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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1903
Page
3
A New York Commercial Advertiser excerpt notes the elephant's role in India for heavy labor and movement of timber, describing how trained elephants guide and discipline others, creating a bond through experience. The piece explores taming, musth, and the choice between work or circus use.
A. H. W. Snyder of South Bend Indiana owns a singing mouse with a growing family. The mother mouse emits a high thin note that pleases listeners, and the home has sheltered several singing mice for years. The tale recalls a former resident Albert N. Baker a flute player whose music drew ecstatic reactions from the mice. The current mouse became a nightly nuisance after the Snyders’ return to bed, was captured, escaped, then recaptured and now mothers a brood. The Snyder family hopes the musical talent may pass to the offspring, noting the rodent’s darker fur and size about a common mouse.
A vintage craft note explains shaping an apple seed into a mouse using a needle thread, a penknife for a tail, and white cards to position ears. It details trimming the seed, threading, and assembly to create a realistic seed mouse.
An 1846 Sydney supreme court scene saw Ali claim an alibi while Lane recited Horace Walpole's Old English Baron for two and a half hours. After questioning, the defense proved the feat and the prisoner was discharged, as the chief justice watched in consternation.
A N Y Tribune description explains how the field cricket makes its chirp using its wings. The male raises both wings and rubs the ridge like a fiddle string, while the female bears a spear to lay eggs in the ground.
Montreal inventor Louis Joseph Lacoste demonstrates fins fixed to a government boat that open to create strong water cushions, stopping a 250 ton vessel within its own length and enabling turnarounds. Officials may push adoption for ships on the St Lawrence route.
Report notes Java forests with unusually strong webs that require a knife to cut. A four pound spider dwells in a Munich cathedral and feeds on lamp oil. In Texas a spider spins a four by two foot balloon tied to a tree, leads her six young aboard, cuts free, and rides the air to the prairie.
French papers describe a storage battery invented by Paul Schmitt claiming a distinct advance among lead batteries and Edison nickel iron accumulators. The device relies on maximizing surface area for chemical action, favoring spongy plates over solid ones, with ongoing efforts to coat plates to ensure fluid access to microscopic particles.
A Brooklyn Eagle item explains a joke about boiling water without fire. It contrasts lighting a pipe with ice crafted as a sun glass with a method using a paddle and steady stirring for five hours, or hiring workers to stir for 300 minutes, noting the humor in labor versus using a flame.
The article discusses M. Schmitt's active material in compact oxide form, noting one third may be useless. It describes plates with two rigid perforated walls confining oxide, reducing metal use and preventing material dislodgement to avoid short circuits, potentially extending cell life and weight efficiency.
The article reports Dr. F. W. Ed ridge Green's findings on color sense, tracing its emergence from primitive to modern humans. It states early humans could not distinguish colors, with red and violet first, then green on gray, followed by yellow, blue, and orange, and describes a current tri-chromatic view where only red, green, and violet are clearly perceived.
Hon David Meekison longtime Ohio politician and congressman known for four terms as Napoleon mayor and founder of Meekison Bank of Napoleon. The piece touts Peruna as cure for catarrh, recounting his 30 year battle and endorsement letter to Dr Hartman, urging readers to treat colds early with Peruna and request a free book and almanac.
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