Rescue of a British officer from Khartoum and the Mahdi
Grimshaw recounts the fall of Khartoum and a daring escape aided by Ibrahim son of Hassan. The tale follows the Raj era siege, rescue of a boy beaten by townsfolk, disguise as an old priest, and a perilous run through Mahdist lines to Cairo gate. The narrative contrasts grim violence with acts of mercy and cunning under fire.
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Shepheard's
Cairo
Iimshaw
Grimshaw
Soudan
Ibrahim
Khartoum
Gordon
Lid
Fespt
Gordoun
Miahdi
Jadu
Shitin Bey
Atkins
Her
Teys
Hhissan
Paii
Ils
Flassan
Trordon
Thin
Hassan
Bia
Baasar
Camel Carrying Fugitives Through Cairo Stirs Memories
In a Cairo night a camel limps into the city bearing two fugitives once linked to military life and a boy. Captain Grimshaw and Ibrahim speak of shared fates and past peril, recallingKhartoum as a turning point in their globe trotting odyssey.
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Camel
Cairo
Ibrahim
Iad
Effends
Capt. Grimshaw
Khartoum
Atlanta Constitution
Statue Like Marble From Corpse Material Proposed
Mr Martin of the Academy of Sciences of Paris outlined a process to convert animal matter before decay into a marble like substance that can be sculpted and preserved, patenting the method for corpse preservation. The idea aims to fix physical flaws and create statues from deceased individuals for future display, contrasting with St Louis experiments in plating deceased bodies for preservation.
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Academy of Sciences of Paris
Martin
St. Louis
A Chinaman Sees a Piano In Europe Description
A traveler notes Europeans use a four legged animal to sing. A child sits before the animal and steps on its tail while the handler strikes its teeth to produce song. The singing is loud but the beast does not bite or move.
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Europe
Flower Fragrance Recovered by Sugar Solution
A remark states that flower fragrance fades when starch in petals is exhausted. It claims placing the flower in a sugar solution may restore starch formation and immediately resume fragrance emission.
Cast Iron Grows Stronger From Repeated Blows
A. E. Outerbridge Jr. of Philadelphia demonstrated through experiments that cast iron is not weakened by long shocks but is actually strengthened by repeated blows and concussions, challenging the old belief of crystallization and brittleness under stress.
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A. E. Outerbridge, Jr
Philadelphia
Ghostly Cat A Glow In The Dark Rodent Repellent
Popular Science News describes a metallic cat covered with luminous paint. The inventor claims its eerie glow will deter mice and rats more effectively than traps or poison, offering a novel household pest remedy.
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Popular Science News
Carnivorous Plants Digest Animal Prey
The article explains Venus flytraps trap and squeeze insects then digest soft tissues with a ferment secreted by leaf glands, presenting real cases of plants feeding on animals.
Marvellous Measurement At Royal Society Exhibit
At the London Royal Society conversazione a pendulum device was shown to detect earth crust tilts and pulsations. It was claimed capable of revealing a tilt as small as one three hundredth of a second of arc, meaning a rise of one inch in 2 thousand miles could be observed.
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Gordon
Noebdenitz
Saxe-Altenburg
Baron von Thinnel
Tre
Eagile
Bardon Thummer
Thias Wilhelm von Thim- Ine
Hans
Ann Siron
Conversazione
Royal Society
London
Iron sand deposit yields pig iron on New Zealand coast
On the western coast of the northern island of New Zealand immense deposits of magnetic iron sand are carried down from Mount Sgmunt. Cliffs mix ordinary silica with iron sand. waves wash away silica leaving fourteen feet of iron deposit. Poriances erected to smelt the sand into pig iron.
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New Zealand
Mount Sgmunt
Cavern Inhabitants Avoid Light, Scientists Say
Dr James Wely Jr reports that the famed blind fish from a Kentucky cavern seek the darkest aquaria and die in brightly lit tanks. He notes light aversion as a trait of cave dwellers and cites eyeless spiders and cave animals avoiding illumination, possibly sensing light by touch.
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Licht
James Wely, Jr
Kentucky
Doctor Weir
Colors That Conceal Soldiers in Uniforms
A German officer told Horse Guards that Europe recently tested uniform colors to hide soldiers. Ten men wore two each of light gray, dark gray, green, dark blue, and scarlet, then marched with no officers watching. Light gray vanished first, followed by scarlet. dark gray, then dark blue and green lingered longest. Experiments with blue and red targets show blue is more visible at distance.
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Gen. Gordon
Lin Ws Thrahin
Passa
Fale
Gordon
Rhartodai
Hit
Pooh
Pook
Thrabii
Dany
Effendi
Cairo
Thad
Abrahim
Amed
Tiethin
Tim
Cafro Gate
Thimbini
Thrahhn
Cearadd Hive
Pbrahia
Porto
Allah
Horse Guards
Cavetto
Europe
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Salaam
Phen
Tassan
Sahib
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