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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1893
Page
2
The Register notes New York divorce courts dissolve about five couples daily. It contrasts New York’s industry standing with Chicago. It mentions a female baseball club returning from Cuba after alleged Cuban insults. It also reports on Mrs. Cleveland’s private secretary, sparking public curiosity and comment.
A Seattle man slept with six thousand dollars under his pillow and woke to find it gone. The tale carries a moral about the peril of sleeping on money, noting that the habit of relying on cash under the ear is not common.
A Chinese woman arrested refuses to accompany officers until she may paint her lips and style her hair in the Pekin twist, illustrating a touch of nature that unites people and transcends differences.
Italian composer Mascagni receives a lavish Berlin welcome and surpasses imperial visitors in honors, though the triumph comes with a cost as he must appease more than a thousand autograph seekers.
A three year old Pirrssuren boy drank half a pint of whisky and was found inebriated beyond anything seen before. He was brought back with difficulty and, once recovered, swore off with a sincerity matching that of an older person.
A drifting man aboard a Los Angeles area car ordered cigars for his fellow passengers and then blew out his brains as the weeds were lighted. The act is described as an ultimate, somber choice, with self destruction placed among possible penalties of despair.
A correspondent notes Mr Cleveland alighted from cars with a firm step. The text questions the exact nature of the step, suggesting that for a 250 pound man upholding national dignity perhaps a firm step suffices. The passage emphasizes cautious wording and avoids specifics.
A group advocates reviving long dormant blue laws, attempting strict enforcement. Critics doubt the effort will reshape modern life but acknowledge its dramatic spectacle and perceived moral healing for conscience strained by current norms.
A bill in the Legislature would make it a misdemeanor to print menu cards in any language other than English. The measure targets landlords who hide appealing dishes under foreign names, challenging menus that obscure the true offerings.
A turbulent gentleman in Madrid was caught in the act of making a bomb aimed at social reform. He dropped the device and it exploded, flinging him to a ceiling corner while friends removed him. They ponder whether his momentary realization could have offered any comfort that reform was achieved.
The report highlights rapid expansion of electric street railways over five years, expanding from fifty to 6,000 miles. It notes the present electric mileage now exceeds all other street railway forms combined, signaling tremendous progress in this transportation system.
Lines have spurred significant suburban development across many localities, delivering communities a fair substitute for rapid transit and shaping growth patterns for the region.
A ten year old Chinese boy loves a girl six years older. After his father grants indulgence, the maiden jilts him for a 15 year old. The boy wounds his rival with a knife, causing gore. All three receive corporal punishment and show little remorse. The piece notes rapid changes in China.
UncLIE SAM captures the fair feminine smuggler but lacks the means to coerce the woman into trying on the seized robes. New York dress makers lament as the superb frocks are taken, yet their tears seem to sway Uncle Samuel in the end.
Secretary Hoke Samira faces persistent seekers as colleagues barricade doors and scramble for penning official letters. Each visitor who greets him with Howdy, Hoke? is met by a freezing gaze until they retreat in haste from the cold desk climate.
A self-styled socialist baron rented space among crowds in New York, denouncing archists for profit then aiding anarchists to steal from socialists. His ruse failed when a bar of soap and a clean collar betrayed him, revealing his schemes. He must now seek work.
Seattle rests on rich minerals timber and coal with a growing harbor and rail network. A new project aims to harness Snoqualmie Falls to generate vast electricity at far lower costs, potentially powering all street railways and machinery in the city. The effort follows Seattle’s resilient recovery from a recent fire and signals a bright industrial future.
A St. Louis Globe-Democrat anecdote recalls a young worker in 1885 who turned misfortune at a circus into enterprise. After Jumbo the elephant died, the boy stole a hairs from the elephant's tail and sold 75 hairs as $1 relics to children, keeping one as a mascot.
A concise excerpt highlights the view that harmony serves as the driving force behind innovation and social advancement. It frames harmony as foundational to collective progress and practical achievement across contexts.
A distressed speaker laments years of toil and debt on a prairie twenty acre farm. She urges selling land to build a better home and argues life is wasted chasing wealth while happiness and a cozy family life have faded. The plea acknowledges shared burdens, failed praises, and a wish to trade land for a modest, fulfilling home.
A minister recalls being locked out in his night shirt after a ghostly gathering. Cold, frightened, and with no latch key, he contemplates a back escape, the bright electric lamps, and the risk of papers sensationalizing the tale.
A clergyman narrator recounts a comic escape night as he tries to flee a prowling admirer and a cat named Maria. He scales seven fences, dodges a barking dog, and ultimately squeezes back into his basement kitchen, bruised but relieved.
The narrator Ezra recalls restless night after a ghostly episode. He and Maria retreat upstairs then he practices surgery to cope. His wife questions why he did not break a side-light to unlock the hall door, leaving the mystery unreadable as the Youth's Companion quotes a line.
In Berlin Zoological Gardens Prof Raul Meyerheim tests tobacco effects on animals. Brown bears eagerly approach cigar smoke, goats and stags devour tobacco with apparent pleasure, while a sleeping lion sneezes powerfully after exposure yet resumes rest. The findings are noted as novel and amusing.
A New York Commercial meditation on marriage contrasts the enduring truth of a wife as nourishment to a passing lover’s elixir. It notes that seven of ten men love their wives more than their sweethearts, yet the allure of novelty prompts more fuss over romance than daily life.
In Barcelona a surge of about 300 American bulls arriving by Italian ships broke loose when a rope failed during unloading. Ninety to one hundred escaped stampeding through quay and streets, killing a young girl and an old lady, injuring nine, with extensive property damage as residents hunted and hauled away slaughtered bulls.
A Bangor family hired an artistic cook who cannot read and identifies canned foods by pictures on labels. She mistook a desiccated coconut can with a monkey logo for a real monkey, amusing the household as she exclaimed her astonishment.
London Notes and Queries discusses how the terms mistake and mistaken create paradoxes in argument. It notes the speaker’s habit of admitting error while pondering who truly errs. The piece ends reflecting that personal notions mislead and influence linguistic use.
A Barton County Missouri man plans to raise peacocks for profit. Wealthy homeowners crave their aesthetic air and long tail feathers for fly time. William Ordway Partridge, Boston sculptor, earns 10000 for a Shakespeare statue and 27000 for an equestrian Garfield statue at age 31.
An advertisement notes the National Portrait Society offering portrait painting inducements at 63 West 14th Street New York. It also cites Mr Gladstone on Sunday closing of saloons. Quack remedies are promoted including Brown's Bronchial Troches and Beechan's Pills with health musings about cheerfulness and poverty.
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