Wake Up, #63

I love them just fucking hanging out in the tree

Practice talking like a ventriloquist dummy: it will be most gratifying to yourself and your friends

Ever seen an Andean mountain cat before? No? That's not surprising considering it's an endangered species with only about 1,500 of these cats living in the wild.

~ Social Etiquette or Manners and Customs of Polite Society, Maud C. Cooke, 1896

The Kiss (also known as The May Irwin Kiss, The Rice-Irwin Kiss and The Widow Jones) is an 1896 short film and was one of the first films ever shown commercially to the public. Around 18 seconds long, it depicts a re-enactment of the kiss between May Irwin and John Rice from the final scene of the stage musical The Widow Jones. The film was directed by William Heise for Thomas Edison. The film was produced in April 1896 at the Edison Studios of Edison, the first film studio in the United States

JM Barrie Joseph, My Lady Nicotine A Study In Smoke, 1896

GARF f.601 op.1 d.236 ll.84,211a,211b

...generally useful and incidentally ornamental and agreeable

Eugène Bidau (French, 1839-1899) Le Printemps, 1896

Gorgeous German silver decanter with finely cut crystal, Carl Weishaupt, 1896

The Waco Times-Herald, Texas, June 19, 1936