Odd Tales and Wonders From a Distant Ledger
A collage of curious anecdotes and brief reports. Hedgehog defeats a venomous snake by holding its tail and curling into a ball, while a Norwegian hair apparatus proves life saving and light in water. Notes on frauds, cattle farming tricks, cow sanctuary protests in India, accidental injuries, and electric-beaming discussions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Evreux
France
Paris
Lahore
Susan Tope
Devonshire
England
Richardson
Medical Times and Gazette
New York
Ask for the old paths and defend Bible orthodoxy
The speaker denounces modern advanced biblical interpretation as undermining inspiration and argues the Bible is divinely inspired and preserved. He extols orthodoxy, contrasts two destinies for the faithful and the damned, praises orthodox missionaries, and ends with Isabella Raham’s pious testament and a call to cling to the old paths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeremiah vi
London
Shakespeare Hamlet
Alexander Smith
God
Moses
Isaiah
Paul
Christ
Gibbon
Josephus
Prescott
George Bancroft
Thomas Paine
Washington
Beyrout
Madras
Sandwich Islands
Great Britain
United States
America
Brooklyn
Music Hall
Boston
Theodore Parker
Park Congregational Church
New York
John Milton
Martin Luther
Paradise
Alhambras
Versailles
Windsor Castles
Winter Gardens
Raymond Street
Tombs
Sinz Sing
Heaven
You
Greorge Whitefeld
Jezebel
Mary Lyon
Nero
Charles Wesley
Charles Bruiteau
James A. Garfield
John Wilkes Booth
Abraham Lincoln
Stetory
Lord Jesus Christ
Crace
Bason
Enen
Alfred Cookman
Richard Cecil
Commodore Foote
Rod
Isabella
Itaha
Magdalen
Mason
Nisk
Jon
Isabella Raham
The Times Proof-Reading Bet Devastates Lord Winchelsea
The London Times is praised for its proofreading, while Lord Winchelsea bet he would find thirty misprints in six issues. He selected six numbers and found three misprints, losing nearly $2,000 as stakes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isabelle M. Kell
Kelley
Kidd
India
Greato
Tucker
As . Sathery
Milwavker
London Times
Lord Winchelsea
Times
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Prook
Brilanc
Arpy
Russia
Iil
Tong
Iruk
Danbury
Mentone
Ind
Georgia
Chattooga River
DR. Talmages
Sterling
Chautauqua
N. Y
Robert Ingersolls
Robert G. Ingersoll
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