The Cradle of Cyclones Explained by Lieut Ellicott
Lieut. John M. Ellicott U S N explains cyclone formation using a water tank analogy. Air behaves like water drawn toward a central hollow creating a spinning column that forms in warm air during summer. Cyclones grow from the tropics toward the poles and can devastate ships forests and cities along coasts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Ellicott
St. Nicholas
Lieut
Ellicott
Tropics
Atlantic
Europe
Automatic weighing and delivering machine by Prof Bhise
A patented automatic weighing and delivery device weighs powdered or granular materials such as flour sugar or coffee. It uses a cylindrical casing with a set of radially arranged receivers on a horizontal shaft and elastic bottoms that adjust to balance weight per cubic inch, plus a registering mechanism to read the weighed amount.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanker Bhise
Bombay
India
Scientific American
Electrical power line raises voltage transmission record
Dr. F A C Perrine of Leland Stanford university completed an experiment in Marysville California using the Yuba Power company line from its power house to Brown's valley ten miles away. The test showed 36000 volts can be transmitted on a copper wire with glass insulation doubling prior limits of 16000. The result promises a potential time and cost saving by reducing wire needs by about half in future electrical plants where wire cost accounts for about half of total plant expense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marysville
Cal
F. A.C. Perrine
Leland Stanford University
Yuba Power Company
Brown's Valley
Some Animals Never Drink In The Wild And Domestically
The article notes llamas in Patagonia and some eastern gazelles that never drink. It mentions reptiles surviving waterless plains, a bat in western America avoiding water, and French cattle and goats in Lozere rarely drinking yet producing milk for Roquefort. It also reports over 200 municipalities in England Scotland and Ireland owning gas works.
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Patagonia
Far East
Western America
Lozere
France
England
Scotland
Ireland
Hermit of East Lebanon Promises Perpetual Motion Breakthrough
Samuel P. Fall, resident of East Lebanon Maine, has spent 23 years in seclusion working on perpetual motion. His device uses a large pulley with tubes filled with quicksilver acting as moving weights. As the pulley turns the tubes extend and rise, then lock and hang pendant, adding weight as mercury flows down. He aims to defeat the dead center and describes a double cross mechanism to drive motion by weighted arms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel P. Fall
East Lebanon
Mr. Fall
Fall
Long Comes Liza and the Kitchen Sweep
A tale in verse where a boy struggles with a strict housekeeper named Liza who sweeps and scolds, driving him from the kitchen. He dreams of a future with a son free to play among kites, scrapbooks, and cars, without Liza’s constant bossing. The poem appears in St Nicholas via Harriet Trancene Crocker.
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Liza
Harriet Trancene Crocker
St. Nicholas
The Street Sweeper story in St Nicholas
Julie M. Lippman presents The Street Sweeper about the Thirty Years War in St Nicholas. The tale notes Mainz as a strong fortress later occupied by the French during the war as the country was laid waste and ruled over.
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Julie M. Lippman
St. Nicholas
Mainz
Germany
Infection by Breath Demonstrated By Tobacco Smoke Study
A London writer argues in The Hospital that smoke from a cigar traces the path of expelled air and microbes, illustrating how close contact in crowded life spreads disease. Sunlight reveals saliva and dust from mouths and breathers, showing rebreathing as a disease vector, especially in towns and crowded dwellings.
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London
Music and hair theory at the French academy
Dr Ferrand presented a paper on music and its effects on body and mind with demonstrations. Dr Betzchinsky cited therapeutic value of music and proposed that composers have heavy hair, citing Paderewski and Ysaye as examples. The piece humorously imagines orchestras aiding hairdressing via music.
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Ferrand
French Academy
Betzchinsky
Paderewski
M. Ysaye
N. Y. Journal
Per Capita Coal Use Across Nations
The article notes Austria has the lowest coal use at one sixth ton per person annually, Great Britain the highest at 33 and 1/10 tons per person each year, and the United States averages 214 tons per person per year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austria
Great Britain
United States
Donkeys for Sale After Fence-Wrecking Mutiny
South Portland report says 50 donkeys housed in a vacant lot are for sale after they ate paint off a neighbor’s fence nightly. The owner tied them to one stake for companionship, but they pulled free, trapping a brindle cow against the fence and prompting the neighbor’s complaint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Portland Oregonian
The Countess Leads a Sweeping Counterattack
In a tale of tyranny and courage a German countess inspires maidens to vow no marriage until freedom returns. French rulers humiliate her yet she prays to bless the sweeping. The people rally, drive out the invaders, and the land is freed as donkeys and chaos humorously wrap the scene.
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Countess of Stein
Railway Travel in Spain Shows Slow Express Trains
The article notes Spanish trains move slowly with 10 to 12 mph normal service. When officials want flair they run express trains at 15 to 18 mph. The author argues slower speeds let travelers see more scenery while still offering some rapid options.
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Spain
Birches Joke Triggers Dinner Row With Lord Lytton
Lord Lytton, then viceroy of India, joked about knowing Birches at Eton. A lady named Birch felt insulted, claiming Birches are her relatives. The viceroy laughed, but she left in a huff, reporting the insult to her husband.
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Lord Lytton
India
Birch
Eton
Lytton
Hen with Strange Habits on Mississippi Plantation
A former Mississippi plantation resident recalls a hen from early married life that preferred living in the house over the yard. She repeatedly entered the home and even laid an egg on an open sheet trunk. The family, amused, allowed the hen in and out, amid her daily forays into civilized living.
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Mississippi
Shape of the world joke noted in reader anecdote
A schoolmaster carried a round snuffbox during the week and a square one on Sunday and used it to illustrate the world’s shape. An examiner asked the class, and a pupil replied that it was round during the week and square on Sunday.
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Sanare
Charity Party Debate Between Sisters and Father
In a domestic spat the two fair daughters defend their charity fundraiser against their skeptical father. He dismisses the plan as uproar and disruption while the girls insist every cent aids the poor. He counters by offering $30.60 if the event can be avoided. The mother pleads, and the elder daughter rebels, calling her father “awful.”
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Detroit
Heroes of War Helped by Pink Pills for Pale People
Austrian born Civil War veteran A Schiffeneder of 161 Sedgwick Street Chicago recalled his wounds and imprisonment in the Army of the Potomac. After long stomach catarrh he credited Dr William's Pink Pills for Pale People with restoring his appetite and health. Mrs Schiffeneder is a notable Grand Army member in Chicago.
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Chicago Times-Herald
A. Schiffeneder
Sedgwick Street
Chicago
America
Milwaukee
Wisconsin Volunteers
Army of
Navy
Sherman
Georgia
Debate Over Daughter’s Marriage Age Ends in Agreement
Mr Gotrox voices concern that his daughter is not the right age for marriage. Mr Hardupp concurring adds that the issue grows worse each year, as the judge presides.
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Gotrox
Hardupp
Mr. Gotrox
Successful Treatment for Asthma by Dr P Harold Hayes
Buffalo physician Dr P Harold Hayes offers a free postpaid book on curing asthma and hay fever. He claims over forty thousand cases treated and provides names and addresses of cured patients for verification. He states spasmodic or bronchial asthma not tied to heart lung or kidney disease can be radically cured.
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P. Harold Hayes
Buffalo
N. Y
Hayes
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Lieut. Ellicott
Meek
Harden Dearers
Littles
Heroes OF War
Fiso
Allie Douglass
LeRoy, Mich
Ayer
J. C. Ayer
Lowell, Mass
Bears
Infante
IM City
Cuba
U. S
Keith
Enamel Starch
Ill
Homeseekers
Hun Hue
Nebraska
MRA Asia
Burlington
P. &. Eustis
C. B
Misolooi Fieapo
UWP
Aogodogodoroodots
Buckie
Printers’ Roller Company
Dearborn ST
Tars
van Ream Eener Reema
P.c
Webster Mfg, CO
Sten Chicago
Lll
A. W. Slayton
Mar
Seummaeh
Francisco Sample Overland &c
Bush
Sallabury Pharmacy
H. H. Qbeki
Whiting
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