A Sleep in a Coffin Amid Yangtse Floods and Mountain Trek
Special Correspondence from San Francisco dated August 15 describes a dramatic Yangtse flood that turned Kiukiang into a waterlogged landscape. Three foreigners endure heat, hunger, a harrowing ascent to a Buddhist temple, and a near fatal cholera like illness, finally surviving with aid from temple rituals, a coffin stockroom, and mountain air.
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San Francisco
Yangtse Kiang
Kiukiang
Hankow
Denis Kearney
Sand Fos
Li San
Bernicese
China
Rome
Dr Edward Eggleston Heralded in New York Letter
The Aug 21 New York letter profiles Dr Edward Eggleston, author of The Hoosier Schoolmaster, tracing his life from Ohio Indiana circuits to editorships and his rise as a regional novelist. It notes his dialect writing, views on Indiana and colonial history, and describes his tall frame, iron gray hair, and engaging, urbane manner.
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Wal
New York
Edward Eggleston
Bret Harte
Egeleston
Digleston
Areer
Little Corporal
Chicago
New York Independent
Hearth and Eome
Hoosier Schoolmaster
Aggleston
Stilf
Hoosier
Indiana
Ilinois
North Carolina
Eggleston
Ohio
Pens
Dr. Weeleston
Fenimore Cooper Indian
Pacific Slope
Egsleston
Lake George
West
England
Loos
Gertrude Ganriso
Eccentric Baltimore Rich Man Robert Garrett's Life Abroad
Special correspondence paints Robert Garrett of Baltimore as a wealthy patron of high art and charity with a grand Mount Vernon residence and famed bathroom. It recounts his early rise from B and O stock to a life of trophies, a public feud over light rights, a French Renaissance mansion, exotic gardens and a tame English pheasant park.
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Baltmore
Robert Garrett
Garretts
Baltimore
John WW. Garrett
Baltimore and Ohio Road
Jim
Mount Vernon Place
Henry Jones
Jones
Blackstone
Garrett
Jamesgood
Mount Vernon
Lous XV
France
Baltimore and Ohio
Princeton
England
É. B. Parke
Poisonous hat band linked to headaches in patient
A Philadelphia physician studied a black japanned hat band worn by a patient with headache and found three grains of a lead salt. He concludes many headaches may result from lead absorbed from hat bands.
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Philadelphia
Boston
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Great Rice Plain
Kinkiang
Orient
Japan
India
Tenmle
Dag Senins
Lee Peuesthound
Pricer
Simoothly
Father
Mel
Lou Fou
B. N
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Nd Eggleston
Edy
United States
Roser?t
Paine
J.J. Watson
Wrens
Richard
Botsos & Co., Props
Burlington, Vt
Tle
Bhetegar Weis, Ricnsgo
Ba Bae Burlington
Meadvie LE Conservatory OF Music
Renuts Aionight
Allegheny College
NELSG
Greenland
Exchange Block
Exchange Hotel
Warren
W.H. Pickett & CO
Sherman
Dewett
Steve Ranges
Syracuse
Gale
American Saw Co’s
Gireurlar Law
Warren, Pa
Peter Greenland’s
Water Street
Episcopal Church
Episcops Church
High Street
Hazel and
Laurel
Luwitd
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