Religious and educational views on wages and schooling
A compendium of 1870s observations discusses wage reductions for clerics, New Mexico’s public schools and language use, Amherst College students' faith, and charitable work by women in missions. It notes Trinity and Perkins Institute efforts in music for the blind, with skeptical views on blind musicians and ear acuity, citing the Springfield Union and New York Commercial Advertiser.
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New England Journal of Education
Iece
Clark L
McCracken
Second Presbyterian
Thompsonville
Conn
Iis
Wishea
New Mexico
Amherst College
Massachusetts
Christian Mirror
Taylor
Board of Missions of
The
Protestant Episcopal Church
Maryland
Methodist Protestant Conference
Baltimore
Joint Commission
Perkins Institute For the Blind
Boston
Springfield Union
W. Y
Platinum chloride ink and streetways warned
Welskoff touts chloride of platinum as a dense black for brass and copper alloys with a finger-tip rub and polish. A cheap indestructible ink recipe uses shell-lac borax soft water lamp-black or indigo, yielding water oil and acid resistant ink. The piece laments boys and street nights as ruinous, urging home evenings and better upbringing. It also notes spectroscope tests on insectivorous plants revealing citrate of lithium in leaves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Welskoff
Sind
Church Union
Ventilation device trials and anesthesia experiments noted
Historical reports describe a hydro pneumatic ventilator tested on British ships Malabar and Osborne, using water filled pipes to move air with ship roll. Other studies in Annals de Hygiene show sleeping patients can be anesthetized with chloroform near the nostrils or on a napkin, with arousal rates varying across groups and suggesting dexterity affects anesthesia success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annals de Hygiene
Dolbeau
Ile
Dutch Women Described Through an English Writer’s Eyes
An English writer praises Dutch women as grave yet dignified, industrious, linguistically skilled, and devoted to family. He contrasts them with Rubensian ideals, notes servants in neat costumes, and marvels at canal water displays that animate Dutch towns each Saturday.
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Ruben
Rubens
English Lady Rescues Children From Rabid Dog
A English lady on a lawn with three children faced a rabid dog chased by men determined to kill it. She rushed forward and seized the dog’s head in her dress to hold him until the men could relieve her, and all escaped unharmed.
Estimated 1876 timber crop on St Croix expected at 180 million feet
An estimate places the 1876 timber crop on the St Croix River and its tributaries at not more than 180 million feet. The forecast covers the main timber area and neighboring streams, signaling a modest yield for the season.
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St. Croix
Minn
Ancient Treasures Found During Rome Excavations
The Via Nazionale corridor widening reveals a view of the Column and Forum of Trajan near the Colonna tower. reveals Baths of Constantine rooms with a marble pavement removed to the Capitoline Museum. Porta Fontinale gateway identified on Quirinal. Servius Tullius wall stones visible near stations and St. Clement. New edifice from the second century uncovered at Palazzo Aldibrandini. lime furnace and marble fragments. Commission debates, Pantheon pavement discovery buried again, sewer work reveals ancient layers, and a red granite statue fragment and column found.
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Via Nazionale
Komany
Rospigliosi Garden
Constantine
Capitoline Museum
Cardinal Antonelli
Quirinal
Servius Tullius
Porta Salara
St. Clement
Ifere
Commendatore Rosa
Pantheon
Ife
City Commission
Evening Post
Ten-Year Factory Worker Trapped by Delusions in Davenport
B Hoggenkamp a longtime Davenport factory worker became terrified of a supposed plot to kill him. He retreated to an upper room fortification with knives and pistols, kept his daughters with him for protection, refused to work and sealed himself in, abandoning life outside his self made prison.
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B. Hoggenkamp
Davenport
Jestous
Man Shunted to Insanity Commission for Examination
The article notes that after becoming apprehensive of danger from him, authorities removed him for examination by the Commissioners on Insanity. From ten years of steady work and regular habits he is expected to drift into an asylum where he will be confined for many years, if not for life. The editor laments that all work and no play likely caused the decline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T, Jouds Republican
Leiguré
Franklin Lightning Experiment and Global Replication
The 1752 Philadelphia lightning experiment by Benjamin Franklin attached a silk kite to a key to prove lightning equals electricity. His method spread worldwide with replicas in France and Russia. Reports note a seven foot kite in France yielding ten foot sparks, and a Russian attempt ending fatally in 1793.
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Benjamin Franklin
Philadelphia
Franklin
France
Romas
St. Petersburgh
Richmas
Scientific American
Innocent Man Lynched in Kansas Dispatch
A telegraphic dispatch from Dodge City reports a band of vigilantes hanged two men near Fort Dodge for horse theft in Sumner County. One, Calahan, a buffalo bone gatherer and Topeka preacher’s son, was innocent and sheltered the thief. his father mourns the lynching and asks how such mob action can continue. The Kansan City Times cites prior Ellsworth case as a grim reminder and condemns the practice.
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Times
Dodge City
Kan
Erguentes
Fort Todge
Sumner County
Wne
Calahan
Topeka
Oigisenter
Lewellyn
Oigilintera
Ellsworth
Love's Labor Won After Ten Years of Hope
Des Moines Iowa cor reporters tell of a prison pardon that freed a man after ten years and a devoted fiancée who stood by him. She petitioned Gov. Barkwood for mercy, secured a pardon, and walked from the penitentiary on his arm, choosing a brief delay to let him share the victory. Names are withheld to protect privacy.
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Marshall County
Kark Wood
Williams
Des Moines
Iowa
Cor
Chicuye Tribune
Relics of the Cave-Dwellers Unearthed in 1874
An English translation of Herr Merck's 1874 Zurich Society of Antiquaries essay details a seven week Thayngen Cave exploration near Schalthausen. They removed 300 hundredweight of horis, identified 25 species, found 250 reindeer remains, a single human bone, and 12,000 flint flakes with reindeer antler drawings carved on lignite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thayngen
Schalthausen
Herr Merck
Society of Antiquaries
Zurich
World Railroads 1875 Statistics by Dr G Stuermen
A dated summary shows world railroad openings and end year totals for 1875 with corrections for the United States and Canada. It lists Europe leading mileage, Germany and Great Britain gains, national totals, regional distributions across Asia Africa South America and Australasia, and US construction of 1645 miles the highest of any country.
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Ygaangm
G Stuermen
Bisinbrg
Prussia
United States
Canada
New York Railroad Gazette
BTS
Europe
Alcich
Americas
America
W. Indies
South America
Germany
Great Britain
J’rance
Russia
Austria
Italy
Spain
Sweden
Belgium
Switzerland
Holland
Seale
Asia
Ilindestan
Australasia
Victoria
New South Wales
Queensland
New Zealand
South Australia
Tasmania
West Australian
Tahiti
Africa
Ireland
North America
Mexico
Central America
West
Cuba
Honduras
Colombia
Costa Rica
Jamaica
Readings for Young Mechanics in Nation of Industry
A mid-19th century style exhortation urges young mechanics to read widely and thoughtfully. Books are likened to food for the mind, strengthening reasoning, imagination, and civic character. The author, Mortiwestern Lumberman, champions steady, reflective study as essential to craft, design, and lifelong growth.
Novel Device Aims to Stop Jogs in School Rooms
Chicago Tribune reports a proposed school device with a galvanic chair plate system. Each chair connects to a battery via a wire from the teacher’s desk. when a pupil touches another, a current shocks both, halting mischief.
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Duventor
Tatik
W. Y. Cor
Chicago Tribune
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