Battle at Fort Sanders features Lieut Benjamin heroism
The article recounts the November 29 1863 assault at Fort Sanders Knoxville Tenn by 3000 Confederate troops opposed by Union defenses led by Lieut Samuel N Benjamin Battery B Second United States artillery. Benjamin directs canister fire and shelling from the parapet as a 15 minute clash ends with heavy Confederate losses and a Union defense secured. Benjamin later rises in rank and dies in 1886.
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American Press Association
Fort Sanders
Longstreet
Burnside
Knoxville
Tenn
Lee
Pickett
Gettysburg
East Tennessee
Chattanooga
Sanders
Samuel N. Benjamin
United States Artillery
Benjamin
New York Highlanders
Michigan
Alexander
Crack Artillery Corps
Lieut
Ruie
McLaws
Benjamain
Mississippi
Georgia
Wighlanders
Wmren
Sixteenth
War Department
Ninth Army Corps
Petersburg
George TL. Ruemer
Cobras Susceptible to Music In Indian Folklore
A Quarterly Review note recounts a Maurahmin boy who cooked without music yet could summon cobras from walls and thickets with his voice and handle them safely until a bite finally ended the tale. The piece contrasts cobra danger with claims of divine inspiration among some observers.
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Miss Hopley
Mrahmin
Quarterly Review
Birds in a plate: eagles owls mynahs and bulbuls
A vintage plate illustrates winged species from the great eagle owl and chough to mynahs parrots and bulbul. It notes Gouldian finch and English songsters nightingale and bottle-tie, describing colors, regions, and characteristic traits.
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England
Channel Islands
Moluccas
New Guinea
India
Gould
Lichens versus mosses and fireproofing paper in industry
Popular Science News explains how to identify lichens by absence of regular leaves and their air nourishment, with Parmelia conspersa as a typical example. It discusses how fireproof paper could transform building materials by offering a fire resistant, colorable, workable substitute for wood in floors walls and furnishings.
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Popular Science News
Chamois Skins From Sheep To Make Cleaners And Labels
Good Housekeeping notes chamois skins come from fresh sides of sheep skins not the animal name. Skins soak in limewater and sulfuric acid solution, fish oil added, then washed in potash. An adhesive label glue can be made by soaking glue in strong vinegar then boiling with flour. persists in wide mouthed bottles per Theorological Review.
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Lowell
Aix
Eider
Gervaise Graham
Post Street
San Francisco
Graham
Pip
Liu M
Chicago
Dole
Seangui
San Francisco Chronicle
California
Oregon
Bond & Peterson
Dillon, Montana
O. E. Morse
Scientific American Agency For
ANN & CO
Broadway
New York
Americas
Us 8
Scientific American
Epipandi Illustrated
Monn & CO. Publishers
California Medical and Surgical Inftemary
Market Street
Salt Lake Business ‘College
Cor
West Temple
South Ste
Salt Lake City
College Journal
Montana
O.F. Smite
Sogrooctten Berens
Drewer Main St
Tsna, Montana
Tribune Publishing CO
Job Printers
Tribune Publishing Company
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