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Newspaper
Millicent Times
Location
Millicent, South Australia, Australia
Date
Oct 21, 1899
Page
7
George Littlecash faces a clash of gifts and money in a London stock exchange tale. A £500 cheque for marriage is paired with Scheerer’s risky tips and a dramatic misread paper. The plot culminates in a wedding while the broker’s bluffing humor underscores the folly of quick riches.
A first person account details an encounter in a London ad column offering work to write sensational boys’ stories. The editor X. Z. pressures for lurid plots, offers 25,000 words of fiction for £5, and boasts a staff of prolific writers, revealing the grim hustle behind penny dreadful publishing.
A French student, viewing many vessels, learns about collective nouns and their quirky names such as a flock of ships, a herd of oxen, a crowd of locusts, and a corps of engineers, prompting him to ask for more examples.
An American paper reports Major O'Gorman and Dr Kenealy returned to Parliament by Stoke electors. A vote of censure on the Judges was attempted. Mr Whalley acted as teller. Four percent of MPs voted negative, while the yes side was met with a quip about the day lobby.
The passage cites stories about a drover and Joseph Paice to illustrate genuine politeness. It notes a man can be a gentleman when he pleases and never needs to prove gentility, emphasizing kindness to all, including serving staff and strangers.
The European elephant herd favors the Indian elephant for its docility and reliability in circuses. African elephants are noted for poorer memory and unpredictable behavior in public, possibly linked to mastodon ancestry. In England, Africans are seen as less trustworthy by keepers. Dr. Selater notes African elephants may be as intelligent as Indians, but less trainable.
W J Sollas in Nature surveys evidence on Earth's age. Different scholars including Geikie Haughton Wallace Davison and Clarence King produced varying estimates. Using Cambrian to Pliocene thickness totals Sollas cites about 16 000 ft of crust with revised figures yielding an age near 21 000 000 years under current thickness assumptions.
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