Ye Happy Farmers Life Poem From Oregonian
A humorous verse extols the hard work of farmers with early rising meals and long days in fields and stables. It highlights milking, meals of pork and buckwheat cake, and endless labor while a wife handles remaining tasks, praising the happy farmer’s life.
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Portland Oregonian
Mysterious Miss Dacre Shows Hidden Clues
A compact tale introduces Miss Dacre whose mysterious behavior hints at secrets. The narrative follows her through encounters that build intrigue, suggesting a deeper motive behind her actions and the surrounding rumors.
Quiet Galtersville house teems with visitors and whispers
Mrs Brathwaite hides a new roomer for her board, while a Young reporter and a clergyman arrive with troubled pasts. Miss Dacres flirts. Glorianna schemes to access Miss Dacres room as Brathwaite guards hall secrets amid suspicions about Haight and a looming ghost tale.
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Charlie Blount
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Marmaduke Smith
Galtersville College
Old Haight
Pungent Paragraphs and Clever Quotations
A collection of humorous exchanges and quips from various papers. Jokes touch politics, optimism, publishing, and courtroom banter with brief setups and punchlines. Notable lines reference work versus city jobs, literary struggles, and a judge’s witty remark about costs.
Wealth Spread in France Reported by Paris Publication
A Paris statistical release shows widespread land ownership in France with 5.5 million peasants owning homes and land. It notes the rise of personal property holdings since 1830 and a surge in government securities to over 2 million, alongside gains in retail and declines in wholesale trade. The trend aligns with democratic aims and socialist influence, boosting France’s financial strength.
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Paris
Pittsburg Dispatch
France
Global rail expansion and old industry notes headlined
The article surveys vast railroad growth toward the Pacific in Canada and Mexico capital in the United States totaling 1 117 investors with about 500 million dollars. It notes a giant Indiana oak log, future coal scarcity in Pennsylvania, Chinese coal abundance, Ghent breweries, DeWitt Clinton engine history, silk worm experiments in the United States, and silk egg production.
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Canada
Pacific Coast
Mexico
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Pennsylvania
China
Ghent
DeWitt Clinton
Aristotle
England
United States
California
Europe
The Cowboy's Virgil in Guthrie Station Tale
George Handy, a former New Yorker now in Colorado, works as a telegraph operator at Guthrie station. A stranger with a two foot long gun challenges him about train times, then asks about Virgil. Handy and the Harvard educated reader converse in fluent English as the man casually reads Virgil aloud.
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New York
Guthrie
Handy
Virgil
Yale
Harvard
N. Y. Press
Baptised a Leetle in a Liberal Congregation
A Detroit Free Press anecdote recalls a religious revival where Annie the German housemaid chose baptism by sprinkling over immersion. The playful tale notes her “leetle” baptism and the morning after surprise as the narrator learns Annie’s choice.
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Annie
Detroit Free Press
Medical Bubbles Novel Nerve Pain Relief Method
The London Globe reports doctors have created air bubbles injected under the skin to lengthen nerve endings and ease neuralgia sciatica and lum bago. The bubble is manipulated by fingers to relieve pain in painful regions and also aids dislocations fractures and bruises with similar relief.
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London Globe
Empress Dowager Plans Palace Girls School in Peking
The Chinese empress dowager intends to found a girls’ school in the palace at Peking with ten princess daughters as students. The aim is to train interpreters for entertaining wives of foreign ministers.
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China
Peking
Albany Argus
What He Thought
A brief exchange between Mrs. Robinson Brown and Mr. Robinson Brown turns on belief in a hat gift. The judge notes the bird’s report as likely false.
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