Giants of the Forest Fell Monarch and Other Yosemite Trees
The Fallen Monarch, a 30 foot diameter giant in Yosemite, lies prostrate with upper sections burned away. Other famed trees include The General Grant, The Grizzly Giant, and The Telescope Tree, with visitors riding into a hollow trunk arch and noting the park hosts, roads, and guards protecting the ancient cedars in California.
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Yosemite Region
California
Yosemite Park
State of the Union
Grant
Yosemite
State of
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Col
Atlanta American
Puggy Waltzing PlayReported in Providence Tale
A Hartford Times item recounts a playful pug in Providence that performs a waltz on cue. At first he drags into a slow dignified walk, then seizes his tail to whirl rapidly, reversing on command and finally dances alone after a quip about not sharing a partner.
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Washington
United States
China
Milwaukee
Havre
Aden
Arabian Sea
Hindoostan
Siam
Pekin
Detroit Free Press
Providence
Hartford Times
Organ fund jug plan sparks church money drive
In Bourbon county a church seeks funds for an organ. A visitor proposes 100 coin jars given to 100 girls to collect money. After a ceremony breaking the jars, nearly 300 dollars is counted, enabling organ purchase. Music topics and local humor follow in a chain of anecdotes.
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Cincinnati
Lar’s Station
Bourbon County
Life Prisoner’s Courting Ends With Delayed Elopement
A Louisville Letter describes Louis Lowry a trusted convict at the Indiana penitentiary in Jeffersonville who wooed governess Mina Bain. He hatched a plan to elope, but clothes and timing failed. marriage awaits his release. Indiana considers a law equating twenty five years to a life sentence, with good behavior time shortening the wait.
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Miss Mina Lain
Jeffersonville
Ind
Apo Wits
Louiswwille
Iva Tah Handacue Lranette
Briekey
Woodward's Book Store
Fourth Avenue
Barnes
Indiana
George Lowry
Lowry
Bain
Rush County
Miss Bain
Havelock
Louisville
Monster of the Deep From the Delaware River Capture
The Philadelphia Record reports two men near Burlington captured a six foot creature after a hard fight. It had a bulldog like head, two rows of teeth, a sinuous neck, sunken eyes with lashes, fur covered body, webbed duck like feet, a propeller like tail, and emitted musk like odor. It resisted, bit an oar, then was felled by repeated hatchet blows.
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Delaware River
Burlington
Charles Wooden
Charles Adams
Webber
Philadelphia
Teaching Children and the Fear of Authority
The Journal of Education argues that excessive anxiety from parents and teachers hinders many children from accomplishing anything. It says kids with energy and happiness are crushed when educators fail to tailor guidance to individual dispositions, causing dislike of school and books.
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Journal of Education
Also Mentioned on This Page
Trees OF
Great Yosemite Park
Farr
Jim
Joe
Thorns
Rollo
Rolo
George
Buttes
Bob Burdette
Brooklyn Eagle
Scientific American
Bill Nye
Mr Weeks
Jericho
Pennsylvania Botanical Society
Persia
Pike’s Peak
Nevada
Landville
San Jose
San Francisco
John
Tere
Minnesota
Finland
Russia
Northwest Magazine
Daltahe
Aves & Song
Philadi
Carriag Oustra
Williams
Havest Home
Sia
Delmonico
G. B. Williams
Adelphia Kitchen
Warren
Penn
Lo FL Watson
Prest
Nesmith
View Sree
Alj. Hageltiog
Cashier
L. F. Watson
O. H. Hunter
M. Dunham
Jas. Clark, Jr
B. Nesmith
A. I. Hazetine
L. R. Freeman
Myron Waters
Francis Henry
Vive Bres
Gerould
H. A. Jamieson
V. Davis
S. P. Johnson
A. Hertzel
W.D. Brown
G.N. Parmiee
A. T. Scofield
Eric Erickson
Fostoffice
Warren, PA
Gonewango
Foundry
Machine Shop
Conewango Foundry and Machine Shop
John T. Hill
A. P. Ordway & Co
Poston, dMasc
Ely
D. B. Yates
Upper Lisle
Broome Ga
N.Y. Act
Island
Koebley
Equitable Accident Association
Binghamton, N.Y
Uy Riks
Commonwealth
Embry
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Senate
House of Representatives
General Assembly
Blate
High Seas
Lome
Charles W. Stone
The
General Assembly of
Pennsylvania
Secretary
House of Representatives of
Abe
Commonwealth of Penn-ylvania
the Commonwealth
Prospectus
Wymond
Daniel Greenlent Thompson
Grologist
Ws iV. Kleys D.D
Ch Advocate
N.Y
Richard Proctor
Scien
Iions
W. W. Astor
Gibson
N P. Benjamin
Abbott
Eae Free, Stinson & Co
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