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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1890
Page
7
A South Jersey traveler recounts a chaotic wedding trip to Yellowtown with Maude. They chase a train amid a cow collision and fence scrambling, narrowly missing boarding as the engine pulls away. The incident ends with the couple aboard the second train, recalling the humorous chaos.
A narrator and Maude, amid a rail wreck, press for the next train as the South Jerseyman warns of limited tracks. They decide to ride an up train and avoid public embarrassment, planning a later written excuse. Howard Fielding.
A narrative recounts Maud impatiently planning to clear a train wreck then switching cars to chase an express. A comical clash of gender notions emerges as the pair dodge a fence and race toward Yellowtown amid rumors of delays and a loyal informant.
A reflective piece by Elia Higginson in West Shore on how wealth and power do not guarantee love or genuine affection. It contrasts possessions, status, and flattery with the inability to acquire true devotion and simple human kindness from others.
Snodgrass remarks on cake transformation with Survely puzzled by the idea. The exchange hints at a playful, culinary joke about a pound cake turning into stomach cake.
The article explains electricity as a condition of things producing work and measurable by its effects. It describes magnetic field lines around a current, compass responses, and how to build and read ammeters and voltmeters to gauge current strength and pressure. It covers conductor experiments, coil gauges, solenoids, and practical calibration methods.
A Boston Herald summary of the British Iron and Steel Institute visit highlights electric welding's growth in mining, wire joints, pipe fabrication, armor shell production, chain assembly, rivet heating, and tin-silvering processes. It notes lamp price drops and promising storage-battery car trials in New Orleans and England, plus Prof Elihu Thomson's welding insights and Edison-era tech prospects. The piece closes with a Princeton-style call for tech graduates to explore undeveloped fields and a census remark.
Observers in balloons watch possible phylloxera infestation endangering champagne wine supplies. Experts note Charente vines recovering, Marne remains clear though nearby Aisne vines show risk. Industry braces with precautionary measures, funding, and potential destruction of contaminated plots.
French navy reports experiments with a hydrogen filled balloon of 11 300 cubic feet linked by a 130 foot tail rope to a ship. From 18 to 24 miles distant objects are clearly visible and sea bottom details down to 80 feet can be observed. German forces also adopt balloons for naval use during Wilhelmshaven exercises.
Dr William Pepper offers advice on maintaining health beyond mere disease prevention. He highlights heredity environment and personal habits skin care cool baths digestion rest and slow eating as keys to well being He also favors regular holidays to improve overall health and vitality.
The text compares a supposed rapid method to electrical tanning and asserts no foreign additives are used. It claims champagne can be clarified and colored by natural fermentation of germs and sugar, reducing production from months to about a day.
A physician notes smokers underestimate tobacco damage to mouth heart and nerves and cites a simple method to render tobacco harmless without losing aroma. A small piece of cotton wool steeped in a 5 or 10 percent Pyrogallic acid solution is placed in the pipe or bolder to neutralize nicotine effects.
A prominent physician notes a form of gum recession in the upper molars linked to tomato consumption. Patients exhibit great sensitivity along the recession line, resembling nerve pain. The only remedy is abstinence from tomatoes. If the condition persists, further action is uncertain.
A report notes that losing more than one tooth in a single season is uncommon, with most cases showing only a single tooth loss per season.
An English yacht explosion aboard Earl Powletts steam yacht during a storm caused by a lightning strike on a wax match. Accumulators on deck exploded blowing teak cases apart and sending glass splinters aloft. Officials doubt accumulator fault and consider hydrogen gas from decomposed water near conductors as a possible cause.
Dr. Norman Kerr, with extensive sobriety treatment experience, renewed his testimony against hypnotism as a therapeutic aid for inebriates. He reasserts that hypnosia is unreliable and unsafe due to possible after effects, keeping an open mind for future evidence but deeming advantages outweighed by risks.
Epidemics in cattle and canaries draw attention as experts investigate a bird disease blamed on diphtheria like symptoms. Norwich suffered 1800 bird deaths in a year with owners losing about 5000 dollars as a medical man studies transmission risks to children from domestic animals.
An inventor suggests cooling the interior shell after each discharge with liquified carbonic acid gas to prevent bursting of large guns. He links a contracted front powder chamber design to this cooling method and aims to use it for high explosive discbarging. No authentic records show practical use.
The conduit system shows rising public regard as improvements near operation on an existing horse road. It is viewed as an ideal alternative to overhead lines and early success could bring handsome rewards. Many towns await electric traction yet hesitate to accept overhead infrastructure.
A writer on world diamond supply argues the romance is gone as mining shifts to vast blue clay beds, machine washing, and bulk selling by weight. Laborers do the work for modest pay and the process reflects rising supply and luxury demand.
In European countries creosoted wood is used where possible due to its long life. Creosoting is not expensive and would be economical for colleries to use creosoted timber in permanent haulage roads and shaftways. Large companies could profit by building their own creosoting works.
The Berlin police issue a caution against indiscriminate dried mushroom consumption. They note many packets contain poisonous fungi and remind the public that edible dried mushrooms stay white while poisonous varieties take on a bluish tint.
A jewelry innovation imitates grapes in green and purple sardonyx by applying varying heat to produce grape hues. The grape beads are mounted on above links with chain connections or set in diamond hoops or with diamond tendrils for brooches.
An English wire worker now naturalized here invented a torpedo net to be submitted to an official test. The net is designed with interlocking steel rings and is claimed to have considerable merit as a defensive device.
A fragment notes wonder about church life and calls out many who ought to attend altar but refrain. It hints at communal religious practice and questions restraint among believers in Indianapolis.
A London Review piece tours owl cages to show barn owls range from British Islands to Chile and their habit of perching with two toes forward. It argues farmers and gamekeepers wrongly slay owls, citing pellets showing mice and small mammals as their staple prey and praising Lord Lilford for defending owls as farmers’ friends.
A district estate keeper reports rats and mice overrun the area drawing owls, then notes gamekeepers killed them for vermin clearance. He claims payment per vermin destroyed, but argues owls should be preserved as valuable farm allies.
Photographer J. J. Williams returned from an October 21 trip with dramatic volcanic images from Hawaii. He describes seething waves of fire and a lake of solid fire, noting constant grand changes that thrill visiting tourists at Wilder's Steamship Company and Volcano House arrangements.
A London dispatch notes England’s telegraph driven war planning with an Admiralty to Pontoffice network linking coastal stations to the Admiralty. The piece contrasts Wellington on horseback with Moltke at a desk guiding operations via telegraphic orders like a broker, underscoring war’s shift to impersonal, transactional conduct.
Governor Jones quotes the Choctaw Council urging education as the best defense for the people and noting progress in the first half of the century. He stresses improving higher education for citizens of African descent to ensure safety and fairness in the nation.
Bismarck voices concern over over education arguing that Germany sees disappointment while Russia breeds disaffection. He claims ten times as many youths are educated for elite paths as there are jobs or opportunities to earn a decent living.
A German baker kissed his servant girl 22 years ago and was paid by a German blackmailer who keeps quiet for 8 dollars weekly. The pair later moved to Chicago where the blackmailer continued the payments until police intervened recently.
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