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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1889
Page
3
The story surveys varied items from Russia to Lincoln jokes, weather, and a train rescue. It notes Grand Duke Alexis facing vengeance in a Siberian posting, a Florida season tease, and a Lincoln anecdote about leg length, with scattered cultural observations and a brief philanthropic reflection.
A survey of global topics notes Britain’s rail holdings and a North Pole search. London and New York opinion debates on monarchy and Liberal leadership. US items cover industry revival, art prices, immigration, Yale and Harvard finances, and a curious duck catching tale with a tomcat.
Captain J A Mellon, veteran river steamer commander near Port Yuma, recalls the Virgin River salt mountains along the Colorado. He notes pure white salt beds covering about 25 miles, with sand-cover layers and giant blasts yielding immense potential wealth. Early industrial figures like Hamilton Disston and Baldwin Locomotive Works have secured small portions, with future railroad expansion promising huge revenue. Found artifacts suggest prehistoric camps preserved in salt, including charred wood and bark, and hieroglyphic markings along canyon walls hint at ancient civilizations awaiting irrigation-driven development.
Mr George Davidson of the United States Coast Survey notes Alaska’s forests. Sitka spruce dominates, with felled trees up to 180 feet long and four feet diameter. Yellow cedar stands out for texture and strength, usable for ship timbers and cabinet woods. forests extend across much of the ground but cease near Kaliack Island’s southern edge.
An artesian well near Earle Flat Station, 110 miles east of El Paso Texas, 610 feet deep, shows a steady alternation of strong air gusts in and out for twelve hours daily. The tube remains intact and no break has yet occurred in the regular cycle.
The omnibus originated with philosopher Pascal who in February 1667 secured a royal privilege for public carriages to traverse Paris streets. Eight passengers paid six sous each. the service thrived until a Paris Parliament act restricted access for certain classes. Pascal died in 1667, and the invention faded briefly before reappearing in London early in the 18th century and spreading to French towns before Paris revived it.
Aged Andrew Young, eighty, wrote There Is a Happy Land in 1838 after hearing an Indian air. The hymn, translated into 19 languages, was rarely remunerated to its author. Also notes cowboy skills, pea history, and bee pollination in garden lore from the same periodical.
An anecdote recounts Charles XII of Seden dictating a letter as a bomb dropped into the room, prompting the secretary to exclaim concern. The king quips that the bomb will go off anyway. Harper's describes the incident with brisk humor. The piece also notes Tudourne Canada’s claim to the smallest church in the world, seating about twenty, founded by Jacques Curtier.
A compilation of brief tech notes and curiosities covers wartime aviation in England and Germany paratroopers, a claim that five feet of water rises worldwide annually, a sugar-boiler patent in Worcester, and metal barrel hoops. It notes dust aiding fog, Gray on rapid electrical progress, a mushroom test in Lewiston, compressed gas injuries, and a fast Seuten mail locomotive with three cylinders. Also described are Parliament wiring tricks in Vienna, a large artesian well in St Augustine with vast flow, and odd facts on invertebrate ears across species.
The article explains how the body endures very high air temperatures through rapid evaporation of sweat. Dry air allows higher tolerances than moist air, with examples like the Russian vapor bath versus the Turkish bath. It cites cases of extreme heat exposure, noting clothing and dry air limit radiation and keep body heat down via exhalation.
The excerpt presents David A. Curtis’s meditation on joy, shame, disaster, passion, love and grief as a man stands alone in a desert of a shadowy world. He contemplates the meaning of a shadow falling across an unseen life and asks whether any grain of sand or shadow matters amid vastness.
The passage collects jokes and social observations about love, fashion, school life, travel, and domestic life. It features playful exchanges about marriage and wealth, humorous banter between couples, and a gag about a magnetic physician versus a nervous patient, reflecting a breezy, late era humor tone.
A Mart Lane Express summary notes Finns innovate by drying hay on ten-foot poles with netted pegs. Cut grass gathered from forests and waste lands dries in air, often surpassing traditional methods. The system allows mowing in wind or rain, with outer piles discolored and inner portions drying perfectly.
A plan advances from Jaffa on the Palestine coast toward Jerusalem and Bethlehem with surveys completed and London engineers dispatched to map routes. An English and French bankers backed company is formed to finance the railroad, described as a purely business venture with no religious motive. Travel to the Holy Land has risen, and first class railways could boost pilgrims and tourists worldwide.
New York City reportedly houses about 20 000 bones in family units while Philadelphia holds 81 000. England shows 1 000 000 more women than men, mostly widows. Mrs Hage is praised by survivors of the capsized Ca pico for courage and leadership during 20 days at sea. A Bible debate notes the Vatican Hebrew Bible valued for weight and cost, Julius II refusing sale in 1512. A Pike's Peak visitor recalls a lone signal-service officer melting snow. A Logan Township case features a blacksmith and a cow dying after a wagon is repainted with paris green.
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