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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1890
Page
2
A detailed tour of the Parnell family residence highlights antique oak carvings and Moorish inlays, gifts from Dublin and Limerick, and a life sized portrait of Commodore Charles Stewart. The library holds thousands of books, and the mountain retreat near Aughvanagh offers rugged scenery and grouse hunting.
A historical critique argues for a constant current electroshock device to ensure instant death across varying human resistances. It claims two amperes at up to 10 000 volts can adapt to body resistance and avoid failures seen with constant pressure dynamos, detailing Ohm's law and practical dynamo design.
A reader recounts a cautionary tale of a bright young man who developed an addiction to tincture of aloes after nibbling nails. The habit worsened until he carried the bottle for relief, altering his constitution and leaving him with talonlike nails.
Former Ohio Speaker J Warren Keifer says the Republican bid for president could be led by ex-Governor Jeremiah Bush of Wisconsin who would serve as Secretary of Agriculture if the convention convenes this winter.
A discussion explains how a constant current dynamo would adapt to varying subject resistances. By Ohm’s law pressure equals current times resistance, so with 2 amperes the voltage adjusts as resistance shifts from 1,000 to 4,000 ohms. The text notes such a machine could render preliminary resistance measurements unnecessary and ends with a caution against using blunderbuss options for capital punishment.
Birmingham makers Taunton & Co. near finish a 15 inch dynamite gun using waxed explosive pellets and a telescopic tail for compact discharge by 6000 psi air. Aimed at three mile range, trials at Portsmouth will compare with the Zulinski gun, with potential to disable forts or ships and even an ironclad. The steel barrel weighs about 11 tons.
Boston women adopt a new straightening process introduced by a Virginia woman. The amber cream is applied to washed and dried hair, brushed thoroughly, and about four hours of work yields permanent straight hair. Participants say it eases daily combing and offers an Indian-like look. Hair straightening may become a winter trend among Boston’s colored ladies.
Mrs O Shea owns two homes at Brighton Nos 9 and 10 Walsingham terrace, the last houses facing the sea in the Shoreham direction. They overlook bleak damp tennis courts and, even in summer, appear dismal. at the rear, the windows overlook a building plot.
A panel of educated men debates whether Columbus truly discovered America and if the 1893 World Fair should bear the Columbian name. They cite Vespucci, Toscanelli, Behaim, and Behaim maps, noting Columbus aimed for India and did not realize a new world existed, while others claim earlier knowledge precedes him.
Correspondence from Alice MacGowan in Crockett County Texas describes a cattle and sheep country with water scarce lands, a tranquil yet challenging landscape, and a dramatic fire fight. The narrator joins rancher Mr Jackson and others in corralling cattle and fighting a blaze that threatens the range, aided by a loyal pony and a determined horse rustler.
The Keely Motor Company stockholders met in Philadelphia presenting strong faith in the engine. They expect a practical continuous motion without speed variation before building an engine for business use. Milton’s line about those who stand and wait is invoked to justify patience.
Readable fragments describe Cupid Longmire confronting a colored porter in Louisville. The dialogue is garbled with stray words about glasses and tips, lacking coherent events, dates, or outcome.
The St Louis Globe Democrat analyzes Chinese playing cards or shen and fan cards, noting their small size, black pips on white, red Chinese characters, and animal or name markings. It explains card shapes, backs, and the fan spread holding method, and mentions Wat-pi as another name for their cards or domino-like tablets.
Dr. J Van Dyck, electro-therapeutist and surgeon, advertises 20 years of work and 27 000 treatments in electro physiology and medicine. He claims to cure skin diseases cancer tumors and gland issues and invites consultations with promises of reasonable terms and success if curable.
In New York a crone named Mrs Elsie Snively on Third avenue near 1413 rooms recounts a self taught fasting routine. She describes a method of sparing food and wine then sleeping wrapped in blankets to induce perspiration. After months she says her chronic back pain and rheumatism vanished and her health improved.
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