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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1881
Page
3
A humorous verse imagines a brakeman shouting train stations to force travelers onward. The speaker aches for higher pay and contemplates rougher handling of baggage cars to survive on eleven dollar weekly wages. A satirical look at labor hardships and the dream of better wages.
A tale about a black bird named Dr Black who pretends to be a doctor at Crow College and deceives other birds. He eyes a new park raft for a theft while crowds of sparrows bathe nearby, posing as respectable and learned.
In Stuyvesant Square a ravenous ruse by Dr Black, posing as a crow doctor, draws sparrows into his bath and taxes tale. The rival Jersey Sparrow proclaims him a blackbird, sparking a crowd belief and a dramatic chase that ends with Dr Black flying away and many sparrows clinging to a legend.
Mr W H Preece confirms Faraday that rod cross section is the key factor for lightning conductors. Experiments at Dr de la Rue’s lab compare copper solid rods tubes and ribbons of equal mass with a 3 240 cell discharge. All forms deflagrate platinum similarly, showing surface area has no effect. lead conductors yield same results. Preece concludes simple rod suffices.
Riots in Southern Russia caused property losses totaling 5.6 million dollars, revised downward from earlier estimates. Rioters in Kiel faced court martial resulting in civil rights loss and prison terms up to three and a half years, with at least one exile of twenty years in Siberia. Odessa magistrates handed sentences from one week to three months for several principals. Experts link unrest to harvest failure, peasant ignorance, anti Jewish money lending resentments, and looting hopes.
The text notes a canary bird's chatter starting with piano music and mentions Lung Wing of the Chinese Embassy at Washington teaching a class of forty Celestials telegraphy.
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