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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1897
Page
6
The Postal Telegraph tests show Morse system remains cheaper and more effective than Wheatstone. In a three hour run, New York operators sent 200 messages totaling 5 605 words, averaging 66 2 3 messages per hour, with Pittsburgh close behind at 68 15 messages per hour.
A writer recalls meeting two men in a Paris newspaper office who styled themselves fighting editors. Dressed in black with legion ribbons and waxed mustaches, they treated rectifications as business, backing or resisting edits as demanded, defending articles they had possibly never seen.
Washington at inauguration time hosts about 100000 visitors while the city of 230000 people includes 80000 Black residents. Hotel rooms fill long in advance, and booms extend for weeks, rewarding well prepared inns that take in late arrivals.
Clark University professor G Stanley Hall ranks thunder and lightning as the leading terror for children, followed by reptiles and strangers. He notes fears vary by region with ghosts least feared and high winds provoking more alarm in cyclone states.
A man watches a grizzly bear in the Central Park menagerie pit as it takes peanuts handed through the bars. The bear uses two claws to grip each peanut then carries it to its mouth, showing an unusual eating method and prompting amused speculation.
A party of coon hunters in Danville Kentucky fled after their dogs chased to an old tree they felt spirits from distressed voices near the site. A local man recalled a similar haunting and the crime story of Louis Streat who was murdered for his money and drag failed to indict the suspect Henderson who fled after bail.
A new device named the pneum o sphor or pneumophor was invented in Vienna to supply breathable air for workers in damp or smoke filled environments. The portable unit weighs about four kilograms and provides air for roughly three quarters of an hour, having passed rigorous tests by the Vienna fire department and in Silesian coal mines.
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