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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1901
Page
3
A Chicago study reports a family of four consumed 4047 pounds of food and 38 varieties in a year. The strict statistics reveal daily menus without economical limits and no deliberate bias, with detailed yearly totals for oranges lemons berries apples and other staples.
The Chicago Times Herald recounts General Grant’s rebuke of hazing as cowardly and cruel. It contrasts Annapolis and Yale practices, cites deaths and injuries from hazing, and argues all forms should be stopped, urging a shift toward true gentlemanly conduct.
The Paris exhibition drew 50 million visitors in seven months, more than double Chicago's fair. Historical tallies show 1851 Hyde Park drew 6 million, Paris 5 million in 1855, 10 million in 1867, 16 million in 1878, and 28 million by 1880. Across twenty one shows, total attendance neared 160 million despite losses such as Vienna's 2 million pound deficit in 1878.
The Paris Messenger recalls how Cossacks, long trusted by Russian authorities, have crushed revolts from Poland to St. Petersburg. It notes the brutal methods used to subdue students and dissent, highlighting a history of remorseless policing by these steppes soldiers.
Geologists have long believed wood takes tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years to become coal. G Arth observed a piece of gunium placed in a bronze turbine pivot under high pressure, friction, and heat, transforming wood into coal in six months. This suggests rapid wood-to-coal transformation under certain conditions.
The New York Press notes England’s hunting economy with an estimated 55 million dollars invested and over 25 million dollars circulating annually. About 400 English packs exist including 22 staghounds, 106 foxhounds, 127 harriers, and 51 beagles. Daily hunting costs run to 9 250 dollars, with a large hound diet of oats and horse meat. About 105000 private hunters maintain mounts nationwide.
In Oldembourg engineer Ziegler supervises peat to coke conversion as Russian peat fields expand. Two types of peat coke exist black for broad use and brown for heating, with by products like methylated spirits adding value. Russian experiments on Nicholas Railroad engines prove promising, leading to planned large scale manufacture.
The piece surveys London sewers of varied shapes from egg to almost square and notes special uses by manufacturers and sewer rats amid decay called dead sewers. It adds a claim that London sewers could stretch to Constantinople. It ends with a remark on piano leather and a German tanning family.
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