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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1895
Page
7
The Berlin fire department is the oldest professional organization of its kind on the continent and operates with daily drills. It showcases advanced gear like the scaphander suit, smoke helmets, and life saving carts with a rapid rope and sack system that saves victims in minutes. Signals are distinctive to each company and quickly recognized by firemen.
A Pop ular Science Monthly explanation describes deep sea sounding aboard ships. The sounding machine lowers a line with a sinker to the water’s edge, recorder reads revolutions as the sinker reaches bottom, and in an hour the line traverses five miles to reveal ocean depths and life on the sea floor.
A Monroe correspondent describes a young woman living near the river country with trained wasps performing tricks for amusement and income. The insects drink from a thimble, dance a “skirt” routine, and respond to music, while the invalid owner plays piano and the wasps align on the rack, eager for attention.
Mrs. Edward Seidle earns praise as a top costume designer for opera in New York and beyond. The English artist explains how she designs hundreds of costumes per production, how color matters on stage, and how she collaborates with stars like Lillian Russell. Her work spans costume design and scene painting, with a focus on matching palettes to stage light and ensuring each piece supports dramatic action.
Seen by moonlight and aurora, a steamer near rock bound shores anchors for the night in a tickle between islands and encounters a drifting iceberg. The glow of moonlight and northern lights bathe the ice peak as the crew watches from deck, pondering avalanches and eerie beauty.
English exhibitor Mr. Leoni Clarke says cats are the hardest to train though he handles many animals. He keeps sixty or more cats, notes their skittishness, and trains them with kindness. Cats walk a rope of rats and canaries while training rats and birds in the same cave. The rats come from Java.
The article notes Gregorovius befriended Baron von Haxthausen, a Westphalian writer on Russia with spiritualist leanings. It recounts his boyhood gymnasium dream of receiving the Horace line Justum ac tenacem propositi virum from a professor during an exam, which he then recited to astonishment and passed brilliantly.
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