The English Volunteers Inspections and Supports Details
The English Volunteers are inspected annually by a regular army officer with two thirds present. Funds support volunteers, with annual allowances for officers and sergeants, extra travel allowances, and annual postage for each unit. Artillery units fund their batteries, while government provides sidearms and stocks. rifles, belts, and pouches are issued to volunteers. The musket is exchanged for the Martini-Henry.
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Scorps
Artillery
Artillery Corps
Faery Corps
The Smoke of Cigarettes and a Lincoln-Stanton Tale
Two items fill this brief. First, a London Medical Journal note on cigarette inhalation warns that smoke inhalation, not mere smoking, may harm the heart and nerves. Second, a Washington anecdote shows a mock history of Abraham Lincoln urging Stanton to appoint him chaplain, with back‑and‑forth letters and delays.
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London Medical Lanes
Lincoln-Stanton
Washington
Army
War Department
M. Stanton
Stanton
AL Lincoln
Bsy
Lincoln
A. Stanton
A. Lincoln
Brussels carpet origin and weaving method
Brussels carpet was first made at Wilton from Tournai, Belgium, about 125 years ago and has long held public esteem. It was woven on Jacquard looms, using one to six woolen thicknesses on a strong back, with two to five thicknesses most common to indicate color variety in the pattern.
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Brussels
Wilton
Tournai
Belgium
Sleep as Eight Hours Say Experts and Quoting Hazlitt
The latest authority, Dr Malins, endorses eight hours as the proper sleep for a man, noting modern life makes proverb wisdom unreliable. Proverbial lines about sleep vary by occupation and era, Kant reportedly slept seven to nine hours, sailors and laborers vary, and a master once claimed two hours but later revealed a postprandial siesta changed the tally.
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Malins
Fom
Duke of
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Sujtleluu of Languages
Varnish Origins in Cremonese Instruments and Paintings
The author questions amber’s role in Cremonese varnish and notes varnish used by fiddlemakers and painters likely sourced from open markets. Demand persisted while art and instrument making thrived, but declined after the eighteenth century as cheaper varnishes replaced the craft.
Berlin Monday Art Academy model exchange scene
In Berlin the model exchange at the Art Academy vestibule gathers a motley crowd of painters choosing models. Prices vary with supply and demand, averaging nineteen cents an hour. Strong, fatigueful life models command higher pay, and a notable figure, the handsome August, aids in finding suitable models among studies of younger art students.
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Berlin
Art Academy
August
Ona Mus
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Sleep Remedies and Nervous Troubles in American Life
The article discusses insomnia as a peculiarly American issue and suggests self help for sleeplessness. It covers remedies for nervous excitement including mustard plasters, lactate of soda solutions, hot claret and nutmeg, and advice against self dosing with opium or morphia without physician guidance. It notes air conditions and neuralgia as sleep disruptors.
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Volun
Lincoln and Stanton
Violen Varnisiles
Artists Biodels
Ieee Ee Ensom Aea
Jonathan J. Coburn
S. Lhood & CO
Lowell
Mass
J. MM. Aeters
Warren, Pa
Hendricks & McLaughlin
City
Pittsburgh
A. C. McAlpine
Warren
Verketresser& McAlpine
Merck
Carver House
S.2 Neill
New ‘Exchange
Leonhart Bros
W. G. Trunkey
Fice
Osmer
Dale & Freeman
Scofield
Liberty Street
J. O. Dewer
W. W. Daiz
H A. Ferran
P. V. Murray
Ofice
Morek & Co
DE. J. M. Davies
Baptist Church
Brown & Stone
First National Bank
R. Brown
C. W. Stown
Second Street
H. EB. Brown
Wetmore, Noyes & Hinckley
Johnson’s Exchange
J. D. Wexemore
C.H. Noyes
W.d. Christian Smith
Hirst National Bank
Str
Hinceley
Dinslogr & Cable
T Law
Wester Street
Jas
CABLE
J.D. Danforth
Variety Hall
Ball & Thompson
Beatty Block
Ball
O. Thompson
Reverdy B. Stewart
Library Hall
Richard B.stewart
A. J. Davis
Second
Liberty Streets
Heen N. Ford Post
Armory of Co. I
G. W. Kinxzar
W. H. Taylor
WH. A. We Rhaves
Halis
Episcopal Church
Wilbur & Schnur
Atreet
Postoffice
W. W. Wilbur
WH. Schmeh
Glade Township
C. Lessler
Glade
H. A. Jamieson & CO
Lake Shore
National
Syracuse
Disston’s Simond’s
American
Dupont Powderco
GEO. P.orr & CO
Warren County
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GEO, P. Orr & CO
Wells & Noyes
Cc Smite & Son
P. J. Bayer
A. B. McKain & Son
Groger
Liberty and
Warren Sts
Buik
Europe
America
Tse
Nicholsan
Urrer
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