Brake on the steamer and the metal mistimed stop device
A Montreal inventor Louis Lacoste designs a vertical hinged brake gate for ships to rapidly stop a steamer in danger. When activated from the pilot house the gate opens at right angles and is braced to the stern, paired across the hull to aid quick stoppage without hindering normal movement. The article also discusses Earth cooling, secular cooling effects, and the extremely slow predicted shortening of the day over vast timescales.
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Louis Lacoste
Montreal
Que
Slow Earth Cooling Affects Day Length Study
Professor Woodward in Popular Science Monthly details research on how Earth's cooling relates to day length. He notes meteoric dust increases surface mass and volume shrinks with cooling, affecting rotation. Laplace claimed no significant change in day length over 2,000 years. Woodward extends data, suggesting less than half a second change in the first 10,000,000 years after the ice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodward
Professor Woodward
Popular Science Monthly
Laplace
Photographer Claims Boer War Feats in Smoking Room Tale
A group in a smoking room recounts a man who boasts of an African war exploits. He claims close encounters with Boers, capturing officers, soldiers, transport wagons, a kraal and a big gun, then reveals he is a photographer and jokes about Baron Munchausen.
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South Africa
Baron Munchausen
Knitting Legislator Wason Abandons Stockings Hobby
Orkney and Shetland MP Mr. Cathcart Wason, known for knitting stockings in the House smoking room, has recently stopped the pastime. He had cited poor eyesight and inability to read as reasons, while colleagues found the hobby simple yet irritating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cathcart Wason
Orkney
Shetland
House of Commons
Foresters Promote Mixed Forests For Long Lived Trees
American foresters push broad publicity for growing long lived trees under protection of short lived trees to establish a permanent forest stand over time. The strategy aims to shield saplings while older trees fade, enabling eventual dominance of the long lived types.
Texas Oil King and ex Governor Hoge a Forceful Figure
Ex Governor James S Hoge, turned Texas oil success, is described as a picturesque, forceful figure in the Lone Star State. London reports claim he plans an English oil trust for Beaumont fields with $15,000,000 stock. He is said to have earned about $5,000,000, while denying ties to Standard Oil.
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Hoas
James Stephen Hoge
Texas
Lone Star
Logg
London
Beaumont
Hogg
Standard OF Company
Mr. Hogg
Trusta
Standard Oil
Spectacular Claims From Diverse Topics Feature In Bulletin
A compilation of varied notes covers historical sackings of Mos cow, Sarah Bernhardt rehearsals, Europe’s birth rates, New York vs European Russia press, sago palm nutrition, Alaska dog relay miles, horse relays between White Horse and Dawson, a curious fever noted by Dr. J. E. Dutton, a blood parasite related to tsetse disease, Babylonian inscribed slabs, and consoling infant health observations. The items lack a single cohesive news event, presenting a mosaic of curiosities and findings.
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India
Skagway
St. Michael
Alaska
White Horse
Dawson
J.E. Dutton
South Africa
Family Tales and a Strict Father-in-Law
A Cleveland Plain Dealer excerpt recounts a dialogue where a man seeks Maud’s hand, defends his choice over Minnie, and faces sharp wit from Bissinger who compares his daughters-in-law and remarks Maud is the worthiest. The anecdote underlines old age’s steadiness versus youth’s impulsiveness.
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Old Bissinger
Maud
Minnie
Cleveland Plain Dealer
World’s Largest Bass Drum Shocks St. Louis Crowd
The article notes the biggest bass drum in the world sits in St. Louis. Created by M. Waechtler, official bass drummer of the Symphony Orchestra and organizer of the Social Turner drum corps, the drum is so large that two strong men are needed to carry it in a parade while the drummer walks beside.
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St. Louis
M. Waechtler
Symphony Orchestra
Social Turner
Large drum dimensions and material details emerge
Mr Waechtler provides the drum diameter of 56 inches and width of 20 inches. Heads were secured in Philadelphia after months of delay. Designed for grand concert work, the instrument could serve a band of 200 with one drum, producing a deep resonant tone and a thunderclap-like note on a sharp strike.
What a Drop of Water Does as a Moving Power
A bend match balances over a bottle neck with a coin perched above. By touching the bend point with water drops, the two arms separate slowly, letting the money slip into the bottle without touching either the match or the bottle.
One of Helen Keller's Pranks
Helen Keller recounts childhood mischief including locking her mother in the pantry for hours and later locking her teacher Annie Sullivan in her room. She describes delight in the mischief, the need for early instruction, and the humorous escape when a ladder had to be used to reach the teacher.
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Helen Keller
Annie M. Sullivan
Miss Sullivan
Ladies’ Home Journal
Earldom of Munster Tied to Royal Lineage Near Kroonstadt
Might Have Been King Lord Munster died accidentally near Kroonstadt while heir to the earldom he only assumed last April. He was grandson of William IV and Mrs. Jordan and bore royal arms. The first Earl Fitz-Clarence served with Wellington in the Peninsular War and in India, became a Peer in 1831, and died eleven years later. If royal marriage rules had differed, he might have been King of England.
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Lord Munster
Kroonstadt
William IV
Jordan
Fitz-Clarence
Wellington
India
William
Earl of Munster
England
London Tattler
Editions of Famous Works Listed by English Book Catalogue
In the last three years the English Book Catalogue records 178 Shakespeare editions 134 Scott editions 82 Dickens editions 40 Alexandre Dumas editions 38 Thackeray editions 27 Captain Marryat 27 Jane Austen and 18 George Eliot. The Eastern Trunk Railway out of London carries 1,000,000 passengers daily.
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Shakspeare
Scott
Dickens
Alexandre Dumas
Thackeray
Captain Marryat
Jane Austen
George Eliot
Eastern Trunk Railway
London
Venetian Palace Rebuilt in Brookline Wins Social Rivalry
Charles F Sprague, once the richest man in the House, dies leaving widow with social aims. Mrs Sprague, rival of Mrs Jack Gardner, buys an entire Venetian palace and ships it to Brookline Massachusetts. The house arrives complete with furnishings and is claimed to cost millions. Mrs Sprague is said to hold twenty million dollars in her own right.
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Charles F. Sprague
House of Representatives
Brookline
Mass
Jack Gardner
Boston
Ner
America
The Lament for Billy West Minstrel Leader and Fortune
Billy West known as Billy West, a famed minstrel who died in Chicago, spent his life entertaining and earned a fortune estimated between 250000 and 275000. He left Albany area in 1867 at 14 earning 3 dollars weekly, later partnering with George Primrose and others. He originated the Shakespearan first part and was an artistic manager with a notable court costume style. His first wife Fay Templeton left him for Howard Osborn, widow Emma Hanley was a comic opera singer. An anecdote describes a Birmingham hat shop and a talking hat salesman. Also notes Spanish farm wages and a Washington pension office machine sealing envelopes.
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William H. West
Billy West
Chicago
Albany
N. Y
George Primrose
Burtow
Wilson
Thatcher
West
Coal
Fay Templeton
Howard Osborne
Emma Hanley
Book notes and reviews on Miss Austen and Corelli works
The itemized notices discuss Margaret Armstrong’s native cover for Myrtle Reed and the Harper edition of The Basins. It covers Clifton Jo’s photo reproductions, Maria Louise Poe’s Meloon Farm, and Migs Pool’s late-blooming storytelling talent. Also featured are Marie Corelli’s Myster Christian’s strong advance orders and Pollock’s Jane Austen critique highlighting family gibberish and contemporaries.
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Margaret Armstrong
Myrtle Reed
G. P. Putnam
Sally Pratt McLean Vesty
Harper & Brothers
Clifton Jo
Maine
Meloon
Maria Louise Poe
Migs Pool
Myster Christian
Marie Corelli
M@i& Co
Longmans, Green & Company
Jories
Jane Austen
Walter Herries Pollock
Miss Austen
Mr. Pollock
Miss Edgeworth
Miss Burney
Miss Ferrier
Greene
Death Lurks in Cactus in Arizona Flora
Distinctive great saguaro cactus described with its tall form, May purple blossom, and pearlike fruit prized by Indians and Mexicans. Historic notes recount drunken feasts tied to fruit gatherings, tribal wars, and ritual intoxication amid oasis treks.
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Arizona
Uncle Sam
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Texas Oil King
Moscow
Sarah Bernhardt
Cleopatra
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Russia
New York
Babylon
Earth
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Chas. F. Sprague
New Street
Birmingham
Spain
Washington
Band
Prine the UN
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