Dogs eat mammoth
Husky dogs eat mammoth in Alaska - and help strike gold!
Oops - husky dogs tucked into a big meal that also happened to be a historical discovery of mammoth importance
`Experiments were made on the flesh of the mammoth recently found in Alaska to see if decomposition would set in, but no change took place beyond a rapid dessication and powdering away of the flesh. The meat was apparently quite fresh, and was eaten with relish by the sleigh dogs, but the vital principle in the germs of putrefaction had faded out in the passage of the 10.000 years and the flesh would not “go bad.”
The huge animal was lying on what is called bedrock in mining, and several nuggets of gold were found beneath the body.’
First published in a British newspaper in 1901
Slave girl torture
Black `slave girl’ tortured and killed by church missionaries claim
`Newspapers published on the west coast of Africa contain full reports of the hearing of a shocking case against William F. John, Phoebe John, John Williams and Kezia Williams of flogging a girl so cruelly as to cause her death.
John and Williams were described as agents and school masters of the Church Missionary Society at Onitsha, on the Niger. The female prisoners were their wives, and the girls whose ill-treatment led to the accusation were both prisoners whom the prisoners (accused) had ransomed.
The alleged offence took place as far back as 1887, when both girls ran away from their employers, but were brought back. As a punishment for their escape they were taken to the prisoner Williams’ house, when the prisoner John having obtained a rope, they were stripped naked and securely tied back to back. The allegations are not only that the two prisoners brutally flogged the girls with their own hands, but that a number of natives were also ordered to keep up the punishment, which they did with guava whips, canes, ropes and other instruments. Not content with this, the male prisoners ordered some pepper to be brought, and rubbed it into the bleeding wounds of the girls as they lay upon the ground helpless and rolling with agony.
This was in the morning, and the girls were left lying on the ground under the broiling sun without any shelter or aid of any kind. At midday a number of schoolboys came up from school and commenced to flog them again, by order, as is stated, of the prisoners, after which the negroes again rubbed pepper into their wounds.
During the whole of the afternoon, the two victims, still tied together in the way described, lay in the full glare of the sun, and one one occasion having succeeded in rolling towards a clump of bushes to seek for shade, it is said the prisoners dragged them back into the sun.
In the evening they were untied and the deceased girl was taken away and lashed to a guava tree in the yard of the prisoner John. She was then in a very weak and prostrate condition, the other girl having apparently suffered less severely.
Three days after this the deceased was seen in the yard of the prisoner John and bleeding from a fresh-cut wound on her head, while beside her was standing Mrs. John holding a stick about an inch in diameter.
The female prisoner said the deceased was shamming (faking), and that she had been trying to make her get up, but in vain. Several persons then came up, but it was evident that the deceased was quite unable to raise herself.
The next day she died.’
The above article was first published in a British newspaper in the 1880’s.
Recycle home idea
An idea to recycle crops into homes could change the design of real estate
`HOUSE OF STRAW
The inventive Yankee has discovered, not how to make bricks without straw, but how to make timber from straw. At the forthcoming American Exhibition in London there will be, it is stated, a house of straw, now being made in Philadelphia.
This house is an American suburban villa, very handsome and thoroughly artistic in design, two and a-half stories high, and covering a space of 42ft. by 50ft. It is built entirely of materials manufactured from straw,- foundations timber, flooring, sheathing, roofing - everything in fact, including the chimneys, the material being fireproof, as well as waterproof.
The inside finish will be in imitation rosewood, mahogany, walnut, maple, ash, ebony, and other fine woods, the straw lumber taking perfectly the surface and colour of any desired wood. The straw villa will be devoted to the illustration of Philadelphia’s commercial, financial and industrial interests by means of large photographs of the leading exchanges, banks, insurance buildings, factories, mills, schools, etc. A number of other leading American cities will also make novel exhibits of their municipal resources.’
Article above, from an article which was first published in a British newspaper in the 1860’s.
A newspaper stand during the American civil war or War Between the States
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