Napoleon's Horses and the Marengo Myths Revisited
A London Telegraph summary disputes popular claims about Napoleon Bonaparte's chargers. It argues Marengo was not ridden at Waterloo, notes Austerlitz on a gray Arab, and asserts Marie Maria as Napoleon's gray mare, with Copenhagen as Wellington's horse. It cites Schallerin and Plessen lineages, notes Maria's skeleton, and discusses broader myths about Napoleonic horses.
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St. James’ Palace
Marengo
Foot Guards
London
Napoleon
Austerlitz
Ena
Wagram
Russia
Waterloo
H. W. Angerstein
Grenadier Guards
Household Brigade
Angerstein
Matengo
Lord Roseberry
Berkeley Square
Egypt
Amiens
MM. Erckmann-Chatran
Lutzen
Bautzen
Marie
Marie Louise
Maria
Walter Gilbey
Herring
Copenhagen
Duke of Wellington
Lotzen
Meissonier
Marengo Snuff
Baron Plessen
Mr. Schailehn
Poleon
Napoleon the Great
Herodotus
Herodote
Germany
Herod
Eeth
Copenhazen
Sorauren
Lange
Loudon Tilegraph
An Artful Dog Tells a Soap Story from Cincinnati
A Cincinnati Times-Star tale of a fox terrier owned by a Avondale woman. The dog prefers ivory soap for the bath, swipes castile soap from his mistress, then drops it into her hand with a wagging tail. The scene shows the dog crestfallen when mistaken for bath time.
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Avondale
Cumcinnati Times-Star
Practical Bath Idea Throws Washerwoman A Hook
Mrs Cook debates who should bathe her poodle Gear Fide while Elise worries and the washerwoman proposes an overnight soak and a wringer. The odd suggestion, though brutal in tone, ends with the washerwoman never being enlisted for the task.
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Mrs. Cook
Elise
A Strong Writer from Arkansas Traveler
In a fragment from Arkansas Traveler a colonel praises Stephen for teaching his son to value education. Stephen, an old negro, vows his boy will study despite hardship, writing that the boy has begun letters over long distances and will soon improve enough to write a minister or aunt fifty miles away.
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Stephen
Arkansaw
Nighttime umbrella lend leads to grateful purchase tale
A Brooklyn druggist recalls a late night visit from a young couple seeking shelter under his awning. He lent his valuable silk umbrella to the man for the sake of the soaked lady. The next day the grateful pair returned the umbrella and bought goods.
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Brooklyn Standard Union
Fragmented Quote on Cheerfulness and Work Ethic
A torn excerpt extols cheerful labor as the mark of true vocation. It credits Carlyle and links singing at work to perseverance, endurance, and lasting usefulness, suggesting joy as a disciplined habit and its almost magical sustainment of effort.
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Sammy Rogers
Fenbaure Cooper
Rogers
Washington Irving
Cooper
Carlyle
Diogenes
Mrs. Norton
Lady Dufferin
Nine Muses
Pegasus
Tennyson
Temple Bar
Cat commits death after cruel acts by owner
Kenry Hurlburt of Boscobel Wisconsin pierced his cat ears clipped its tail and the animal died by hanging itself with a rope in the hammock yard. The cat was found with its head through the rope strand and a hind foot on the ground.
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Kenry Hurlburt
Boscobel
Wis
Hurlburt
Chicago Tribune
Remembrance in a Love Letter Read on September Day
A dated verse lament recalls a love from a year ago. The speaker, Montgomery M. Folsom, sits alone reflecting on that fleeting happiness and the ache of lost certainty as memories linger through hardship and longing.
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Montgomery M. Folsom
Scavenger Creatures as Nature’s Cleaners
The text explains how scavengers including birds reptiles and even rats play a vital role in unsanitary tropical regions. They cleanse towns by removing carcasses and offal, preventing disease and maintaining ecological balance across harsh environments.
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Michelet
Butterworth
Indolent
Africa
America
Panama
Caraccas
Europe
Asia
Royal Europes Royal Houses and their 27 dynasties
Official reports count 27 royal families in Europe with 459 male members averaging 17 princes per dynasty. German houses predominate with 18 of 27. Romanic six. Slav two. Osman then. Of 41 thrones, 22 in the German Empire, with others in Austro Hungary Russia England Denmark Holland Belgium Portugal Romania Bulgaria Greece and Liechtenstein.
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Europe
Hohenzollern
Wittelsbach
Wettin
Wurtemburg
Zabringen
Hessen
Moburg
Holstein
Anhalt
Schwarzburg
Reuss
Schaumburg
Lipps
Waldeck
Havsburg-Lorraine
Welt
Nass
Liechtenstein
Bourbon
Savoyen
Braganza
Monaco
Bonaparte
Bernadlotte
Obrenowitek
Njenosh
Osman
Welf
Hapsburg
Swabian
Wurtemberg
German Empire
Austro-Hungary
Russia
England
Denmark
Holland
Belgium
Portugal
Romania
Bulgaria
Greece
Uptown Man Returns From Country Trip Disillusioned
A man recounts a visit to his wife and mother in law in the country. They packed a trunk with what he thought were edibles, but it turned out to be wood dirt for transplanting plants. He laments losing faith in humanity and his wife’s plant hobby.
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Albany Journal
A Way Up Concert in the Tower Parlor
M Hiffel hosted a private concert in the third platform of his famed tower with an upright piano carried by elevator to the parlor. Mile Lyon sang, solos were performed, speeches were given, and a dining room collation followed while visitors viewed the exposition 300 meters below. Sudden death is likened to a swift chicken preparation in Indian and Blackwood's Magazine parlors.
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M. Hiffel
Mile
Lyon
Plyer
Pittsburg
New Hernia Treatment Promises Nonoperative Relief
Dr. George H. Stroup of Pennsylvania claims he never fails to relieve hernia by placing sorbent cotton over the tumor and saturating it with ether, asserting no operation will be needed with sufficient time, as reported by Sanitary Era.
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George H. Stroup
Pennsylvania
Carter
Carter Medicine CO
New York
Usual Rates in Epoch Clock Trade
Staten Islander to a native drayman asks about moving an old fashioned clock. The drayman estimates its value as the clock and ten dollars.
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Drayman
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Warren County
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Élly
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