Life of the Gypsies and their Peculiar Traits
Dense ethnographic sketches describe Circassian beauty and gypsy physiognomy, age as a defining feature, nomadic dress, home life in Roumania, and the donkey caravan lifestyle. It surveys social customs, nutrition, worship of brandy, and the bleak outlook of beauty fading with time, amid notes on campsites and music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn Eagle
Hottentots
Heaven
Astyanax
Phidigs
Asia Minor
Bulgaria
Moe
Agamemnon
Roumania
Europe
Natural Kingdom
Griselini
Crematory Sight Unveiled Beyond Williamsburg
In Croffitt's New York Letter the nearly finished crematory is described as an attractive edifice with two porcelain retorts and brick mouths facing an audience room. About thirty bodies are prepared, soon to be incinerated as flames rise in the furnace fed by coke, while witnesses ponder ashes versus purification and the building's serious, original design.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Croffitt
New York
Williamsburg
Abominable Public Buildings in Rio de Janeiro
The article critiques Rio de Janeiro’s public and private buildings noting narrow streets cobblestone pavements and pervasive filth. It laments the city’s layout and ugliness while contrasting the emperor’s palaces, and mentions the congress building as a gloomy structure. It closes with a Brooklyn Eagle citation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cor
New York Sun
Rio Janeiro
Rio
Dom Pedro
Congress
Brazil
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BR. A. Knapp
East Third Street
N. B
Thomas Noonan
Chicago Fair
Boston
U. B
Lafayette
East Second Street
Mues
F. Mues
Cook
R. D. Cone
Winona, Minn
Grand Entertainment
Public Benbeti
PwPrHovTro S&s
Camera Etatil
Chas A. Tenney
Cummings & Visa
America
Cummings & Vila
East Third St
Winona
Minn
Philadelphia
Buffalo
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Douglass
Oar Society
Binglass
Napoleon
Gera
Saya Jomini
Ali
Berthier
Tne
London
All Saints Church
Kensington Park
Globe-Democrat
Russia
Copenhagen
Tyengyaur
Alexander the Great
Drass
Dirneli
Napoleon Bonaparte
Alexander Dumas
Peter the Great
George Washington
Daniel Webster
Lincoln
Horace Greeley
Grant
Alexander
Inter Ocean
Woodstock
Conn
Boking Wowder
ROYAL
Royal Baxina Powder Co
Sams Fox
Samuel Fox
Winnona
Second St
Willj Evans
W.i Third St
Minnesota
Justin
Edwin C. Burt
Repucep Paross
Daud & Thomas
Winona. _ Mill Company CHOICE FLOUR
Ery i
Cnogera
Deland & Go Kaineort NY
Bo-Bay’s
McNie & CO
Postoffice
Alto
Hargesheimer & Beck
Eitchon
Landon & Roberts
George H. Elmer
Acorn Westminster
ACORN
Forest ‘Acorn
Geo. H. Elmer
Third Street
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