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Newspaper
Millbrook Reporter
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
Feb 01, 1894
Page
3
Fragmented OCR describes illness and travel plans involving royal figures and nobles in Britain. Mentions Queen, Duke, Duchess, Prince, and a vessel associated with Sweden Majesty. Includes scattered references to Silesia, a French man, and a Swedish mission, with unclear sequence and missing details.
Gerald Paget recounts the Matabele clash near Ironstone Mountain and Shangani, detailing the laager formation, wagon oval defense, and heliograph signals. He describes Captain Campbell's death, Burnett's mortal wounding, and a dawn Matabele attack repelled as 800 cattle were herded to camp and friendly fire confusion cleared.
A St Johns Newfoundland special reports the year’s end shows widespread idle months ahead. The St Johns Chamber of Commerce Annual Report details low seal oil and skin prices, poor shore and bank fisheries, and cautious optimism. It vitalizes the bait act against French bait imports and notes efforts to regulate lobster fishing for a stronger next year.
The article critiques the Indian census of 287 million enumerated in four hours by moonlight. It argues the lack of cohesive national unity, the dominance of caste-based individuality, and the impracticality of a true Indian nation arising from hundreds of languages and hereditary social strata. It underscores the challenge of applying a uniform national identity to such diversity.
An 1889 series from twenty one observatories mapped star positions against the asteroid Victoria to measure the sun's distance. Gill and Auwers at the Cape, Elkin and Hall at New Haven, and Hartwig and Schur in Germany led data collection with precise heliometers. Result: solar parallax 8.80 arc seconds, Sun distance 92,800,000 miles, and Moon mass reduced by about 1 percent, aligning with Harkness's earlier least-squares value.
New York reports two White Star Line vessels, the Cevic and Gothic. The Cevic, built by Harlan & Wolff in Belfast, measures 5000 feet by 60, 34 feet, 8500 tons gross and claims to be the largest freight steamship afloat with twin screws. The Gothic, 7500 tons, carries dairy products and 75,009 carcases of mutton in refrigeration, voyaging east around the Cape to New Zealand, then Cape Horn, totaling about 25,000 miles back to port. The Cevic sails Thursday from Liverpool for this port, while the Gothic left December 28 for New Zealand.
Mrs Wedde insists the luckiest month to wed is the thirteenth, while Miss Unwedde asks which month brings fortune. The exchange highlights a playful superstition about marriage timing in a humorous rail.
A crowd questions a drummer about a near fatal trestle crossing. He recalls hanging from cross pieces as a freight train passed, claiming seventeen minutes of peril, yet noting he survived with quirky counts and pride in truth.
The text traces how grains and fruits began in wild form and moved to cultivation in warm regions. It cites grapes, wheat, barley, Indian corn, and cotton, flax, oranges, peaches, pears, plums, cherries, and apples with geographic origins and historical timelines. It notes the potato’s global spread from the Americas and cites Humboldt on pre-Columbian cultivation. It ends with demographic tidbits on longevity trends.
A Canadian railmen wage cut, a Vancouver firm to work for Hawaii’s Queen, Montreal caledonian society to admit Scottish women, diphtheria in Quebec, two Port Robinsan boys drown, Canadian Exhibition car tours U S, Beaugrand sought for mayoral race, Lady Ritchie named head of Ottawa women’s group. Fatal tree-sawing accident in Norval. Essex farmer Adolphe Martin jailed over arson. Parliament to reline carpet, politics over felt goods, Princess of Wales recovering, Clarence house granted to Connaughts, Irish pledge writing, Imperial telegraph independence, seven million pound naval expansion proposed, smallpox in Chicago, gold-silver ore boom in East Argentine, Sanford mills restart, Wooley freed, African exodus, Cuban tobacco in Kansas, B&O train wreck attempt, North Pacific Coast bridge collapse, Shah of Persia ill, Duke of York invited to Berlin banquet, Brazil insurrection defeated.
The London Daily News reports camels are being tried on a farm near Kiev as a cheaper animal power substitute for horses. Eighteen camels are at work, costing far less in feed as oats are avoided, with prices around six to seven pounds per head.
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