California woods show fancy local interior woods trends
A San Francisco Chronicle feature surveys California and Oregon fancy woods used for expensive interior finishes. It details California laurel, white cedar, redwood, eastern maple, oak and Mexican mahogany as sought for rich homes, explains how bark and growth create figures, and highlights notable woods like Oregon maple and Santa Cruz redwood with their distinctive patterns. Talks of a San Rafael Laurel grove burl and a museum display of carved figures with animal and human shapes.
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San Mateo
Fancy Woods
California
Oregon
New York
Laurel Grove
San Rafael
Santa Cruz
Donahue
First Street
San Francisco Chronicle
Two Hours and Ten Cents From an Observant Waiter
A New York Mail and Express article recalls a fashionable uptown restaurant waiter’s ordeal with a persnickety patron. The clerkly diner frets over breakfast choices, demands a single cup of coffee, and invents continual corrections, costing ten cents with two hours at the table. The piece notes other hard customers, including a tyrannical frequent diner who critiques every dish and treats staff like subordinates.
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New York Mail and Express
Colored Nursemaids Out of Style in Washington
Washington cor respondent notes a shift from enslaved era nursemaids to modern Black child care, lamenting loss of trusted mammy figures in white households. He cites anecdotes of cruelty and untrustworthiness, and contrasts past subjection with present changes, implying need for stricter oversight.
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Virginia
Washington
Nora
Clara
Washington Cor
Kansas City Times
Rhymes and Canary Notes Spark Curious Verse Debate
The Detroit Free Press reports on W. B. Gilbert’s playful search for new rhymes and the broader note about rhymes for common words. It also cites a Canary song study distinguishing German and American birds by four recognized notes and singing patterns, noting American canaries struggle to hold the rolling note and retreat at dusk.
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Gilbert
Thackeray
Tam
Orange
Cardinal Panduff
Ulf
Azimuth
Farmer
Arill
Detroit Free Press
At the End of the World We Wandered in Love
A poem by D. J. Robertson describes a quest to the world’s edge with love and danger. Wings and a gleaming blade haunt the scene as the couple confront loss, blue sea, and heathered hills, ending with a return and a reaffirmed sheltering love.
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You
Love
D. J. Robertson
Longfellow’s Excelsior in Early Rejection Story
An anecdote from The Ladies Companion editor describes Longfellow’s poem Excelsior provoking the publisher’s scorn. The editor recounts how the term was mispronounced as Ex shell shor and how the manuscript was returned with harsh remarks, nearly ending the poem’s publication.
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Longfellow
Ladies’ Companion
New York
Willian Street
Keats
Coffee Plantation Visit Near Jalapa Mexico
In Jalapa we visited Senor Pablo de Lascurrain and his vast coffee hacienda. The plantation holds thirty to forty thousand trees shaded by eighty thousand banana plants. Coffee trees need shade, ripening berries turn red then brown ready for harvest. Berries are pounded to separate grains, dried, packed, and shipped. Banana trees fruit once per tree then die, abundantly drying on the stem.
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Mexico
Jalapa
Senor
Pablo de Lascurrain
Gulf
Chicago Times
The Stupid Russian Soldier Analysis From 19th Century Chronicle
The San Francisco Chronicle describes the Russian army as stubborn yet capable, praising obedience and tenacity while noting slow learning. It highlights infantry, Berdan rifles, Krupp artillery, and versatile cavalry, claiming real test awaits in a major war and comparing modern progress to Peter the Great era. The tone reflects historical editorial perspective on Russian military reforms.
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Peter the Great
Charles XII
Sweden
San Francisco Chronicle
A Musical Effect in New York Sun Exchange
A dining scene after an opera features Miss Breezy visiting from Chicago taking fried oysters. Patti's delightful singing boosts appetite as one guest compliments the meal and asks for more, reflecting a light social moment in a New York Sun brief.
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Breezy
Chicago
Patti
New York Sun
GEN. B. F. BUTLER'S WIFE A STAGE STAR TURNED WIDOW
Ben Perley Poore recalls Mrs. Butler daughter of Dr. Israel Hildreth of Lowell who pursued acting from 1839 debuting in New York and performing in Charleston, Columbia, Wilmington, Norfolk, Boston and Cincinnati before marrying Gen. Butler. Her cancer was discovered during surgery in Boston ending her life at about 53 after a public Washington residence.
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William Abbott
Charleston
Columbia
D. C
Louis Fitzgerald Tasistro
Savannah
J. M. Weston & Co
Wilmington
Fayetteville
Norfolk
Portsmouth
Howard Atheneum
Boston
W. H. Chippendale
National Theatre
Cincinnati
Rosalind
Louisville
Ian
Gen. Butler
Butler
Congress
Washington
Massachusetts General Hospital
Ben
Perley
The Millet Memorial Battle in France and a Painter’s Woes
A Cherbourg effort to honor J. F. Millet stirs memories of the artist’s harsh life. A famed anecdote recounts Millet trading two sketches for $6 to settle rent and plan a dinner, then selling a dessert sketch for $800 and later valued at $2,000.
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France
Cherbourg
J. F. Millet
Miller
New York Tribune
Useful Broom Handle Reading Table From Worn Pieces
Do not discard worn broom handles. When three are alike, form a reading table with 34 inch legs set opposite directions for a stable top. Arrange screws, fit top square at 15 inches, sink legs half an inch, spread bottom legs, and finish with felt top, fringe, and brass nails.
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Cincinnati Quirer
Mountaineers of Dagestan Described by Radde
Dr Radde’s account from Kouroush details the Samar heights Leighians a mixed population with brown hair and light gray eyes. Women work from sunrise to sunset while men avoid labor, and Leighian shoes are prized for embroidery and gold thread.
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Daghestan
G. Radde
Kouroush
Samar Heights
Sarmur
Radde
Boston Transcript
Relics of Napoleon and Tamerlane Left to Heirs
A well authenticated record states that the bed where Napoleon died at St Helena and a splendid sword owned by Tamerlane were bequeathed to his nearest heirs by the late Napoleon Bexthier duke of Wagram.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
St. Helena
Tamerlane
Napoleon Bexthier
Duke of
Wagram
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