26 Aug 1892
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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1892
Page
1
A survey notes 60 million volumes in American public libraries versus 21 million in Europe. It also mentions forestry impacts in Fresno, California, and other varied items including a Philadelphia coroner case and debates on railway safety devices.
Daisy Hale and John Ramsay transform Aunt Mary’s worn farm life into a partnership of duty and devotion. Daisy sheds vanity to share toil, improving the home, and John grows toward a marriage that honors their labor and vows.
A bland farmer Farner Simpsons tolerates neighbors and horses but cannot escape a troublesome cow. A morning milking ends with the cow kicking, milk spilled, and the farmer notes the incident as the cow's only fault, perhaps a failure of thoughtfulness. The piece then drifts into aсли discussion on sleep and brain science, referencing Preyer and x ray cortex ideas.
In the astern states many small amateur telegraph associations run miles of wire and multiple stations. At Cranford New Jersey a group has twenty stations and a three and a half mile circuit. A central committee supplies gear and a fire burglar and emergency code. Such outfits are costly and require training but could greatly aid isolated farms and stragglers before telephones become common.
Report describes Bushmen of Namaqua Damoland in the Old Colony seeking lions with poisoned arrows and primitive gear. It details two hunters tracking spoor at dawn, cornering a sleeping lion and delivering a fatal shot, highlighting endurance and adaptive methods in harsh desert life.
A survey of snakeskin uses notes its appeal in outfits from decorative accessories to house shoes in the West Indies and New York shops. It highlights cowboys in Australia adopting the style, and mentions a Broadway fashion trend using genuine snake skin as a tie.
The column highlights a Piuto squaw from Pyramid Lake in a lavender trimmed gown, and details Princess Marie of Edinburgh's white satin coming out gown with pearls and silver, followed by fashion notes on wraps, hats, gloves, and cat-friendly eccentricities from New York and St. Louis newspapers.
The Texas town of Wacs reports the largest well in the United States with a ten inch diameter and 1850 feet depth. The Samean well yields about one and a half million gallons daily of hot pure water at 103 degrees, the highest artesian water temperature found, feeding standpipes up to 120 feet high. The supply is described as inexhaustible with two additional standpipes enabling domestic, manufacturing, and bath uses and providing motive power for industry.
Scientific notes describe bird species with cor alu trees and eight-eyed spidons, gendered differences in lifespans, vaccination in France for glanders heroes, and Danish efforts against tuberculosis. Other items include a new electrical device to destroy grasses, a phonograph train announcer in Anchmont, a patentable electric pickpocket detector, electric lights on the Texas battleship, blind switchboard operators, an alloy producing red flames, larynx removal cases, slag heat recovery, and the explosive Herculite with hidden ingredients capable of moving a thirty-ton stone.
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