Under the Capitol A World of Baths and Hidden Cells
Special Correspondence from Wasuvictos describes renovations at the Capitol with marble staircases and a dramatic rise in the building. It reveals underground bath rooms used by senators and congressmen, a bustling kitchen cellar for lawmakers and visitors, air cooling system, and a vast sub basement filled with reports, statues, and workshops. An electric staffer keeps the vast system running as the building gleams above the Potomac.
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Wasuvictos
Capitol
Glebe
The
Potomac
Cairo
Rosamond
Congressional
Reagan
Texas
Barnes
Georgia
Gen. Ren. le Fevre
Congress
le Fevre
Washington
Sam Randall
Congressional Chironodist
Randall
United States
House of Representatives
House
Senate
Tom Reed
William Walter Phelps
Congressiman
Mr. Holman
Indiana
Depeut
Basgeit
van Buren
Tle Dehghigggin
Daniel Webster
Henry Clay
John A. Calhoun
Hie
Jefferson
Three Acre
Thomas J. Topp
Thunderous Tennessee River Clam Catch Ends Friendly Bet
Special correspondence from New York recounts fishing on Duck River in Tennessee. A bet with a mayor over catching fish leads to a surprising haul of freshwater clams, each weighing at least a pound, as patrons watch a curious, nonviral spectacle.
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New York
Tennessee
Duck River
Livalve
Agassiz
W. H. Batroc
Foreign Notes on Marriages and Aging in Europe
In England marriage rates have fallen from 17.5 to 14.1 per 1000 since 1806, with similar declines in Scotland Wales and Ireland, while Prussia Austria and Italy rise. Noting aging English writers Tennyson Browning Ruskin and others, the piece comments on public figures and critics. It mentions Ruskin’s eccentricities and a dubious anecdote about his publisher and marriage.
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T. Snow
England
Scotland
Wales
Ireland
Prussia
Austria
Italy
Tennyson
Browning
Ruskin
Cardinal Newman
Matthew Arnold
Gladstone
Bright
Lord Granville
Lord Selborne
Chancellor Halsbury
Lord Salisbury
St. George’s Museum
Sheffield
Magazine of Art
Lord Byron
Barabbas
John Everett Sills
Oscar Lynn
Mendicancy in Letters to Editors Warned by Mary Parsons
Mary Currier Parsons warns aspiring writers against pleading for money in letters to editors. She argues publishers follow business rules, not sentiment, and that heart rending pleas for family support only disgust readers and decrease chances of manuscript acceptance.
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Mary Currier Parsons
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Main Street
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Pennsylvania
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Water St
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