The Genuine Japanese Silk Moths Arrive in Two Cities
A Navy officer's cocoons in Brooklyn led to a growing Japanese silk moth colony. The moths feed on the ailanthus tree not mulberry, fly at night, and live two to three weeks. Eggs numbered 300 to 500, hatching into silk-worm larvae that spin cocoons for winter. The curious life cycle bridges Brooklyn and New York City, with cocoons visible on ailanthus and electric lights.
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New York City
Silk Exchange
Bond Street
Trinity Churchyard
Navy
Bridge Street
Brooklyn
Feaf
N. Y
Long Life Gaps Across Sexes and a Coast Prize Fight
A compendium cites Popular Science News noting Hebrew women live longest while colored men die youngest, with broader gender life expectancy and disease patterns. It also mentions a coastal prize fight near Portland, Oregon lasting sixty nine rounds over four and a half hours, ending abruptly.
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Deverga
United States
Hough
Popular Science News
Portland
Ore
Household Tips From Olden Times For Cleaning and Care
A compendium of home remedies and etiquette includes Porvenizen charcoal as a knife cleaner, melted tallow as a water substitute, and methods to keep hardwood floors bright. It covers preserving flowers with chloroform, indelible ink recipes, and ways to maintain fabrics, ivory, and glass, plus advice on spankings for a child’s temper, and creating decorative satchels from grosgrain ribbons.
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Garret
Scientific notes on new alloys and engines in 19th century science
A survey of advances covers gold alloying with silica to lower melting points, a Jena lens with variable density, heat transfer by moisture, copper plated sheet steel, Honduras pita fiber as silk substitute, and dairy feed concerns from distillery by products. Also notes on solid carbonic acid gas, turpentine distillation, roborite explosive tests, and tuberculosis causation.
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Jena
Germany
Parapepula
Honduras
Berlin
Jewelers' Journal
Journal of Science
School of Military Engineering
Chatham
Ent
Carl Roth
Missouri's Mathematical Prodigy Prof Reuben Fields
A Kentucky born man living near Higginsville Missouri is famed as Prof Reuben Fields a self taught mathematical wonder who travels without a pass on trains and answers complex problems in moments He correctly tells time days and monetary sums and even computes engine revolutions for a trip from his location He asserts a heavenly gift and wowed listeners by determining the day of the week each person present was born before leaving.
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Missouri
Higginsville
Reuben Fields
Fields
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Louisiana
Kentucky
Handsome Salaries Among New York Leaders
The Washington Post notes many New York figures earning high annual salaries, from $5,000 to $50,000 for presidents of major firms like Western Union, New York Central, Mutual Life, and banks. Prominent pastors and ministers also command large incomes, with Dr John Hall listed at $20,000 plus $5,000 from writing.
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Washington Post
New York
United States
Legion
Norvin Green
Western Union Telegraph Company
Chauncey M. Depew
New York Central Railroad
Richard M. McCrady
The
Mutual Life Insurance Company
John Hoey
Adams Express Company
Henry B. Hyde
Equitable Insurance Company
George G. Williams
Chemical National Bank
America
Potts
Park Bank
Tappan
Gallatin National Bank
John Hall
Ireland
Robert Bonner
Ledger
Dublin
Morgan Dix
Trinity Church Corporation
William M. Taylor
Broadway Tabernacle
Charles Hall
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
Parkhurst
Madison Square Church
Cyrus W. Field
Paxton
Jay Gould
Robert Collyer
A Bit of Genuine Irish Homes
A debating society encounter sees an English doctor claim Irish depravity based on eight hundred Irish patients with only thirty paying fees. An Irish reply challenges the doctor’s explanation by noting that those who paid were the ones who recovered, offering a counter explanation for the observed outcome.
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Manchester
Paper doors and pianos from pulp and resin
The article describes doors made from paper boards as light and durable, coated and finished to resemble wood. It notes paper frames for pictures, and a French invention of pianos with cases entirely of compressed paper, praised for finish and tone though not very loud. Only two have been produced, one exhibited and one sold to the Duke of Devonshire.
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ST. Charles Street
St-Louis
Lapeau
Fea
DR. Whittier
Paris
Duke of Devonshire
Chambers’ Journal
Hungarian Music and the Gypsy Question Explored
In Blackwood's Magazine an essay debates whether Hungarian music came from the Gypsies or existed before their arrival. It argues the Gypsies refined a shared, Asiatic-tinged Hungarian character through lifelong training, with Liszt favoring the former view. The piece notes how a Polish pianist felt Hungarian music eludes her, reflecting deep cultural exchange and temperament.
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Hungary
Liszt
Tzigane
Chopin
Blackwood's Magazine
Ingenious Monkeys Open Oysters on Burmese Islands
The article describes macaque monkeys on the Mergui Archipelago islands opening large and small rock oysters with a stone. They strike the base of the upper valve to dislocate and break the shell, then extract the oyster with fingers and sometimes mouth. Stones are chosen for handling ease, and retrieved from up to eighty yards away. a gibbon is noted but not observed on the beach.
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South
Burmah
Mergui Archipelago
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Bridgeport, Conn
T. A. Solomons
Halliday St
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