Humorous Anecdotes Span Churches and Courts
A collection of brief, humorous vignettes from church, court, and social life. Tales include a lawyer in New York humming a hymn about becoming an angel, a Baptist pastor wit with a stranger preacher, a night watchman and a drunk sheltering in the rain, a minister debating abstinence with a lady, the heavenly talk of St Peter with a baseball umpire, a quiz about Trans Atlantic and transparency, and flirtatious exchanges at social gatherings.
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John Hall
William M. Evarte
E. Delafield Smith
Corporation Counsel of
New York
Smith
Mr. Smith
Evaris
Little Men a Cold Night Prayer and Relic
A fragment of verse describes an old Bible kept by a person named Andy, its worn leaves and rusted clasps marking time. The relic is cherished, carrying sadness yet offering guidance through memory and sacred language as years pass and truth returns.
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Andy
Home Made Book Case Assembly Guide
Step by step directions describe building a three shelf book case with pine boards five by one yard, five battens for uprights, precise notches and evenly spaced shelves. It covers notching, drilling, screwing, back support, and finishing with varnish walnut or black finish recipes using vegetable black and gold size.
Spool Looping the Loop device explained
A cardboard loop demonstration shows centrifugal force keeping a spool on track as it circles the loop top. Supports of different heights hold the loop, with edges bent up to prevent spooling off. A small wagon can replace the spool to carry loose objects without falling during the loop.
Sheridan's West Point Shoes and the Monroe Footwear Tale
The narrative recounts Philip Sheridan's early life in Ohio, his clerking jobs, and his dream to study at West Point. It details the puzzle of Monroe shoes required for his outfit, which locals misnamed and later identified as a familiar footgear, linking the quest to a broader tale of ambition and preparation amid rigid 1840s exams.
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Sheridan
West Point
Philip Sheridan
Albany
Ohio
Monroe
Baltimore
Electric Transit Success and Acquired Traits Explored
A Popular Science lecture notes electric railways as a major future transport, with high speed, dense service, and large dividends while detailing the acquired characteristics debate in animal inheritance and a Schenectady electric fire engine proposal. It also describes a plant powered water level gauge using evaporative motion for sensing.
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Sys George H. Gideon
United States
Increase of Mechanical Power Through Time and Labor
A compact survey traces shifts in industrial power from 1830 to 1900, noting vast rises in steam engine horsepower, motive power, population, wealth, and urban dominance. It highlights wages growth, locomotive power gains, and average pay, while detailing a Springfield fire engine trolley design and a study of Amoor Valley inhabitants as a cross-cultural ethnographic contrast.
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United States
Pest Value of Plants and Quick Evaporation Test
Washington science labs devise aPlant testing device to rapidly gauge evaporative rate and suitability for arid conditions. horticulturist L G C Corbett of the department creates a simple apparatus with two concentric cylinders and a water jacket to maintain uniform temperature for quick plant assessment.
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Washington
Crittenden Marriott
Popular Science News
L. G C. Corbett
Harticulturist
New Steering Method for Twin Screw Steamers
English engineer proposes a steering system using a throttle valve for each engine set linked to a tiller by bell cranks and sink work. Moving the tiller alters one valve to reduce steam and slow its screw proportionally to the tiller angle.
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New London
Connecticut
Wrightman
Dr. Wrightman
Heaven
St. Peter
Rui
Father
Son
the Bon Ton
Hardappe
Mrs. H
Mamie
Deepvus
Curley
Burleigh
Towne
Browne
Browne—Weill Towne
Weill
John T. Vandegrift
Wilmington
Del
Rockies
Juan
Moemory
South Africa
Derry
Popular Science
Welsman
General Electric Company
Electricity
Schenectady
Springfield
Mees
Amoor Valley
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