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Cranberry Pudding
Stir a pint of cranberries into a quart of stiff batter. Boil well, and serve up with sweet sauce. Some persons make sauce by mixing butter and sugar together, but…
Posted inCivil Engineering Iron & Steam
Report of the Continuation of the Thames Tunnel after an Irruption
The Thames Tunnel - We are glad to learn that the interruption which the progress of this great national undertaking has met with is likely to be of much shorter duration than…
The Mystery of the Cyclops
The Unexplained Disappearance of the United States Naval Collier Causes a Marine Expert to Discuss the Fantastic Possibilities of Encounters Between Ships and Gigantic Octopuses
The disappearance of the great United States naval collier Cyclops during the year 1918 has now been ranked among the famous unexplained mysteries of the sea, like the fate of the crew of the brig Marie Celeste and many another ocean tragedy.
The Cyclops, a ship of 19,000 tons, sailed from Barbados in the West Indies on March 4 last on war duty and has never been reported since. This great steel ship, with all her crew and arms and equipment, her wireless and her boats has vanished from the seas just as feeble sailing ships did in ancient times when the ocean was an uncharted wilderness.
By order of the Navy Department all available naval craft In Southern waters have been making a dragnet for the ship, but steadily the conviction grows among officials that the great modern mystery of the sea will remain unsolved.
Posted inUS Civil War
February 28, 1861 – On Mr. Lincoln
The rush of Western politicians still continues, several of the newly elected members of Congress arriving to-day-, and from conversation with them Mr. Lincoln's real character is beginning to be…
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Arrest of a Liquor Dealer and Gamblers
The following statement was made yesterday to the Mayor by John Bradley, of the Sixth ward police:— On Sunday morning, about ten minutes past twelve o’clock, I notified Michael Sexton,…
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February 27, 1861 – Twiggs’ Treachery!
Major General Twiggs has turned traitor in his old age, sunk his fair fame in infamy, and brought his gray hairs to dishonor. This last observation is figurative, for Gen.…
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A Fine Exhibition
The ninth annual gymnastic exhibition, given under the direction of Prof. A. K. Aldinger and associate Miss Margaret M. Bogenrief, in the gymnasium Monday evening was one of the most…
Posted inArchaeology
A Statuette 6500 Years Old
In his article on the “Ten Temples of Abydos" in Harper’s Magazine. Professor Flinders Petrie tells of his discovery of a statuette of ivory more than 6500 years old, and…
Posted inArchaeology
Ten layers of History
For the first time the whole history of one of the great national sites of Egypt has been opened before us; dating from the beginning of the kingdom and ending…
Posted inShip Histories
Constitution in Port
Boston, February 18. — The Constitution Frigate came up yesterday, and anchored off the Long-wharf, about 12 o’clock. She was saluted by a federal discharge from the South End artillery company, and…