Arabi Pasha Hosts in Colombo Veranda Visit
In Colombo Arabi Pasha receives a journalist and Mrs Ker, speaking English and sharing garden scenes. The pasha, seen in European dress, discusses rain and health, shows off croton leaves, and introduces his shy Eurasian children. He notes a son nearby and remains silent on Egypt’s recent upheavals.
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Triea
Sherbet
Sugar
Europe
Arabi Pasha
Indian Ocean
Arabi
Egypt
Colombo
East Africa
David Iger
New York
Charity Request Rebuffed by Boston Philanthropist
In Cheapstreet a bedridden woman with a large hungry family seeks aid. Mr B. regrets he is short funds, citing plans to fund a pastor’s silver service and a new ball club, and cannot contribute at the moment.
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Boston Transcript
The Closed Door
A poem from Temple Bar depicts a failed embrace beneath moonlit grass. A speaker rebukes a lover as hurtful nostalgia turns to curse, imagining a door that should open to reveal a forge’s red glare. The mood is somber, unresolved, and charged with unconsummated longing.
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Temple Bar
Buddhist Food Freedom Marks Burmese People
A San Francisco Chronicle note discusses Burmese religious tolerance for meat of all kinds, claiming Buddha's era abolished caste and food restrictions. It states this freedom benefited the Burmese, praising them as a healthy people and contrasting with other Oriental sects. The piece also recalls Lord Beresford’s youth rescuing a farmer, who laments the rescuer’s small stature with wounded dignity.
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Burmei
Budha
Mohammed
San Francisco Chronicle
Admiral Hornby
Lord Charles Beresford
New York Tribune
Self-Sacrificing Boarder in Plain-Living Household
A young man boarding with a frugal family is praised by the landlady as their only support. He retorts that his money supports somebody, highlighting a comical contrast between gratitude and misery. The exchange underscores themes of modest living and humorous dependency.
Property owners urged to be liable for fire damages
Boston economist Bdaward Atkinson proposes a law making property owners financially liable for injuries from building defects and fire escape insufficiencies after Springfield fire deaths. He argues insurance companies would then bear the burden and push for safer structures.
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Bdaward Atkinson
Boston
Springfield
Detroit Free Press
Leather envelope with lockable postal design
A Chicago News item describes a new stationery novelty a leather envelope that can be mailed untampered. It features a gold or silver staple on the back with a linked clasp and a padlock labeled Yalelock, and a front pocket for a card, address, and stamp.
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Chicago News
Haberdasher notes clergy as fastidious customers in dress
The Haberdasher Avwell reports clergymen are among the most fastidious buyers, restricted from flashy attire yet preferring finest materials. Silk underwear made to order is a costly favorite, while he says famous men care little for dress, Wall Street figures dress brightly, and actors showily.
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Wall Street
New York Tribune
A New Theory of Divorce
An indignant wife explains she does not want to leave her husband though he drinks heavily. She wishes for a divorce that would work when he is drunk and stop when sober, lamenting that a woman has little chance in this country.
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Omaha
The Elevators of London and Hotel Monopole Hydraulics
The piece notes lifts in London hotels run by hydraulic power firms drawing mains water to powered platforms beneath streets then returning water to central stations for reuse. It also includes a humorous exchange with a Saratoga guest, where the head waiter proffers a jokey pidgin response while claiming the landlord’s name eludes him, saying he is Mr. Alexander Johnsing.
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London
Hotel Monopole
England
Home Journal
Saratoga
Alexander Johnsing
Confidence Born of Wealth
A scene from Harper's Bazar features a couple in a tense exchange over a bank book. She fears her father’s anger while he trusts that showing the banker’s account will ease him.
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George
Papa
Harper's Bazar
Editor’s harsh verdict on a young man’s article
An Editor scolds a young man for weak writing while his relatives defend it. The piece notes a Pittsburgh man praising his wife as “Virtue” yet she does all the housework unpaid. A critique spots a crippled pose and a satire labels Binghamton Lead Opinion as a halfway house for exchanging lies. Japan adopts a standard for the empire.
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Pittsburg
Diving Dress Invented by Swiss Native Described by Captain
Captain Anthony Williams relates the diving dress invented in Switzerland by Bauer. The suit, two India rubber garments with a copper breast plate and helmet, weighs nearly 200 pounds and allows air via a two-man pump. Divers use rope and signals on the air hose to control descent and ascent, with underwater communication through a life line and slate.
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Anthony Williams
Cornwall
Ang
Switzerland
Bauer
Ins
Jess
Geoffrey Williston
Christine
Chicago Journal
Pia Twa
Counterfeit Money Tricks Warned by Secret Service Warned
A veteran undercover officer warns the public to judge counterfeit bills by more than length. Counterfeiters use multiple plates and split operations with a shover and confederate outside. Women are sometimes used, and the public should watch both shover and ally until the outside partner is identified.
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Secret Service Department
Confederat
Elcar
Not another morsel Really I don’t know what will become of me
A fragmented quote from the Boston Traveler recounts She Lady Hearder declaring no appetite at all and comparing her fate to a bird she did not name. Boarders exchange puzzled looks as they wonder if she meant an ostrich or Sinbad’s roc.
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Sinbad
Boston
Crater of Vesuvius Adventure Ends in Narrow Escape
Will Carlton describes ascending the volcano to view its fiery abyss. Dense sulfur fumes, roaring blasts, and falling stones create a perilous spectacle as guides push for safety and the narrator dodges danger to witness the dramatic eruption from the crater edge.
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Fire
Hades
Remar
Will Carlton
New York
Prophecy of the Future from The New Astronomy Review
A review contrasts coal era England with a future when sun power shifts industry abroad. It proclaims cleaner rivers and green lands after industrial decline, then envisions empire relocating to sun warmed regions where solar power spurs a new civilization and power shift.
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Fair Green
England
America
North Africa
Red Sea
Carthage
Egypt
Preventable Diseases Hit Home in Digestive Troubles
The text argues stomach diseases especially dyspepsia are preventable through diet and self-denial. It laments widespread self-indulgence and ignorance causing chronic indigestion and notes inherited tendencies can be managed with care, urging temporary restraint to avert long term harm.
Practical Civil Service Mistress to New Girl
Dialogue from Detroit Free Press notes a practical mistress and a new entrant. The exchange centers on timing and engagement with a butcher boy and ensuring his patronage.
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Practical Civil Service
Detroit
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Failor
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Warren
Tao's
Teerny
Faye Catarest
Reuel Surrisub
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Conn
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Mibaloritech, Fletcher & Co
Cincinnati
Ealy
M. Mead
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Corry
Siguor
Onl Wine
Mason & Hamlin
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Tree
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