Ant Cattle and Milk Producing Insects Fascinate Naturalists
The article details ants farming aphides and gall insects for honeyed milk, describing how ants milk aphids by stroking their abdomens to release a sweet liquid. It notes variations among ant species, ownership of cattle, and defensive tactics, plus winter care and the social habits of aphids and ants as observed by Huber Latreille Lubbock and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pliny
Huber
Latreille
John Lubbock
Limus
Linnius
Theo
Extraordinary case of suspended animation in Franklin County
Mrs Martha Smith of Chatham reports a remarkable tale from Franklin County of a married woman buried yet revived when thieves exhumed the coffin for jewelry. The revived woman, guarding rings and a watch, questioned the intruders and later greeted her husband, who fainted at the sight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklintown
N.C
J. W. Weaver
Martha Smith
Chatham
Incident at Castre Garden Aims Hats and Havoc
An early Sunday incident at Castre Garden involved a steamship group of Irish girls arriving with trunks. They overwhelmed the baggagemaster to reclaim hats and trunks from the luggage rooms and paraded them through the rotunda and town, displaying their bright ribbons and adopting a confident demeanor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sassy
de Belle
Pound of care not a pound of debt
A concise note contrasts compassionate support with financial burden, emphasizing care over debt as a guiding principle. The statement underscores valuing welfare over monetary pressure.
Jokes and Misprints From Early American Humor
A compilation of quips and witticisms from various papers including the Boston Transcript New York Statesman and Cincinnati Saturday Night. The items spoof politics weather honesty and daily life with jokes about politicians dentists and a bell wearing cow.
Mother and boy clash as man intervenes in yard altercation
In Detroit a confrontation unfolds on a Twelfth Street yard as a red faced mother disciplines a 10 year old boy after a fishing trip. Jerome Stevens, witnessing the scene, confronts the man and police arrest him while the boy escapes harm. The judge cautions both parties as others recount the incident with moralizing undertones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Darrerr
Jerome Stevens
Twelfth Street
Ilo
Michigan
Jerome
Biscay Bay
Mr. Stevens
Detroit Free Press
Marshmallow seed distribution guidance from Washington University
Waterhouse of Washington University St Louis announces receipt from the Agricultural Department of marshmallow seeds a fibrous native plant with potential cultivation value. It grows wild in New Jersey prefers moist loamy soil and requires few seeds per hill three feet apart. Record temperature humidity soil and ripening data and preserve all seed for future experiments. Applications for seed should go to Dr G Hambach Washington University St Louis Mo.
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Waterhouse
Washington University
St. Louis
Agricultural Departments
New Jersey
G. Hambach
Foreign Gossip and Royal Intrigues Amid European Headlines
The column surveys royalty and politics from Europe as the Duchess of Marlborough changes editors at Pall Mall Gazette and gains a title. It profiles Princess Louisa, notes the ex queen of Naples in circus tricks, and reports on the late Duke of Portland’s record will with a £7.5 million personalty. It cites the London Times count of 257 new MPs, and praises the Dukes of Bedford for transforming lands into a vast agricultural estate with Royal Agricultural Society involvement.
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Duchess of Marlborough
Pall Mall
Frederick Greenwood
Louisa
Jos Elaine Evcenne
Sweden
Norway
Denmark
Naples
Jerome
Duke of Portland
Lord Dysart
London Times
House of Commons
Army
Navy
Bedford
England
Holand
Royal Agricultural Society
Devices of Paris Smugglers
Jersey wagons entered Paris repeatedly with no apparent cargo but were later found to hide contraband. An inspector detected a double roof lined with zinc containing a large brandy tank. Separately, a toy maker used wagons to move goods with staged inspections that missed items until a bold discharge revealed hidden liquor and toys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jersey
Paris
Punch
The Nature of Light and Its Action Up on the Eye
Dr. Lucien Howe outlines the undulatory theory of light and how waves of red and violet light strike the retina. He details the eye’s microscopic structure, noting rods and cones as terminal filaments of the optic nerve responsive to light waves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Besa Cophal
Lucien Howe
Thomas Young
Howe
Phenomenal Memory of Hat-Wearing Waiter at New York Hotel
A New York Fifth Avenue Hotel waiter reportedly can manage five hundred hats at once and return each to its owner by forming a mental image of the owner’s face inside the hat. The tale compares his ability to chess players visualizing positions without a board, noting the precision needed to distinguish similar hats and faces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Fifth Avenue Hotel
Scvere
Lendon
Lucy's Soliloquy from Our Young Folks
A short excerpt from Youth's Companion features Lucy imagining life as a flower or seed and wishing to be with mother and papa. The piece blends childlike fantasy with simple desires and self discovery as Lucy speaks to her doll Jemima Leo about being herself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucy
Jemima Leo
Youth
Feodor the rescuer on the Volga ice A Saratov tale
A band of Russian peasants on the Volga rescue a man stranded on a moving ice block during spring thaw. Feodor leads a perilous crossing from a sand bank to the ice sheet, freeing the man and guiding him back to shore. The governor of Saratov rewards Feodor with twenty five roubles and praise.
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Russia
St. Petersburg
Nikolaievski
Nicholas
Volga
Fee
Saratov
Meesha
Michael
Stepha
Stephen
Tchelovek
Csho
Feodor
Theodore
Eiko
Feonor
Ferdor
Fender
Feoder
David Act
Harper's
How to See A Seed Grow
A reader describes observing seed germination using hyacinth bulbs and peas in a glass. A gentleman places lace in water to suspend peas, showing roots and shoots forming underground and above ground, teaching children how seeds sprout.
Crucifix Dominates English Turf In Record Time
Crucifix the Oaks winner for Lord George Bentwick achieved 12 races in under a year without defeat and earned 10087 pounds in public stakes. His victories spanned from July 9, 1859 to June 5, 1840, a period far shorter than a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crucifix
Lord George Bentwick
Baggage-Man Sits Calm as Train Runs At Speed
A baggage man rode in a baggage car of the 4 Nor wich and Worcester Railroad moving about thirty miles an hour. He sat coolly and was ready to set the brakes at the next station after pulling six teeth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norwich & Worcester Railroad
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Castre Garden
Lboston Transcript
WN. Y. Statesman
Albany
Hicks
Boston Post
Cincinnati
Josh Billings
Wheeling
Boston
New Haven Register
Picayune
Dfiddletown Transcript
Mars
Port Jervis
Jones
Boston Transcript
Altai
Lza
Mother Hubbard
Papa
Beaufer
Mamma
Paut Lim
Leucis
Mic
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