The Doctor's False Prophecy in Paris
Comte Raymond de Villemereon, plucked from death by a misread forecast, faces a false doom as the doctor declares the Nona historic plague. Odette returns, a plea to forgiveness in their reunion amid memories of their happier years, while the truth of the prophecy lingers as a curious twist of fate.
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Raymond de Villemere
Ieias
Raymond
Comte de Villemere
Hhis
Champs Elysees
Norrow
Comtesee
Unworld
Comte
Odette
Echo Des Cliniques
Strand Magazine
American Girl in London Wins Editor's Patience
A young American woman in London tests an editor's patience with a promise of payment. She tales of buying a typewriter on installments, missing the final £1, selling a story to raise funds, and returning to save the machine. The editor hints at publication, while she notes the waiting man for the money.
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London
Jove
Monuoy
Chicago Record
Bees Show Busy Habit and Common Sense
A New York Herald excerpt extols bees as diligent, weatherwise workers. It notes each bee gathers little honey daily, a hive houses about 20 000 bees split between outside tasks and inside chores, and warns against overvaluing a single bee while praising the hive. It recounts a failed West Indies honey scheme and closes with the line a bee isn’t a fool.
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West Indies
New York Herald
Liquid When Cold and Other Scientific Tidbits from 1900s
In Germany a compound named cryostase was found to liquefy below its freezing point and solidify when heated. A gasoline motor bicycle by N S Hopkins weighs 81/4 pounds and can be pedal assisted or motor driven from the saddle. Chickens reportedly drink water without maternal prompting. A Cuban general used a telephone to demand surrender, prompting a night of quiet advance. Nature notes upside down drawings and retina image reversal in children. Mars atmosphere debates continue with Campell and Janssen differing views, suggesting a very thin air perhaps one fourth Earth’s and too sparse for easy detection.
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Germany
N. 8. Hopkins
Scientific American
Cuba
Pablo Olivia
Mars
Campbell
Lick Observatory
Monsieur Janssen
Earth
Himalaya
Where Anchors Are Made In Camden Maine
Camden Maine produces more ship anchors than any other U S location. Blacksmiths forge anchors year round in noisy Camden shops that process thousands of tons of scrap iron into anchors for vessels from small pleasure craft to giants of 5000 to 7500 pounds. The Cumberland frigate anchor stock once stood in the Camden works and a splinter now survives as relic after the ship sank at Hampton Roads. About five thousand residents call Camden home.
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Camden
Maine
Penobscot Bay
Camden Works
Cumberland
Merrimac
Hampton Roads
Brooklyn
Evaglo
Right Handedness Debate at Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences
A historical note surveys arguments on whether early humans were right or ambidextrous, citing primitive tool shapes and language hints versus ape ambidexterity, with discussion of cultural bias in handedness theory. Also touches Mars imagery and animal behavior in brief, ending with a short French line.
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Doctor
Comtesse
Mme
la Comtesse de Villemere
Arick
Raynone
Comte Bethought
Bois de Boulogne
Chinois
Champa Elysees
H. W. El-iott
Science
Boeing
Nature
India
Cience
Philadelphia Academy of Natural
Marden
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