How the Tiger Kills His Human Prey A Snake Seventy Two Feet
A Washington Post report describes Singapore as a growing British possession and details jungle life and wildlife. Tigers, snakes, and other exotic fauna are discussed with anecdotes of hunts, dangers, and local practices, including a legendary twelve fathom python and Malay betel nut etiquette.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Singapore
Adolph Studer
Washington Post
Calcutta
Asia
Europe
Siberia
India
China
Yersia
Carroll
Ile
The Shung Goot Moon Kite Festival in China
The article describes the ninth moon ninth month festival known as Bart Gaot Sipem or Shung Fee. Families host extended celebrations with elaborate moon kites, lanterns, and music, inviting guests to fly numerous costly kites from rooftops well after dark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Bart Gaot Sipem
Boston Herald
The Blacksmith Signals to His Helper Tool Language
A description of how a blacksmith communicates with a striker using a sequence of hammer taps. He signals strike strength, location, and motion by varying blows on the anvil and hand hammer, with midwork sledge marks and rebounds guiding the helper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the /adware Reporter
Pedal Painter of Antwerp Captures Fame in Museum
Belgian artist M. Ch. Fellu paints with his feet, handling palette brush and mahlstick. Seated at a low table in the museum, his left foot steadies the palette while the right foot grips the brush with surprising precision. He lifts a rag from his breast pocket using only his toes, a remarkable feat noted by observers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Antwerp
M. Ch. Fellu
Sven
M. Fellu
Ife
Remedies and cautions from a 19th century health column
The piece cites iodine for styes, seed rod of plantain boiled in milk for cholera, a mix of oil of wintergreen and olive oil for rheumatic pain, and hourly water for feverish babies. It also offers ivy and dogwood poisoning treatment with wood-ash lye and warm rinse, then urges gentle hydration and milk avoidance in fever, noting mothers often err in fluids for infants.
Wise Words of Caution and Encouragement
A collection of maxims on diligence, self reliance, honesty, and social virtue. It urges steady effort over haste, silent integrity, and observing innocent customs. It notes the perils of deceit, the value of fresh air, and the need to act with full effort today.
Japanese Table Etiquette and Tea Ceremony Details
The piece describes traditional Japanese dining layout with three low lacquered tables holding seven, five, and three bowls containing rice, soups, fish, fowl, and vegetables. It notes strict sequence for eating rice, handling bowls with chopsticks, and drinking soup, with emphasis on avoiding etiquette breaches and the ceremonial tea party as an elevated art.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. James Gazelle
Skeletons Shape Medical Students Wardrobe and Trade
A New York reporter notes skeletons are essential in medical training but scarce for students. Janitors acquire and clean them, earning profits from $30 to $50 per specimen, while Paris imports supply higher priced bones up to $100. French bone whitening yields notably lifelike infant skeletons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Medical College
Paris
Insanity rise linked to uric acid in blood, warns preacher
A speaker cites a 40 percent decade rise in insanity and attributes most brain troubles to uric acid in blood from kidney failure. He recounts a Vermont minister’s recovery after using Warner’s Safe Cure and urges prevention through health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Mr. T. B. S Wii
E. D. Hopkins
St. Johnsbury
Warner
The Stuttering Cure Fraud Exposed by a Local Reader
A reader recounts a traveling professor who promised a ten minute stuttering cure for fifty dollars then a higher fee for secret methods. The tale notes dubious testimonials and warns readers about the fraud while offering a home remedy and medical pitch for Hostetter’s stomach bitters.
Plague of Rats at Ahmednugger and Other Global Curiosities
A summary of Ahmednugger in Bombay as a plague plagued by rats linked to famine. notes on elephant heights in Africa and Ceylon. description of Moscow’s newly finished St Peter’s cathedral cupolas with gold plating and temple costs totaling twelve million five hundred thousand dollars and seating ten thousand worshippers.
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London Times
Mijor Denham
Ceylon
Sir Emerson
Tennent
Talest
India
St. Peter's Cathedral
Moscow
Austria
Sweden
France
Prussia
England
Russia
Norway
Finland
Egypt
Caio Ore
Kind
Franke
Vienna
China
Japan
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Italy
Belgium
America
Asia
Africa
Public health cures and world health notes sparking debate
A Times-Star feature highlights a cheap plant based cure for throat and lung ailments and warns against morphine use in children. It cites authority from Maryland officials and a Delaware chemist. The piece also surveys global blindness rates, asylum counts, and buffalo ranching economics, then notes Dr. Pierce remedies and a long Indian rail milestone.
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Cincinnati
Times-Star
Maryland
Delaware
Philadelphia
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Harry
Cunning
God
Tany Jihappy
Hostetter
Dr. Pierce
World's Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo, N.Y
Long Islind
Mant Maller
Buffalo, N. Y
Bidia
Kerter & Co
New England
Washington St
Mensman
ToNto
Caswell, Hazard & Co
Proprietors
Druggista
eBreson
Nail, Wan, Dreydoppel
Ger Lyon
New Hampshire
New York City
Hacgag
Gran Union Hotel
Grand Central Depot
Grand Union Hotel
Fonnares Tor
Hood
Albert Mates
East Pine Street
Lowell
Mass
Siz
U. 1
Hood & CO
Apothecaries
Nottingham Hospital
Maven
Roosevelt
Swift
Iean
L. Fee
Tue Swift Spectfic Co
Atlantay
Muskrat
Rachen
Mit
KC Boughton
Hand St
Maz
Ke, Renkin Co
P.U
N. Y
Redstar
Bes
Baltimore
Erman Remedy
BRO
Charles A. Yourler
Ilages of
Hoptonic CO
Grand Rapids
Mica
Bel
Sam
Guo
Kenan
Allston
Radway's
Eure
Padway
Radway
Dr. Radav
W. St . Joanes Tristereot
New Yorks
Niagara Supply CO
Buffalo
N.Y
Governaest Bop
Lars Derosir Co
Seattle
Wash
Elsworth & Yantis
Psint Attorneys
Big F Street
Wallington
Bpu
Standard Silverware Co
Maas
Blair
Woodbury Company
Midham
Atty, Washington, D
Fie Qatren
Amenea
Fry
Royal Remedy CO
Washington Street
Gulauits
Prine
Hache
Lepage
Boye
Lowlan
Teil Russia Caxuyt Cy
Gloucester
Nang
Ennyroyal
Chichester
Halle
Chichester Chemlen Co
Mediavn Dy
Philuda
Oederick's Hay
Dederick & CO
Albany
N- Ye
Kind Jones
Joe Levers
Heam Ant Jones
Fenelon
Evans Chemical Ce
Ohio
W& J
Gover Bhiiust
Murphy Gee
O Bom
AOL
Braiford
Vrogyisu
St. Paul
F. Wilson
Pam Rge
Wilson Ios
Easton
Woodbury
J.C. ‘Hoffmar
Roeg Wissonala
Thurstons Sen
le Bine Has
Washington, D. C
R. U
Lorillard
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