Laughs and legends in Marble Hill daily musings
The Marble Hill Missouri column jokes about social quirks and public figures. It notes a 24 year old mother of twelve, remarks on Bourke Cochran, Vanderbilt, Boucicault, and a double golden wedding in Connecticut and New York. Two Wells brothers plan secret runaway matches in Passaic.
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Missouri
William R. Higbee
Bridgeport
Passaic
N. J
Alfred
Radcliffe Wells
Submarine Boat Holland Builds A Future Navial Weapon
The United States nearly finished a Baltimore built submarine torpedo boat, hailed as a Jules Verne inspired breakthrough. It can dive from surface, stay submerged with fresh air, and launch five torpedoes from two tubes. Powered by steam and electric systems, it offers a camera lucida style surface view and a 66 foot depth limit, with a $150000 price tag and plans for two follow up ships.
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United States
Baltimore
Jules Verne
Navy Department
Camera Lucida
Whitehead
Howell
Lucida
Holland
Chesapeake
Louis Agassiz Early Years Read Like a Fairy Tale
A biographical sketch traces Louis Agassiz from a fairy tale start through early talent in natural science. At fourteen he longed for rare books, copied volumes with his brother, and pursued medicine and philosophy by age twenty three, gaining recognition for a Brazilian fishes work that established his European scientific stature.
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Agassiz
D'Anville, Ritter
Strabo
Manaert
Thiersch
Marie-Brun and
Seyfert
Lamarck
Hig
Europe
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J. S. Hill
Marble Hill
Standard Oil Trust
Bourke Cochran
Groton
N. Y
China
St. Paul
Minneapolis
William K. Vanderbilt
Mr. Vanderbilt
Chicago
Philadelphia
War Department
New York
Gotham
Aubrey Boucicault
America
J. P. Holland
Holland Boat
Ateam
Louis Agassiz
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