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Newspaper
Logan Nation
Location
Logan, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1902
Page
2
A collage of far flung quips and brief notes from various places: Lord Kitchener, the Shah of Persia, and "Mary Maclane" highballs in Montana. Mentions of Cecil Rhodes, Alfonso, Holland and Norway, with satirical asides on panama hats, anti septic cuffs, and small change.
The note mentions Roosevelt owning a $1,000 hunting dog at the White House and jokes about the family cat learning from the strenuous life. It also notes Japan seeking a $4,000,000 loan in America and hints at Oriental rulers eyeing Panama hat investments.
King Edward has conferred the order of the latter upon two distinguished subjects and may vary decorations by occasional extra wuaponders.
It is noted that the New York lawyer who collapsed during a ping pong game might have died similarly even if the activity had been croquet, suggesting death from an unseen condition rather than the sport itself.
A fragment from the Portland Morning Oregonian contains a harsh poetic tirade directed at a nocturnal Tomcat, with venomous insults and physical depredations described. It diverges into an odd aside praising a poison treatment that oddly preserves birds for market. The piece juxtaposes the cat’s presumed vices with musings on warlike human cruelty and ends with a note on a pest poison that plumps birds without harming them.
Dr Eugene Murray Aaron recounts a snapping turtle found on a West Indies island moving after decapitation. After an ax stroke severed its head, the headless body crawled toward water, then the neck turned inland and the turtle seemingly sought escape despite lacking its head.
A navel orange reportedly contains a freakish formation a large orange with a child's head protruding from the navel. The head is a perfect likeness of a crying child and the orange is preserved in spirits at the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce for display and study.
The kiwi remains the last of New Zealand’s wingless birds. It is partridge sized with a long neck and a four inch bill. Its underdeveloped wings and unfinished plumage reflect early evolutionary stages. Flight loss and white settlement have driven it toward near extinction alongside other forest birds.
A historical account explains intense forced feeding in poultry farming using a cramming pump to push oatmeal and milk into unwilling chickens. The process continues for days, after which birds refuse to eat on their own. Arsenic is added to the pump capon preparation as a final touch.
The largest walking sticks resemble twigs and imitate a Mite branch to hide from predators like birds. Found in Brazil, these insects mimic tree knots and bark so exactly that they are nearly undetectable, matching the twigs of their host trees.
Professor Adametz, famed for studies on cheese fragrance, reports microbe counts in cheese far exceed Earth’s population. Fresh 165 grains hold 0 to 140 thousand microbes, 70 days old rise to 800 thousand per 15 grains, while denser cheese shows 1.2 million at 25 days and 2 million at 45 days per fragment.
Jacob Groff, aged 62, wed Miss Rebecca Gleisbury, three years his senior, at Mayton West Virginia. He had kept a nine year old marriage license after his bride elect initially refused to wed him. The minister Rev D. B. Thomas, skeptical at the old date, performed the ceremony upon learning the circumstances.
The article explains that ordinary arc lamps can be made to talk or sing. Placing the arc in a telephone circuit or in place of a transmitter lets it pronounce words heard at distance. The arc can also function as both receiver and transmitter in telephone use.
Russian kettle bridges are formed from soldiers lances and cooking kettles tied with rope to create rafts. Seven or eight lances pass under kettle handles and secure a raft that can bear half a ton. By linking enough rafts, a complete bridge is formed in about an hour for safe army crossings.
Beven reports from Hickory Run that the Hendersons, a woods-dwelling clan, have seven twin pairs in fourteen years, plus two single children. All members are alive and sound, healthy youngsters.
A well preserved bear skeleton was found by John and James Osterhart of Sherman Pennsylvania. The bear skull contained several pounds of honey bees had stored there as a hive while the log was being sawn.
A London Graphic correspondent from Winchester reports a bright gibbous moonlit aurora seen Wednesday evening. A prominent beam illuminated Cassiopea delta and pamma, moving eastward, with a thin line from the south near Canis Minor. the display faded after a time as the sky stayed mild and stars shone.
A three part split clamp seals steam pipe leaks without stopping the plant. The plain clamp seats against the pipe elbow, holds a soft metal ring, and threads with the third clamp. Set screws tighten to press the lead ring into the leak, restoring the pipe to near new condition.
The article describes devices for cooling bottled water using a cooling chamber and coiled pipes without direct ice contact, plus a safety firecracker design that uses a preliminary alarm charge to startle children and reduce injury. It mentions a cork-equipped bottle with two taps and a pump to raise pressure, and a safety cracker by Antonio Delgrande of Petersburg Virginia with color coded night signals.
Air pressure in the bottle drives water into the cooling pipes and once flow starts the water’s weight below continues to draw fluid from the bottle above as fast as the pipe beneath it empties.
Inventor unveils a mechanical directory that turns a crank to expose pages of names on a moving sheet. An index strip slows characters at a slot for easy reading, with room for corrections and address changes. Potentially usable for dictionaries and other references.
Tess questions why Jess refused a proposal from a man who vows to never court another woman. Jess retorts that she would not look foolish by accepting immediately, while Tess notes the man's claim to lifelong devotion.
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