Gleanings Brightens Oddities and a Gold Rush Tale
A New Yorker patents a spring to shut off gas when flames go out. Tales of New Orleans bookkeepers, porcelain and pottery makers, and a hunt for silver and gold sweep through odd scraps. The piece mentions tunneling ideas under the Straits of Messina, old Bristol willows, and a brisk mining fever with caricatured scenes and local gossip.
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Americans as the noisiest people in the world lecture notes
A large audience heard Oscar Wilde in Crystal Palace recount impressions of America. He mocked Americans as the noisiest people and joked about rain watching as their national occupation. He described Leadville’s revolver culture, Swisslike Pennsylvania, and a far west art deficit, then quipped on Benvenuto Cellini and a Venus of Milo plaster cast heist case. The Bittersweet tour ends with notes on American newspapers growth and a California governor funding a Downey schoolhouse inscription.
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