Self Made Men and the Triumph of the Mind Over Circumstances
Washington Indiana notes urge youth to seek wisdom through labor and perseverance. The piece praises Franklin Sherman West Rush and Washington for rising from humble origins via industry and study, citing Burritt as a model of self made achievement and urging economy, frugality, and sustained effort as paths to eminence.
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Washington Telegraph
Franklin
Roger Sherman
Congress
West
Rush
Vaucausen
Morse
Kenyon
Eldon
Abernathy
Galileo
Paris
Wellesly
Duke of Wellington
Europe
John Jacob Astor
Philadelphia
Lawrence
Boston
Richard
America
Elihu Burritt
Savans
Burrit
Washington, Ind
Consider Me Smith in a Campus Prank by Dr Caldwell
An old UNC Dr Caldwell, small and agile, defeats a burly freshman in a campus confrontation. Jones, intent on a private thrashing, misidentifies Caldwell as Smith and is swiftly overpowered, learning to fear mistaken identity on campus.
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Caldwell
University of North Carolina
Jones
Hallo
Smith
Bolus
Unclear moral question on smoking and marriage
The text poses a logical puzzle about a man addicted to smoking marrying a widow and asks if he must quit his cigar because she gives up hers. It treats habit and adaptation in relationships as a theoretical dilemma.
Public figure Renard audits accounts explains flowers
In a French paper an announced public rebibe reveals M. Renard auditing accounts and explaining the language of flowers while selling fried potatoes.
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A ‘M. Renard
Public Rebibe
If you call this skinning says Tom to barber
A witty exchange features Tom remarking to a barber that the action feels like skinning but he would prefer shaving if called by that term. The quip frames a pun on barbering methods and language.
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Tom
The Incredible Fakir of the Sikhs Buried in Earth for Months
A renowned Indian fakir gains bread by lying in a sealed box buried in a grave, corn sown over him, and living in suspended animation for twelve months. Capt. W and Ranjeet Singh witness his feats, with Sikh rulers celebrating his return and venerating his supposed supernatural endurance.
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India
East
Loodianah
Ranjeet Singh
Rangeeti Singh
The Sacred Volume Described As Universal Guide
A writer extols the Bible as a comprehensive work, calling it a book of laws wisdom truth and life. It is praised as authentic history with remote antiquities, biogra phy travels and voyages, a perfect divinity, and the best covenant testament and companion for all ages.
Russian Babies as Statues in the Home
An anecdotal account describes Russian infants bound in tight bandages with only the head exposed to keep them out of mischief. Mothers display children on shelves or beams and rock them by looping the cord over her foot, claiming washing a child would kill it.
Bar A hegro master questioned about faith
In a quoted exchange a bar story reports when asked if his master was a Christian the respondent replies that the master is a member of Congress with a sharp edge of irony.
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Congress
If you wish to be a drunkard a warning to all
A long admonition warns that drinkers ruin finances, health, and reputation. It lists dire outcomes from becoming a drunkard including poverty, crime, family distress, social ostracism, and spiritual ruin, ending with the claim that drunkenness destroys estate body and soul.
Clergyman Notes Revenue Drop After Three Cent Coins
A Washington clergyman on a Sunday says church revenue fell nearly fifty percent after the issue of three cent pieces. He cites a deficiency in the collection and links it to the small coinage.
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Washington
Women and Ducks Not Built for Fleetness with the Feet
A German physician argues that ladies with weak nerves should not sleep alone. A hotel table anecdote notes a tone boarder mocks health for chickens, claiming the place keeps them lively as no dead ones are seen.
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Tar
Tone Boarder
Matrimony Banter Sparks Spark in Small Party
In a private gathering a woman remarks that her sister has never made a match and might want the brimstone. The sister laughs, saying she seeks only the spark not brimstone.
Amusing miscellany and satire clippings from Piladelphia
A collage of short quips and anecdotes from mid nineteenth century press. A sailor robs a rumseller with a pole outside, Austria’s church independence, a House of Commons debate on endowed schools, a pantaloons rent question, a mother and son exchange about tobacco, Harper's Weekly colonial satire, and a scene from The Lost Danute describing a bemused search for a child.
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Sons of Temperance
Piladelphia
farlIn
House of Commons
Church of England
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Story
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Austria
Empire
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Brown
Charlie
Harper's Weekly
Lewis
Danute
Pitteburg Chronicle
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