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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Times Post
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1895
Page
3
A lyrical piece depicts a roaming heart returning from a stormy quest for love. The speaker questions whether the beloved heard his call as a birdlike heart seeks news beyond mountains and night sea. The beloved remains silent with a red stain on her breast, leaving the fate of their love unresolved.
A British M. P. Jim Percival with £800 year income marries a vivacious Irishwoman lacking fortune. Financial strain and political duties push him toward the theater’s rainbow danseuse. An infatuation leads to pursuit and exposure, ending with a witty reconciliation at home.
A Boston business leader famed for his driving loses patience with bold cyclists who hug the curb. He warns punishment, then hits a rider, tipping him into a wreck. The struck cyclist is revealed as Rey Leighton Parks, a prominent parishioner, prompting a wry ending about a new wheel.
A man vows to reform and shares a moment with his wife. She shows him a pink slip proving earnings of £54 per week, a ten week salary, and teases that his rainbow goddess will soon lift him from debt as he smiles.
The article notes many small wood panel paintings sold as oil portraits by famous masters like Rosa Bonheur and Meissonier. They are actually photographs on wood, hand-touched with oil by artisans in Paris, costing about 15 cents to produce and priced at 3.50 per pair, with high profit after duties.
Suffolk Bulletin sketches East Marion as a quiet hamlet between Orient and Greenport with a single store windmill water mill post office and church. Families of one wife husband and about a dozen children sustain themselves through fishing, sailors, and small crafts with any surplus spent on vessels houses gowns and trinkets for wives and children.
An experiment at Florence Polytechnic Institute measured a snail's crawl over 10 feet to determine exact pace. From the mollusk trial the average pace was calculated in feet yards rods furlongs and miles, showing it would take a snail exactly 14 days to crawl a mile.
London Lancet notes severe distress can cause physical disease and death. Dr. G Bassi reports birds, moles, and a dog died after capture showing hyperemia, hepatic changes, and degeneration. He suggests nervous disturbance causes toxins like ptomaines, linking to delirium and sudden death, urging medical study in prisons and similar settings.
The process begins with a moist pasteboard core that is split into two hemispheres and glued into a hollow sphere. A metal axis passes through to form the earth’s poles, then pencil segments are mapped and copper plate map pieces pasted on, colored, and finished with a hard white varnish for lasting brightness.
The article describes dental adaptations across marine life. Sea urchins have five jaws with teeth. snails bear thousands of tongue teeth. cuttlefish chew with a gizzard. rays possess a backward rolling jaw system with three tooth rows. carp masticate in the throat. Greenland whale lacks teeth, using baleen plates. sperm whale has many lower jaw teeth. narwhal mainly a single left upper canine grows into a tusk.
The text surveys aquatic life noting the river dolphin has 222 teeth while the sturgeon lacks teeth and uses suction. Sharks possess hundreds of teeth in multiple rows. Crabs and lobsters chew with jaws and stomach teeth, with a king crab chewing with legs. Jellyfish envelop prey. starfish turn their stomachs inside out to feed. Clams filter with a siphon. oysters use a beard-like fringe.
A New York Evening Sun writer relays how a tiny four year old girl named Gracie gave her 25 cent piece to a sick looking alley cat. She stroked the cat’s fur and placed the coin on the stoop, explaining she did it because the cat needed it more than she did.
A prose piece describes animal workers punishing laziness. Drones in the beehive are slain when unused. Idle beavers are expelled from their colonies. A nuisance elephant is driven out as a rogue. Crows kill an offending bird and lazy rocks have their nests destroyed by rooks.
A historical account portrays Indian idol practices using stone metal and wood images. It details temple rituals bell ringing offerings sold as holy food, nocturnal ceremonies resembling war dances, and notes Buddhism briefly altered but idolatry persists, with limited reform impact.
Too Grasping by Walt tells of Oliver Walton the Boston horse dealer who bought a fine horse in Maine for 300 dollars. The breeder refused the halter, Walton paid a dollar for it, then quietly released the horse claiming he would not take the animal without its halter, foiling the sharp seller.
Observations from last winter in Manchester indicate that during three days of fog nearly six hundredweight of sulphuric acid per square mile was deposited around the infirmary. Around Owen's College the deposition reached four hundredweight, with two hundredweight of hydrochloric acid and two tons of black deposits. Outdoor plant leaves registered six to eight percent sulphuric acid and five to seven percent hydrochloric acid.
The article explains that every Chinese junk carries a seas-anchor shaped like a large umbrella with a weight at its end. The anchor fastens by a cable from the handle end and helps the vessel lie to during a typhoon, reducing drift and increasing survival chances.
In a new boys book, a sixteen year old hero captures two counterfeiters, shoots a burglar, arrests a horse thief, and breaks up a gang of robbers. He does not go West to kill Indians because he is unwell, as noted by the Norristown Herald.
Natural philosophers who have devoted much time to studying the subject warn people to be mindful of themselves when both the hour and minute hands of the clock cover. The clock might then strike one.
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