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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1883
Page
6
A poem from Thomas Wistar in The Continent celebrates a girl's eighteenth birthday as the rise of womanhood. It contrasts childhood pleasures with the bright promise of adulthood, noting gratitude to parents and God, and noting changing beauty as she turns eighteen.
A veteran aeronaut recalls a perilous balloon ascent during the last siege of Paris. From Gambetta to Evreux, the narrator details the 1870 mission, the freezing ascent, a fall into the void, and Lefebre's entanglement as the craft hovers near disaster. The incident leaves him forever haunted by balloons.
In a dramatic exchange a man named Charles Barnaby proclaims patriotism as his defense while a judge questions its legitimacy. The prisoner insists he defends America after a saloon incident mocking the Declaration of Independence, leading to a 60 day sentence as the courtroom debates loyalty and law.
The article explains a new standard time system for the U S and Canada, consolidating 53 old times into five zones Intercolonial Eastern Central Mountain and Pacific. It details meridians base times shifts from Greenwich and lists how towns compare to Chicago time, plus originators Prof Cleveland Abbe and Dr F A P Barnard and endorsements from scientific bodies.
An extensive, numeric table lists intercity time differences by time zone, detailing how various cities in the Atlantic, Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific zones relate to each other. It includes references to Halifax, St Johns, Portland, Boston, New York, Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Dallas, San Francisco, and more, with relative speeds or delays expressed in fractions and percentages.
By late November the first cantilever bridge in America over the Niagara River is expected to be in place with the final arch keystone fitted. Work began April 20 and the structure should carry trains by December 10, linking Canada Southern and New York Central routes.
Darwin and science are invoked to ponder an ant brain as a vast, intricate system of atoms far beyond simple microscope views. Estimations compare atoms in a cubic inch of air to the ant brain, suggesting trillions of units arranged in countless ways. The piece contrasts wonder at tiny matter with the idea that 400,000 volumes could not fully describe the brain’s complexity. Newbern, Tennessee, imposes Sunday saloon fines from twenty five to fifty dollars.
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