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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1892
Page
3
In a miscellany of 1892 data the piece notes that 180,002 workingmen own homes, discusses architecture as a study for women, estimates government bounty on crops, and cites US land purchases from Indians and army costs. It reports on Harvard photo astronomy tests, English farming as a business, French funeral customs, and Concord Massachusetts school transport experiments with Lexington figures.
A historical account outlines cobra features and behaviors, notes on venom and antidotes, the cobra’s ties to culture in India Africa and Britain, snake charmers methods and milk as a lure, plus legends of a mythical elixir and the mungoose’s immunity and Zuni snake dance as a final note from the New York Herald.
Macmillan's Magazine describes a colossal Baalbek stone left unfinished in a quarry near Shtawra. Roughly 70 by 14 by 14 feet, weighing about 1500 tons, it would need 40,000 men to move it a quarter inch per hour. The piece invites reflections on ancient labor, tools, and why the work was abandoned.
The year is not a fixed multiple of days because earth spins daily and moves forward around the sun. Day and night arise from rotation, while daylight length changes with seasons as the earth tilts toward and away from the sun. The year spans about 365 days plus roughly six hours, creating leap years. the fraction accumulates to adjust for the 1900 exception.
New York oyster openers known as lightning operators perform extremely fast Work. Dick Balmer has opened 9000 oysters in twelve hours and averages 7500 in similar spans. Mike Foley has opened up to 9500 in a day and commonly 8000 on a hard push. John Lahey and a oysterman called Dear George average about 8000 daily with 500 oyster trials showing Lahey hard to beat. Experience and a certain knack matter as some men top out near 4000.
A playful excerpt from a New York Advertiser column recalls a musical cat performance and kittens in mittens, followed by a 19th century Dublin lioness story. The tale contrasts ill tempered animals and a ratting terrier, ending with the terrier sleeping beside the lioness to guard it.
Niobe and her children narrates a Greek myth of Leto’s offspring, Apollo and Artemis, destroying Niobe’s many children, leaving her a weeping rock. The piece shifts to Queen Victoria’s strict staff handling, then describes Ainu dress, tools, and culture, noting their lack of writing and perceived stagnation after long contact with Japan.
Indigenous observers report a June mirage near the Pacific glacier in Alaska that forms a ghostly city in the mist. The image shows streets trees spires and large buildings, claimed to house tens of thousands, though its location remains unidentified amid Russian English or other origin theories.
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