Ireland's police strain and secret plots in Tubbercurry tale
A veteran observer recalls Irish law and order under pressure from Land League violence and informers. He recounts a forged cover story of a blacksmith Bartley used to lure rebels, shifting from suspicion to trusted spy, as local raids and court summons erupt across Tubbercurry.
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Ireland
Royal Irish Constabulary
Clare
O'Connell
Fogarty
Killaloe
Ennis
Cursed Land League
Court House
Secret Society
England
Dublin Castle
Tubbercurry
Jimmy French
Constabulary
Morris
Dublin
Billy
Bartley
Mags
College Green
Revolutionary Society
How to Make a 4x5 Landscape Camera from a Box
A practical guide for building a 4x5 landscape camera from a wooden box. It covers selecting a standard plate size, constructing a light tight body, mounting the plate holder, adding felt seals, and crafting a primitive finder by drawing sight lines on the box. The lens is improvised from a thinned metal plug and needle, with care noted for light leaks and alignment.
Marker for a Blackboard Draws Parallel Lines in One Move
A New York inventor designed a blackboard marker that draws multiple parallel lines at once. Chalks fit into holders mounted on a lazy-tongs apparatus sliding in a bar within a U-shaped frame. Regulated spacing via screws, the device enables quick vertical or horizontal divisions on a classroom blackboard.
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New York
Toom
Calf on Leg Sparks Farmer’s Wry Rhyme
Fragmentary verse shows a farmer fretting over a calf on one leg and anxious about cows multiplying. The speaker jokes about fear of more calves and unknown plans for the herd.
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Tom
Deceptions That Are Queer in Perception and Pain
A discussion of visual illusion and perceived distance. Lightning brief flashes create lasting retinal impressions, making rapid events seem longer. Misjudgments in fog or twilight cause objects or people to appear larger or farther away than they are.
Unique display of lights by L S Howard of Wichita
The Scientific American Boys describe an illuminating system by L S Howard of Wichita Kansas that lets a performer such as a tight rope walker automatically cause a sequence of lights to appear and disappear on his attire in sync with his movements. The support has electrical contact seating that makes and breaks connections between lights on the performer or apparatus.
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L.S. Howard
Wichita
Kan
Scientific American Boys
Why Drug Stores Display Bright Colored Jars
The article explains that historic apothecaries showed jars and retorts in windows to emphasize mystery. Modern pharmacies rely on factories for compounding, but keep jars of bright colored liquids on display to preserve the old visual tradition.
Could Play at Will Mamma Said Five Year Old Wills
A fragment shows five year old Wills asking to visit Tommy Jones and noting the reason given is that Jones’ mother has no carpets. The text is garbled with misspellings and incomplete dialogue.
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Wills
Tommy Jones
Wille
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