The First Class in Sentiment in Love
Leslie Mason challenges Steele Addison’s lack of sentiment in a lively debate about feeling and logic. After moral tests and a rescue at a tenement, Steele declares his love and asks to advance to the first class in sentiment, while Leslie concedes the lesson as she falls for him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leslie
Leslie Mason
Steele Addison
Herbert Spencer
Steele
Rat Alley
Hermitage
Sentiment
Hermitage Club
Kant
Spencer
Miss Mason
Mrs. Morrison
Mr. Addison
Sam Howard
Marisetta
Sam
Marietta
Howards
Goat
Tealle
Darwin
School of Logic
School of Sentiment
Tuwu
Man at the Engine Bravely Feeds Firemen to Save Teammates
An account of Bill Brown, an engine operator, who stayed at his station as flames and explosions battered a burning building. Despite blistered skin, he kept water flowing to rescue four fellow firemen trapped inside, narrowly escaping the collapsing walls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheriska
Bill Brown
Cleveland Moffett
Tanger
Brown
Dill Brown
Chinese Albumen Factory Near Ching Kiang China
A Philadelphia Press report describes a large albumen plant near Ching Kiang using thousands of ducks to produce albumen for fish glue like whites and yolks. White separated and dried, yolk processed in barrels with salt borax, shipped to Europe for medicines dyes and cotton oils.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ching Kiang
China
Europe
England
France
Philadelphia Press
Are There Too Many Marriages in Our Time
A column argues against the idea that marriages are excessive, praising mature, educated women who choose to marry for love and partnership. It asserts that strong, self-reliant women improve society and that marriage should occur when both partners are mentally and physically ready, warning against forced or hasty unions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Stuart Mill
England
Empire
America
Ball Lightning Experience at Sea in 1867
Robert Seybold of the United States Iron and American whaler recalls a ball of fire the size of two men’s heads detaching from a thunderhead near the mizzen, exploding on the rigging, paralyzing him, and then vanishing through anchor chains as crew members secured the vessel to weather rocks. He describes numbness, shocks, and eventual return of movement after the event witnessed at Hudson Bay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Seyboth
United States
Whather Iean
Hod~son Bay
Scientific American
German Woman's Invention Aims to Correct Hunchbacks
Berlin inventor Katharina Wegner unveils a stretching device using a vertical ladder frame to straighten deformities such as hunchbacks pigeon chests and other skeletal faults by suspending patients and applying progressive pressure and motions to restore normal position along with consoling notes for parents of fragile infants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katherina Wegner
Berlin
Germany
Salt Mountain of Cardona Spain Described in Detail
The article describes Cardona in the Pyrenees as the site of a colossal salt mountain near an old fort. Accessible only by a 25 mile mule cart journey, the private mine yields salt and crafted salt objects for visitors. It notes vast reserves, natural erosion, and salt caves with stalactites, plus mentions salt mountains in Persia and Colombia formed by geological events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cardona
Spain
Pyrenees
Caradona
France
Persia
Colombia
Vagaries Of Tides And Massive Islands Debate
London Shipping World surveys global currents and tidal bores. It notes warm equatorial and polar streams, unexplained anomalies, and bores in Severn, Hooghly, and Fundy. It also claims Greenland is the largest island, with Australia second if counted as a continent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific
Atlantic
Cape of Good Hope
Java
Straits of Sunda
Caribbean Sea
Cape Horn
Newfoundland
Nova Scotia
American
Florida
Straita
Gibraltar
Mediterranean Sea
Lilliton Island
China Sea
Luzon
Severn Side
Hooghly
Irrawaddy
Bay of Fundy
Southampton
Singapore
London
Arctic Ocean
Greenland
Australia
Battix Land
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May Belleville Brown
Eve
Che Yamoun
A.nd MecHill
Harrow
AD Prasee
Spaln
Baut
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