Various light items mix science, society and trivia
A column covers a 13 foot 7.5 inch jump by a Vassar student, Senator Hoar on orators, sailors’ wages, a near-drowning rescue, a French duel, women organizing street inspections, and post office growth. It notes contrasting railroad tax views, a woman minister turning wedding fees to her husband, woodpeckers aiding farms, and census density: Rhode Island leads with 407 per square mile, followed by Massachusetts and New Jersey, then Connecticut and others.
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Census Bureau
Rhode Island
Union
Little Rhody
Massetts
New Jersey
Connecticut
New York
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Ohio
Nevada
Alaska
The Tempted and Duty Face Off in a Moral Drift
A brief verse scene centers on Pleasure tempting Spotless Duty to follow. Duty resists, then vows to smile when Temptation returns, recognizing Pleasure as fleeting and time-bound. The dialogue-driven tension frames a moral choice between indulgence and restraint.
Scattered brains and a barnyard bind in a family tale
Mr Lemmon frets over Billy’s scatterbrains as the boy’s curiosity leads to chaos. Billy’s stepmother Mrs Lemmon keeps a cheerful pace, guiding plans at home while Nathan Hapless Lemmon ends up locked inside a chicken coop by his own clever mishap. The three share a humorous supper and a lesson in patience.
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Billy
Mr. Lemmon
Nathan
Mrs. Lemmon
Nathan Hale Lemmon
New Pipeline Like Transport Seen In Coming Century
A Cassier's Magazine piece notes pneumatic tube ideas could transform freight. It cites coal, grain, and ore moving via pipes to central depots, with past experiments turning coal into a paste for pipeline travel and water drainage at delivery, while noting similar piping in wool and pottery.
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Seaboard
W. C. Andrews
New York
Caasier
French Cavalry Tests Lively Wooden Horse Drill Innovation
A new device in the French army replaces the static Turk's head drill with a mobile lifelike target on a wooden horse. By turning a wheel, the target moves unpredictably, challenging recruits to strike with skill. The apparatus is simple and under $50, and may spread to other nations.
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M. Monlun
Third Dragoons
Pearson's Magazine
Science notes on solar depth limits and new lamp tech
A survey of science items reports that sunlight fails to penetrate beyond 200 feet in clear seawater at noon, and introduces a vacuum bulb arc lamp with aluminum arms and a pendulum mechanism to avoid shadow and wear. It also covers a whale headed stork specimen from Lake Victoria, a theory of Aurora Borealis from Thompson corpuscles, giant kettle formations near Taylors Falls Minnesota, and advances in positive photography by Prof J E Nipher enabling work in ambient light.
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British Museum
White Nile
Lake Victoria
Thompson
J. E. Nipher
St. Louis
Nipher
How to Acquire Payeble Fare and Psychic Health
A New York Press blurb notes mystics gain immense psychic force by vegetarian diets and fasting on fruit vegetables roots cereals and minimal eggs. It cites J Pierpont Morgan praised for extreme vitality at a London banquet where he ate only fish and two soft boiled eggs with water.
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J. Pierpont Morgan
London
New York Press
Maud Howe Advocates Ending Horse Docking Across Nations
Maud Howe condemns docking as barbarous and foolish, noting that no cavalry regiment permits it in Europe or America. She cites polo ponies with long tails as superior at turning and steering, using the tail as evidence of natural ability.
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Maud Howe
Europe
America
France’s Smallest Conscript Reported in Historic Record
Emile Mayor of Canel in Montfaucon canton is described as measuring 5 feet 9 1 2 inches and weighing 42 pounds, noted as accepted in the record. The account highlights an unusually diminutive conscript for historical reference.
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France
Emile
Canel
Montfaucon
Mounting His Automobile Speeds Him To Change
A Chicago Record-Herald verse notes a man who speeds up life after mounting his automobile. He once dawdled and avoided effort but suddenly moves with a sharp, guiding impulse, rushing past obstacles and common delays as he embraces the car era.
Quotable Exchange Jests Spar Over Cribbed Topics
A humorous parade of quick exchanges features First Athlete and Second Athlete debating records and art with riddling wordplay. It includes skits about rib creation and bones of contention, plus quips about politics, marriage, and poverty as a married man laments life’s limits while a girl jokes about a governess’s planned marriage.
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Art
Sillieus
Muggins
Hones
Buggins
Nell—Maude
Charlie
Belle
Blobbs
Tommy
Miss Gotrox
Finland
Teare
Miss Auburn
Minnie
Value of Flavors in Food Is Vital to Enjoyment
A Popular Science Monthly excerpt notes that cheese ranks high in nutrition and low in cost, yet flavor, not just nutrition, drives consumption. Flavor enhances appetite, aids digestion, and cooking advances rely on flavoring despite medical views that flavor lacks food value.
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Popular Science Monthly
The Art of Skipping Passages and Its Quirky Edge
A playful reflection on skipping over dense prose in a paragraph heavy with revivalist phrases. The speaker notes moments where a novel stalls, prompting a quick pivot to avoid verbose exposition and keep momentum in the reading. The piece juxtaposes lofty imagery with a casual skip.
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Freeland
Tribune P'rinting Company, Limited
Vassar
Senator Hoar
Scribner's
Edward Everett
United States
Iowa
Paris
Massachusetts
Texas
Supreme Court
Duty
Tam Constant
Kiser
Korea
Chuai
Chual
Three Kingdoms of
Japan
Boadicea
New York Evening Sun
Science and Industry
Interstate Park
Taylor’s Falls
Minnesota
Warren Upham
Northern Territory
Chicago
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