above water for flood safety as 364 foot girders were floated into place. The project cost 7,000,000 silver rubles and reported no major accidents.
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Russia
Volga
Syoran
Ornberg
Simbirsk
Samara
Miestich
Silver coinage and exports decrease for fiscal year
Production of silver at U S mints for the last fiscal year totals about 28,000,000 dollars. Net exports of silver bullion and probable arts usage reduce the year’s silver by about 38,000,000 dollars, 2,000,000 less than the prior year.
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Washington, D. C
United States
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