Impromptu Comedy In Hamlet Told By Mantell
A London incident during Shakespeare season with Carlos as Hamlet amused crowds. Mantell recalls a tavern boy sending a pint to Carlos during Hamlet You be or not to be turned into a joke when Potts the porter misses the stage door. A royal kick hurled ale and toast into Wells Street, ruining the performance with laughter from the audience.
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Robert Mantell
London
Shakespeare
Carlos
Hamlet
The
Potts
Ernst
Duane
Wells Street
Prince of Denmark
New York Telegraph
Sunday Sermon Remixed David and Goliath Tale
A Rev Billy Sunday recounts Davids field work and a clash with Goliath to a large congregation with vivid comic gestures. The piece parodies biblical bravado, noting Davids quick work with pebbles and the Philistines retreating in defeat. It then shifts to Senator Bailey praising rivalry among Washington waiters and recounts Vincent Cressleys misadventure at a horse race and his winnings reveal.
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Silly
David
Goliath
Billy Sunday
Dave
Bo Dove
Harper's Weekly
Senator Bailey
Washington
Vincent Cressley
Copiah County
Vincent
Mke Lindbad
Ginger
Perils of Explorers Sven Hedin Desert Trek Tragedy
Sven Hedin led a perilous eastward expedition across Central Asia from February to May 1895, crossing the Takki Makan desert between the Yarkund and Khotan rivers. The party, worn and thirsting, faded one by one into the shifting sands as Hedin pressed on with compass in hand, and two followers barely survived after he carried their water in his boots.
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Central Asia
Sven Hedin
Kashgar
Yarkand
Takki Makan
Yarkund
Khotan
Sven Hodin
Marked Their Trail Two Brave Women Outwitted Indians
In 1776 Je mima Boone and Callaway sisters, while canoeing near Boonesborough, were taken by five Shawnee warriors. They silently sabotaged pursuit by tying cloth scraps to bushes, guiding Boone and settlers to the captors. After two days a volley killed two Shawnees and the girls were recovered by their mothers.
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Jemima Boone
Callaway
Kentucky
Boonesborough
Ohio
Boone
H. Addington
Bruce
Smith's Magazine
Stories of W. 8. Gilbert and Peter the Great in London
Anecdotes recount W L Gilbert dismissing overpriced London theatre sightlines asked by Herman Vezin if he attended a meretricious show. Beerbohm Tree played Falstaff at Covent Garden with perspiring effort. Peter the Great’s breakfast bill in England preserved in Bodleian shows he and companions consumed vast fare and wine, plus favorite hot pepper and brandy. Tom and Jack joke about a forty dollar tailor bill at a Chicago restaurant.
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Gilbert
Sir Henry Irving
Edwin Booth
London
Herman Vezin
Mr. Gilbert
Beerbohm ‘Tree
Falstaff
London Haymarket
London Graphic
Peter the Great
Bodleian
Oxford
England
Russia
Czar
Peter
Tom
Jack
Chicago News
Fresh Eyes at the Circus Visit
Willie and his father visit a circus and menagerie where the boy jokes about an elephant and comments on a misused phrase from a prior day. The excerpt reflects the era’s quaint storytelling voice and a fleeting moral quip.
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Willie
Christian
The Young Colonel and the Ballenstein Mystery
Caspar Ballenstein, son of Baron Ballenstein, rises from cavalry subaltern to major amid bravado and rumors. The brigade’s general doubts his masculine resolve, leading to a dinner mouse incident and a swift resignation. A muffled figure arrives at Ballenstein Castle as the tale wanders toward a hidden truth.
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Baron Ballenstein
Caspar
Ballenstein Castle
Caspar Ballenstein
House of
Ballenstein
Sweetzer
Tenth Hussars
Brooklyn Doctor’s Letter Wins Bet with Grover Cleveland
A framed January 12 letter from Grover Cleveland to a Brooklyn doctor’s request for a personal reply was the result of a politician’s bet. The bet claimed any statesman would answer a humble letter, and Cleveland did so, writing of his wife and newborn twin daughters. The politician won the wager for producing the reply within the agreed January window.
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Brooklyn
Princeton
Grover Cleveland
The Spelling Struggle of Empress Eugenie and Dictation
The article notes that spelling standards were lax in earlier times and recounts Empress Eugenie’s 1868 Compiegne dictation test where ninety faults were found in her copy, sixty for the Emperor. Haer per's Weekly cites it to illustrate spelling and grammar challenges.
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Mme. de Sevigne
Mme. de Maintenon
College of St. Cyr
Empress Eugenie In 1868 At Compiegne
Haer Per
A Versatile Parisian Milestones in Mille Montansier’s Life
Mille Montansier, famed actress of Paris, once dined with Marie Antoinette in the royal box and later managed fetes at Versailles. She led a troupe that performed between battles at the Palais Royal, reportedly drew 8,000,000 francs from the revolutionary government, nearly married Napoleon, and at eighty five had a final romance. She left her creditors to the king of France in her will.
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Mille Montansier
Marie Antoinette
Royal Box
France
Versailles
Palais Royal
Napoleon
Barras
A Heroic Slave in Caliph Haroun’s Palace
In the court of Caliph Haroun al Raschid a humble slave faces execution for breaking a vase with a law that death awaits such crime. He instantly destroys nineteen more vases to save nineteen fellow countrymen, defending their lives with a bold, fatal act.
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Haroun al Raachid
Bagdad
Munich an Artistic Leader of Germany in Century's Lens
Robert Haven Schauffler argues in Century that Munich fused new and old to remain Germany's artistic leader for a century. He cites Len bach, Von Uhde, Schwanthaler, Orlandodi Lasso and Richard Strauss as examples of geniuses who found a home there.
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Munich
Germany
Lenbach
von Uhde
Schwanthaler
Orlando di Lasso
Richard Strauss
Robert Haven Schauffler
Century
The Village Grocer and Honest Farmer Banter
A brief cartoon caption shows the Village Grocer nagging Aaron about stacking apples while the Honest Farmer jokes about a long scalp. The exchange plays on appearance and grooming in a peevish versus cheerful tone.
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Aaron
Puck
Misa Belle Warned Me About Coffee as a Child
The speaker recalls a warning from a girl named Sally about coffee making one foolish, noting Sally once owed a favor. The fragment suggests a tense exchange and a reminder of past lessons learned in youth.
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Misa
Belle
Sally
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Copurtint
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Pioneer Limited
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St. Paul
Wheer
Underwood Standard Typewriters
Underwood Typewriter Company, Inc
Jennett
F. S. Waters
Bottineau, N.D
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Connecticut
Bottineau
McKenzie
P. McMillan
Prop
Bottineau, N. D
Gourant
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