The Quagga and the Tiger Race at the Circus
In Cleveland Moffett's paper on The Wild Beast Tamer in St. Nicholas a quagga and a tiger Rajah chased each other around a circus arena. Bonavita fired a blank to divert the tiger, but Rajah closed in. The quagga kicked the tiger under the jaw, knocking it out. The quagga returned to its cage as Rajah was hauled away.
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Cleve-land
Moffett
St. Nicholas
Bonavita
Raja
Rajah
Owls as Fighters and Traps They Interrogate
An old New York Times note describes owls defending killed prey, returning to traps, and attacking handlers. It recounts a trapper's experience with owls raiding rat traps and a farmer who nearly lost a hand when an owl seized his wrist.
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Ois
N. Y
Social snub analyzed in Raionge Tsibune excerpt
In a sharp rebuke, Tommy’s mother questions the value of associating with Swannigum boys as she deems them foul and ignorant. Tommy defensively answers that, at least, they provide fleas, illustrating bias and humor in the Raionge Tsibune fragment.
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Siang
Tommy
Tsibune
King of vultures description in early natural history
A historical note on a rare vulture species found mainly in South American mountains. It is carnivorous but not eagle-weaponed, with a weak beak and long delicate claws. It feeds on carrion and occasionally attacking lambs, kids, weak animals, and even humans when desperate.
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Httle
South America
Seeds Travel Across Fields By Wind And Life
The article describes how seeds spread through wind water and animals including sheep, birds, and dogs. It notes burrs hitchhiking on clothing, seeds passing in stomachs to distant lands, and birds dispersing seeds via feathers and droppings. Human activity and mail serve to distribute seeds, with seed companies growing many varieties across acres in California. A second item shows Kathryn 2 1/2 praising baby sister and asking the baby to mind her all night.
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Nature
United States
Great Seed Farm
California
Farm Journal
Circle of Good and Evil amid Gods Circle of Earth
Dr. Talmage proclaims that human deeds form a circular moral circuit, returning blessings or curses. He links Isaiah on the circle of the earth to cosmology, history, and personal fate, urging repentance through Christ to break the wheel and to find Heaven centered on Christ.
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Louis Klopach
Washington
Talmage
Isaiah
God
Grant’s Causeway
Ireland
Downings and
Mitchells
Yorkminster
Babylon
London
Potteries
England
Pompeii
Ezekiel
Jezebel
Shakespeare
Naboth
William E. Dodge
Voltaire
France
Germany
Europe
America
Heaven
St. John
City of
Christ
Not Yet Neighbor I Saw Doctor Call This Morning
A fragment reports a neighbor noting a doctor visiting a house for the first time this morning while asking about a father’s condition. The tone resembles a brief Bits item with terse dialogue and local curiosity.
Moses in the Ark and Rescue by Pharaohs Daughter
Biblical lesson outlines Moses birth and rescue. Jochebed hides him among bulrushes on the Nile, Pharaoh’s daughter finds the infant, Miriam arranges a nurse, and Moses is raised in the palace with Hebrew and Egyptian influences shaping his early training.
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Levi
Ae Slater Stade
Pharaoh
Moses
Seti
Amram
Jochebed
Miriam
God
Natural affection not universal in human life
The passage argues natural affection varies. not all mothers love their children nor children their mothers. It notes sin's presence and its effects, urging every person to cultivate natural and greater affection. It concludes that assuming universal natural affection is incorrect.
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Kathryn
Dr. Talmage
Epavon
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