The Roman Senate Compared With the U S Senate
The article explains the Rome senate as an executive body with no lawmaking power and traces its evolving size from Romulus to Caesar and Augustus. It contrasts with the U S Senate as largely legislative, notes eligibility rules, and cites wealth requirements and a historic example of Senator Hoar, from Punxsutawney Spirit.
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Senate of
Rome
Romulus
United States
Julius Caesar
Augustus
Questor
Edile
Senate
Hoar
The Wise Guy Boss Donates to Himself
In New York a wagon carrying lamp globes collided with a truck and many globes broke. A benevolent old man urged the driver to ask for help, but the driver later revealed the donor was actually his own boss, turning the hat collection into a private joke.
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New York
Trial of Walters for Watch Theft in Arkansas County
A man named Walters faces trial in Arkansas County for stealing a watch amid conflicting evidence. The judge offers guidance to the jurors, and one juror asks a single pivotal question before retiring: whether the prisoner really stole the watch.
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Arkansas
Walters
Harper’s Weekly
The Crooked Genesee River Tale
The Livingston Democrat muses on the Genesee River winding course from Genesee to Mount Morris and back toward Piffard, noting twenty eight miles by river versus six by road, and the odd zigzag path making a short river distance take long land travel.
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Genesee
Mount Morris
Piffard
Geneseo
Livingston Democrat
Young Hero Croghan at Fort Stephenson 1813 Victory
The youth Major George Croghan led a small garrison at Fort Stephenson Lower Sandusky now Fremont during the 1812 war. With 160 men and a single cannon he repelled a larger British and Indian force prompting a retreat to Canada. He inspired confidence, defended the post to the last, and earned a Congressional medal.
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George Croghan
Croghan
Harrison
Fort Stephenson
Lower
Sandusky
Fremont
Proctor
Wellington
Barclay
Tecumseh
Kodina
Canada
George Rogers Clark
Sherman
Perry
The
Lake
Thames
West
United States
Congress
Unusual Deep Sea Fishes Revealed by Caribbean Soundings
Deep Caribbean explorations uncover bizarre fish adaptations. One species bears two convex golden eyes, another shows eyes on long stems protruding from the head, and a third features a stem extending about half a yard. Some specimens even have lantern like eye shine.
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Caribbean Sea
A Bishop Forgets A Clergymans Name
An anecdote from Illustrated Bits recalls a bishop who never forgot names yet could not recall one cleric. On a train at a station he recognized the man but asked how to spell the name. The reply came simply Jones, my lord, revealing the lapse with tact.
Verdict ties death to business failure in coroner note
A coroner’s jury concludes the deceased died of heart failure, superinduced by business failure caused by speculative failure and failure to look ahead. The Kansas City Independent notes the verdict carries humor and a moral for young businessmen.
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Kansas City
Illustrious Bachelors Through History
A list of renowned men described as single through life, including Sir Isaac Newton, Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith, Chamfort, Gassendi, Galileo, Descartes, Locke, Kant, Leibniz, Hume, Gibbon, Macaulay, Pitt, Fox, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michael Angelo, Reynolds, Turner, Handel, Beethoven, Rossini, Mendelssohn, and Meyerbeer.
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Sir Isaac Newton
Thomas Hobbes
Adam Smith
Chamfort
Gassendi
Galileo
Descartes
Locke
Spinoga
Kant
Bishop Butler
Bayle
Leibnitz
Hume
Gibbon
Macaulay
Buckle
Pitt
Charles James Fox
Leonardo da Vinci
Raphael
Michael Angelo
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Turner
Handel
Beethovah
Rossini
Mendelssohn and Meyerbeer
Murder of the seal by hunters described in graphic detail
Day Allen Willey in Metropolitan reports a vivid account of a seal hunt where hunters club, stab, and flay seals on an ice pan. The piece notes repeated killings from dawn to nightfall, with pelts loaded for towing to the ship and hundreds of seals slain daily when mothers and pups are unprotected.
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Allen Willey
Metropolitan
Bunions and Rank in Reflections on Social Pride
In Rambling Recollections Sir Henry Drummond Wolff notes England’s boastful deference to high-status friends. A high‑ranked lady’s daughter suffers foot pain and a governess remarks that without the mother’s exalted rank she would call it a bunion.
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Sir Henry Drummond Wolff
England
Sign of Precocity from an Irishman
A Bohemian excerpt notes a father declaring his youngest son will be a surgeon after his child is seen using scissors on a book and cutting out the appendix, illustrating early surgical ambition with rustic humor.
The World of Homer and Its Narrow Sea
Sir Spencer Walpole argues in the Contemporary Review that Homer framed a small, bordered world. He notes Homer’s Greece limited by neighbors, with hints of Africa and Egypt seen through travel reports, and he contrasts Homer’s sea with today’s vast oceans.
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Greece
Balkans
Levant
Aegean Sea
Africa
Egypt
Italy
Lemuel Gulliver
Swift
Australia
Mr. Gladstone
Herodotus
Mediterranean
Aegean
Homer
Atlantic
Sir Spencer Walpole
Contemporary Review
Jack’s Lucky Bag and the Navy’s Lost Gear Tradition
The New York Tribune describes the monthly lucky bag aboard ships and at Annapolis as a repository for misplaced items from sailors. It gathers jackknives shoes tobacco sewing kits caps photographs writing materials and other belongings, reflecting a broad range of naval paraphernalia found by the crew.
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Jack
Brigade of Midshipmen
Annapolis
Corps of Cadets
West Point
New York Tribune
College Women Bristle at Missionary Sermon
In a Philadelphia Ledger commentary a college girl reports students resisted a missionary talk urging women to abandon study for missions. She recalls the preacher praising women as fisher of men and notes the visible levity from the audience and the critic’s complaint about their tone.
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Philadelphia’ Ledger
Joy A Comparison
A witty exchange contrasts congressional bustle with a farmer’s hired hand who appears “busy doin’ nuthin’.” The Louisville Courier Journal uses rural humor to caricature political activity, highlighting perception gaps between government and everyday work.
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Congress
Farmer Coboss
Louisville Courier-Journal
Undeveloped Man and Woman Exchange Quip
A brief dialog notes that a woman cannot make a fool of any man but can develop him. The message closes with an ad blurb for Dr Thomas Electric Oil touting cures for toothache ear ache sore throat and other pains.
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Chicago News
Thomas
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