Scientific Tidbits and Legends From a Curious Era
A Berlin science society forms through ladies creating a cooking school and a chemist led lab testing foods and utensils. The piece surveys comets, color blindness studies by Dr Jeffries, tea effects, crania vs intelligence in criminals, a fossil Amphicallias fragilissimus, neolithic timelines in England, peat land formation and rates, and a meditation on aging and mortality.
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B. J. Skertchly
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England
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Sun-Curing Tobacco and Odd UK Pop Culture Snippets
The article explains air curing tobacco with manured hills, sticks, and scaffolds, detailing weeks in field and barn hanging. It then shifts to miscellaneous items about a drunken poet, a bowlegged Oshkosh girl, an odorless onion troche, a Yankee woman and a Chinese laundryman, and declines in Nevada silver mines with crash predictions.
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