Witty Parliaments and Odd Historical Notes
A collage of humorous parliament anecdotes, a dog price dispute, and cultural notes. It recalls Fox and Adams dueling quips, Manchurian village scenes, and reflections on Purusha in Vedic myth. The piece also notes proverb wisdom and French Revolution ignorance in private letters.
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Charles James Fox
House of Commons
Adams
Fox
M. P
Lord Erskine
Windham
Erskine
The
London News
Paris
Censorship Edicts Govern Russian Police Rules
The text outlines police regulations on censoring price lists and personal invitation materials, including visiting cards and stamps. It also mentions controls on publication of seating, rubber stamps, and business cards for individuals or firms, plus orders governing sale of soap starch toothbrushes and insect powder and printing on cigarette paper.
Her Very Clear Thoughts
A Scotland anecdote features an aging aunt advising a young woman on marriage with blunt humor. The elder recalls three life thoughts about matrimony and a mishap with a cart that shapes her final question about whom to marry.
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Scotland
Lassie
Saunders
Behind the Scenes of Famous Illusions Revealed
The New York World reviews tricks from box and vanity fair illusions to levitation, describing method details like a wooden plug in a chest, a double mirror secret, hidden compartments, and mirrored tables. It explains how magicians fake appearances of disappearance and floating.
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New York World
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Arizona National Bank
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B. M. Jacobs
Fred Fleishman
L. M. Jacobs
J. M. Ormsby
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M. P. Freeman
H. B. Tenney
E. W. Graves
Steel Safe Deposit
Banco de Cananea
Cananea
W. C. Greene
J. Macmanus
F. E. Beecher
W. C. Winegar
W. H. Lyons
Rana
Maria
James
India
Purusha
Morvis Jastrow, Jr
Harper’s Magazine
Earl Russell
Henry D. Thoreau
Evening Associated Press
Telegraphic Report Daily
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