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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1896
Page
6
The Rothschild fortune is valued at 2 billion dollars, New York is approaching a population of four million as the century begins, and London’s status as the world’s largest city is discussed with New York poised to grow. A New England lumberman claims pine timber yields of 1000 feet per acre annually for fifty years, underscoring forestry as a lasting national heritage.
Professor James Bradford Olcott of South Manchester Conn studies California conditions to find coarse grasses that retain color and moisture through the long dry season, enabling experiments back home.
A fragmented calculation by Tehuantepec Railroad engineer Dimer D Corthell is cited listing Greater London as the largest city in 1920 with about 8.6 million residents and Greater New York around 9.1 million, followed by other cities including Philadelphia and Patras in a garbled citation of historical population figures.
The Northwest faces rapid bighorn decline as Indians slaughter bands for horns and hides amid high prices. Natural History Society of British Columbia forms a committee to push for protection after reports of scarce rams this year and fears extinction within years if current slaughter continues.
Friends of the University of Virginia mourned last October's library loss. The New York Independent reports the alumni committee plans to purchase a 12,000-volume Greek and Latin philosophy collection by the late Professor Hertz of Breslau. The scientific, 21-section library would restore vital working materials for students and aid the university in its crippled condition.
The Washington Treasury tour gimmick lured brides with a sealed red waxed bundle labeled 2,000,000. Inside lay two sixpenny census reports, a quarter century ruse to curb theft by showcasing fake treasure. An ex employee, recently discharged, leaked the ruse.
A shaken narrator recounts a past murderous game of billiards with a madman, a chase through a North hydropathic, and a haunting clue in a branded leg. At a seaside hotel the narrator meets Miss Carstairs and her brother Max, whose tale of a Mephistophelean rival named Malbrain reveals the mystery. In the end Rachel becomes Ray Carstairs and the narrator hopes to wed.
A Geneva mechanic named Droz created a clock showing an African, a dog, and a shepherd. When the shepherd played six tunes on his flute, the dog approached. The king of Spain touched an apple in the shepherd’s basket and the dog barked loudly, causing others to fear witchcraft. Only the Minister of Marine stayed to observe. The African’s speech in French revealed the trick, while the African had not learned Spanish.
East Indian snakes fetch strong demand as German ships depart Calcutta carrying hundreds to Homburg for distribution across the continent.
Analyzing Argentina and Uruguay growth in wheat and flour exports from 1880 to 1895, the article notes rising production, lower costs, and expanding immigrant settlement. It cites Mulhall on wheat acreage, rising shipments to Europe, and Uruguay’s beef and cereal exports, including flour and corn surges mainly to Brazil. It also mentions shift to steam-driven mills and note on windmill cessation.
The Olympia diggings uncover an amphitheatre 284 yards by 35, oblong with sloping banks and a 200 yard circuit for foot races. It lacks seats, so spectators watched from grassy terraces for up to 60,000. A nearby hippodrome shows faint traces, with stirring Virgilian echoes noted by St Nicholas.
Australasian reports say kangaroos are pursued with bicycles in some districts. Hunters armed with rifles use the noisy but stealthy approach to flush and down the roaming herd, with authorities offering scalp money for each kangaroo killed.
Poem depicts a mountainside temple of nature merging with prayer and dawn. The text blends reverent imagery of altars and peaks with lullaby lines urging a dear one to sleep. It plateaus into reflections on fate and hope, attributed to G. B. Montgomery via Youth's Companion.
An OCR fragment presents poetic lines from Hopkins on hope and future happiness. It references prophecy, childhood, dreams, and faith, with phrases like Some of these days and visions of fulfillment. The piece weaves imagery of clouds, rain, and blooming moments as time nears promise.
A lyrical verse celebrating the comfort and joy of home life at the fireside. The poem contrasts worldly pleasures with the warmth of family and loved ones, praising domestic peace as a pure source of happiness and divine goodness.
An expert estimate puts United States anthracite coal reserves at 11,921,400,000 tons while current production runs about 45,000,000 tons per year. At this rate the supply would last approximately 265 years.
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