21 Sep 1900
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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1900
Page
1
Cleland and Major Rayburn trek into a desert jungle where Rayburn vanishes after drugging Cleland. Believing Rayburn betrayed him, Cleland battles darkness and a massive sandstorm to find the brigade he fears has left, leaving him alone in a vast, perilous wasteland.
A lone British prisoner Cleland is captured by dervishes in a Sudanese zareba. Detained before the Khalifa, he faces charges of spying as hostile eyes and threats fill the hut. The scene ends with the Khalifa's men accusing him of espionage.
Cleland feels sudden overwhelming drowsiness after a long trek and a toke, tries to shake it off, sits on a knoll and drifts into unconsciousness. He awakens to daylight high in the sky as sun pours on palms and surrounding vegetation.
A renowned astronomer suffered twelve years from leg trouble undiagnosed. At Johns Hopkins a joint effort by two young surgeons found a diseased nerve. He declined anaesthesia and permitted removal of the nerve. After healing he walked, climbed stairs, and covered half a mile at a time.
A Paris exposition restaurant proclaims speaking all languages with no interpreters. A visitor asks for help, the manager replies no interpreters exist and credits the customers for translating. The New York Chronicle notes the witty exchange.
The London Truth describes Count Lamdorf as Mouravieff’s successor who shuns society and has few friends. He resides in apartments associated with the Russian Foreign Office.
The joke imagines a timepiece facing the law for marking each hour with a loud chime. It plays on the absurdity of attributing crime to an inanimate object kept honest by routine.
In Geneva, Swiss specialist Huber watches reddish ants attack gray ash colored colonies, breaching walls and looting pupae and larvae. The captured insects become slaves, raised to serve masters in a self sufficient commune. The piece also discusses slang origins and the term bogus from Borghese.
The piece proposes that early desert tribes used upright spears as sundials, noting shadow length changes with sun height and direction. It suggests this simple instrument spurred astronomy, possible in Egyptian obelisks, with plumbed sticks enhancing shadow observation.
Within fifty years over 60 000 words and phrases have crept into English. The list includes terms from science technology business and pop culture reflecting rapid social change and linguistic creativity.
The invention uses a wire gauze diaphragm on a perpendicular rod with two U shaped spring slips to attach to the nozzle. The diaphragm centers with the water stream to break it into a fine spray without significantly reducing nozzle pressure.
The text notes bobo links travel from Lake Winnipeg shores to Cuba and Porto Rico, and back, exceeding 2,800 miles yearly. It cites king birds, little redstarts, and tiny hummingbirds making journeys of 2,000 to 3,800 miles, with Arctic arrivals in late May. It highlights a pea‑sized stomach fueling long nocturnal flights at about fifteen mph and 104 degrees Fahrenheit.
The piece notes Japan's telegraph beginnings in 1869, a 1873 government department, and 1879 participation in the International Telegraph Union. It cites 1,267 offices in Japan, 112 in Formosa, 144 570 miles of line, and 1899 message totals. It mentions electric heaters on trolley cars, mongoose venom immunity limits, and a dog tail being far from the bark.
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