A Hunting Scene Explains Devouring Worldly Pursuits
Dr Talmage compares pursuing wealth to a hunter chasing prey and warns that the morning of life may devour the world yet the evening may yield only ruined spoils. He urges immediate conversion, noting many delay until old age and risk permanent loss.
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Christopher North
Edinburgh
Lord Byron
Coleridge
Catherine of Russia
Henry II
Francis I
Mary Queen of Scots
Navarre
Jesus Christ
The Spoils Of Victory In A Sermon Of Faith And Fire
A fiery sermon frames religion as conquest and division of spoils. It recalls evangelists, martyrs, and saints to urge seekers to accept salvation and claim heavenly riches. The speaker invites the weary and weary to come to Jesus and share in the divine triumph.
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Jesus
Puzzles for the Eye Delights readers with optical tricks
A discussion of optical illusions from Nature and simple at home drawings. Readers are guided to construct arches and pillars to see how perspective alters perception, and are invited to judge line lengths before measuring with a ruler.
First Pre Emption Act Spurs Settler Land Purchases
In 1816 Congress passed the first preemption right enabling settlers on public lands to purchase 320 acres. The measure faced opposition but marked the start of a long line of similar enactments.
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Congress
Nocturnal Creatures From Cornhill Magazine
A Cornhill Magazine passage explores nocturnal bats as highly social insect hunters related to humans. It notes their skeletal similarities to primates, describes long finger wings, and highlights diverse habits from fruit eating to bloodsucking vampires. The piece emphasizes bats as night flying mammals with humanlike female traits.
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South America
Pampas
Malay Archipelago
Milton
Belial
Cornhill Magazine
Origin of Poultry Raising in World History
Natu ralist theories trace domestic poultry to Ban kiya Jungle fowl of India with likely domestication first in Burmah. Chinese tradition notes West transfer about 1400 B C. References cover Homer Aristophanes Egypt Britain and Europe, showing long-standing global presence.
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Blythe
Darwin
Bankiya
India
Burmah
West
Aristophanes
Greece
Persia
South Sea Islands
Europe
Britain
Skulls Tell Tales of Primal Life and Head Deformities
Rochester New York Post Express reports Professor Charles H. Ward at the city museum details how skulls reveal pre glacial existence and ancient head shaping among North and South American peoples. He cites Peruvian and New Zealand examples, cannibalism evidence, and a Vienna hospital skull showing a hidden murder clue.
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Rochester
Charles H. Ward
Professor Ward
Europe
Ward
North
South America
Gulf of Mexico
Peru
New Zealand
Vienna
Rochester N. Y
Kept Her Promise at Hengrave Hall Tale of Three Suitors
At Hengrave Stall near Bury St Edmunds sold for over £90,000 the seat once owned by Penelope daughter of Earl Rivers. An amusing tale says she balanced three suitors Sir George Trenchard Sir John Gage and Sir William Hervey by promising them all a turn. The first suitor died soon after and she became Lady Gage. Sir John fathered nine children and died in 1655, his widow wed Sir William Hervey two years later. The lady outlived all her husbands.
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Hengrave
Bury Street
Edmunds
Penelope
Earl Rivers
George Trenchard
John Rage
William Hervey
George Varenchard
Gage
John
Seven Wonders of Corea Describe by Chinese Paper
The piece lists seven Corea wonders: a healing hot spring near Kin Shantao, two wells with one empty when full, a cold wind-filled cave, an unkillable pine forest, a hovering massive stone, a timeless hot stone on a hill, and a sweating Buddha with barren surroundings for thirty years.
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Corea
Kin Shantao
Philadelphia Ledger
Stamp collecting hobby showcased at Portland post office
A Portland Maine post office display illustrated the stamp collecting hobby through a registered letter bearing a four dollar stamp. The letter required only ten cents postage, but the collector used the high value stamp to obtain a cancelled specimen valued by collectors, a common practice to protect rare stamps from loss.
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Hbby
Portland. Me
New York Sun
The Size of Stars
Fixed stars are imagined larger than the sun with Alpha Centauri appearing three times the sun’s size when equally distant. Sirius is thought to be 2700 times as large as the sun. A recent theory suggests bigger stars may shine brighter, not far larger than the sun as older figures imply.
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DR. Talmage
Brooklyn
Ee Jaiand
Sunpe Osleek
England
Far East
Apras
Francis Og Aftet
Moses Seethe
Nimrod
Jir Jacob
Benjamin
Tom Hoods
Charles Lambs
Edgar A. Pees
Hargin
Merry Andrew
Bufoon
Taney
San Francisco Wharf
Micor
Christ
Earth
Death
Hell
Emanuel
James Turner
Cape of Good Hope
Daniel
Elijah
Paul
Igns
Nature
Luan
Faith
Trial
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