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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1887
Page
2
Items include Mrs Horsrops of Woodstock with Gen Isreal Putnam letters and a canteen. Wetmore Colorado hunter Kills a wolf with a horn and club. Congolese envoys return gifts to China. Lady Mandeville admired in London for charm despite wealth.
Carlsruhe scholar argues in the latest Kunstchronik that many Netherlandish old master works are fakes. He cites 141 paintings in Frankfurt's Stadelsches Institute, 61 with falsified signatures, and doubts two thirds of the rest as genuine.
The present Lord Lytton documents his father’s interest in astrology and spiritualism, noting a discovered horoscope of Disraeli that allegedly matched later events. Also cited are horoscopes of other notable figures, with uncanny verifications. A separate note mentions Oregon pheasants, legal protections, and a Texas correspondent’s railway robbing prevention scheme using steam and hot water automizers.
O P Brown of Smithville Ga holds one third of a Confederate five dollar bill given to him under peculiar circumstances at war end in Greensboro North Carolina. Col C P Daniel of Griffin commanded the regiment and cut the bill into three parts with Brown and A B Clark each receiving a portion.
Thomas White bids the men farewell and promises a third must be won before a return meeting. Brown and White once met in Macon with Brown paying. White did not. Brown lives in Smithville, White in Macon, Clark in Augusta. An observer describes an alligator’s feeding as a moving sewer of swallowed prey, then an insect and reptile picnic before a sudden gulp and renewed appetite.
A special freight running with passenger time on the Union Pacific near Laramie broke in two on a hill. The front section sped through a curve and disappeared in a gulch. After two months, a cowboy guided a station agent to the wreck, found car 99 resting on its side behind rocks and brush with intact trucks and sealed doors, few damages noted.
The Little Rock Gazette recalls a Goldman Arkansas hay festival with garlanded stores, a hay king on a cattle driven hay wagon, a hay queen Hallie Shrout, attendants, and a Grand Prairie band. Mayor presents the crown to King Thomas Able amid cheers as the event honors local day interests.
An old chief accompanied by followers visits with palm wine a goat and twenty fowls. Clad in a worn life guardsman's jacket the chief cannot remove it, following his ivory trade two months earlier. Three Zanzibar men hold him while the coat is cut off, sleeves and collar giving way. The chief smiles, relieved, after the awkward rescue.
As early as 1505 French fishermen from Normandy and other French coast provinces sailed off the shores of Newfoundland, pursuing their vocation amid the early Atlantic fisheries.
A J H Steed reading at the Bombay Natural History Society argues there may be no true aboriginal wild horse in America or Australia. He cites mustangs, brumbies and pampas horses as domesticated descendants, while suggesting Central Asia could host original wild stock.
A Science notice critiques New England pronunciation of Arkansas and other French geographic names. It argues that Arkansas should be pronounced with a final s silent and aw nasal, challenging the common sass form and noting historical spellings like Kansaw and Konza. It urges standardization to honor local nomenclature.
Grant and Lee are described in a Century excerpt as they faced each other ten feet apart. Grant appears in mud stained clothes with a private soldier’s uniform, while Lee stands six feet tall in Confederate gray with a jewelled hilted sword. The contrast highlights their age, appearances, and dignity as they prepared for surrender talks.
Two young New Yorkers discuss finding solitude in a crowded hotel. A traveler recounts claiming to catch blue fish with a bare hook in the smoking room, a tactic said to work at Nantucket but met with distrust on Long Island.
A hired girl rebuffs a salesman hawking a new etiquette and deportment book at a doorstep. She instructs him on proper conduct then allows entry to speak with the lady of the house, who she notes called him a liar earlier in the day.
An elderly Virginia conductor recalls a greenhorn passenger who rode a train before the war and later became a Washington merchant worth over 200000. The piece also notes a Hartford youth whose broken leg was repaired with a silver rivet and who will soon be on crutches.
A roundup of curious items notes Mexico’s railroading linked weather, a Swiss watch in a pencil case, a Mexican ranch with eggs from Los Angeles hatched under heat, a new French firearm, nutmeg poisoning case, and French experiments with air flow showing candle flame behavior and suction-like effects.
A compact antiquarian note on hippopotamus features from exterior skin to sensory placement. It details thick dry-skin, porous oily secretion, use of sjamboks, historic hippo captures in the Nile and London, early European birth, and the animal’s water habits and buoyancy.
The McSpilkins family is praised for talent in Austin with the old man singled out for a sharp remark. The youngsters play piano harp guitar and fiddle while the father is humorously credited with the starvingest game of draw poker in Travis County. The quote adds a reflective line from Sir Philip Sidney about good deeds.
Popular Science notes heat and cold expand and contract metal in parallel with mechanical stretching. Rain brings vital manurial value to crops, delivering chlorine, sulphuric acid, and ammonia per acre annually at Ithamsted. Observations include electricity purifying smoke, monkeys opening oysters with stones, Chelsea sewermen’ outstanding health, ancient Chinese gas use, and Ashburner’s view on natural gas origin from decayed life in rocks.
The English Volunteers are inspected annually by a regular army officer with two-thirds present. Corps are inspected at headquarters unless in regimental or regular militia camps. An annual allowance funds officers and men, with extra grants for proficiency and tactics exams. Travel, postage, and armed stores costs are covered, artillery funds battery sites, and rifles are issued to volunteers with the Snider being replaced by the Martini Henry.
Swedish chemists Kruss and Nilson announce a major expansion in the periodic table. Spectroscopic evidence on nitrates of rare earths from thorite and related minerals suggests didymium splits into at least nine elements, Holmium into seven, and erbium and samarium into two each, per the Arkansaw Traveler.
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