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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1891
Page
7
A wide collage of speculative economics prizes, ethnographic anecdotes, and cultural reports from Paris Berlin Vienna and beyond. The item notes essays on housing for the poor with substantial rewards, comments on Indian and Jewish communities in military and civil life, and curiosities from education soap making to corn byproducts.
A telegraph operators circular faults underpaid workers for railroads, noting thirty dollars monthly often fails to sustain competence and proposes fair wages to prevent accidents. The San Francisco Chronicle suggests assessing operator responsibility and wage levels to guide damages in railroad suits. A Kentucky log cabin linked to Abraham Lincoln’s youth moves to the World’s Fair site. A playful Atchison scene features a baby crying, with a comment on hypocrisy and moralizing.
The poem extols a wholesome cheerful singer who finds light in stars dawn home and flowers, avoiding gloom. It contrasts with a dour poet dwelling on cares and doubt, praising patience faith and the deeds of the just, finishing with hopeful vision beyond night. Hattie Whitney in Washington Star.
Cathie Brown envies Mrs Weld's wealth while stitching a velvet dress for her. A late visit reveals Mrs Weld's son’s gambling ruin and the family’s heartbreak, prompting Cathie to reject wealth as the measure of happiness and resolve to toil humbly rather than dream of luxury.
The Hartford Post reports a patient once confined in a city hospital for the insane read aloud with ease no matter how the newspaper was oriented or spun by attendants. In tests a reel turned the paper rapidly yet he continued to read article after article aloud, though the fate of the patient remains unknown.
A survey of early scientific notes reports 509 hose power transmitted 140 miles by electricity from Frankfurt. An Paris gyroscope shows Earth rotation for ship compasses. An Indianapolis bicycle uses steel tubing aluminum claimed unbreakable. Saccharin deemed adulteration by Spain’s Royal Academy of Medicine. Photos of animal motions on sensitized paper with flashes and electromagnet control. Fly wings reach 175 feet per second under certain conditions, outpacing a racehorse. Deaf cannot learn speech by association without effort. teaching requires skilled teachers. Spider web tremor deceives spiders. tuning fork lures them along disturbed radial line. Directors of major observatories plan a global graphical atlas of the heavens in Paris next March, covering 42 080 squares across 1800 to 2000 leaves.
A Pittsburg observer muses on red as danger and warning across railroads flags fire uniforms narcotics and art noting red signals and red in literature and painting as perilous forces while reflecting on painters like Landseer Turner and the broader cultural associations with the color.
At Stapleton Lighthouse, six of Captain Rogers new bell buoys attract attention. The description contrasts the old style bell buoy with a saucer can and single rolling ball to a three-ball system in tubes around the bell edge. As the buoy rocks, balls strike the bell, guiding mariners.
A Novoye Vremya correspondent details the brutal Siberian routes from Irkutsk to Yakutsk and beyond. Travelers endure river crossings on boats or ice, sparse post stations, inhospitable yurts, disease risks, and often starvation while awaiting scarce transport. The journey spans years across bleak, uninhabited terrain with unreliable fodder and aid.
A dealer near Black Rock owns a full grown brown Leghorn rooster that is deaf and mute after a neck injury. He wakes the flock by walking to each bird and kicking them off perches. The bird appears aware of speech by lip motion and posture, though it cannot hear or crow.
A Maine Central engineer likens locomotives to living beings restless on grades. He says engines may balk one day and perform the next, behaving like a shy mare. The piece notes the human habit of personifying machines and reflects on violet light from electric lamps causing eye tiredness.
A compact meditation contrasts the sea’s reach with deliberate judgment. It argues noble conduct must remain intact amid petty temptations, and that action, not speculation or wealth, defines human virtue. It warns to avoid law and court entanglements.
A New York Sun summary explains naval officers live relatively well aboard ship with structured meals from 8 to 9 a.m. breakfast to 6 p.m. dinner, and a government allowance of thirty cents per day for meals. Officers form a ward room mess, elect a caterer, and contribute about a dollar daily for extra board, with beer and wine available through the mess. Wholesome meals with ample portions contrast rumors of luxury, and overall drinking aboard is limited. The piece also mentions the ship’s paymaster and doctor as reluctant rivals for mess roles.
The Brazil nut tree rises 100 to 120 feet in northern Brazil with a large seed vessel that requires a sledge-hammer to break. The wrinkled triangular nuts have a hard shell and a pure white kernel, pleasant when fresh, though dangerous to stand under the tree as fruit falls.
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