Ingenious Young Engineer Lifts Vanished Scow in Surinam
A young American engineer earns praise for contriving a method to raise a sunken scow in Surinam using a raft of logs and tides. He coordinates four workers to attach chains to the vessel and logs, exploiting neap and spring tides to float the hull back up for repair.
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South America
New York
Engineers’ Club
Surinam
Dutch Guiana
aTo
United States
Atlantic
New York Times
Wishing Subject Confusion Sparks Uneasy Talk
A playful exchange between two speakers centers on a single wish with hesitation and interrupted thoughts. The dialogue features a tentative confession that never fully forms, leaving ambiguity about the wish and its significance to the characters.
Edinburgh professor and the birthday alarm clock prank
A renowned Edinburgh professor, engrossed in his lecture, ignored the noon bell until a surprise alarm clock set by students rang. The device drew applause as the professor revealed it was his birthday and joked his wife needed such a gift for their servant, then resumed the demonstration.
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Edinburgh
London
Largest city quiz ends with New York answer
A New York boy in a Canadian school answers all questions with New York as the largest city in the world. After being told to write fifty lines, each line reads The biggest city in the world is New York. Tribune report.
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New York
Canada
United States
London
New York Tribune
Cincinnati
Praying and Prinking by Revivalist Sam Jones
Sam Jones denounced women for prinking over praying and challenged a shabby congregant to confess her praying time. The woman admitted she prinked none, prompting the preacher to tell her to go home and spend more effort on prinking.
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Sam Jones
Jones
Turner the painter and the toast of British art men
Turner joked at a dinner of artists and writers carving a toast to the painters and glaziers of Great Britain. After returning thanks he proposed a toast to the British paper stainers. The remark drew laughter at the expense of the toast’s target.
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Turner
Great Britain
Ungallant remark from a pupil at Marysville school
A Kansas City Journal quips about a Marysville teacher prompting grammar lessons. Johnny answers that saying I am beautiful is in the past tense, a friendlier moment reflecting schoolroom wit.
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Marysville
Kansas City Journal
Define the meaning of vice versa in class joke
A student jokes that vice versa means sleeping with your feet toward the head of the bed. The exchange presents a light classroom moment with wordplay about orientation and meaning.
Napoleon and the Legion of Honor's rise and scandal
The piece traces Napoleon's creation of the Legion of Honor in 1804, its reception amid ridicule, and its role in French society. It recounts later controversies, including the Wilson scandal of 1887 where officials sold honors, leading to a court case and eventual parole.
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France
Napoleon
Monge
Malmaison
Conseil D'Etat
Legion of Honor
Moreau
Victor
Hohenlinden
Marengo
Michel
Mme. de Stael
Laplace
Lalande
Cuvier
Legouve
Bernardin de St. Pierre
Hortense
Jena Goethe
Chateaubriand
Puzzo di Borgo
Marmont
Macdonald
Louis XVIII
Lamartine
Wilson
Mlle
Alice Grevy
The
Republic
M. Daniel Wilson
M. Grevy
M. Wilson
the Elysee
le Moniteur de
d’Audlan
Cafferel
Ratazzi
Court of Cassation
Conseiller General
Pall Mall Gazette
Lawyer Walks With Law Book As He Encounters heckler
A lawyer strolling with a law book under his arm is accosted by a self righteous individual who taunts him with a question about preaching to someone named Gay. The lawyer replies I dont preach I practice.
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Mr. Blank
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Amelia
Ohio
Triumph
Chicago
McCullough
Clermont
Thomas, Amelia, Okio
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