The Wild Horseman Tale of Margarite and Oscar
A serialized romance unfolds in Haarlem forest and a castle tale. Margarite fends off the midnight Wild Horseman Aldebrand while Count Oscar pursues her, disguising as the rider to win her love. After a staged peril, Margarite discovers his true identity and marriage follows.
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Margarite
Castle Rock
Oscar
Baron Drumholdt
Aldebrand
Erebus
Drumholdt
Count Oscar
Haarlem Forest
The Castle on the Rock Casts a Dark Tale of Wild Horseman
In a dim Haarlem Forest setting Margarite defies danger as whispers tell of the Wild Horseman a restless spirit doomed to haunt the night. An elderly father warns of peril while the castle awakes to a horned summons and a legend that grips the bay of the Zuyder Zee.
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Zuyder Zee
Haarlem Forest
Margarite
Aldebrand
Haarlem
Wild Horseman
Language as the great mystery behind ink and wire
The excerpt recounts Everett's 1857 Albany address at Dudley Observatory, praising language as thought’s vessel and laments the electric telegraph’s reach. It highlights written versus spoken word, Homer and Milton, and the Atlantic cable linking Newfoundland to Ireland as a marvel of communication. It closes with a comic Yankee tale of factory life and a vignette about J Howard Payne, author of Sweet Home, who died in Tunis.
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Boston
St. Louis
Milton
Paradise
Dante
Tully
Demosthenes
Peabody
Amenca
Europe
Messrs. Glass & Co
London
Atlantic Telegraph Company
St. John’s
Newfoundland
Valentia
Ireland
Atlantic
Greece
Hector
Andromache
Jupiter
Olympus
Priam
Ilian
Ulysses
Agean
America
Washington
J. Howard Payne
Yuvis
Paris
Berlin
Payne
Tunis
Howard Payne
Causes of the Depopulation of Trout Streams
An Albany Morning Journal reader argues that sawdust tan bark clearings density of population or fishing are not the main causes. He lists three real factors: establishments using lime, introduction of pike or pickerel, and especially a sustained rise in water temperature. The piece asserts temperature change explains trout disappearances more often than other blamed factors.
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Oothers
Caledonia Creek
Canada
Connecticut
George Davison
Albany Moening Journal
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A historical fragment condemns a common practice of telling young children that a new sibling means they are no longer the mother’s baby, noting the heartache such remarks cause to the infant. The passage reflects on thoughtless language harming children’s sense of security.
Prostitution Influx Of Chinese Women At San Francisco
Five hundred twelve Chinese women recently landed at San Francisco for the purpose of prostitution. Their manner of life is said to be almost without shame or the restraints of common decency.
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San Francisco
Atlantic Telegraph Cable Cost Per Mile Rumor
The estimated cost of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable is about 500 dollars per mile, implying a total loss in mid ocean near a quarter of a million dollars. A gas man talks of his wife running away, saying do not pity me until she returns.
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