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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1889
Page
3
A collage of curious facts and anecdotes from around the world and the US. Items include governors' travels, a German insomnia cure, a four foot alligator found in Cadillac, a toy voyage from England to Colorado, and notes on Persia's executions. Also mentions British prison reform, a new US flag design, literary editing advice, and a Nevada sunstruck resident.
A collage of 19th century concerns ranges from debt imprisonment abolition in New York to European disarmament talk and English law on railway door injuries. Notes on Nicaragua Canal land values, telephone claims, wage rises in Britain, and Buenos Aires horse markets sit beside religious influence on South Dakota’s constitution, railway safety debates, and the spread of English-language newspapers. The report also covers innovations in maps, cowcatchers, and a Spokane fire recovery, plus photography aiding witness accuracy and a Rochester inquest verdict visual.
A survey of scientific notes ranges from iron telegraph poles in India due to termites to typhoid reaching 16 to 20 inches underground after five weeks. Pasteur earthworm roles gain support, Paris Exposition fountain jets, lighter chloric chromium for propulsion, and experimental lighthouse power from accumulators and wind-driven dynamos. Kiel Kielers voyage for submarine soundings, rock crystal experiments in water, steel sheet boats, fast auto printing photos, electricity tempering steel, electric railway lamp ideas, Merrimac wool mill cost analysis, Dundee floor cloth industry, a 10 ton casting in Paris, and evolving views on contagion and disinfection for tuberculosis.
The Dead Sea known as Salt Sea and Sea of the Plain by Bible readers, Sea of Asphalt by Greeks, and Sea of Lot by Arabs, is described as motionless yet violently foaming at times. It has no fish, no boats, and driftwood salt-impregnated, with shorelines barren. Measuring 47 miles long and 10 wide, it lies 1,300 feet below the Mediterranean and 600 feet below the Sea of Galilee, containing 25 percent salt and heated springs along its shores. The Jordan feeds it with 6,000,000 tons daily, while the lake has no outlet.
A wife laments her marriage to a professional humorist who reads all his work to her before publication. A friend asks why, and she sighs that she wishes she hadn’t married him. The exchange captures sharp wit and rueful irony.
A miscellany notes origins of plants and objects, counts of names, and odd facts. Topics include Peruvian nasturtium, unlucky opal, European peas, Persian walnuts, Greek capers, Benjamin Harrison name count, mourning attire movement in Canada, Marseilles history, Paris toy soldiers, England widows, French widowers, Buchanan’s old barlow knife, Lexington land claim suit, York shilling etymology, Boston’s Montgomery Sears lawsuit, bee from Austria to Missouri, Pittsburg bow legs theory, Nevada wolf-dog rarity, birthdays ancient, Pharaoh’s birth day feast, folding paper sizes, and a Clyde river ferryboat with movable deck.
In Naturalist on the Amazons Bates notes army ants marching in vast columns that overwhelm pedestrians. He observes workers at rest, some grooming and washing each other, a curious display of sociable play that mirrors rational beings. Such leisure may sustain their efficient labor in other tasks.
A fragment recalls a family exchange about hearing dinner calls and bedtime, noting where Sul and others were located. The brief dialogue hints at household routines and subtle miscommunications within a domestic setting.
A collection of maxims on loyalty, charity, vanity, fame, and truth. Observations include the value of assisting the needy without ostentation, dangers of reputation, and the unpredictability of luck. The piece muses on self-improvement, social progress, and the limits of human insight.
Colonel Gouraud shows Shah of Persia an Elison phonograph at Lord Brownlow's Castle. The Shah, amused and astonished, personalizes the device by speaking into it and requesting a similar instrument for Tehran. Princes and nobles translate and recount the experience, ending with a wish to take the machine to Teheran.
The Delaware City sturgeon industry centers on catching sturgeon and producing Russian caviare. In spring 1900 about 4 700 sturgeon, weighing 376 000 pounds, were valued at 22 560 dollars. Of the catch 2 829 were roe fish yielding 720 kegs of caviare at 140 pounds each valued at 19 440 dollars. Most caviare shipped to Germany. meat, hides, oil and compost from byproducts handled locally.
A humorous dialogue line shows a lieutenant entranced by a wealthy heiress seeks her hand. He flirts that many will be happy, while she counters that only one is truly worthy. The exchange hints at social ambitions and witty banter over marriage prospects.
Poetic fragment presents a speaker disputing the idea that love is illusion, claiming enduring belief in love despite doubts about magic fading and earthly sorrow. The lines imply a vow to love beyond cynicism and disappointment.
A collection of quick wits and jokes from sailors and townsfolk. Bits range from love and work to marriage and manners, with quips about underwriters, dwarfed ambitions, and a running gag of everyday misunderstandings. The city audience would have shared in the gags about taxes, ducks, ministers, and travel mishaps.
A curious natural phenomenon near Lakeville in Connecticut shows a rock dubbed Moving Rock inching toward shore each spring over years. Once ten times larger, the rock now sits in about four feet of water with a growing furrow in the yellow clay beneath. Locals credit spring ice breakup and north winds piling ice against the rock, slowly pushing it closer to the bank. The report notes the rock is porous and subject to elemental action, while some doubt the explanation but all agree on its ongoing, measurable movement.
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