Global snippets of science and society from an old year
A digest of varied notes from a bygone era reports rising cremation in Germany, Italian lemon production, Norwegian eye color, and a Vienna stamp exhibition. It mentions a $159,000 Garfield monument funded by 600,000 small donors, Norse and Italian curios, Rome hansom cabs, and Newtons rings photography.
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Monte Carlo
Daily Illustrated Graphic
London
Italy
Norway
United States
Idaho
Germany
Gotha
Rome
Garfield
Cleveland
Vienna
Men of Letters and Notable Authors Curiosities
A collection of biographical notes on novelists poets and scholars. It mentions Lord Tennyson Rider Haggard Tolstoi Blackmore Gilbert Pierce James Whitcomb Riley Jules Verne Emile Zola George William Curtis Richard Rosenthal Wilkie Collins and burial wishes at Kensal Green with a plain grave stone and specific inscription.
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Lord Tennyson
Rider Hagrid
Count Tolstoi
R.D. Blackmore
Teddington
Gilbert A. Pierce
North Dakota
Eneid
James Whitcomb
Riley
Guy de Maupassant
George William Curtis
Harpers
Richard S$. Rosenthal
Wilkie Collins
Kensal Green
Womens manners fashion and respect in Philadelphia Times
That buttons are made to button and bonnets less high mark evolving fashion. It praises cleanliness wholesomeness and respect for elderly men with poise. It notes bustles gone and women sit comfortably and quiet decorum as best form and welcomes kind opinions toward women.
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Philadelphia Times
Homely philosophy on honesty and adversity
The piece reflects on friendship strained by coin and insincerity mistaken for honesty. It suggests those who avoid high aims avoid the fall, while prosperity can crumble under adversity and expose weak foundations.
The Wiles of Avari and Local Humors
A compact clip of humorous and coarse dialect satire from Texas Siftings. The piece mocks servants schemes and a stingy master with a sugar theft myth, then shifts to a brusque demand for labor as Rastus pledges to wait for shade.
Woman Boosts Own Cactus Claim During Botanical Tour
A botanist leads a party through the conservatories and notes a middle aged visitor bragging that her home cactus is larger. The professor remarks the exhibited plant is sixty three years old and the challenger quickly moves away after the exchange in a Grasisdanin moment.
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Botanical Gardens
Mysterious Mountain Disappearance Tale In Scribner Excerpt
A dialogue fragment recalls a mysterious disappearance on a hill where a young couple vanished after ascending a slope. The driver notes the hill itself is ordinary, but a strange tale surrounds the event. The exchange unfolds as a traveler probes the story and the driver offers the brief account.
Little Laughs and Echoes of Childhood Contests
Fragmentary verse items show a humorous German count sequence and childhood reflections. The text pairs playful dialogue with life notes and a first offer line, creating a mood of whimsy and contest with work and appeal woven through the snippets.
Notable Figures and Aging Notables in 19th Century Society
Brief sketches describe Dr El jen Halford riding horseback Gen Poulanger supported by French admirers Chase a lone Quaker in Washington Haussmann an 80 year old Paris reformer Dom Pedro honorary NYHS member Weld birthday Jubilees Sophronius aged 99 Abner Doubleday surviving Sumter officers Campbell Ohio governor elect Knights orders Sanford Birmingham pastor formerly enslaved Randall modest Washington home Sir Benjamin Phillips lineage to Meir Katzenellenbogen Pauncefote studying American letters Sarasate a handsome Spaniard with jet black hair and fluent English.
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Poulanger
Senator Chase
Washington
Baron Haussmann
Paris
Dom Pedro
Brazil
New York Historical Society
Theodore D. Weld
Morton
Mer
Sophronius
Alexandria
David Berry
Coolangatta
St. Andrew's University
Abner Doubleday
Fort Sumter
Campbell
Ohio
Knights of Pythias
Grand Army of the Republic
Order of Elks
T. P. Sanford
Birmingham
England
Virginia
Congressman Randall
Capitol
Benjamin Phillips
London
Padua
Meir Katzenellenbogen
Maharam
Julian Pauncefote
Men of Letters
Sarasate
Notable Women and World Records Mentioned in Society Notes
Mrs Harrison speaks of crowd stares as a trial of life. Mrs Quay, wife of a Pennsylvania senator, recalls her girlhood fame. Jean Ingelow lives in Kensington, Mime de Due is a Paris landscape painter, Hortense Bertrand resides in Paris. Emma Forsythe owns 150000 acres near New Guinea and employs 500 people. Nellie Bly departs for a world tour aiming to beat Phineas Fogg in under eighty days.
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Harrison
Quay
Pennsylvania
Jean Ingelow
Kensington
Mime de Due
Paris
Hortense Bertrand
Count Bertrand
Napoleon
Mahone
John’ W. Mackey
Frances Hodgson Burnett
London
Charlotte M. Yonge
Emma E. Forsythe
Samoa
New Guinea
Nellie Bly
New York World
iGue
Phineas Fogg
Jules Verne
Oldest anti slavery men and centenarian figures across nations
Rich in years lists 80 year old anti slavery veteran Land Bill Allen and Cassius M. Clay as the north and south’s oldest, Hiram Lester reputedly 120 in Georgia, Col Sloan recalling Revolutionary memory, Markus Jordan in Germany reaching 110, and Washington public servant Lawrenson an octogenarian who rides eighty miles daily while supervising post office bids.
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Land Bill Allen
Cassius M. Clay
Hiram Lester
McDonough
Col. Sloan
Lester
George Washington
Germany
Markus Jordan
Bielefeld
William
Jordan
Washington
Lawrenson
Post Office Department
Jackson
Baltimore
Postal Service
Novelty jewel designs with pearls and opals
The Jewelers' Review describes bracelets formed as square blocks of gold held by upright rows of three pearls. It also notes a broom motif bar pin made of gold wires and scarf pins featuring a colored pearl circle with a fiery opal pendant.
Two Voices and A Robber in Arkansaw Traveler
A poem opens with Priscilla and guests at a party ending with a tale of love and fate. A subsequent vignette shows a robber entering a room and announcing his role as receiver for a company, prompting a calm reaction from the man at the desk who chooses to leave him in charge.
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Arkansaw Traveler
A Modern Invention in Mrs Rawler-Why’s Parlor
A humorous dialogue describes a parlor scene where fashionable plush chairs contrast with a large wooden chair joked as a mouse chair. Mrs Stay at home explains the chair is intended to trap a mouse, causing Arthur to complain about chair damage during the antics.
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Mrs. Rawler
Arthur
Lawrence American
England Guest Fires Off Wine Joke At Court Dinner
An English guest at a royal table spilled wine and, when asked by Prince Kaunitz if that was the English custom, replied with a dry quip that in England no fuss is made when such accidents occur.
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Kaunitz
England
Daheim
Tramp and Lady Misinterpret Woodwoodpile Remark
A brief Rochester jury excerpt features a lady and a tramp in dialogue about promises and dinner. The tramp says the promised wood pertains to another lady’s woodpile up the road, highlighting a misinterpretation of words.
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Boston
Rochester Jury
Pick Me Up fragment prompts quirky dialogue with poodle gag
A fragment from Scribner's Magazine parodies wealth and vanity with a witty exchange about shaving perfume and tobacco before a comical rejection involving a poodle. The tone is light and satirical reflecting social mores.
Verbal Vignettes and Droll Dialogues From The Old Press
A collage of comical exchanges and character sketches from late 19th century papers. Snappy jabs about designers artists and judges mix with light satire on manners and daily life. Humorous snippets include a fashioning designer, a bald judge and a monkey tied to an organ for comic effect.
Not Supposably. A Montana Prairie Conversation
A west man tells a smokers' group of Montana adventures. A red haired young man questions western life and Indians. The elder replies that no one could survive far from habitation, noting a jackrabbit would kill a solitary traveler on the prairie. The youth retreats unable to endure more tobacco smoke.
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West
Montana
The
New York
Sun
Humorous Quotations on Clever Deceptions and Puns
A collage of quips and malaprops from various speakers including a doctor a prisoner and a penguin of wit featuring lines about pills escapes bridges ears and gas bills. The piece cites Winnipeg Siftings and Judy How He Fooled Them as source humor illustrating misreadings and wry observations.
Dialogue snippet touches love, greed, and danger in New York sting
Exchange between characters shows a joked betrothal plea contrasting with fatal fears. A banker and lieutenant banter about consent while a lyric line warns of deadly hugging in New York state, revealing dark humor in a domestic scene.
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Laura
Ura
New York State
Oxford departure follows insult and sniping clash
The exchange shows a quarrel where a resident decides to leave Oxford after a landlady insult. An earlier snipe left one party serving the other with a sharp rebuke. The text also notes Yayle Locke's college rank as third in batting and first in fielding, reported by Texas Siftings.
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Oxford
Munsey
Father Locke
Yayle Locke
Texas Siftings
A Hot Chase Harpers Fragment on Jo and Fee
A fragment from Harper's evokes a chase and family tension with a narrator recalling Jo and Fee. The speaker voices aging, freedom, and a plan for the future while noting a strained relation and a candid reflection on family ties.
Diverse Ancient Currencies and Odd Money Forms Across Cultures
The article catalogs historic and unusual currencies from around the world, noting corn and animal skins as money in various societies, silk in China, cattle in Iceland and Ireland, cowrie shells in India and Africa, and peculiar items like nails in Scotland and wampum in North America. It references Montesquieu’s “maconte” as an ideal money sign.
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Norway
India
China
Nishni
New Guinea
South America
Central Africa
Adam Smith
Scotland
Abyssinia
Indian Islands
Africa
Prescott
Greece
Barbarossa
Milan
John the Good
France
British West Indies
America
Montesquieu
San Francisco
International Labor Headlines From The Industrial World
A survey notes 4821 cooperative societies in Germany and 200 unions of home workers in Europe. Paris stone masons earn 1.25 daily. London strike outcomes lift 200 trades. Britain adds 10,000 miners and workers from 1887 to 1888. Austria pays workers 2.40 to 4.80 per week, women 1.60 to 2.70, children 1.10 to 2.15. London Post Office Employers seek eight hour day with twelve cents hourly. Brotherhood of Railroad Conductors donates 18000 for a Cincinnati colleague’s family after a false arrest charge.
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Paris
Boston
London
Europe
England
William Parnell
Montana
Crefeld
Holland
Great Britain
Austria
Manchester
Eng
London Post Office
Brotherhood of
Railroad Conductors
Cincinnati
The noblest art is making others happy
St. Paul Pioneer Press quotes praise for child happiness and wholesome amusement as a public benefit. It argues laughter, wonder, and play guide wisdom, character, and even virtue, stating likening joy to rain for flowers and childhood to heaven’s echo.
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St. Paul
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Munday's Weekly
Lillie
Dillie
National Weekly
Edith
Jack
New York Weekly
el Jen Halford
Priscilla
Saint
Knave
Laugter
Shearer
Irs
Prince and
Commoner
Scribner's Magazine
Miss Sowah
Mildman Mall
Judy
Singleton
Benedict
Miss Tenderheart
Bingley
Sam Wellerisms
Therisoner
Light Brigade
Dibbs
Dobbs
Muskoka
Winnipeg
Vetter Jakob Kalender
Harper
Industrial World
Barnum
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