The Killing Ground of a Tiger Man-Eater
In 1875 I tracked man-eating tigers near Milgherry Hill and Anomallies, building a nocturnal machan with two shikaries. A wood-cutter’s corpse moved, a 30-foot python crushed a tiger, and a tigress finished the scene before dawn. The woodcutter was cremated and the wildlife was skinned. I never again sat up at night over a kill.
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Milgherry Hill
Ghants
Ooty
Pullikul
Neermal
Chiniah
Coimbatore
Sahib
Hindoo
Laocoon
A Visit to San Francisco’s Chinese Theater and Hang Fer Low Banquet
A San Francisco correspondent tours the Grand Theater Don Quai Yuen and the Hang Fer Low Restaurant in Chinatown. He describes long performances from 5 PM to midnight with actors brought from the old country, lavish robes, and a taboo on women on stage. The banquet scenes show vermilion invitations, round tables, gilded alcoves, and a tasting menu ending with opium smoke.
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San Francisco
Grand Theater
Don Quai Yuen
San Franciscan
Chinatown
Hong Kong
The Homing Instinct Across Species and Calf Return
An excerpt from the London Times discusses animal homing and intelligence, noting dogs rarely equal humans in navigation and that cats and calves may show strong homing. It recalls a calf that returned home from a distant farm, choosing a direct route over hills and woods, suggesting instinct beyond intelligence.
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Jacob
Linton
Cambridge
London Times
A Japanese Schoolhouse Beside a Scenic Stream
A correspondent in Japan describes a village school near Tuji-Yama with fifteen children at plain tables. The master teaches characters on a blackboard while children write, read, and calculate with evident freedom and happiness, signaling promising youth.
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Japan
Tuji-Yama
Among the Old Models Patented Sewing Machines and Other Inventions
The article tours the Patent Office model room in Washington, noting early sewing machine contrivances and their origins. It highlights labels from 1842 and 1843, early forms by Howe and Singer, and the spread of attachments, with digressions on a peculiar animal-shaped top bar and other pioneer devices from 1773 to 1787.
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Patent Office
Washington
National Republican
P. James Greenough
Washington, D. C
G. W. Corliss
Corliss
Howe
Singer
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Samuel Winslow
John Shipman
Saybrook
Benjamin Dearborn
New Hampshire
Scientific Snips From The Day In 19th Century Studies
Reports on parasitic detection in breath from consumptives suggests no infectiousness. Dr Venukoff notes horses camels and geese show little fear in wild state after shootings. Ischia bath turbid water may herald eruptions. regular chemical tests planned for baths wells and springs. Berlin Zoological Gardens announce Struthia Molybdophanes ostrich from Somali Land to western Africa. Tyndall finds room moisture greatly enhances radiant heat absorption acting as a heat blanket. Overheated dry hot air furnaces deemed unhealthy. Dr Domingo Freire confirms yellow fever fungus cryptococcus xanthogenicus causes infection when injected. inoculated animals show fever and germs in blood.
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Zoological Gardens of
Berlin
Reichenow
Somali
Galla
Africa
Tyndall
Domingo Freire
Rio Janeiro
Origin of the reclining chair linked to royal bedside etiquette
Henry Havard in L Art dans le Salon traces the reclining chair to French royal etiquette. A spare bed placed near an ill king gave the king a recumbent view during visits, with Louis XIII to Richelieu and Louis XIV to Villars cited as examples. The second bed evolved into the modern reclining chair.
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Henry Havard
France
Louis XIII
Cardinal Richelieu
Louis XIV
Marshal Villars
St. James
Connection Between Colors and Sounds
Reports on experiments linking color perception to sound. A Nantes ophthalmologist notes sharp notes yield brighter colors while flat notes darken impressions, with saxophone producing yellow and clarinet red. Philadelphia researcher Holeman observes soap film patterns changing with tone, showing consistent shapes but variable colors across notes.
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Nantes
M. Pedrone
Prof
Holeman
Philadelphia
The Greatest Obelisk of Washington
The Washington monument is extolled as a world wonder rising over 350 feet from the Potomac banks. It is praised for height and beauty, predicted to outshine pyramids and churches, with Cologne Cathedral listed among the tallest then. The piece ranks other great structures by height.
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Washington Monument
Washington
Potomac
St. Peter’s Cathedral
Cathedral of Cologne
Strasburg
St Peter’s
St. Stephen’s
Vienna
St. Paul’s
London
Cleve
The Song of the Hen Minstrel Trill
A Burlington Hawkeye verse notes a lone hen’s daily song in coop and yard. It extols the egg as a rare gem and humorously warns of a life ending weeks hence, as the bird’s simple life reflects on strength and fate.
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Burlington
The Burglar and Other Urban Chuckles Headlines
A collection of humorous quips on Wall Street men, ironies of metal and money, counterfeit concerns, a mule's boast, hogs and packs, a Fargo youth named Darling provoking blushes, a train rush joke, and a doctor policeman pun.
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Darling
Fargo
Jocosely
Old Russian Sayings Collection
A set of traditional proverbs including rogues and trades, foxes praising their tails, debts tied to payment, beginnings shaping outcomes, old friendships, scarce fish, and parables on trust, wealth, wolves, hiding, pigs, ancestors, crooked paths, disease, fear of the powerful, and a father’s blessing.
Armless Texan Proves Able to Live Fully
J. R. Hollis of Duffau Texas lost both arms in a molasses mill years ago. Each shoulder stump measures about eight inches. He writes with a pen placed between his right stump and chin and can handle a pistol adeptly. He wears high top boots and uses teeth to pull on footwear, claiming he can do anything an ordinary man can.
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J. R. Hollis
Duffau
Tex
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Susan Hartley
Continent
G. Sormani
E. Brugnatelli
Central Asia
Venukoff
Island of
Ischia
Wall Street
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