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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1872
Page
3
In Clarristurg Pa Wa P Parton describes how the Davenport Brothers appear bound by ropes. He notes wax seals, secret false hands and wrists, and padded sleeves to conceal quick release methods. He claims their feats are impossible to repeat with real knots and time limits.
A large colony of English sparrows was found in Rockland Maine, previously unseen there. The birds likely migrated from Boston Common about 150 miles away, possibly by sea or overland in midwinter, raising questions about their unusual movement and the providence guiding nature. The note also warns St. Louis fears the Mississippi’s shifting channel could leave the city inland.
A traveler recalls Broek six miles from Amsterdam, famed as a clean town with narrow lanes and mosaic tales. Broad descriptions cover wooden houses painted bright and misfit architecture, canal odors, and strict cleanliness rituals including boot removal and a weekly private chamber polish by the housewife, as Harper's Magazine reports.
Iron sea forts under construction to defend key British naval stations will cost about five million dollars each with foundations. A shell for Spithead near Portsmouth has been shipped. it weighs 2400 tons and will receive 15 inch plates. Each fort spans 700 feet in circumference and 230 feet high, with two gun tiers of 600 pounders and 400 pounders. Guns are calculated to pierce twelve inch armor at 2000 yards.
A long discussion on the light called a star guiding the wise men to Bethlehem examines ten theories from literal star to atmospheric luminosity. It weighs planetary conjunctions, comets, meteors, and miracles, noting Kepler’s and Ideler’s versions and Chinese records of a 4BC comet, with science favoring nonliteral explanations though some theories hold tentative merit.
Washington DC inspectors set new daylight route rules requiring one officer from each pilot and engineer grade aboard steamers with daylight routes, plus crew for ordinary duties. Makers guarantee gauges and extinguishers work for one year, with extinguishers hydrostatically tested at 75 percent above gas pressure and strength clearly marked.
A Harper's Magazine excerpt argues that true science of society starts with justice of God and neighbor. It stresses viewing work as human, honoring laborers, and enriching moral capital through family, education, religion, and cooperative industry. It condemns both extreme individualism and violent communism while praising measured social ethics.
The Norwegian peasant life features shared beds in village homes, colored wooden boxes serving as furniture, and heirloom boxes with dates like A.D. 1711. Home weaving, shoemaking, and wood carving fill long winters, with knives and carved wooden items crafted by all men.
A critical essay on chronic grumbling describes it as a disease that sticks like a bar and resists self restraint. It argues grumblers alienate others, darken every virtue, and turn praise into fault finding, leaving only gloom and mutual distaste in their wake.
An essay extols walking as the oldest and simplest exercise, arguing its health and pleasure surpass modern fantasies of artificial fitness. It lauds outdoor walking for hours daily, noting its role in nature appreciation, bodily vigor, and heightened perception of beauty, with Alps and Switzerland cited as sources of delight through movement.
A moral exhortation warns against tobacco alcohol gambling and vanity urging temperance study and integrity. It asks if a person can afford to waste youth and ruin health and character. The piece concludes with a Lynn Massachusetts dog returning a lost pocketbook to its owner.
A Hearth and Home column recounts young Ernest Heim, later famed as a European doctor, overcoming a fear of spiders to prove his resolve. It juxtaposes his childhood vow to study medicine with a father’s doubt, then narrates his spider-bread triumph and ensuing consent to pursue medicine. The piece shifts to a Fall pumpkin pie vignette, reflecting on a boy’s appetite and the evolving craft of making pies in rural life.
In a historic naval encounter, a lone boatswain aboard the Renown urged a crowd to yield, shouting Yeo-hey make a lane there as he charged the foe with cutlass blazing. Despite heavy odds, his daring line of attack helped secure the capture of La Guepe, a French 18 gun brig, at Ferrol.
A fisherman in Alton Illinois devised a method to herd fish through two ice holes. He pumped water from one hole to the other creating a vacuum that drew the fish toward the pumped hole. The cold stunned the fish making them powerless to resist the current, allowing his scoop to gather them by the thousands.
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