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Newspaper
The Semi Weekly Item
Location
Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1900
Page
4
A new Brigh Valley timetable announces changes taking effect on November 19, 1899. The schedule outlines adjusted departure and arrival times, with noting authorities urging passengers to consult local stations for details.
Train schedules list daily and Sunday departures for routes to Mt Carmel New York Philadelphia Reading Pottsville and Sunbury Williamsport Alaska via Tamaqua Easton and Whitmostport with times across weekdays and Sundays and miners train details all shown in old timetable style.
Train schedule from Philadelphia to Atlantic City with weekday and Sunday Express and Accommodation times. Services cover Cape May Ocean City and Sea Isle City with departure sites at Chestnut Street and South Street. Officials include Sweegard Edson J Weeks and general passenger agent at Reading Terminal Philadelphia.
Dr D Flager Woods of Philadelphia reports a tetanus cure using large doses of carbolic acid with hypodermic injections and antiseptic foot treatment. The method, first successful in a 12 year old boy, showed rapid improvement though rigidity persisted weeks. Army surgeons and Western cities have adopted carbolic acid as a horses remedy, with promising results.
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, now heads the Vanderbilt house after attaining his majority and graduating from Yale last June. The heir, about five feet eight inches tall and weighing ~3130 pounds, resembles his father and mother. Society predicts a marriage to Miss Jessie Frenea, daughter of the late Francis Frenea, who is wealthy with a fortune over $5,000,000.
Sir Norman Lockyer captures what may be the longest solar spectrum in a single operation using the lock spectrum of iron and a comparison sun spectrum. The large concave Rowland grating yields solar photographs but its curved focal plane limits sharp focus to about eighteen to twenty inches of the spectrum on one glass plate.
The piece notes black diamonds occur only in Bahia Brazil, mostly from river beds dug by divers or tunnels in mountains. It cites the largest specimen found valued at $20,000.
A brief humorous exchange notes how a gentleman should avoid swearing in a lady’s presence. The Boston Transcript quips that a lady appearing during a man’s swearing fit isn’t a lady if she expects him to stop instantly.
Scientists report memory strength varies with summer and winter, with peak recall in warmer months. They also identify factors that worsen memory such as overfeeding and excessive physical activity, with education surprisingly linked to poorer retention in some cases.
A vessel sailing between Japan and London carried an extraordinary one million tons as a single cargo item, a feat noted by observers as highly unusual for such routes and ships.
The article notes the Hawaiian cattle and horses living on maninia grass, drinking little or none despite water offers, with travel accounts showing their odd tolerance. It also reviews John Burroughs bird writings in St Nicholas, praising birds and warning of hunting impacts, noting shifts in bird and game populations along the Hudson and across the country.
The half starved seaman from the Norwegian bark Drot was picked up by the German steamship Catania off the Florida coast after drifting on a makeshift raft for five days without food or water. Comparisons are drawn to Mate Brooks of the Belle O'Brien found unconscious among dead and dying men off the Irish coast and brought to Baltimore by Captain Dunn of the Lord Fine.
A young London woman has run an index making service for years. She has trained forty women as indexers in her office and indexed works from Nansen’s Farther North to Science of International Law and 485 volumes of history. She believes feminine intellect excels in this field and notes women workers show patience and accuracy in indexing tasks.
A Grants Austria medical student used his extensive knowledge to threaten an elderly heiress. He demanded 10 000 florins, threatening to release deadly bacilli from a bottle in her room if she did not pay. Police found lab items and microbes among his possessions.
Statistics show doctors suffer more self-induced deaths than other groups. Over three years personal crisis reports averaged 45, 49, and 47 per year, about one in 4,000, with a death rate near 25 per 1,000. nearly one fiftieth of all physician deaths are personal crisis cases.
A Houston man built a simple camera from a pastboard box with a dried plate. He cut an aperture and a black paper with a pinhole, placed the plate inside the box, exposed it for ninety seconds, and achieved a very satisfactory result.
In France gambling is reported to have reached alarming levels with the government enforcing a serious study of the issue. Paris records show that roughly half of personal crisis reports arise from losses at gambling dens.
The report states women workers on Japanese tea plantations labor twelve hours daily and receive a wage of fifteen cents per day.
Maine reports the spruce gum crop, the largest in state history at thirty tons valued at $63,000. Lumbermen gathered gum with back and chips, sold to the trust by thrifty Chinese buyers. harvesters form to crush the trust and refuse to sell to any dealer who does not meet their terms.
A novel pontoon bridge uses 200 bags as supports across a river 109 yards wide. Twenty-one wooden rafts laid end to end and tied with rope form a platform. The system is now in active use by the French army and can be raised in under an hour with the bags bearing the load.
A monument in Louisville Kentucky honors John J. Austin a Revolutionary War soldier J Allen Austin his son a War of 1812 soldier James Comesby Austin his grandson a Mexican War soldier and James Richard Gathright his great grandson a Confederate soldier killed at Muffreesboro Tennessee on January 1 1865 all listed as privates.
A Scottish paper states 159000 to 200000 kilts are made each year. The kilted regiment totals about seventeen battalions plus 14000 pipers from Lowland regiments. Military kilts are supplied biennially, equating to about 7000 kilts per year.
The Hollanders smoke more than other northern peoples due to humid climate making smoking a necessity and affordable tobacco. Boatmen of Wolland even measure distances by smoking as a sign of the habit's depth.
Elephants have eight teeth in total with two teeth on each side of the upper and lower jaws. Baby elephants shed all their teeth around age fourteen, then grow a full new set.
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