Writers and Books in Brief World Notes
Oscar Wilde's creditors may receive about 100 dollars daily from his works. William Black, a novelist, is also a portrait painter, botanist, and sportsman. Queen Margherita of Italy plans to publish Alpine climbing experiences with her sketches. Rudyard Kipling is praised as a genius despite smoking. Walter H. Page signs with Houghton Mifflin. Harperizing replaces bowdlerizing in England. Thomas Hardy's text in magazines spurred a coinage. Sar Peladan renounces eccentricities after finding a rich widow. Kant manuscripts from Dorpat placed for Berlin Academy complete edition.
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Oscar Wilde
William Black
Queen Margherita
Italy
Rudyard Kipling
Walter H. Page
Forum
Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Company
Harperizing
England
Thomas Hardy
Sar Peladan
Rose Croix
Kant
University of Dorpat
Berlin Academy of Sciences
Spices and Trade in the 19th Century
The passage details pepper growing on a 12 to 20 foot vine, cardamon from India and Ceylon, cinnamon from Ceylon India Siam Java Sumatra, pepper tribute in India and the East, nutmeg trees yielding limited crops, caraway seeds for confections and liquors, and 1894 spice imports totaling $2,252,553 consumed domestically.
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India
Java
Ceylon
Siam
Sumatra
Paper making and materials in history mine
The article notes today's paper machines exceed 100 feet and need large buildings. It cites poplar wood as a top paper source, warns excess clay weakens paper, and compares rice straw and esparto grass for toughness. It also recalls Spain as the site of Western Europe’s first paper in 731, likely via Moorish influence.
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Esparto
Europe
Spain
Milwaukee adopts Ber tillon system for crime measure
The report notes Milwaukee's adoption of a Ber tillon style crime metric. It cites 11 890 penal servants in Great Britain and Australia in 1870 versus 4 345 in 1895. A cattle theft ring near Lander Wyoming led to 30000 dollars of stock driven into Montana with brands altered. Dr Austin Flint cites reform evidence on convict honesty from Elmira investigations.
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Milwaukee
Great Britain
Australia
Lander
Wyo
Montana
Austin Flint
New York
Elmira Reformatory
Stylish velvet cape with sable collar and ornate hat
A low crowned hat with narrow brim and velvet edge roll features ostrich tip trim and a loosely laid velvet scarf secured with gold pins. An elegant cape of figured velvet with Alaska sable collar rises high at the throat and falls to shoulder points with front tabs. A satin ribbon ruche cape completes the ensemble.
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Alaska
Sailor held on charge of giving whisky to Indians
Thomas Ryan, a lake sailor, was held in $1000 bail by Commissioner Pound at Lockport New York to answer to the U S grand jury for giving whisky to Indians. He says he obeyed threats to save his life after being taken to the Tuscarora reservation and forced to buy liquor. Several Indians are to be arrested. The Tuscaroras are part of the Six Nations.
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Thomas Ryan
Pound
Lockport
N. Y
United States Grand Jury
Ryan
Buffalo
Tuscaroran
Tuscarora
Six Nations
Coons Caught Roaming National Life Building Basement
Tenants at 159 La Salle Street report raccoons from a Clark Street dime museum have moved into the National Life building basement. Joe Stanley, a janitor, captured one of the young animals after a chase through the empty offices, while the other fled, ending the nocturnal search for food in the basement hideouts.
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National Life
la Salle Street
Joe Stanley
Clark Street
Old National Life
Milwaukee Avenue
Ram Objects to Bloomers in Country Ride
Miss Kintner and Miss Hedges of New York biked to the country to gather chestnuts near Port Jervis. They filled bloomers tied to their bicycle handles and rode home when a ram attacked, lifting them by turns as a farm hand intervened. The incident recalls a humorous old-timer comparison to Secretary Rusk.
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Miss Kintner
Miss Hedges
New York
Port Jervis
N. Y
Jerry Rusk
Colorado Rules Bicycle Insurance Companies Legal
Attorney General Carr issues an opinion affirming bicycle insurance firms as legal regular insurers under state law. The Wheelmen Investors Mutual Insurance and Investment Company sought a license, prompting the opinion through Commissioner Walpole. Licenses and compliance with general insurance laws will now be required for similar wheel insurance firms.
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Rado
Carr
Colorado
Insurance Department
Wheelmen & Investors’ Mutual Insurance and Investment Company
Walpole
Earliest English Coffee Mentions and London’s First House
Burton first alludes to coffee in An Anatomy of Melancholy Rauwolf, a pioneering European writer, mentions coffee in 1582 The first London coffeehouse opened in 1652 by a Greek with a prior one in Oxford Report notes South American Indians flavor cocoa with vanilla and Aztecs froth chocolate thick enough to eat with a spoon when cold
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Burton
Rauwolf
London
Oxford
Still Charming New Woman Promotes Modern Ideas
The Washington Star notes her appeal as a famous new woman who remains fashionable and charming while advancing progressive ideas, though she is not tied to a specific era or year. She embodies modern thought in a timeless charm.
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Washington Star
Louisburg Cross Stolen From Harvard Gove Hall Library Entrance
Harvard college mourns the loss of a valued relic, the Louisburg cross captured by Massachusetts soldiers in 1745. It stood over the Gove hall library entrance until it was stolen during a remodeling era about twenty years ago. The museum piece has sparked excitement and questions about its provenance and safeguarding.
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Harvard College
Gove Hall
Massachusetts
Louisburg
Harvard
Birth of the Year in Springlike Imagery
A Philadelphia Times verse notes the year’s birth with images of rain, snow, and budding life. It contrasts fragile branches and newborn-like vitality with the awakening of spring, using poetic language to depict hope and growth.
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Philadelphia Times
The Magic Bell Poem on New Year’s Eve
Detroit Free Press presents a verse about the old year dying and a magic bell tolling in a cathedral universe. The bell’s chimes symbolize passions that sway men’s souls, lifting thought and deed from earth as the Great Creator receives his own at year’s end.
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Detroit Free
Art items and exhibitions reported from Paris and Louvre
Cheret showcases 100 posters in Paris free outdoor display. Meissonier’s widow donates five bronze statuettes to Luxemburg gallery. Daru staircase at the Louvre reveals a four ages mosaic on the cupola with portraits of great artists. A Schleswig-Holstein art union claims Emperor William helped paint Salzmann’s “The Striking of the Flags” 1849 scene.
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Robert Burns
Edinburgh
Cheret
Paris
Rue Taibout
Boulevard Des Italiens
Meissonier
Luxemburg
Daru
Louvre
Schleswig-Holstein Art Union
Salzmann
Christian VIII
Geflon
Eckernfjord
William
Bankruptcy discharge for Tito Mattei noted in London
Songwriter Tito Mattei has obtained his discharge in bankruptcy in London five years after his filing. Verdi inspects a Milan aging musician retreat funded at $100,000 with Camillo Boito as architect. Ole Bull to receive a $25,000 Bergen statue, part funded in the United States. A statue is planned for Harald Hardrada in Christiania.
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Tito Mattei
London
Paris
Mme. Saville
Opera Comique
Violetta
Patti
Verdi
Milan
Porta Magenta
Camillo Boito
Ole Bull
Bergen
United States
Christiania
Harald Hardraade
Stanford Bridge
Harold
High Altitude Record and Astronomical Notes
The record height for man is 37 000 feet set by Cox and Glaisher in 1862. Scientists redefine biliousness as stomach or intestinal catarrh. A tenth planet, the 408th discovered, is found by Prof Max Wolf in Heidelberg. Visible stars range from 5 000 to 8 000 with strong eyes, while telescopes reveal about 50 000 000 stars. unseen stars may exist beyond current telescopes.
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Cox and Glaisher
Max Wolf
Heidelberg
Nature notes on pelicans flaunting old beliefs and fossil finds
A century ago naturalists claimed pelicans fed their young with blood. Oak elm and hickory blossoms are overlooked. W Victor Lehman sent Pennsylvania fossil insect to the Smithsonian. Manatees die in sudden Florida freezes as water temp drops.
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Pennsylvania
W. Victor Lehman
Tremont
Smithsonian Institution
Manatee
Florida
Lesson For the Week December 29 From Epworth League
Rev. W J Yates discusses the topic Children Included with scriptural references Acts 2 38 11 16 15 31 33 and argues that children before committing sin are in God s favor and saved. The text compares circumcision with baptism and infers households including children were baptized in early Christian practice.
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W. J. Yates
A. M
Kingdom of Heaven
Cornelius
Lydia
Philippi
Christ
Self Denial and Charity Urged in Church Messages
A church exhortation urges members to track income and expenditures to fund the Godly cause. It notes many attend worship but give little beyond personal gratification, urging strict accounting and daily self denial to follow Christ and bless others. Paul’s teaching on abound ing in grace is cited as timely.
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The
League
Paul
Christ
Undeveloped Opportunities In Youth Organization
The piece urges using all effort to guide boys and girls toward social devotion and literary growth. It stresses early habits of reading wholesome books, avoiding bad tastes, and providing innocent recreation to deter later temptations. It emphasizes pure, sweet, beautiful influences shaping character and safeguarding youth.
Childhood and Christian Duty in Nineteenth Century Thought
The passage contrasts religious and Christian views on childhood, praising Jesus' regard for children. It notes the church awakening to duties in training youth for God, calling this the age of childhood. It claims modern culture nurtures child nature and promotes purer manhood and womanhood.
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God
Church
New Year Call to Better Living Through Bible Reading and Prayer
A publisher urges readers to start the year with renewed vows to study the Bible, pray, and attend church. It emphasizes forming regular private devotions, family prayer, and consistent church services to make the next year surpass previous ones.
General Merrill Lauds Indian Outcasts Faith
General Samuel Merrill, former consul general at Calcutta, said before a Sunday school that his three year stay in India left him with a lasting impression of people leaving their homes to seek the outcast, pointing to a heavenly friend and celestial mansions as a radiance from heaven that will endure.
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Samuel Merrill
Calcutta
India
Topic For Week Beginning Dec 29
Rev S H Doyle discusses making next year better than this using Phil 3 7 14. He urges Christians to imitate Paul aiming to be more like Christ through self examination, earnest effort, and pressing toward the mark. Bible readings accompany the guidance.
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S. H. Doyle
Paul
Christ
Jesus
Christ Jesus
Phil
Jas. i
II Pet. i
Rev
Religious denominations share of communicants in the nation
The Philadelphia Press reports religious statistics showing one third of the population are church communicants. Of these roughly one third are Catholics, about two fifths are Baptists or Methodists, around one eighth are Presbyterians or Lutherans, and about one in forty are Episcopalians. Strongest in rural districts are Methodists Baptists and Presbyterians while Catholics and Episcopalians lead in cities.
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Philadelphia Press
Monthly consecration meeting advised by Golden Rule
A note stresses the importance of the monthly consecration meeting as the sacred service of a society. It warns that falling into a rut at this gathering dulls personal relations with the Master.
Be Ye Filled with the Spirit and Read The Bible
A brief meditation contrasts praise without reading with the Bible’s demand for action. It notes that outward form can resemble godliness yet lack life and power, urging true spiritual filling and engagement.
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Philadelphia
Methodist
Leaks Plague Legislative Halls Raising Questions
Poetic reflection on repeated leaks and corruption concerns within government. The verses dramatize dishonesty in political circles and call for an end to scandals affecting public trust.
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Myron Waters
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C. A. Corwen
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Writers and Books
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Drinkables
Jenks
Peal Medicine CO
Cleveland
Ohio
Seigfried & CO
Brooklyn
Willie
Chicago Times- Herald
Earth
Mr. J. M. Crocker
Washington, D. C
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Sarsapartila
J. M. Crocker
Rhode Island Avenue
Washington, D.C
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Epworth League
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Dwight
A.P.T.L
American Protective Tariff League
Wilbur F. Wakeman
Weet 23d Street
Northrop
Christian Endeavor
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Wales
Bevan
Church of
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Christian Endeavor Society
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