Parrot Confession Sparks Noon Garden Conscience
An aging sea captain narrator recounts moving in with Capt. Travers and his sister Miss Rachel. After a bungled parrot swap to hide a murder, the parrot betrays him with a spoken clue and the captain admits his duplicity, confessing love for Rachel as the parrot watches.
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Travers
R. N
Africa
Tmlne
London
Capt. Travers
Rachel Travers
Bay of Biscay
Tropics
Manley
P. and O
Unte
Mias Travers
Holloo
Rachel
Milas Rachel
Polly
Miss Travers
Capt. Manley
Aché
Poly
Pally
Mises Travers
Capt
Mule Indispensable in War Chronicle
A Persian regimental march shows three soldiers sharing a donkey laden with money and muskets as no baggage train exists. The veiled wife guides the beast at times while a husband and wife quarrel over supremacy, then settle to peace.
Kites for Telegraph Poles and Other Oddities
Mr William A Eddy of Bayonne New Jersey demonstrates that telegraph and telephone signals can be carried by wires suspended high in the air by kites. The report also notes fire observations by Mr Ward of Harvard, glowworm light experiments, a Povoacas waterspout, Moissan's improved artificial diamonds, and curious Mis ecrets of Tory Island life.
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William A. Eddy
Bayonne
New Jersey
Eddy
Charlestown
Ward
Harvard University
Povoacas
Saint Michael
Azores
Henri Moissan
Paria
Monsieur Molsaan
Meteoric Bomb and Colored Light Experiments Report
A New York Academy of Sciences meeting discussed meteors seen around New York on December 4. Reports described paths over Central Park Brooklyn Bridge Fordham Passaic Irvington Danbury and a fall near Rahway with multiple fragments. Evidence suggests a single body fragmented into several pieces with uncertain ground impact.
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New York City
New York Academy of Sciences
Central Park
Brooklyn Bridge
Fordham
Passaic
Irvington
Danbury
Connecticut
Hahway
Rahway
New York
Mice Kill Canary in Secluded Halen Room
A woman in Halen owned a canary named Speck that reportedly sang softly. A mouse entered the cage and fatally bit the throat of the bird as it fluttered, an unusual predator incident noted alongside stray remarks on rat depredations and a man’s habit of idle talk.
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Halen
New York
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Muraoka
Wiedemann
Annalen
Kyoto
Becquerel
Coset
Japan
Igi
Japanese College of Science
Yoshibama
Neakatoa
Juviay
Paris
Monsieur Fhiammarion
Tory Island
Donegal
Anungry Strand
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