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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1884
Page
2
A Terrell Texas man Tou Wr oy owned a monkey that died and was prepared for burial in the city cemetery. Protests followed with talk of shotgun threats and the companion burying the ancestor in a backyard. The description blends into distant notes on pricing and social satire from Prussia and London.
Miss Anthony defends a letter misspelling sufferage, recounting how copies also used the wrong form and how Congress members echoed the error. The report notes Ireland's farming decline, reduced tillage, and shifts in cattle and pig numbers, with modest sheep increases.
The article contrasts the French sovereigns and presidents with mercy powers. Grevy personally reargues condemned cases to spare murderers, limiting executions. Napoleon III favored leniency but avoided pressuring judges, using mercy mainly to influence lawyers seeking remittance of sentences.
An authoritative piece in a London weekly extols Windsor Park as a premier field for forest botany. It notes diverse native and exotic trees with recorded ages, suggesting long lifespans in the hollowed ground. The report contrasts past beliefs about Esquimeaux people and highlights Dr. Rae's remarks on hospitality and temperance.
A romance in North Chelmsford sees Nelson the farmer’s daughter flee with farmhand Tileski, eloping to Lowell to wed a parson. After a pursuit and a knifeed collision, the couple proceed to marry amid a comic, improvised ceremony and an astonished groom.
The note cites a Ram saying urging avoidance of basing belief on unknowns, warning that guessing leads to beliefs contrary to reason. It presents a philosophical caution about epistemology and certainty.
From recent experience pears appear likelier than apples to dominate orchard plantings. Healthier and better bearing on low ground, with minimal disease besides blight treatable by prompt pruning, pears resist insects. The article notes efficient watering, proper stock, and partial soiling as key, plus cautions on waste in farming and a few practical kitchen tips.
Instructions describe making a simple boil then flour mixture pudding. Boil milk, stir in flour quickly to avoid lumps, cook until mushy, then serve hot with sugar and cream. Notes emphasize brisk stirring and timing for smooth texture.
The piece blends humorous musings on giraffe fighting with a vivid early 1900s style. It contrasts the giraffes use of neck and head to hammer rivals, then shifts to a quirkier scene featuring the English Sparrow and a Robin Red-breast debating origins amid a snowy February setting from St. Nicholas Almanac.
A Boston Transcript quips poets keep rubbish until worthy then sell at high prices while an impecunious doctor asks why not invite him to practice medicine. A Newman Independent quips a citizen replies you can buy a duck cheaper than a real quack.
A collage of quotations on misfortune virtue and law from Harper's Weekly Pall Mall Budget Cincinnati Commercial Gazette and Newark Independent quotes warn against premature property seizure promote accountability and civil law in collegiate settings. Notable names include Thrilby Hall London Saturday Review Frankin and Dr John Bascom.
Sir Samuel Baker notes camels as sole transport through vast deserts between Lower Egypt and the Saadan Provinces. He cites endurance ranges from 400 to 500 pounds loads, water needs every third to fourth day, and better performance in cool seasons. He describes Haddendowns and Bishareen varieties as nimble and hardy for long desert journeys.
A reflective dialogue on the Mediterranean coastal scene. Mrs Clary praises its mythic historic voyage and timeless beauty while the group notes its salt content, depth near Nice, and sailing craft from ancient to modern times. A light literary exchange ends with ship types and a fableish exchange about courage.
A dialect filled philosophical piece argues natural order, strength in hardship, and the rough school of parenting. It notes the cleverness of birds and the folly of the educated fool, claiming ignorance harms most and gentle correction often fails in youth.
A 10 year old rope dancer falls to his death before a magistrate and Marcus orders a safety net beneath the rope. The rule to protect performers from fatal falls is traced to Marcus, the humane boy magistrate, described by St. Nicholas.
The Pall Mall Gazette heralds a factory where a massive engine daily outputs 1,000,000 boxes of Swedish matches. Wood blocks enter at one end and finished matches emerge neatly boxed, ready for global dispatch. Last summer twenty steamers and eight sailing ships carried wood to Jonkeying for match production.
A peculiarly coy exchange in The Hoosier notes Miss Gimps in Port Wayne Indy delaying temperance society. Temperance talk turns playful as unresolved plans to join a group emerge with a blush and a witty misread.
A French authority claims boots and shoes can become permanently waterproof by soaking in thick soap water for hours. Soaked leather forms a fatty acid that blocks water. A clever maiden remarks it is better to be laughed at for not being married than unable to laugh at all. There is sound logic in that. It is well for a woman to marry if she finds a good man who loves her. otherwise, she should stay single. If you have dived with contentment you have dined as well as the Lord Mayor of London.
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