An Oyster Vain New York Letter to the Ledger
A New York letter recalls a Metropolis Hotel dinner with a hundred raw oysters from Africa. The narrator, newly from California, endures comical fright as waiters parade oversized shells, feigns hunger, then discards them via a makeshift spout plan, revealing California oysters as pale by comparison and the scene turns into a parodic travelogue.
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Caloric motor exhibit intrigues engineers at Delamater Works
East Thirteenth Street New York hosts visitors to inspect Captain Ericason’s miniature engine claiming to run on heated air without a boiler or valves yet capable of pumping water fifty feet high with three gas jets heating the cylinder and a water jacket cooling the air. The device, 20 by 39 inches and forty inches tall, was praised for potential popularity and low operating cost, while skeptics debated its science.
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