Remarkable French discoveries on medicine at a distance
French physicians at Rochefort studied hypnotized patients and found medicines acting at a distance produce vivid effects. Gold contact caused heat, opium or narcotics induced sleep when placed on head or limbs, and a pillow under the night sleeper released pain and salivation with distant, odorless substances. The experiments, including alcohols and chloral, yielded consistent, dramatic results, though mechanisms remain unexplained.
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Sue
San Francisco Chronicle
Sleep Prayer for Rest in John Wentworth Note
A poetic plea from John Wentworth in Good Housekeeping requests mercy, sleep, and peace for a troubled mind. The verse laments sleeplessness, nerves, and the burden of endless thoughts while seeking divine comfort and rest.
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God of Mercy
Confort
John Wentworth
Good Housekeeping
Miss Cushman's Meg Merrilies error stirs stage laughter
The Boston Herald excerpt recounts Miss Cushman in Meg Merrilies dying on stage where a miscue by a crowd of supernumeraries caused the cheer to erupt late. The miscue led to unintended laughter and a disrupted death scene, noted by Kate Reynolds Winslow.
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Meg Merrilies
Henry Bertram
Laird
Ellengowan
Miss Cushman
Kate Reignolds Winslow
Boston Herald
Pig Snout as a Divining Rod in Hawaiian Debate
In a Hawaiian parliament session a genealogy bill spurred a lively debate over funding to locate royal bones and place them in a mausoleum. A prior allocation of ten thousand dollars remains used, while the new bill passed. The method proposed to locate sacred bones involves a dogged search of bones from both royal and common origins.
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Isaac Bassett
Senate
Cleveland
San Francisco Bulletin
Small selfishness in the household habits
A Harper's Bazar essay examines everyday self centered acts that disrupt family life. It notes monopolizing the morning paper seat light and attention, unequal chores, arguing views, broken promises, and constant small incursions of selfishness that erode harmony, warning they are widespread and vexatious.
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Harper’s Bazar
Terrible Projectiles From General Boulanger Report
Paris report describes new steel ram tipped projectiles with a powerful explosive. At three kilometres they pierce twenty centimetre steel plates and collapse strong walls after a few shots. Sappers and a sergeant were buried and suffocated during a rescue attempt.
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Boulanger
Paris
Lew Wallace on Travel Writing and Creative Struggle
General Lew Wallace remarks that he writes whenever possible during travel, carrying a scratch book to jot thoughts on trains when no one is available to converse. He admits writing can be difficult, with periods where he cannot produce satisfactory paragraphs, forcing continued effort until ideas resume flowing.
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Lew Wallace
Northern Sympathy in Charleston After Quake
Clara Berton notes that Charlestonians feel the northern sympathy after a severe quake, saying the relief is worth an earthquake to receive such support from the north.
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Clara Berton
$50 000 Catalogue Progress At Astor Library
Veteran librarian Saunders discusses the new catalogue project at the Astor Library. He notes a six week target for the second volume and expects two volumes to be completed with faster pace next year. Four men have worked six years. total cost may exceed $59,000.
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Saunders
Astory
Europe
Robbins Little
New York Mail and Express
Traveled Dog Ned Dies in Otis Mass After Long Voyages
Ned the dog, aged about 20, died in Otis Massachusetts. The well-traveled hound had circumnavigated Europe Asia and Africa and crossed the Atlantic sixteen times totaling about 50000 miles. The New York Graphic notes his remarkable journeys.
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Ned
Otis
Mass
Europe
Asia
Africa
Atlantic
New York Graphic
Poem fragment from James Whitcomb Riley in arcane verse
A fragmentary versified piece attributes lines to James Whitcomb Riley with ornate imagery of azure armor and whispered passion. The text blends archaic diction with dreamlike imagery, referencing love, stone carved forms, and celestial phrases, ending with a citation of Riley’s authorship.
Infant life in Paris and the Becky Sharp model
The Parisian infant care crisis is linked to crowding and female breadwinning. The piece notes 62,000 births in Paris with 17,000 sent to the provinces, and argues that about one in ten mothers nurse their own child while wet nurses are common in upper-class households. The observation cites Becky Sharp as a literary reference to Parisian maternal customs.
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Paris
Becky Sharps
Thackeray
Becky Sharp
Cor London Globe
Politeness of the French Examined by Paris Letter
In a Paris Letter M Malland argues that foreigners are welcomed abroad while French hosts neglect to guide or amuse visitors. He links this to French vanity and language ignorance, hoping his lecture will improve manners. Louis Milland notes similar issues.
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England
America
Paris
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Vienna
St. Petersburg
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M. Malland
Parisian Wit Wolff Debunks Boulanger Phantom Joke
Albert Wolff traveling in Scandinavia is teased by Swedes about Gen Boulanger. He replies there is no Boulanger, only a personage invented by journals. Northerners accept this, leaving Boulanger as a phantom in their view.
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Wolff
Albert Wolff
Scandinavia
Boulanger
Werse
Paris
Boston Journal
The Country Photographer Visits Uus County
A peripatetic photographer now works in Uus county focusing on school and private residence views. He captures portraits of notable owners and even portraits of animals. He plans to photograph at the county convention and mass meeting, immortalizing candidates for future generations.
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Uus
St. Louis
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