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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1889
Page
3
The Indiana Progress notes a French ambassador in Rome discovering a youth portrait of Voltaire long missing. Items include a Montreal magistrate awarding damages for an attempted kiss, a goose tragedy in Dakota City, and various quirky anecdotes about public figures and odd happenings across regions.
A collage of brief notes covers Nebraska grain margins voided by the Supreme Court, record low beef prices, Vermont emigration losses, philosophical quips on money and crime, Indiana hotel rule conflicts, Lt Williamson’s near $10 million estate with only a $100 watch, an International Women Suffrage Congress planned in Paris, Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton, a Michigan mill moved to Canada to dodge debt, Baseless baseball loyalty, a list of top Scots, a Yorkshire weight fraud, a cross-border Rio Grande bridge celebration, European emigration surges via Castle Garden, and a US consular paper mistake explored by the Atlanta Constitution.
The San Francisco Chronicle reviews a monograph on the Bacon Shakespeare controversy. It highlights a detailed comparison of how Shakespeare and Bacon discuss beer and wine, noting Bacon’s scientific view versus Shakespeare’s burlesque spirit.
Bids for the 24 per cent loan for new parks total 7 457 000 dollars at par to 1 1/2 per cent premium. The issue may reach 10 million dollars on similar terms. Admiral Porter cites apprentice limits and warns crews may be multinational and pledge no loyalty to the flag.
A lyrical excerpt from the Washington Star paints night and nature in heightened wonder. Nightbirds, listening trees, and fragrant air frame a reverent meditation on love, beauty, and solitary adoration under a starry sky. The speaker ties personal ecstasy to the nocturnal world.
A curious collection of jokes and social quips from local life. Vignettes touch on marriage, cheeky remarks, and observational humor about families, neighbors, and passing strangers. Names and places appear as punchlines, preserving the era's light tone.
Five eminent figures shaped the oratorical era Patrick Henry Daniel Webster Thomas Corwin Henry Ward Beecher and Wendell Phillips. Henry, earlier than others, overwhelmed audiences with forceful language carrying them to action as a strong colonial and state leader and Virginia’s longtime chief counsellor.
The article contrasts soft maples with hard maples noting faster growth in marshy low ground for soft maples, while on high ground both types grow similarly. It adds that hard maple leaf-out is a few days later in spring but is otherwise as desirable and superior for sugar-making.
A quirky exchange centers on a talking automatic figure that has been wound but fails to run. One character argues it’s a great success while the other questions its functionality, sparking a playful discussion on what makes a “real” working person.
A collection of pithy sayings on faith, work, discipline, education, parenting, and human nature. The musings urge confidence, prudent living, self discipline, and the limits of words in expressing true thoughts, contrasting experience with book knowledge.
A New York animal dealer tells Sun reporters there are about a score of professional rat catchers in the city. They mostly work alone, using traps or tongs, and wait as rats drink water before striking. The method relies on motionless bait and silent execution, with repeat alarms as rats alert others. A catcher can clear premises of pests in a single night.
Washington Post reports on close ties among Supreme Court justices. Fuller and Harlan travel together daily. Frey and the late Matthews were inseparable leading to Fray’s engagement to Miss Matthews. Field and Bradley are close. Blatchford and Lamar often walk or ride together. Miller walks alone but is friendly with all.
The Real Shetland pony stands thirty to forty inches high and is scarce in the country. Most ponies seen here come from the north of Ireland and are larger. The genuine breed is hard to rear, the climate is harsh, and shipping costs plus high mortality on voyage keep numbers low. farmers value them highly and sell only at high prices.
The New York World describes the Ute Bear Dance at Fort Du Chesne Utah with a tall brush enclosure a flagstaff white flag bears painted black and hundreds of dancers. Squaws in beaded buckskin and calico dress wear beads, fringes and bandannas while bucks in buckskin and bright shirts join in. Musicians beat notched sticks on a tin pan as dancers move in three abreast lines and the medicine man offers a curing ritual. The weeklong festival ends with a communal feast provided by traders and Indian agents after moonlit dancing and bonfires.
A witty exchange from New York Weekly notes how photography has evolved to colors. Mrs Highlive jokes about portraits, while Mr Highlive remarks the old process may be abandoned soon.
The piece traces the honey bee as an imported species, noting its European origins and arrival in Florida before 1763 and New York by 1793. It discusses pollination by bees for apples and berries, the need for widespread bee distribution, and farming practices in England with cottage beekeeping.
Century recounts a satirical tale where a ministerial fire prevention order pushes peasants to smear roofs with clay and water. An overburdened stanovoi tries to avoid enforcing it by asking for a small bribe, buying time at the cost of the peasants’ sowing, then ends with a celebratory drink and plans to reuse the tactic.
The article debates Martian canals and rejects artificial water courses. It discusses gravity, size, and hypothetical Goliaths to explain why colossal canals spanning half the planet are unlikely, arguing the proportionate limits imposed by gravity.
The article surveys diverse scientific notes on energy and chemistry including visible solar energy, combustion, benzine oxidation, and cholera treatments. It covers parascience facts, engineers in Vienna and Madad wearing gloves, and notes on elephants and language. It discusses electric power transmission in the Victorian era, a French printing press, and a Panama canal engineering feat. It also notes paper toughness via zinc pulp, porous terra cotta brick in building, and fireproof encasement of iron and steel. It ends with beet sugar industry growth and European production trends affecting world sugar prices.
A fragmentary item mentions Mr. Moree known as A More from Washington and a formal dinner at Mount Vernon. The misprinted note and a large sycamore bar appear in a quirky anecdote about a waggish guest and a hostess confronting odd handwriting and interpretation.
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