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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1895
Page
6
J. V. Farwell argues that bimetallism best stabilizes money by combining gold and silver under law, critiques monometalists, and condemns demonetization of silver in 1873. He cites historical price distortions, argues for universal monetary cooperation, and asserts gold alone harms broad commerce.
In this lighthearted period note Mrs Parker and Mrs Lake are described as devoted followers of fashion with sharp social wit. The exchange, cited from Harpers Bazaar, reflects chic culture and seasonal style awareness in a playful banter between friends.
Amstutz of Cleveland unveils electro-artograph, a device to transmit photographs as line engravings over wires. Using wave currents and a revolving waxed cylinder, the system both sends and reproduces at the distant end, with a three minute engraving example of a boy and dog.
A San Antonio inventor patents a rail torpedo system allowing a following train to warn a ahead train while both are in motion. The device uses a tubular torpedo on a long handle with a detachable spring that grips the rail head as the handle is pressed downward. The spring contracts to secure the torpedo until the warning is delivered. The concept is described in Scientific American.
A paper to the Biological Society of Washington explored birds as fruit and vegetation threats. It reports analyses of over six hundred stomachs showing insects, especially ants, as dominant contents in most birds. The study notes birds have favorite foods but seek substitutes when those are scarce.
In a discussion of birdology the text notes that ants cultivate mealy bugs on coffee trees as a food source for themselves. It argues that woodpeckers should be protected as they may help control grubs harming elm trees nationwide.
A compiled list ranks the world's largest cities with population estimates and notes the total of 34,442,500 souls in 35 cities. It includes major centers such as London, New York, Tokyo, Moscow, Calcutta, and Paris with varied spellings and historical names. It also projects the next U.S. census near 100 million and details the 1890 U.S. wealth distribution across lands, real estate, railroads, household goods, livestock, mines, and imports totaling over 60 billion dollars.
The visitor sees not just the famous devices but the vast system of machines that produce them. Electric lamps and phonographs rely on countless devices built by electricians, from toy‑engine sized to house‑sized, many so delicate a belt the width of a shoelace. One machine polishes jewels for phonographs by precise, automated fingers without human touch, turning, shifting, and assessing smoothness.
Professor Lewes reports in a Society of Arts paper that acetylene, a powerful hydrocarbon illuminant, can be produced commercially. The colorless gas with a garlic like odor yields 240 candles from five cubic feet for an hour. Acetylene is made from powdered carbon and water yielding calcium carbide, costing about $20 a ton to make and about $1.60 per thousand feet of gas to illuminate, comparable to coal gas at two cents per thousand.
Geological calculation places earth’s minimum age at 21,000,000 years since primitive formations. Breakdowns: 6,700,000 years primordial, 6,400,000 primary, 2,590,000 secondary, 480,000 tertiary, and 100,009 years since MAD’s appearance on the globe.
The New Yorker and Boston News exchange terse comments urging quicker trains between New York and Boston. The brief clipping captures a playful yet pointed debate over rail speed and service between two major cities.
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