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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1883
Page
2
The London correspondent notes buzzwords like re move and wxoricide for brutal homicide and mentions a Paris inventor’s panclastite compound blending hypoazotic acid with petroleum or carbon sulfur, with explosive power varying by ingredient.
The Twe Vassar student body challenges the colleges marks system describing honors as childish and argues the need for higher education of women. The piece notes that critics see the protests as earnest, modern, and aligned with serious aims for graduates entering public life.
A note from St. Nicholas explains a simple method where full grown silkworms are placed on a Japanese fan to spin a golden silk cocoon across the fan surface. It cautions keeping only a few worms and notes the activity is for curiosity rather than practical silk farming.
About 45 percent of U S lands remain unsurveyed totaling nearly 1 billion acres. Of this, 369 million acres are in the Indian Territory, 30 million in Montana, 66 million in Dakota, and 12 million in Minnesota.
Attention grows on bee keeping in the South where several parties own small colonies near Louisiana orange groves, reflecting growing interest in apiculture and local agriculture.
Poem excerpt describing a baby's feet hands and eyes with lyrical contrasts. The speaker extols the purity and beauty of infant features, using imagery of sea shells rosebuds and petals. The voice reflects on innocence, love, and the healing power of a child’s presence in a devotional tone.
In this London paper tale a pursuee named Tupling flees on river ice after a theft scheme. The narrator chases on skates, fires are exchanged, a dangerous open water hole nearly swallows Tupling, and the captor rescues him with a rail. Tupling yields a belt of gold and about £5,000, then is secured by a warm fire and a night’s rest.
A concise moral urging respect for mechanics over sneering at their labor. It warns that sneering can backfire, causing social and personal harm, and emphasizes politeness and long-term consequences. Mention of a Gainesville, Georgia, old lady with a colored Easter egg from fifty-two years ago adds a local vignette.
The writer argues that matter is inert until animated by a spiritual agent, the soul. If humans show mental phenomena, animals must share them, implying animal souls. It traces perception memory and affection to the soul and compares animal and human souls, noting divine continuity and postdeath development of faculties.
In 1825 Cincinnati earned the Porkopolis nickname through Bank Jones, president of the United States Branch Bank, whose pork prosperity letters impressed a Liverpool colleague. The Liverpool sponsor commissioned papier mache hogs with the inscription to honor Ar. George W. Jones, a notable Cincinnati official, and the hogs still symbolize the city’s pork trade legacy.
A fragment notes the passage of influence from Bank Jones to the pork monarchs of Porkopolis over nearly fifty years, reflecting a satirical family lineage of wealth and control in the city. The quote places entrenched financial empires within a local historical frame.
Henry James praises Anthony Trollope for extraordinary output and stamina. Trollope produced vast novels and many shorter works while maintaining discipline, though critics note he sacrificed some quality for quantity. James recalls Trollope’s sea voyage writing routine and his habit of daily pages, arguing his imagination remained strong despite a brisk, steady pace.
The main world oil supply comes from a Pennsylvania district about 150 miles by 1 to 20 miles, mainly in Pennsylvania and touching New York. It produced 26,950,813 barrels in 1881 and 81,398,750 in 1882. Minor sources exist in West Virginia Ohio Ontario Germany Southern Russia and India.
In San Francisco during a Thomas festival dispute the chorus requested complimentary tickets for non singing nights and escorts. Mr. Thomas refused and the chorus offered to sit in chorus seats without singing. A compromise followed: on non singing nights the chorus sits aloft while Mr. Thomas notes the incident as a California wonder.
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