08 Feb 1895
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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1895
Page
1
A fragment from The Telegraph presents poetry on memory and distance, followed by a dramatic exchange between The Belle and The Mirror. The Mirror asserts psychic insight and offers help in deciding their future as the scene ends with a tense question.
A society belle endures a dreamlike encounter with her mirror revealing five possible husbands. The visions include Totterly the old millionaire, Philip Egerton Denning, Lord Tuffout, Tracy de Puyster Van Treffer, and Jack Wolloughby. She awakens deciding to reply to Jack.
A collection of aphorisms on honesty, virtue, love, wealth, and human folly. It notes that gossip spreads, ink can sway minds, one drop of scandal endures, and virtue outshines rank. It surveys cynicism, forgiveness, and the balance of thought and action across life.
English mineralogist M L Fletcher chronicles a Mexican meteorite fall with fourteen massive fragments likely from a single meteoroid shattered by atmospheric heat. The debris coats a 66 by 22 mile region, totaling about 20 000 pounds. a piece is housed at the National Museum in Washington.
Washington plans a comprehensive USDA exhibit for the Atlanta fair including weather station, climate charts, bird and mammal displays, soils, forestry, botany, seeds, seeds testing lab, machinery, and extensive seed and weed collections. The display will cover pest, disease, and insect studies, cotton culture, and regional flora with maps, photographs, and models.
A collection of curiosities including Nero’s appetite for raw meat, a poodle with a glass eye, sailors reading dew as a land signal, and Louis Cyr lifting 83500 pounds without harness. Also noted are Brazil nut seeds, Siberian slave myths, lightning strikes on James Willis, Greek and railroad stats, a Pennsylvania duck ranch, peacocks in Asia, and a Quebec birth at seventy five.
The Halaba spider from Madagascar spins golden yellow silk strong enough to bear a cork helmet. The female dominates, grows up to five and a half inches, while the male remains about one and a half inches. The female is industrious and breadwinner, allowing her mate to retreat to his club. The spider’s silk sparked experiments since Le Bon and Louis Aly, with limited success. Dr Wilder of Cornell hopes to commercialize spider silk, noting the long threads but the main challenge is producing long unbroken spreads.
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