A Woodshed Trial of Smoke and Sparks in Camp
A narrator recounts a camping trip where a matchless camp turns into a comic ordeal. Edna and family insist on smoking while a trek to a logger’s cabin yields help from a practical logger’s wife. A tense night ends with a fire lit and a lesson on perseverance and partnership in the woods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big Stony
Edna
Myself
Marie
Stony Dan Totel
Jack Menifee
Jack
Stony Country
Iack
Trout Brook
Bad
Mau
Walf
George
Mitch
Mra
Sally
Mrs. Logger
Mylow
Subterranean River Valleys and a Prospecting Voyage
A fragment describes submerged coast valleys off Africa linked to the Congo and global analogues, then shifts to a solitary mining voyage in Alaska. The narrator endures a perilous channel crossing to Prince of Wales Island, hunts a buck, camps, and encounters a moody grave marker and a falsified Snowbird claim. The tale ends with renewed mining prospecting near Merean Arm and a promise of next summer’s discovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Africa
Congo
Europe
Peety Miles
Medean Arm
Prince of Wiles
Leine
Jong
Prince of Wales Island
Nist
Dall Head
Watchikan
Grayind Island
Sol
Dirk Line
Prince of Wales Teland
Daele
Gravina Telia
Channel
Cholmondeley
Dall Wend
Oniguy
Prina of Wales Island
Pacific
Coast Range
Jiale
Alwys
Stinbonm Evar
Ain
New Mexico
Texas Rangers
Italy
Ban
Henry
Ile Wiskahsand
Alawka
Wiselaine
Rudolph
Joe Cumings
Superman
Tun Cool
Diridiion
Merean Arm
Clever Camera Tricks and Duplicator Ploys Exposed
The article warns that photographs can be faked using duplicator devices and double exposure. It describes a pillbox sized duplicator to split the image and capture two poses, a fish-in-water trick with string and weight, and a bottle illusion using backdrops and pencil marks to place an object inside glass.
Tyrian dye recreated by Viennese chemist
Mriedlander reproduces Tyrian purple from mollusk shells using sun exposure. It takes 12,000 mollusks to yield a tiny dye, yielding a rage-purple inferior to aniline violet with properties matching indigo used in printing. Estimated cost: two ponds of Tyrian dye at $10,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mriedlinder
Tyre
Friedlander
Mriedlander
Poner
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Wolan
Montain
Tam
Ant
Mitte
Parkiig
Dad
Mitches
Pine Barrens
Indy
Sloppy Spring Hollow
Hope Cove
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