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Newspaper
Daily Star
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1878
Page
4
In Detroit Central Station area a court session opens amid rain damaging stores and farms with water flooding roofs and crops. A farmer jokes about selling frog legs while the judge consoles a moving man pleading for rest and the case turns toward a lighthearted, chaotic scene on Congress street.
A jumble of short items reports a boy choking at dinner and dying, a fatal lime kiln accident near Baltimore with a survivor burned, and a Naples note on rapid literary feats. It then shifts to weather folklore and Newtonian observations, alongside Britain's coal metrics claiming the first cubic mile of coal by end of 1878.
A quirky tale of a potential boarder rejected for musical tastes and discipline. The landlady fears harm from a rogue instrument, fearing disrupted harmony, debt, and a mass exodus among her wary boarders.
Report describes a birdlike flying machine exhibited in Philadelphia whose operator sits in a seat and works a crank to steer a bottom propeller. The device features winglike paddles and a ladder linked to stirrups, with a 25 by 12 foot balloon and a claimed 98 percent payload. Trial flights rose forty feet but faltered as the operator struggled with control.
Darwinian experiments tested if carnivorous plants gain from captured insects. About 200 Drosera rotundifolia plants were grown in plates. half received meat. Fed plants weighed 21.5 percent more and produced seeds and capsules four times heavier, supporting assimilation of captured insects for market fattening.
A Virginia journalist reports a startling tale from travelers in the Black Hills. They found a horse skeleton with a human skull inside the rib cage, a man having killed his horse and crawled in to escape the cold, only to be trapped as flesh froze and carrion birds preyed. The scene haunts the observer who cannot forget the grisly sight.
An insane watchmaker in Paris suffered violent fits during the revolution era. He imagined miracles like St Denis kissing his severed head and argued with his companions until a sudden collapse of illusion restored his reason. The episode ends with his full return to sanity.
The Philadelphia Times notes the careful feeding of animals in the zoo. Monkeys and ostriches eat varied foods while chimpanzees receive milk and honey, bananas and oranges at set times, and carnivores shift toward horse meat. Daily hay and potatoes sustain the elephant and other large herbivores, while care must be taken with creatures like the giraffe to prevent choking.
The fragment outlines Symmes discussing his belief about reaching the North Pole and open waters at certain latitudes. It mentions travel aims, testing, and references to streams, birds, and weather conditions as the explorer progresses toward extreme latitudes.
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