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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1883
Page
2
A narrator recalls a dream featuring a crowded gathering of speech parts dancing a quadrille while a grim sound escapes. A month ago the speaker spoke of grammar as a farewell, as curious figures and music frame the scene with a partner bow.
A whaling ship surgeon recalls a two week stay at Tacames on the Colombian Pacific coast. He treats locals during a drought, earns their gratitude, and receives a horse named Vasco from Don Pechos for his services. He also helps Jaca, an Indian boy abducted from Oregon, who speaks English and uses a powerful bow. The tale blends frontier hardship with personal bonds in a remote tropical hamlet.
In a Tacames forest expedition, the narrator and guide Jaca encounter two large jaguars menacing a running herd. A colt is killed and a brief rescue ensues as they kill one jaguar and pursue the other, then retreat to safety with the rider drenched and muddy.
William Whiteley’s London shop grew from a small northwest London storefront to a vast, multifaceted empire employing 5,000 people and 300 horses. He supplies every need from earth to sea, running baker, butcher, milkman, tailor, and more, with a vast farm for milk and produce. His Yorkshireness and scale drive a universal purveyor model meeting a growing urban demand.
A historical survey recounts 19 steamship losses in forty years from 1841 to 1879, detailing ships like the President, City of Glasgow, Arctic, Pacific, Austria, Hungarian, and others. It notes the high fatality toll, with 19 vessels carrying all aboard lost, and lists ownership and line affiliations for major incidents. The passage interweaves a later scene of a boy and a respectful reply after a minor mishap.
The article explains that air contains pores filled with air, abundant in soil, mortar, and water. It notes atmospheric height exceeds 200 miles, gravity thinning air with altitude, and lists major components oxygen nitrogen carbonic acid and water. It highlights life and dust particles, including iron from rails, found in all air and even sunlight beams reveal countless particles.
A young lady turned a street corner and bumped a ragged boy, nearly knocking him down. She paused and spoke kindly to the boy, illustrating how courteous words can influence those unused to comfort and how politeness pays, even to a street Arab.
A Pall Mall Gazette letter argues for formal classes in refined eating practices across Europe. The essay satirically contrasts English table manners with Germans and French, notes napkin neglect, bone handling, and eggs bitten in shells, and suggests English professors teach purist dining techniques for partridge or quail and soup etiquette.
The article outlines the life history of the long leaved pine, noting seeds shed in November germinate in damp weather, seedlings need sunshine, and trees reach 18 to 20 feet in ten years. It describes trunk development, flowering after about 60 years, and mature sizes around 50 to 120 years, with growth rates varying by soil and conditions.
In Buffalo a leading lawyer mocked a presiding judge during a Common Pleas argument. He compared the court to a Virginia rag bag team of two mules and a jackass. He was fined $15 and jailed two days.
A dramatic tale set at Brierton Villa during a north east gale. George W. Simpson pleads with Eulalie McGirlygist as she reveals she cannot marry him because she has cold feet. The storm, desolation, and coastal wreckage at Dead Man's Reef frame their confrontation on a stormy night.
The Literary News publisher offered prizes for the six most striking Emerson sentences as chosen by competitors. Forty-nine entrants voted, with the top count reaching twenty-four for a single sentence. Seven lines received twenty-four to eleven votes, including character is higher than intellect and there is no beautifier of complexion like the wish to scatter joy.
A historical excerpt describes Atlantis as a vast equatorial continent spanning both hemispheres from the Central Atlantic to Australia, with Canada Siberia and Europe submerged. Spirits of Atlantis are said to inhabit Mars and move through planets as cycles end, forecasting humanity’s future rise beyond Atlantis.
Stuart narrates that in Boston the famed painter Gibert Stuart studied Talleyrand during a visit to his studio. After examining the visitor’s features, the artist reportedly told a friend that if the man is not a villain, the Almighty does not write a legible hand.
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