Variable Stars Mystery Deepens in Stellar Clusters
The article reviews the mystery of variable stars including Algol like eclipses and notes Bailey at Harvard Arequipa reporting 46 variables in Serpens No.5 and 87 in Canes Venatici Messier 3 clusters. Pickering and Mrs Fleming confirmed plates. periods undetermined yet. variations reach up to two magnitudes.
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L. Bailey
Harvard
Arequipa
Penu
E. C. Pickering
Fleming
Cambridge
Bailey
New York Tribune
Art of Warre on evolving weapons and bayonet history
In Turner’s era shift from arbalests and arquebuses to muskets is traced. The bayonet’s evolution from screw to external ring and spring allowed firing while fixed. British reactions to French fixed bayonets in early actions are noted as uncanny and unfair to them.
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James Turner
Marshal Monluc
Francis I
James
Gentleman’s Magazine
Curious mummified plant exhibit at Mechanics fair
A Boston Transcript report notes a Mechanics fair display of genuine plants whose growth is arrested by an injection, keeping leaves bright and upright despite decay. The exhibit features large tender palms that remained indistinguishable from living plants for six months. Credit goes to a New Hampshire man who devised the treatment to render plants impervious to heat, cold, and other conditions.
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Mechanics’ Fair
New Hampshire
Boston Transcript
Jilted Suitor Becomes Puffed Up in Boston Gossip
The Boston Transcript notes He-Singleton was dumped by the Freeman girl but seems untroubled. Wicks-Not at all. Singleton is boastful, convinced he is the best man in the world as many women have refused him.
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Singleton
Freeman
Wicks
Boston Transcript
Autumn Song of Reaping Time and Field Romp
Poem excerpt by Frank Walcott Hutt in St. Nicholas celebrates harvest, rain, and pastoral seasonal joys. It evokes autumn fields, mead, cattle, gales, and woodland hunts for oak fruit, inviting a carefree ramble with a girl and boy as streams laugh and skies brighten.
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Frank Walcott Hutt
St. Nicholas
Grand Duke Alexis at Kiel Warns of Defense Lapses
The Grand Duke Alexis, head of the Russian navy, visited Kiel and warned Americans that while they rebuild their fleet their national defense remains weak. He recalled hearing European officers discuss capturing U S cities for ransom and asserted Russia would aid if the United States were unjustly attacked. He invited the captain to the Kursk for wine.
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Grand Duke
Alexis
Kiel
United States
Russia
Kursk
Washington Post
Simon Magus and the Faust Legend Across Centuries
The text traces Simon Magus as an early link in the Faust legend, noting his Samaritan origin, immense intellect, and claimed supernatural powers. It discusses how such figures were viewed as allies of demons or divinely inspired, with superstition amplified by church doctrine and the real inclusion of magic arts in practical sciences like astrology and alchemy.
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Faust
Simon Magus
Justin
Gitton
Samaria
Satan
Actor’s quick wit saves pirate scene on stage
While playing a pirate chief, a stagehand misstepped with gauze sea prop, drowning the scene. The actor instantly cried out a man overboard, and the crew hauled the surprised extra aboard to roaring applause, the moment seen as part of the drama.
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London
Cure for yellow fever described by Mexican doctor in Denver
At the American Public Health Association meeting in Denver Dr Manuel Garmona y Valle described a simultaneous injection method using a secretion from a yellow fever patient between days two and fourteen. He claimed the treatment cured the disease in about one hundred cases and likened guard against recurrence to vaccination.
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American Public Health Association
Denver
Manuel Garmona Y Valle
Mexico
Baltimore Sun
Two Bills in Reply One Tariff Other for Bonds
Washington Dec 24 The house Republicans will move two bills this week in reply to President Cleveland’s treasury appeal. A tariff bill to raise revenue and a bond plan to protect the gold reserve. Democrats oppose the revenue bill and free silver Republicans will fight the bond bill.
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House
Cleveland
Treasury
Ways and Means Committee
Wilson-Gorman
Secretary of the Treasury
Senate
Althouh
Silver Democrats
When Men Weep Tears Move Men to Emotion and Tears
A discussion on why men cry and how emotion overcomes restraint across various figures and settings. It cites soldiers, preachers, actors, authors, and politicians such as Spurgeon Canon Liddon Sims Reeves Mario Dickens John Bright and Lord Russell, noting tears in audiences and while reading or speaking.
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Adelphi
Canon Liddon
John Bright
Lord Russell
Pittsburg
Food of the Future and Robbed in a Pyramid
A New York Herald piece envisions future cuisine via government licensed dispensaries with meals for a few cents daily and essential nutrients supplied by capsules. The Baltimore American recounts Dr. James J. Mills being robbed inside the Great Pyramid of Cheops by Egyptian guides demanding backsheesh during a Cairo visit.
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Flammarion
Omega
Berthelot
Foreign Office of
France
New York Herald
James J. Mills
Baltimore
Europe
Egypt
Great
Pyramid of
Cheops
The
Nile
Mills
Paris
Cairo
Pyramids
Pyramid
Baltimore American
Alibi Testimony Shocks Judge Neely Court
A solemn faced woman testified the defendant was at her house during the offense with others present including a Mr. Delaney. When asked if Delaney was a neighbor or where he is, she answered no and that he is dead, prompting an amusing exchange in the case reported by the Chicago Post.
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Chicago Post
Dr Agnew's Cure for the Heart Promises Quick Relief
Dr Agnew's Cure for the Heart claims perfect relief in all organic or sympathetic heart disease within 30 minutes and a speedy cure. The remedy targets palpitation shortness of breath smothering spells and left side pain. One dose convinces. Sold by 8. G. Hartransi.
Lily white heart of gold blooms from black pond
A sunbeam sinking in a black pond reveals a blue sky’s warmth and a golden heart. From the pond’s core sprouts a lily with a gold heart, a poetic image credited to T. H. Hood in Ladies' Home Journal.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
England Demands 46000 For Nebr Dawson Feud
Governor Holcomb received a response from Secretary Olney regarding a British ambassador request for 16000 related to an assault on the Dawson family in Nebraska. The Dawsons claim property damage from the McCarty outlaw gang but locals regard the claim as ridiculous given their wagon and two horses. The dispute arose during an attempted horse trade with Vic McCarty, leading to a fight in which the Dawsons defeated the McCarthys, who fled.
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Lixcoln
Neb
Holcomb
Olney
Nebraska
McCarty
Vic McCarthy
Dawsons
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Msi
Fifth Avenue
Munn & CO
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New
Yoas
Ameri
Bell
Scientific America
Broadway
New York City
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Pittsburg, Pa
Saag
Indiana
J. F. Barnes
Gilbert Bro’s
Indiana, PA
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