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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1901
Page
7
A New York Sun article notes rawhide pinions outperform iron gears in wear and noise, made from layered rawhide pressed and bolted to metal plates. They find uses in machine shops, streetcar pinions, mauls, mallets, bellcords, straps, shoe laces, artificial limbs, trunk handles, washers, harness goods, whips, lariats, and belting.
A grenadier who offered Napoleon a watermelon in Jaffa seeks the Legion of Honor. Napoleon dismisses the fruit gift, then is moved by the soldier's seven wounds and campaigns. He snaps that the veteran speaks to essential points, praising bravery over gifts.
A passage from Blackwood's Magazine discusses how vivid impressions upon the mind and sight might persuade a dreamer that a figure appearing in a dream was truly present. The last things seen before sleep are bed chamber contents and a friend’s image, leading to a firm morning assertion of wakefulness and sight.
A long circulated belief that butchers cannot contract consumption is false. The piece notes that mortality rates among butchers mirror those of other trades, urging caution for health. It also explains baked potatoes digest more easily than boiled, as oven heat converts starch to dextrin, favoring the dyspeptic.
A Boston drummer recounts a wild test of nerve in the West. While smoking a fine pipe on a veranda, a native with a gun aimed at him, bullets striking the pipe bowl. He endures four shots before the shooter jokes about imitation. He earns a $50 smoker as proof of his nerve, then nearly faints upon retreat to his room.
Chambers' Journal recounts storks feeding unfledged young through sieges. Two Strassburg photos show a nest on a chimney before and after shelling, with one chick perished and three surviving as parents remain.
A London Truth story recalls Dr Temple archbishop of Canterbury as a source of witty anecdotes. A curate seeking license is hidden to read aloud but the bishop grumbles about not loud enough. The curate reveals a fiancée, and Temple quips adviseably about believing a wife after marriage.
The Tail of a Rat describes how a rat uses its tail as a balancing prehensile organ. Cuvier notes more muscles in the tail than in the human hand, enabling crawling on ledges, balancing, and even acting as a projectile spring to reach heights.
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