Overheard Confessions on a Streetcar and a Descent into Tragedy
A narrator recalls overheard talk from schoolgirls about party culture and parental secrecy. Years later in New York a mission worker encounters two sisters amid vice in Five Points. one dies in a garret and the other blindness to a mother's warning drives a sobering, fatal lesson. The essay closes with a stark lament on Jerusalem and moral decline.
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Pearly
New York
Five Points
Mother Green
Mother Green’s
Bellevue
Instructive Savage Tales and a Potatoes Reply
A harsh miscellany of outdated stereotypes describes the Sioux as morally superior yet harshly punished women, then recounts a comic horse trade and a missing wife episode. A Montgomery remark mocks voters and monkeys, and a rich woman questions a boy about religion with a potato reply.
Proverbial Warnings and Reflections on Women and Time
An array of old adages on signs and luck, plus reflections on women’s graves and virtue. The piece cites Agathe the Dutch farmer and a bachelor’s quip about women’s voting and courting, ending with musings on fate and propriety.
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Agathe
Phrenological Journal
SEA AND LAND JOURNEY FROM NEW YORK TO PANAMA
Correspondent recalls a sea voyage from New York toward Panama visiting St Thomas in the West Indies. He describes currents, hazards near Scorpion Rock, colonial fortifications, local scenery, and notable residents while noting the thirsty island’s drought after deforestation.
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San Francisco
Aspinwall
Ballaay
Panama
South America
Straits of Magellan
Pacific
St Thomas
West Indies
Sombrero
Hat Island
Spain
Gambia
St. Thomas
Frenchman’s Cap
Scorpion Rock
Santa Anna
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Fire destroys merriment during French occupation levée
A recorded tale describes a French military levee in Moke and a nobleman’s deserted estate set ablaze. Officers and dancers continue through the flames until a magazine explosion ends the revelry, then portraits of Washington and Napoleon contrast speech styles with modern ironies and jokes.
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Mokesow
Caroot
Washington
United States
George Washington
Grant
Thomas Jefferson
Napoleon
Itally
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