Dividing the Burden on Highway Financing
The piece discusses urban and rural share in road costs, citing L A W Bulletin on shifting burdens from rural to urban areas. General Stone notes Maine farmers own one fifth of state property yet bear the road costs, while New York farmers own one fourteenth and face road-building fatigue. It predicts broader public understanding and shared burdens as cities, manufacturers, and traders join in funding improvements. It also recounts Roman road construction, detailing multi-layered foundations, stone courses, and paving methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. A. W. Bulletin
General Stone
Maine
New York
Growing Gold. Soluble gold explains Klondike nuggets growth
A Slavonine chemist named gmody demonstrates that gold can exist in a soluble form. Experiments show decaying vegetable matter deposits gold from soluble gold salts, suggesting nuggets may form in situ rather to direct river deposition from reefs.
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Klondike
Australia
Gmody
Formation of Gold Colloids in Nature and Mining Implications
A London Mail note explains that reducing gold salts with formaldehyde in alkaline solution yields water soluble colloidal gold that precipitates with salt. It suggests natural quartz reefs may contain such colloids, washed from rocks by rain and rivers, concentrating as nuggets over ages in salt-rich gravels.
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London Mail
Family Bible Fades, Replaced by Practical Small Edition
A Brooklyn observer notes family Bibles are out of date and rarely used as wedding centerpieces. Large parlor Bibles sell about 20 percent fewer than a decade ago as grandmothers and aunts retain them. a practical smaller Bible bound in dark morocco with maps and references now sells for 5.25 dollars and is favored by two thirds of purchasers at Bible Society rooms.
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Brooklyn
New York Times
American Bible Society
Turkey
Morocco
Bible Society
Artificial Eyes and Mayhem of False Eyes
The Lancet notes enormous false eye production in Germany and France with 2,000,000 yearly in Germany and 300,000 in one French factory. But these figures include wax figures, taxidermists, and dolls, not blind individuals. The totally blind do not wear false eyes and may not seek replacements.
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Lancet
Germany
France
German Empire
Chambers’ Journal
Train Lighting and Hotel Clerk Memories
The article contrasts electric lighting for trains with friction and stored energy versus the old lanterns and early trolley issues. It notes tunnels and lighting unreliability inconveniencing passengers and mocks old travel habits while tying in anecdotes on hotel clerks memorizing guest room numbers and odd behavioral expectations.
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Philadelphia
Teaching a Boorish Operator a Lesson in Courtesy
A traveler confronts a rude railway telegraph operator who delays service amid polite persistence. The exchange ends with the traveler getting a quick answer after the operator hesitantly admits he can fetch it, while bystanders observe. The piece then recounts Adams's Boston Herald note on a spaniel guarding William of Orange, saving his life during Alva’s siege and earning a place in Delft church sculpture.
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Dawnan
Dawnawnathawnboutut
Republic
Charles Francis Adaims
Boston Herald
William of Orange
The
Motley
Alva
Julian
Delft
Pope Leo XIII Keeps Frugal Vatican Diet and Tastes
The article notes Pope Leo XIII practices strict economy in the Vatican, sourcing milk from cows and vines from a Vatican vineyard with surplus wine. He consumes coffee, meat, pasta, bread, and garden vegetables, with daily expenses reduced to about $1.50. The daily account is closely scrutinized. A shoemaker remarks women endure pain better than men, and younger women wear higher collars.
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Leo
Leo XIII
Vatican
The Booming Cannon and Civil War Echoes From Louisville
Survivors recount dramatic Marches and battle scenes including Nelson being shot at Louisville. Guards strengthen bridges as soldiers rush toward the city. some men desert, others guard, and a guard of honor forms for Nelsons funeral. Reports compare Moody and Nelsons temper while Old Ned the war horse dies at Erie. A Confederate tale recalls a starving rider aided by a Virginia farmer and a Masonry twist.
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Nelson
Louisville
Ohio River
Shiloh
Corinth
McMinnville
Snd
Buell
Jeff C. Davis
Davis
Granville Moody
Moody
Stone River
Fifty-second Ohio
Seventy-fourth Ohio
Smith
Fifty-second
Seventy-fourth
Fnfty-Second
Columbia
Chicago
Ocean
J. P. Crawford
Erie
Ned
Crawford
Times
Washington City
B. FP. Crawford
Pennsylvanian Cavalry
Lieut. Crawford
Courage on the Virginia frontier and a wagoner’s test
An 18th century Virginia incident reveals frontier discipline. Captain Crawford orders a wagoner into service. a giant refuses, offering a duel. Daniel Morgan, then a young trooper, fights the wagoner to spare the wagoner and honor of the company.
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Virginia
Ihon
Crawford
Braddock
Wagoner
Daniel Morgan
Revolutionary Army
Rough on the Judge and the Laughing Plant
A London Tit-Bits excerpt recalls a witness politely refusing to repeat slanderous statements in court and notes a laughing plant from Arabia whose seeds mimic laughing gas. The plant’s flowers are bright yellow and seeds black and bean-like.
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Mindum
London
Arabia
Ouida and Her Dogs
A Florence scene describes Ouida’s dogs buried near her home in a logs cemetery each grave inscribed with the pet’s name and age and its virtues. The piece notes a sharp tongue matters to a prizefighter more than strength and mocks self praise by tying it to an inflated tone.
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Ouida
Florence
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New York World
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Richmond
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Mason
Appomattox
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John
Mr. Younglove
Cleveland
Cotton
Brown
Lot
Isabel
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