Harmony of Colors and Sunken Lands Revealed
The text discusses color harmony physics with white sensation from combined light, color depth cues as eyes focus at varying distances, and red appearing farther than blue. It then notes a strange anecdote of a groomed maid and a horse to market. It concludes with a survey of areas below sea level across continents, citing Death Valley 276 feet, Dead Sea 1200 feet, Sahara about 150 feet, Caspian shores 80 feet, and Lake Torrens 25 feet.
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Harper's
South America
North America
United States Geological Survey
Death Valley
California
Dead Sea
Palestine
Asia
Africa
Sahara
Europe
Caspian Sea
Australia
Lake Torrens
The Ducking Stool and Colonial Punishments
A historical note recalls the ducking stool used to discipline scolding women in colonial America. Betsey Walker endured five submersions, as described by Thomas Hartley in 1685, with stinging details of ear and tongue punishments and communal enforcement by parish machines.
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America
Thomas Hartley
Virginia
Betsey Walker
Betsey
Rothschild Beggar Tale and Glass History Snippet
A column recounts the tale of Baron James Rothschild posing as a beggar model for Delacroix and a repayable loan verdict. It also surveys English and Irish glass types, Waterford’s popularity, and origins of glassmaking with notes on silica and alkali, plus a river of small anecdotes about a tramp and a woodpile ruse.
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Baron James
Rothschild
Ignatius Balla
Baron James Rothschild
Paris
Eugene Delacroix
Baron Rothschild
M. Delacroix
Cork
Dublin
Mediterranean
His Guess and a Venus of Milo Model Woman
A witty quip contrasts a Venus of Milo as a model wife with a man’s guess about why she was deemed so. The remark implies she could not go through her husband’s pockets, noting a humorous take on domestic virtue.
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Venus of Milo
Baltimore American
Home for Blind Babies Well Run
New Jersey auditor William E. Drake of Trenton reports a thorough audit of the Arthur Home for Blind Babies Summit New Jersey kept at the International Sunshine Society New York from May 1911 to December 1912. The report notes correct cash handling, endorsed checks on file, and balances matching the cash book. Average outlay over 18 months was 1367 monthly, with extensive improvements including fire stairs new bathrooms sewers roadways and a garden. The home nursery hospital and kindergarten cares for about 37 children, with the state paying 330 per child annually.
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New Jersey
William EK
Drake
Trenton
Arthur Home
Summit
N. J
International Sunshine Society
Fifth Avenue
New York
Ehceck
Kingergarten
The
New Jersey Central Train Times From Elizabeth and Freehold
Timetable fragment lists New Jersey Central services from Elizabeth to New York and Atlantic City with frequencies and Sunday departures. It notes connections via Ned Bank and near Freehold LRE station and Matawan route with several listed times.
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Elizabeth
New York
Portatlantic
Ned Bank
Freehold
Lente N, Y. L. B
Matawa
Weather Forecast For New Jersey Ends Sunday Evening
The Weather Bureau forecast 86 hours of weather ending Sunday 8 p m for New Jersey. Rain tonight followed by fair, colder conditions Sunday with brisk southwest winds shifting to northwest. Observations show 8 am temperature 47, yesterday's high 57, low 42, barometer 29.70 rising to 29.79 last night, wind South 14 mph, humidity near 100 percent, precipitation 0.71 inches in 24 hours.
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United States Weather Bureau
New Jersey
Weather Bureau
North Broadway
Long Branch
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Seventh Ave
Addison Slocum
Horton Ice Cream Co
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Bott
Goldstein's Dept
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Front St
Richard West
Monmouth Beach
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