Curious Wonders and Oddities from Far Lands
A mosaic of curiosities from across the globe includes a perpetual sacred fire on Abeheron peninsula now part of Russia, a Swedish celery ring tale, an alarm-tripped bootshop in Paris, and a Lamphey Wales station printing office run by the station master. Also recounted are a five year old Arkansas reader, a Hamburg wildcat visit, a lioness eye shutters fix with rings, and a tiny missionary vessel from San Francisco to the Gilbert Islands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abeheron
Persia
Russia
Sweden
Lamphey
Wales
Camden
Ark
Claiborne Parish
Louisiana
Benjamin Franklin Coleman
San Francisco
Gilbert Islands
Hiram Bingham
American Board of Foreign Missions
Boston
J. Walkup
Morning Star
Engineering facts from ancient to modern canal feats
A compiled list of engineering milestones and structures from Greek and Roman aqueducts to the Suez Canal. Notable items include the Dover Calais tunnel proposal, Mont Cenis and St Gothard tunnels, Minot Ledge lighthouse, Roebling’s Niagara Bridge span, and Croton aqueduct costs and capacities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holland
United States
Paris
Suez Canal
Dover
Calais
Coast Survey
Roebling
Niagara
Cherbourg
Digue
Gunter
Edmund Gunter
Carthage
Brethren of
St. Gothard
Minot Ledge
London
Niagara Falls
A. D
Trajan
Danube
Brooklyn
Blossom Rock
San Francisco Bay
St. Louis Bridge
Great Britain
Thames
Minot's Lodge
Massachusetts Bay
Union Pacific
Hell Gate Reef
Croton Aqueduct
New York
Little Brewster Island
Boston
St. Louis
Rameses
Croton
English Channel
Pacific Railroad
Smeaton
Eddystone
England
Cornelius Vermuyden
Fens
Babylon
Terodotus
Mont Cenis
Hoosne
Jerusalem
Solomon's
San Francisco
Lake Tahoe
Westminster Bridge
Alexandria
B.C
Caledonian Canal
Scotland
Beperecs
van Estin
Comstock
Black Hills
Caracalla
Venice
Michael Angelo
Louis XIV
Bozieres
France
Pennsylvania
Hoosac
Massachusetts
Martz
Languedoc Ship Canal
Straits of Gibraltar
Simplon
Switzerland
Italy
Missouri
Tay Bridge
Alleghany Portage
India
Victoria
St. Lawrence
Montreal
Sehafhausen
Grabemmann
First Law of Netere Asserted on Health and Bitters
The article praises Hoatetter's Stomach Bitters as a safeguard against disease and says it protects against kidney and bladder maladies. It claims constant use yields best results and adds that the medicine cures liver complaint constipation dyspepsia malaria rheumatism and nervousness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Netere
Hoatetter
Hall
J. Cheney & CO
Loledo
Ohio
Limits of Natural Vision Across Elevations
The passage explains how natural vision distance varies with elevation and atmospheric conditions. It lists distances for objects of different heights on a clear day, noting that curvature of the earth reduces visibility to about 6.99 inches per mile and assumes sufficient image formation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sa Mountain
Also Mentioned on This Page
M. Brats
M. Brain
Mary
Hamburg
Conon
Hayden Gray
Alice Griswold
Puss
Mins Griswold
Geneva
Walter Main
Nellie
Muller
Price Hill
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
Mill Creek
Kentucky
J. B. Eskridge
Versailles
Dauphin
Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Pelletan
Louis
Jules Pelletan
Aurfren
Engineering Facts
Europe
The
Clementina
Rudolph
Baudouius
Flanders
Hawpahiro Lowane Asylum
Hood
Rilla
Canisteo
N. Y
Hood's
Nansen
C. C. Aber
Gro
New York City
Globe Trotters
Reip
Sylvan RewepDy Co
Peoria
Pa Brown
J. Gibson Brown
Rane
Dickest
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