Cairo’s opening pageant of Verdi opera and desert spectacle
A visitor recounts Cairo celebrations for the canal opening with Verdi’s Alda staged for the occasion. The article describes Egyptian museum props, lavish scenery, a festive street market scene, a wedding procession on camels, and lively religious displays including whirling dervishes and crowded public performances with vivid, at times unsettling, detail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cairo
Intercat
Opera
Bolt
Osaiet
Mariotho Hoy
Emeyytinan
Tamall
Farmers Praise Silos As Essential Winter Stock Feed
Readers advocate silos for dairy and sheep operations, detailing sizes from 12 by 24 feet to 22 feet deep, labor routines, and silage cutting to half inch. Articles cite improved milk yield, reduced hay costs, and practical stave silo construction guidance from the Bureau of Animal Industry.
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Northwestern Agriculturial
Bureau of Animal Industry
Creosote Oil and the Wood Preservation Process
The article explains how coal tar creosote is produced by dry distillation of coal in retorts, yielding gases, coal tar, and creosote oil used to preserve timber. It contrasts coal tar creosote with wood and water gas tars and notes ongoing US Forest Service studies to optimize composition and application methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
America
Europe
United States Forest Service
Washington
A Practical Plan for a Piggery
The diagram outlines a 4 foot wide piggery building of any length with a stone or concrete foundation and a two layer floor. It details a center alley 4 feet wide with a crown to keep dry, floor falls to doors, timber partitions, an eight foot high loft for storage, and rope pulleys to operate doors and vents from the feeding alley.
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Ingtvel
Elovwet
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Marshall P. Wilder
Baxaarn
Ife
Carta
Victoria
Basanre
Grand
Cuatrola
Heaven
Mall
Leaat
Arowe
Rowe
Wil
Allah
God
Street Scene
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