Prolific 19th Century Bits and Backroom Banter
A collage of short items cites odd sayings and anecdotes. It notes professors and politicians, a Greenland NH minister born 1790, Goodyear’s California ride, Fort Wayne’s library core from Kilkenny marble, Blaine on rheumatism, a Meriden marriage gone wrong, a dying man’s joke, smuggling baby carriages from Canada, a windborn garden seed at a New York cathedral, Miles facing burglars, gold flow puzzles, a chained handcuffed train captive, Henry Lane’s 1856 Republican chair, and California prospectors trapped in bleak poverty chasing riches.
Local and world notes flash across a bustling mid century page
A broad roundup covers Georgia local option talk and a comet tail 4 000 000 miles long plus comforts of fly time. It notes Italy contracting 21 000 hogsheads of tobacco from Kentucky and Salt Lake City’s alleged hoodlum problem. A New York judge rejects the revised New Testament for court witnesses while ex Senator Blanche K Bruce will campaign for Ohio governor Foster. Ice cream makers in New York allegedly use glue to cut costs by half, and German authorities curb emigration. A German Reichstag session may address the objective. General Jim Steedman blasts Gen Schofield as a liar and slanderer. A Auburn Web man dies by his own hand amid indecent letters accusations. A Pittsburgh boy starves before death and asks about dinner in heaven. Old Bob Toombs defends a sacred rebel stance. Michigan bills seek to ban rape and murder accounts in newspapers. A Southern woman seeks her lover via census rolls while General Walker’s name eludes enumeration. Parkhurst notes a comet 40 000 000 miles away from Earth and 60 000 000 from the sun, receding 300 000 miles daily. An Englishman in Paris dies in a Punch costume after a ball encounter.
Welsh New Testament Revision Opened by Welsh Bishops
A committee of clergymen appointed by the four Welsh Bishops will report on producing a revised New Testament in Welsh. The project will follow English revision principles, suggesting potential involvement of non-conformist scholars alongside Church of England divines.
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Church of England
Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello grave neglected and accessible
A Warren Sentinel correspondent notes the Jefferson grave at Monticello lies left of the road, fifty yards from the Monticello to Charlottesville route, with a dilapidated iron enclosure allowing easy access. The aging site highlights broader concerns about public virtue and urban vice in London and the era’s religious observance.
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Warren
Thomas Jefferson
Monticello
Charlottesville
Bible Beloved Woman Defends Old Text Against Change
An elderly speaker, in verse, defends keeping the traditional Bible reading and laments modern edits. She recalls years of reading and praying with the Bible near, resisting the shift to new translations and phrases. She clings to the familiar text as essential to her life and family.
Thanksgiving Pie and a Mystery Thimble Incident
Mrs. Deacon Farrell bakes for the minister, while Sally hides a dictionary feat and adds three chicken legs to the pie. Miss Patience spots the joke, learns of the thimble in the crust, and the tale ends with gossip and a ministerial ruse.
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Sally
Sallie
Cademy
Dan Watson
Ess
Patience Pringley
Miss Graham
There Is Not So Much Difference Says an Exchange
A quip notes a widow and a grasshopper resemble each other in readiness to jump at the first opportunity, implying similar opportunistic behavior. The remark contrasts frailty with volatility, using playful personification to draw a common human trait.
An Almost Useless Palace
The London Truth laments Buckingham Palace being empty most of the year except eight days of royal occupancy and four hospitality evenings. It describes its grounds and Long Gallery masterpieces as rarely seen, suggesting the palace should be open to visiting sovereigns without extra cost beyond bringing up Windsor staff.
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London
Buckingham Palace
Long Gallery
Windsor
Skylark Releasing in New Jersey Sparks Hopeful Song Trial
The New York Sun reports May release of seventy four English skylarks at Ridgewood New Jersey with fifty forming a flock and others scattered. A note from Hales confirms the birds sing in a pure Old World style and some young skylarks are now growing up. The piece also notes Parliament debates on wife selling and harsher punishments for drunkenness related crimes, urging against treating drunkenness as an excuse in law.
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New York Sun
Ridgewood
N. J
Hales
Ysky
Severa
Rep
America
Notable Origins of Famous English Figures
The text lists renowned writers and poets and notes their humble family backgrounds from laboring fathers and shopkeepers to farmers. It cites John Adams Benjamin Franklin Pope Bloomfield Gifford Ben Johnson Shakespeare Burns Allan Cunningham HogG Ebenezer Eliot Falconer Moore Defoe Cobbett Bunyan and others. It ends with a Hartford Courant anecdote about a minister's baby and a child asking about inherited sin.
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John Adams
Benjamin Franklin
Pope
Bloomfield
Garret
Gifford
Caer Review
Ben Johnson
Shakespeare
Burns
Allan Cunningham
Hogg
Ebenezer Elliot
Falconer
Homas Moore
Daniel Defoe
Pilgrim’s Press
Hartford Courant
Nitrate Deposit Found Near Lovelock Two States Eye Rich Find
A large nitrate of soda deposit is reported about eight miles from Lovelock Nevada. State Mineralogist Hanks says samples are very rich and calls the discovery among the most important on the Pacific slope. He predicts similar deposits elsewhere in Nevada and California.
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Lovelock
New
Hanks
Pacific
Nevada
California
Comet sighting near Dearborn Observatory detailed
Chicago Tribune reports a newly observed comet measured yesterday from Dearborn Observatory. Observations describe a tail about eight and a half degrees long with signs of streamers, a nucleus diameter around 1000 miles, and a tail length near 4.5 million miles. The article discusses orbital predictions, comparisons to the 1812 comet, and notes ongoing observations by Dearborn and others as the object moves northward and becomes brighter or dimmer with distance.
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Dearborn Observatory
Pons
Y Encke
Saturn
Solar
Encke
Perielion
Tribune
United States
Chicago Tribune
Landslides Sharply Delay Baltimore & Ohio Romance Wedding
A McKeesport man Gardner and Miss Nellie Downs of West Newton planned to wed Thursday. After a landslide blocked the line and cut telegraph wires, nine men and two women guided by train hands traversed ten miles by torch to reach the bride at night and marry at eleven. Nellie, night operator at McKeesport, kept a revolver at hand for defense during the long hours.
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Baltimore & Ohio
McKeesport
Gardner
West Newton
Nellie Downs
Uniontown
Scotthavens
Armstrong
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati Enquirer
Fatal Plank Road Collision Near Allegheny City
A fatal accident on Perrysville plank road near Allegheny City occurred during a late evening foot race between Albert Beck and a youth named Becker. John Born was struck and died within minutes. Beck, unhurt except for a head bruise, claims no memory of the collision. Beobably, Born, about fifty, was a well-known local dealer, and the event is being treated as accidental.
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Perrysville Plank Road
Allegheny City
Albert Beck
Becker
Eppert
Beck
John Born
Mr. RY
Born
Accia
Pittsburgh
Turin
Greece
United States
Europe
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Ha Et’ Wert
S - HW. Foster
Zich
South Washington
Advancce
Uet
W. H. Christopher
M. D
A. N. Krout
McKim's Corner
Union Block
van Wert
Ohio
South Street
Dr. Krout
Georgiana C. Glens
Van
J.E. Woods
Washington Street
Bridge
WM. Smith, SR
WM. M. Smith, JR
Smith & Sox
Hill & Wilson's Drug Store
Main
Jackson Street
Attorneys AT Law
J. M. Saltzgaberh
N. C. Glenn
Saltzgaber
J.B. Parker
A”Orney
LAW
van Wert, CO
Heal Estate
McKim's Block
H.kemper
Jacobs’ Clothing Store
G. B. Wells
Clark
John Dabnell
W. d. Beere
Jas. Camina Son
Barbers
J.G. Galleher
D. Collins
Galleher & Collins
Jacob Miller & Son
S. Swineford’s Sons
Grocers
A. P. McConahay
Walter A. Wood
East Main Street
McGuffy
M.H. Tuttle
ccCoy & Collett's
Isaac N. Fine
West
L. F. Gackenheimer
Ohio Drug Store
East Main St
L. F. Gachenh Fer
Texas
Scott
Iowa
Germany
The
Buffalo Express
John F. Adams
Greenland
N. H
New Hampshire
New England
Wm. E. Goodyear
Wm. B. Goodyear
East Haven
Atlantic
Fort Wayne
Ireland
Kilkenny
Blaine
Meriden
Connecticut
Somerville
Mass
Fifth Avenue
New York
Miles
Yonkers
Philadelphia
Kentucky
Henry S. Lane
Indiana
Demosthenes
San Francisco Bulletin
Mounains
Bay
States
O. P. Clark & Son
Aultman & Taylor
Mendon
Mercer
St. Cahn, Raammoth Clothier
West Main Street
Aceon Ae
Ena
Georgia
Salt Lake City
Blanche K. Bruce
Register of the Treasury
Foster
Reichstag
Jim Steedman
Schofield
Pap
Thomas
Auburn
Web.5
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Bob Toombs
Michigan
Walker
Parkhurst
Brooklyn
William Porter
Rue la Boetie
Paris
Punch
Margaret E. Sangster
Harper's Bazar
Patience
Graham
Pan
Miss Patience
Mary Jane
Maud S
Detroit Chaff
Cass
C. W. Green
Park and
Sibly Streets
Doolittle, Webster & Co
Detroit
Miss Green
Mr. Stone
Maud
Mr. __ Stone
Lady Maud
Maud Green
Mr. Vanderbilt
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