Word: jars
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Franklin looked at the skies a hundred years ago to discover the nature of electricity, and we are doing the same thing now. What Franklin failed to see was that the discharge of electricity is not in one direction, but oscillatory. Josepe Henry noticed in 1835 that a Leyden jar gave out not one spark merely but several in succession. He discovered induction, and surmised wave motion, but he never thought of looking together for the source of that motion. It never occurred to him nor to us until very recently, that the electricity is not in the wires...
...boat house float while the boats are getting ready; neither will it be pleasant for the men who are waiting on the water. The second suggestion is, give up a place to see the races from. Again turning to our former experience, we remember having had to push and jar our way through a crowd of half-dressed men to a couple of starting gangways and a very small porch, where we were in constant danger of getting knocked into the mud by the stampede following the nose of a barge issuing from the boat house...
...probably is the greatest expert in the country on reptiles and is constantly in the receipt of specimens from the fish commission for somerclature and analysis. Several new species bear his name - a great compliment in scientific circles. In the room adjoining his own he showed us thousands of jars of preserved reptiles and fishes from which he had to select the best specimens, and condemn the useless ones. Some thousands of innocent snakes and fish have been immured here for years, immolated to the cause of science, to be rudely dragged forth, condemned as "common" and haled...
Professor Garman has a small Green snake - a southern variety - which he kept in a jar, and which is singularly unlike these others in character. It is a pretty creature and such as society belles wear as ornaments in parts of Brazil - and is very tame and affectionate. Its bed is a small ball of cotton into which it curls itself, and its chief and favorite diet is the common house-fly. Professor Garman also has some salamanders and lizards in captivity which betray some intelligence, though the former is very muscular and a trifle ill-tempered, and resists vigorously...
...must have in view a clearly defined artistic result. In the "machinery" of the action, there must be nothing which shall be meaningless or contrary to the current of sympathies aroused by the play as a whole. The events must be managed in such a way as not to jar even upon the social traditions of the audience. Care must be taken to have the misfortunes happen to those characters which do not appeal as above to the spectators, or which are lightly sketched in the dialogue...