A Strange Misfortune Befalls Honest Footman John Bennet
A footman John Bennet is falsely accused of stealing four ten pound notes from his employer Mr Surtees. Despite his honesty and pleas, he is expelled and faces ruin. Years later the notes are found among Surtees's papers, proving John innocent, but he lies dying before the truth can save him. Jenny, his love, remains a hopeful beacon through his fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joan Bennet
John
Mr. Surtees
William
Thomas
Pater
Jain
John Bennet
Billycock
Mr. Cramp
Police
Mr. Bennet
Bennet
Dudgeon
Jenny
Cramp
Mr. Gramp
Purpose as the guide to true living in I Kings reflections
The sermon argues purpose shapes character and success, distinguishing purposeful living from drift. It contrasts unearned privilege with active use of talents, warns against a life guided by circumstance, and urges readers to form a clear personal aim aligned with divine calling. It uses biblical and historical examples, including Washington and Arnold, to stress that true worth comes from purposeful action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benedict Arnold
George Washington
Mount Washington
Daires
Apostle
Phillips Brooks
Sphinx Lore Knots of Odd and Ingenious Kind
A compact note on peculiar interlaced knots presented as a leisure hour feature. The piece hints at unusual designs and clever methods, inviting readers to explore intricate patterns and smart solutions within the series context.
Kissing a Capital Crime in Puritan Days and a Nocturnal Mouse tale
A humorous column contrasts Puritan blue laws with modern views on kissing deemed a capital crime. It recalls a playful fable of a barn mouse whose nocturnal diet shifts from corn to insects, changing its vision and senses as it adapts to night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Priscilla
Justin
Literary party mingles authors from America and Europe
A noted literary party gathers ix Americans and six Europeans. The guests include figures like Poor Richard, Christopher North, Grace Greenwood, Uncle Remus, Gail Hamilton, and Oliver Optic, with hints of their famous works obfuscated in a drop-vowel puzzle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard
PR Rchrd
EMNC
Christopher North
Grace Greenwood
Carmen Sylvia
Spph
Remus
Twickenham
Gail Hamilton
CNTR
Currer Bell
Oliver Optic
George Eliot
A Queer Menagerie and Other Oddities
A list of definitions and terms ranges from ark material to a small rope, a dye from Bixa orellana, and items like a high silk hat, plus a poem about E H Fairn the Bengal tiger. The excerpt includes a fragmentary verse describing the tiger and a stern elephant duel with a caution about ivory brittleness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisconsin
E. H. Fairn
Answers From Fragmented Clues And Names
A compact list of paired items and names including Richard Carvel and Dorothy Marriners, Winston Churchill, Isaac and Rebekah, Moses, Paul and Virginia, B. St. Pierre, Gabriel Lejeunesse, Evangeline, Belle Fontaine, H. W. Longfellow, Romeo and Juliet, William Shakspeare, Hugh Wynne, Dorthea Peniston, S. W. Mitchell, Orpheus and Eurydice, and scattered numbered entries with surnames like Gage Warren Lee Gates Miles Sampson Grant Hooker Otis Wheeler Porter plus terms Celestial slide and Bug-bear and horse shoe shore hero s and LAX.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scream
Cream
Ream
Richard Carvel
Dorothy Marriners
Winston Churchill
Isaac
Rebekah
Moses
Paul and
Virginia—B. St. Pierre
Gabriel Lejeunesse
Evangeline
Bellefontaine
H. W. Longfellow
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakspeare
Hugh Wynne
Dorthea Peniston
S. W. Mitchell
Orpheus
Eurydice
Celestial
Gage
Warren
Lee
Gates
Jasper
Miles
Sampson
Grant
Hooker
Otis
Wheeler
Porter
Bug-bear
Horse
Shoer
Shore
Hero's
LAX
Out Of the Ordinary Facts From A Late 19th Century Page
A mixed collection of curious notes covers weights and measures for water per acre inch, urban death rates, mining taxes, medical observations, and material science. It mentions iridium pen tips, Moscow lending rates, extreme Persian heat, and vanadium’s electrical value, alongside antiquarian finds in Greenwich Park and border-restricted regions in Asia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Moscow
Persian
Gulf of Persia
Greenwich Park
London
Mainatchin
Russia
Balkan
Mongolia
Cromcell
West Indies
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Lady Violet Greville
George H. Hubbard
First Congregational Church
Enfield
Mass
Sation
E. R. Chadbourn
Lewiston
Maine
Woodford
Nature
Bengal
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