Escape from Calcutta Riot Reveals Courageous Boy Helper
In Calcutta during a violent riot over waterworks, a European traveler and a 12 year old Hindoo lad Gunpat barricade a room against looters. They escape via a roof and river to reach safety on a trader's boat, while the incident prompts Sita Ram to promote Gunpat and dismiss Baboo Das.
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Ceylon
India
Calcutta
Benares
Ganges
Sita Ram
Kain
Sind
Babou Das
Atkuiabad
Baboo Das
Board of Government
Punky Wallah
Gunpat
Sahib
Ushiy
Bertie
Baboo Das Hag
Bahib
Chinpat
Sabith
Gaunpai
Gunpar
Sita Rum
Salk
Junpat
Sahih
Bahoo Das
Ute Gunpat
Improving the Telescope and Related Natural Science Notes
The article describes Yale’s Hastings developing a two lens method to reduce chromatic aberration, promising about 10 percent more telescope power. It also covers light action variation, vegetation odors reducing actinic solar radiance, possible Texas sulphur deposits, plant and animal mimicry in Cape Good Hope, chimpanzees in Liberia cracking crabs and pythons with stones, sea navigation deviations, a massive old growth fir tree’s rings tied to historical global upheavals, and a hypothesis linking tree growth patterns to concurrent world events.
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Hastings
Yale
Cape of Good Hope
South Africa
O. F. Cook
Liberia
Cloudburst at Magnetic Springs Colorado Causes Devastation
A Travel writer recalls a sudden cloudburst that swept Magnetic Springs in southern Colorado. A hotel and corridor flood roared through rooms and halls, destroying furnishings, leaving residents trapped and seeking shelter behind stone walls. After hours, survivors salvaged a stove, heated by mud-logged rooms, and endured a bitter chill.
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Colorado
Travel
Magnetic Springs
Hints on Kipling and Jury Tales
The piece notes Harper’s Weekly about Kipling’s troubles with his brother in law and urges caution in business. It quotes Mrs. Warren forewoman on a Denver jury urging public interest and female jurors to serve. It ends with remarks on avoiding exaggeration about cyclones and reflects on poverty and worthlessness of some people.
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Kipling
Harper's Weekly
Saya
Wowan
Warren
Denver
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Paris
Sicily
Eugene A. Smith
University of Alabama
Texas
Pecos
Scientific American
Helmaman
British Museum of Natural History
British Columbia
Nature
Germer
Asia
Europe
China
North America
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