Garden and Poultry Notes on Seeds and Remedies
Garden and lawn advice covers maple seeds, soil watering, and insect remedies from Mt Hope Nurseries. It includes soot for worm control, quassia with soft soap for rose pests, and hellebore sprinkling. Poultry notes advise on early eggs, curing cholera with assafoetida mix, and clean disinfectant routines for coops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles, Downing
Johnson
New England
Mt. Hope
Rochester
London Gardeners’ Chronicle
Potato Crop Boosts Manor Farm Output
In a detailed account, crops include wheat, barley, oats and grass seeds with potatoes described as splendid. Town and home manure, sometimes nitrate of soda, feed a heavy oat crop while fifteen workers earn sixteen to seventeen shillings weekly and cottage rent. After hay, sheep are brought in for local sales at sixpence weekly.
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Soadiure
Tron
Liverpool
Lea
The Earth Not a True Globe Analysis by Norman Lockyear
Norman Lockyear argues in Good Words that the earth was once hotter and more irregular in shape, driven by rotation to widen the equator and peel away surface matter. He suggests multiple gradual changes over time with axis shifts and no sudden catastrophes due to nature's vast scale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earth
Norman Lockyear
Pretty Parsee Girls At Bombay Prize Exhibition
A New York correspondent reports on a Parsee school prize distribution in Bombay. About fifty girls aged eight to twelve perform in Guzérati, wearing gold-embroidered caps and Oriental outfits. The scene features Parsee, Hindu, and European visitors, with praise for the pupils’ self-possession and poise.
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New York
Bombay
América
Tadien
Sean Acehie
Edison’s phonograph promise in simple terms explained
The article narrates how Edison devised a simple mechanism to record sound by attaching a metal style to a diaphragm of a telephone, pressing foil past the style to imprint vibrations. It explains how the imprint traces the diaphragm's motion and how the reading reproduces the original vibrations, creating an exact echo in air, noting the device’s potential and current limitations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edison
Rick
USA
Egyptian Princess Hanem Zeinub Funeral In Alexandria
A detailed account recalls the funeral of Princess Hanem Zeinub of Egypt at age fifteen in Alexandria. Procession included twenty four bullocks thirty camels and twenty wagons bearing bread meat water and syrup for the poor. The cortege passed to Kasr el Nil Palace Cairo then to Rilah Mosque for interment with officials and eunuchs bearing copies of the Koran ready for burial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hanem Zeinub
Khesive
Egypt
Alexandria
Cairo
Kasr-el-Nil
Rilah
Also Mentioned on This Page
toMmy Burap
Virginia
Ohio
Fee Igi
Cwas Fares
Royal Agricultura
Ainstee
Tial
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