The Hoffman Inmate Of Pennsylvania Hospital
A reminiscence recounts Hoffman's fall from literary fame to confinement in a state hospital. His genius, once celebrated for songs and writings, is described through vivid scenes of his daily life, leadership of fellow inmates, and lingering military bearing amid illness. A separate travel vignette tells of a New Orleans to Louisville canal trip ending with a dog rescuing a child, earning the mother’s lifelong loyalty to the animal.
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Putnam’s Magazine
Pennsylvania State Hospital
Hoffman
The
Eradd
Adam Baum
Putnam
Loffman
Harrisburg Iterald
Old Habits and the Burden of Legacy
A traveler ponders a heavy stone in his pocket as a metaphor for inherited customs. He vows to discard tobacco and other vices his father kept, recognizing some traditions harm health and neatness. The tale links to a Yale commencement quip and a mother teaching heaven to a child with a wry ending.
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Hiaven Brouane Dows Vo Vs
Yale
Perkins
Vermont
Heven
Marma
Too late for Ethel Lindsay to be righted
Clyde Woolsey reveals to Alison Holmes that Ethel Lindsay died after a long deception and false vows, leaving Alison to decide whether to return to his wife Meltha Woolsey as she weakens from consumption in Paris. Clyde urges forgiveness and reunion, while Alison plans to return to America with his wife.
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Alison
Clyde
Jene Woolsey
Ethel Lindsay
Irene Slimes
Clyde Woolsey
Ethel
America
Paris
Hotel Maurice
New England
Tam
Rome
South
Dora Copperfield
Mrs. Woolsey
Frace
Irene
Alison Holmes
Melitha Woolsey
Meltha Woolsey
Meltha Herrick Dies in Summer Vintages Scene
The scene portrays Meltha Herrick dying beside her husband after a tender farewell. The husband longs to join her in death as the sunset tints the shrine with ripe glow. The passage ends with the note to be continued.
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Meltha Herrick
Lilly
Printing Office Banter Sparks Quirky Headline List
An illustrated exchange shows a foreman guiding compositors through wordplay on headlines such as A House on Fire and Horrible Murder. The dialogue features jokes about money market panic, municipal candidates, and other punning captions, ending with Scissors taking an official copy and leaving.
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Foreman
Smith
Morse
Bob
Forman
Jim
Perham
Slocum
Boston
Jenny Lind
John
California
Wilson
Devil
Witty remark on carts and nine fellows
A humorous remark notes a young lady in town who criticizes a cart wheel with nine fellows and muses that a woman cannot have one. The quip reflects light gossip and playful urban chatter of the period.
Kit Carson Described as Humble, Polite, and Honest
The piece reports an interview with Kit Carson praising his mild manners, practical speech, and modesty masking a life of hardship. Carson denies a popular pamphlet’s sensational portrayal, stating he is about five feet eight inches, 170 pounds, 48 years old, and arrived in 1827. The piece also notes a Washington Irving manuscript claim and a Selma coin relic from Jerusalem’s era, valued at fifteen cents in silver.
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Kit Carson
Ile
Washington
Gold Hunter
Booneville
Missouri
Washington Irving
Santa Fee
The
Washington Union
Selma
Jerusalem
Shekel
Israel
Wakeup Bid Sparks Humorous Domestic Exchange
The wife asks if it is time to rise and the husband replies he has been thinking about it for an hour and a half. The brief exchange captures a light domestic moment with playful banter.
Cat that hunts with a man’s doglike precision stuns New Jersey
A New Jersey sportsman trained a cat to accompany him on hunts and flush birds rabbits and squirrels with doglike accuracy. The feline shows steady, quiet movements and is deemed more valuable than many dogs for keeping game in check, making it a neighborhood curiosity.
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New Jersey
Revenge Over Sign Alters Consul Hours in Nantucket
A Nantucket ship master retaliates against a United States Consul by repainting the consul sign to read ten to one la is not in after failing to find the official in his office despite the stated hours In from 10 to 1.
Lover Walks Ten Miles to Take His Gal to Circus
A devoted lover walked ten miles to fetch a team to take his beloved to the circus. They spent the day sightseeing, then he drove her home and returned the team. He then walked back in the heat, claiming swimming a small water body is nothing beside twenty miles for love.
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New Orleans
Louisville
Hellespont
Oyster mishap blamed on bad shellfish mix
A druggist asks a man what greased the problem and the patient replies that oysters caused his illness. He admits also having a mince pie, four bottles of ale and two glasses of gin with tea, insisting the oysters were likely to blame.
It Is My Horse Wife Declares in Quarrel
A wife claims ownership of a horse saying her money bought it. The husband concedes the purchase but notes her money also bought him, highlighting a domestic dispute over property and finances.
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Clyde
Papa
Meltha
Bardic Water Duel Ends With Serenade Gone Wet
A bardic serenade ends in a shower as a basin of water is poured over the singer by the lady he was courting, prompting laughter and a soggy finale to the performance.
Secret Warranted to Keep in Any Climate
A sardonic remark from a Punch column quips that a woman’s age is a secret warranting perpetual concealment. The line mocks social vanity and gendered scrutiny in a humorous colonial-era voice.
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Ta Punch
Why are husbands like dough
A brief joke reads that husbands resemble dough as the women knead them, implying domestic humor about marriage.
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Shtotvers
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Warren Mail
E. Cowan
Meadville Academy
Teacher’s Normal School
Meadville
T. F. Thickston
Carver
E. FE. Eddy
Water Street
Warren
Warren Omer Fo
General Stage Office
Hackney House
Second and
Liberty Streets
Warren, Warren Co. Pa
Richard 5. Barbour
Temperance
P. S. Cole
Court House
High Street
Arren
Warren Co
American Hotel
Independence Hall
Chestnut Street
5Th
Philadelphia
Wyatt & Hevnixes
P. R. Bennett
L. T. Parmlee
Carver House
Warren County
Wetmore and Spencer
Second Street
Johnson , Brown's
L. D
Wetmore
T. C. Spencer
Johnson and Brown
Johnson's Ex Nge
B. P. Jonnson
Kasselas
Scofield
DPD
BROWN
P. D. Fitch
Pav Ciian
Water and
Hazel Streets
Old Bridge
Parthena Williams
Reform School
Liberty Street
L. E. Guignon
Sugar Grove
E. M. Pierce
Warren, Pa
Nesmith and Keller
Win. H. Combs
Verbark
Bartlett and Morgan
Orra Houry
Wat Street
Mtranahan & Rendall's
Moorns Sailor
G. N. Parmlee & Co
Carver Gps
C. W. Rathbun
Alto Conignee
Point Breeze
D. M. Williams
Chauncey Hulburt
Svita
Watson and Rogers
Crystal Palace
Lewis Arnett
Orr & Henry
F. Henry
Orr
W. W. Dayton
Hazeltine & Co
Variety Hall
Johnson’s Exchange
Warren, Warren Co
W. Hazeltine
P. Johnson
E. H. Danforth
D. D
Wetmore & Spencer
East Indies
Egypt
Japan
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