Strange miscellany of sea tales and oddities across lands
A long digest of curiosities covers a shark encounter with Captain Corkey’s ship in the Red Sea. European royal hair dye tales. Chinese border forts. partridge deaths from lightning in Silesia. small-pox coin theory. Bethesda pool discovery. barley yield from a single head. accidental injuries showing insurance payouts. hornbill nesting behavior. plum tart contest in Vienna. chimney sweeps vs self-cleaning homes. a long-departed African-American elder’s reminiscences. a Maine land sale with no bidders. and other scattered anecdotes from around the world.
Ancient Chinese agriculture under Tcheou Kung and land system
A summary from Popular Science Monthly recounts how 1100 B C under Tcheou Kung hydraulic noria devices raised water for irrigation, created state aided farms, and established equitous social structure with tenants owning nearly fifteen acres while the state held a ninth tract. It notes equal wealth and provision across society. The piece adds a South Carolina state historian’s finding that most alleged centenarians prove younger by five to eight years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. C
Won-Weng
Tcheou-Kung
Popular Science Monthly
Tur
South Carolina
First Well Opens in New York Gas Fields Revealed
The article traces natural gas history from 1821 in Fredonia New York to modern distribution. It notes Findlay Ohio growth from 6,000 to 30,000, high pressure lines, and electric efficiency gains for Pittsburgh and Indiana fields. It cites rising displacements of coal by gas and plans to ship gas to New York and Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States
Fredonia
Chatauqua County
N. Y
Murraysville
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Hancock, Wood
Anglaize
Mercer
Findlay
Trenton
Karg
Hamilton County
Gas) Trust Company
Howard County
Western red cedar of Washington described in Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer extols Washington’s western red cedar, noting its massive trunks, weather resistance, and solitary silence amid storms. It contrasts the tree with Eastern junipers, and adds a collage of unrelated ad-like passages about smoke, real estate, cures, and advertisements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Washington
Olympic Mountains
Novel Heating System Changes Trinity Church Interiors
A new indirect radiation heating system for Trinity Church requires removing all tiling and digging wide trenches in aisles and chancel. Hot air will travel through conduits to radiators under each pew, with galvanized iron moldings concealing the units. The Trinity Corporation will install its own power plant, at an estimated cost of $29,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trinity Church
Trinity Corporation
New York Witness
Death of a Good Old Indian Tillamook Chief
The Tillamook Bay region mourns the death of Old Adam Tillamook an Indian chief who witnessed the first ship entering the Columbia River. Reported ages range from 100 to 150 years. He was known for abstaining from drink and tobacco and was remembered as a good man. Only about twenty are-blooded Tillamook remain amid the tribe’s decline due to civilization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thompson
St. Louis
Zaliski
Ohio
Chillicothe
Register Poydras
Julian Poydras
Port Allen
West Baton Rouge Parish
Jackson
New Orleans
Lafitte
Gulf
Adam Tillamook
Columbia River
Tillamook Bay
Tillamook
The Act of Breathing and Lungs in Everyday Life
An excerpt from a Boston Herald piece explains respiration rates in adults and children, noting about 20 000 breaths daily for a healthy person and roughly two breaths per minute at rest. It references alveolar surface area and the daily air exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Herald
Also Mentioned on This Page
Jene
John Reece
Philadelphia Inquirer
Corkey
Suez
England
Red Sea
Barry
Europe
Leisure Hour
Italy
Margherita
Umberto
Paris
Pakhoi
China
Prussian Silesia
Palestine
Bethesda
St. Anne
Jerusalem
Sutieeile
Lena Woodard
Thorn Creek
Wash
Zoological Society
Professor Flower
South Africa
Decatur
Ill
Nebraska
State House
Augusta
Habersham Park
Osman of
Cavallovi
Turkey
St. Honorat
Caimes
France
Philadelphia
Commercial Advertiser
Ben
Maral
Hetce of
Mr. Nicefello
Missouri
Kansas
Texas
ATES
Tyler & Co
Portland
Oregon
Astoria
Michigan
Dr. Pierce
Gallen
Worth
Buffalo
Ghee
J. N. Berry
Sual
Scott
Leeand
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