The Stream of Time and Home Science Tricks
An assortment from a Boston Christian Register page offers verse and home science. It includes Percy F. Bicknell on time, plus experiments with boiling liquids, glass joining, and turning solids to liquids. There are notes on a water candlestick, how horses sleep, drawing the six pointed star, a New Zealand hailstorm, and a batch of lighthearted riddles.
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Percy F. Bicknell
Boston
Christian Reglater
New Zealand
Timart
Nylslones
Sign Language Among the Animals
A New Orleans Times-Democrat excerpt explores animal signals as a form of communication. The speaker notes signs in ducks, rabbits, and hens, wonders at their meanings, and compares animal gestures to human speech while acknowledging gaps in understanding.
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Potomac
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Wealthy New York Merchants Lived Long Quietly Yet Die
A New York Evening World piece notes that many long-lived merchants such as Jamon McCreary Joseph Parke John Daniell Hugh O Neill Peter Hoe Salem H Walls Tiffany and Charles Broad way Rous reached ages from seventy seven to ninety. It questions whether sturdy physical constitutions or frugality extended life and contrasts their calm, modest retirements with today’s wealth seekers and flashy excess.
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New York
John Daniell
Hugh O'Neill
Peter Hoe
Tiffany
Salem H. Walls
Charles Broadway Rous
Etyx
New York Evening World
Jamon McCreary
Joseph Parke
Mercantile
MeGreery
Daniell
Parke
Hoe
Wales
Seven
Lfe
Jersey
Fat Man and His Trousers at Stock Yard Meet
William Bolton editor of the Live Stock Inspector in Woodward, UK, boasted of weighing 818 pounds and recounts a comic misadventure at the stock yards in Kansas City. He wore old trousers with a tear while traveling, missed his best pair, sent them ahead by express, and laments the expense as he awaited their arrival. He quips about waist measurement and lack of suitable hand me downs in Kansas City.
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William Bolton
Woodward
Bolton
Exchange
Kansas City
Express
Guthrie
Wichita
Kansans
Kiinenz
Eilitor Bolton
Kanyan City
Why He Wanted Four Tracks
Not long after two Irish men reached New York City bound for the West they compared railway routes. They chose the line with the most tracks, not the best service, noting the top one offered speed and more options. Mulligan tells Pat they want the four-tracker to reach the other shore quickly.
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New York City
Mnet
Mulligan
Pat
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Tle
Wight
Conundrums
Goliath
Imman
Sapincker
Arena
Ilfe
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