London’s Charm Beyond the Ringed City
Oxford professor Walter Rippman recounts a Witla Protogoth excerpt praising London’s health, religion, defense, manners, festivals, and culture. The piece weaves in Henry Labouchere’s 19th century duel tale and a humorous account of two poor marksmen choosing to shoot again, ending with mutual ineptitude. The Youth’s Companion source frames a broader nostalgia for a noble London.
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Walter Rippman
Oxford
Finland
London
Witla
Itetir
Henry Laboerhere
Stockholm
Oiecer
Prosslan
Labouchere
LIFE A CONTINUOUS CHANGE IN HUMAN FATE
The piece laments life as a continuous flux, noting how human conditions shift from health to sickness, contentment to discontent, hope to fear, and certainty to doubt. It compares man’s constant transformations to Proteus and a chameleon, stressing the overpowering variability of existence.
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Proteus
It Is Hereby Certified That The Irish Nation Owes Five
A German waiter at a New York hotel raced to serve four Irishmen who kept adding requests. After dinner the host paid a bill marked six, prompting a joke about shamrocks versus shillalah. The cashier asked how to redeem the five dollar note and read a long oath from 1861.
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New York
Iriah Republic
Long Unconquerable Berbers of Kabylia Hold Timeless Land
The ancient Berbera in Kabylia remain unbroken by centuries of empire, living in mountain villages perched high above forests of olive and fig. Their four staple foods figs olives bread and meat sustain life amid perennial terraces and dense tree cover.
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Kabylia
Flight From Paris Reveals Empress Eugenie’s Quick Wits
Mme den Hegermann Lingencrone recalls a Franco Prussian War era incident in France. As she prepared to enter a discreet cab a boy shouted a blundered cry and the Italian ambassador nearby masked the moment with a sharp remark. The scene underscores the empress’s delicate diplomacy in danger.
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Paris
Mme
den Hegermann-Lingencrone
France
Eugenie
Italan
Prussia
A Day Will Come Quote by Victor Hugo
A Day Will Come expresses a forecast where markets replace gunfire and voting replaces force. It envisions universal suffrage, arbitration by a sovereign senate, and Europe uniting with America in peaceful fellowship across the sea as a future era.
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Europe
England
Diet
Germany
Legislative Assembly
France
United States of America
United States of Europe
Victor Hugo
Authors Long-Lived in History (Note: title adjusted to fit rules)
Mr. Thomas Hardy reaches seventy five as a long lived author. Since 1900 many peers and luminaries have surpassed ninety, including Sir Theodore Martin and Samuel Smiles. Others over eighty include Sir Edwin Arnold and Edward Everett Hale.
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Thomas Hardy
Sir Theodore Martin
Samuel Smiles
Sir Edwin Arnold
Edward Everett Hale
Professor Masson
Justin McCarthy
George Meredith
Herbert Spencer
Goldwin Smith
Mark Rutherford
Leo Tolstoy
Alfred Austen
Mark Twain
Sir Lewis Morris
Joaquin Miller
Oulda
Bridegroom’s Puzzling Comment Sparks Hanging Joke
In a rural exchange a groom asks for a day off to attend a wedding and clarifies he is the bridegroom. The joke shifts to a critic praising a hanging painting, noting it as a splendid subject for capital punishment.
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G. P
Norfolk, Va
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Raleigh, N. C
F. Simmons Medicine CO
ST. Louis
Missouri
Bluff
Mery
Henry Labouchers
Job
Cornell
Bugis
Columbus Bug
Jer Bolick
Welling
Fowler & Lee, Sale and Exchange Stable
Monroe
Raymond C. Griffin & Brother
Baker’s
Bank of Union Building
Monroe Insurance & Investment Company
G. B. Caldwell
McCall
Fashion Publications
LEE & Lee CO
Monroe, N. C
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