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...Yorker, weekly smart-chart, last week published an anecdote about a gentleman with a familiar but "unplaceable" face. The gentleman had entered a Manhattan sport goods store and inquired of the clerk: "What do you charge for blowing up old squash tennis balls that have gone...
Last week two Coast Guard cutters, the Tampa, the Modoc, sailed north to play "I spy" with icebergs. They are to patrol steamship lanes, chart location of icebergs, figure the speed and direction of iceberg-drift, issue warning to Atlantic liners. Though equipped with mines designed to blow icebergs to pieces, they often find bergs which explosives can hardly injure. An iceberg may contain 36,000,000 tons of ice, eight-ninths of which are below the surface of the water. When dynamited, a giant berg merely loses a few large chunks, which then become small bergs, or "growlers...
Oatheimer also hopes to determine the exact altitude of Tsar Mountain and to make photographs of the creek south of Tsar for the Survey. He also intends to map Tsar Creek, which flower into the Columbia River, and to chart whatever other streams are found in the locality...
James Gordon Bennett invited him to join him in establishing the New York Herald. Greeley declined. Instead, in 1834, aged 23, he began to publish and edit the New Yorker, a weekly literary journal (in no wise connected with the current smart-chart by that name...
Irreverent readers of the published results were loud in facetious badinage. Thinking members of the church, with or without regard to these former, felt that the campaign had been injudicious - that the wind of the spirit, blowing whithersoever it listeth, is scarcely to be gauged by a meteorological chart...