Oddities and Observations From a Curious Chronicle
The article surveys varied snippets from science and folklore, noting a man who can identify horse color by touch, birds intoxicated by berries, a French remedy for hiccups using slight ear lobe refrigeration, a Carthaginian threshing sledge, and the origin of wildcat wells. It recalls Ashburne on oil prospects and gas limits, eel reverence in ancient cultures, and a Tarraccina vow of twenty thousand eels to St Benedict during a Turkish siege.
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Paents
Baku
Puntif
Jacobs
Steubenville
Ohio
Tam Florida
Italy
Charles A. Ashburne
Pennsylvants
Misson
Tarracina
St. Benedict
Academy of Sciences
Paris
Geneva
Society of Arts
Marietta
Wis
William Penn
Salt Lake
Ker
London
New York Observer
Mutiny and a Loyal Officer in India 1857
In a dramatic memoir, a British officer recalls the Indian Mutiny of 1857. He describes the Allahabad massacre and his narrow escape with Pooniah and Baden Singh. The tale covers grease on cartridges sparking revolt, loyal servants, and the perilous retreat to Lucknow before relief arrives with Campbell's forces.
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India
Ratt
Veeran
Delhi
Allahabad
Ganges
Funele
Baden Singh
Allah
Pooniah
Boden Singh
Poden Singh
Sahib
Hindoo
Mussulman
Wisily
John Lawrence
Agra
England
Ventui
Balen Singh
Abe
Eatre
Sir John Lawrence
Jubbulpore
Poonih
Ispahib
Podniah
Salsam
Naghabad
Lucknow
Colin Campbell
Canfore
New York Star
Simian Sentinel On Patrol With Abu Tama’s Guerrillas
A guerrilla band in Soudan led by Abu Tama is joined by a pet baboon that accompanies them on expeditions. The animal performs picket duty when fighters tire and often reacts to rifle fire by dropping prone, seemingly understanding the threat posed by firearms.
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Abu Tama
Fragments on life and virtue from Century aphorisms
A collage of maxims on envy proof versus belief and human frailty. The speaker counsels restraint in judgment and notes pedantry, the odds of error, and the constants of need, bread, and sugar while musing on providence and mule kicks.
Publicizing Cruelties Against Animals and Children Nationwide
The American Humane association draws attention to widespread cruelty from freezing and starvation of animals on the Western plains to brutal punishments of horses, dogs, pigeons, and livestock in transit and sport. It also condemns child labor confinement, abuse of wives and orphans, and neglect of infants and waifs in streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Humane Association
Finest residence in Chicago opens as castle by lake
The Chicago Herald describes Potter Palmer's Lakeside mansion near Lincoln Park as the finest private dwelling in Chicago. Architect calls it a gothic revival castle with a grand hall, carved oak, mosaics, armor, Gobelin tapestries, and rooms styled Indian Spanish Moorish Dutch Japanese and more. Palmer says profits from real estate funded the mansion.
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Italy
Powers
Medea
Chicago
Lake Michigan
Lincoln Park
Potter Palmer
A Novel Trade Custom Observed in Vera Cruz
A Pittsburg Dispatch reporter relays a traveler’s tale from Vera Cruz Mexico about a new cigar trade custom. The traveler notes a tobacco shop sold single cigars for five cents and boxes at five and a half cents per cigar, while middlemen are accused of overcharging.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Pittsburg Dispatch
Remarkable Salt Deposits in Nevada and Utah Regions
The Dayton Nevada Reporter describes vast rock salt deposits in Lincoln County near the Rio Virgin and near St. Thomas, with blocks transparent enough to read through. It notes Humboldt salt field further north, shallow surface salt at Sand Springs, and prospects for rail access boosting cheap domestic salt.
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Lincoln County
Rio Virgin
St. Thomas
Hiko Company
Sand Springs
Churchill County
Dun Glen Range
Humboldt
United States
Dayton
Nev
London soot ashes used for fuel and fertilizer
The London system recovers soft coal ashes and soot from chimneys, sifting to remove unburned coal and junk. Cinders are sold as fuel and other waste is recycled in a profitable city process. Soot bags are sold to farmers and gardeners as fertilizer across the United Kingdom.
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London
United Kingdom
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