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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1884
Page
6
A multi-voiced piece blends a Harvest Home reminiscence with a long feature on life under the sea. A naturalist details diving gear, a glass-bottom boat, and helmeted exploration, describing fish curiosity, coral reefs, and underwater photography ambitions amid scenes of harvest imagery and farm life.
A Hartford Times reader recounts her cat Taffy loving muskmelons and guiding the household at night to an open cellar door. The feline's behavior, including leading them through rooms to the cellar, ends with the door found left ajar and the cat quietly returning to bed. The Glasgow Herald fragment mentions editorial chatter about poison and remedies.
A confession recounts Solomon and Anna Maria as they visit Rutherford for a three thousand dollar legacy in bank notes. After a lunch, Anna Maria finds her handkerchief, and Solomon discovers the money is missing from his pocket. Anna Maria recalls he left the pocketbook safe, and she retrieves it from beneath a chair, saving the fortune and sparing his wrath.
Mr W C Garley asserts a new form of lightning based on photographs and observations. The author notes forked flashes resembling sparks from a Spitz electrical machine and references A Matheson Breese Tail's public domain plates. Exposure reportedly near a millionth of a second, with implications for lighting and electrical theory.
In a Victorian school scene Fraulein guides eager pupils including Christel through a royal lesson with King Ludwig observing. Christel answers nobly, earns praise, and a royal feast follows, while other anecdotes describe Malay pearl divers and Ceylon diving feats alongside a garden-lesson parable about cultivating young minds.
The narrative describes divers in Singapore near a steamship, with boats and jars for one, two, or more divers. They dive for coins thrown by passengers, often catching them within a few feet, sometimes using feints to misdirect. Divers work individually or with assistants, trading coins for payments, mainly silver and copper, while some travelers try to cheat or outdo the divers.
An excerpt discusses galvanism as a force and compares it to light and heat, noting difficulty defining a force. It suggests mind is a force tied to nervous tissue, akin to other physical forces, and references physiology explaining heat light electricity gravitation and magnetism. A stray note mentions Mexican water baskets in Southern California.
In Window Shades, Fixtures and Trimmings, Steel Engravings, Photograph Goods, Chromes, Planes of nearly every make, Organs Mason and Hamlin, Western Cottage and others. Sewing machines Domestic Eldridge Hartford White Estey Singer and many other kinds.
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