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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1903
Page
19
In the Confederate Civil War prison, two prisoners recount building a twenty to twenty five foot tunnel under cover of night. They detail tools improvised, guards probing sessions, and a planned mass breakout that yielded scattered escapes but ultimately few reached Federal lines.
The text argues that a perfect vacuum cannot exist above a thermometer mercury column. It notes residual air and mercury vapor always remain, and even if a momentary vacuum could be created, surrounding air would quickly fill the space. It cites Descartes and Galileo on nature abhorring a vacuum, concluding vacuum means air expelled from a space only perceptible to senses.
Describes a silent country village dance in Russia where youths and maidens stand apart and communicate by gestures. A piper plays while a boy challenges a girl with a handkerchief, they whirl without spoken words. The prize goes to the girl who never speaks or smiles.
The New York Press notes many top artists work in bare, furnitureless studios where decoration is set aside. Painters treat the space as pure workrooms, focusing aesthetics in imagination rather than in the room.
A brief dialogue snippet shows a child asking about platonic love and a reply calling it often trouble in disguise, hinting at a playful, reflective moment between two speakers.
In a Paris house Mile Portier and Ivan Kerchoff plot to assassinate the prince and the father at a luncheon with the pair present. Kerchoff reveals his order to kill, then vows to die by police or the people, as Elise Portier intervenes to halt the drama.
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