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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1886
Page
2
A report recalls India snake bite deaths topping 100000 in five years and compares such deaths to non biting fatalities in America. It notes snakes hide in boots and under pillows while detailing Saxony railway length contraction with steel rails 73 meters long shrinking eight millimeters at 15 degrees.
The Vanderbilt and Astor families each top about 200 million, the Stewart estate 100 million, Rockefeller 30 million, and California millionaires Mackey Huntington Mills Hopkins Flood O'Brien Fair Sharon together about 200 million, totaling 830 million. The Rothschilds could buy out these millionaires and still have over 100 million left.
A Macon Telegraph correspondent recalls Gen Wiefall’s mail from field duties. Upon seeing a bushel of letters, he ordered them burned and declared he would work and spend for his friends but not write for them.
Harper's Bazar notes Mr Blackie once shed a pound by rowing about twenty minutes and suggests a half hour of perspiration can reduce weight. The Cleveland Leader counters with a baker who sweats for hours daily and, starting around two hundred pounds years ago, has grown to nearly three hundred pounds.
A sharp English judge shows quick wits when a stranger in court whispers a greeting. Prof Gotwrs Sir recalls Guizot’s remark on Ireland, noting the Victorian debate over disestablishment and England’s thirty years of conduct being called admirable.
Horman Hunts recounts his father pushing him away from art to bookkeeping. In a Contemporary Review autobiographical piece he describes drawing flies on ground glass, using ink for bodies and pencil for wings, creating a deceptive image that grew until his boss noticed the increasing flies. The anecdote illustrates early artistic curiosity and household expectations.
A woman who writes fashion columns astonished a prominent New York establishment modiste by asking permission to take a silk costume to weighing scales. The incident highlights the era’s attention to fashion details and propriety in big city shops.
A London Truth note surveys fashion excess with jet bedecked gowns weighing up to fifty pounds and waist corsets held by heavy weights. It contrasts this with fisheries data showing Holland and Germany eel imports surpassing 1,000 tons valued at £85,000. Ireland and Scotland send hundreds of tons yearly, London consumes about 1,650 tons worth £135,000, with Kennet Test and Hants Avon eels praised and Romsey inn famed for Testfish.
A correspondent recalls a trusted remount that defended its handler from a former stable bully, then notes a New York Times item about a big clothing store, where a young Black man rose from errand boy to top seller on strong commissions, facing initial prejudice but gaining steady advancement.
A London Jackass visits America and, just before landing in New York, falls into a barrel of meat making him look odd to locals. The tale mocks pretentious elegance as New York Jackasses smear mucilage on trousers and walk about like millers. Mona: This fable cautions us against undue precipitation in following the latest fashion.
The piece paints a New England village Sunday: bells, meeting house, hymnody, and a sober, decorous atmosphere. It contrasts old and new, describes the bell’s authority, the procession to church, the sermon, and the serene, disciplined Sabbath cadence that defines village life. It ends with reflection on piety, duty, and moral living in the community.
The article traces the long history of gem deception through doublets, citing Jerome Cardan and the 4ocolino method. It describes using a cheap inferior flake covered with colored glue to imitate a fine gem, how the fraud flourished in Colombo by Singhalese traders, and how detection exposed paste and doublets in clusters among family diamonds.
A San Francisco Chronicle piece surveys a country general store filled with nostalgic items. It notes cheap toys, misfit school books, slate pencils tied to slates, old style candies, Bohemian inkstands, note paper with faded crests, and bundles of picture books, all appealing to curious rural shoppers and their open-eyed children.
A Boston Advertiser correspondent argues that London’s poverty is matched by moral poverty among the poor, worsened by servile behavior and caste attitudes. The piece contrasts English class codes with American ideals, noting a deep and visible gulf between Britons and Americans.
In Washington Indiana Judge Z- questioned a young physician witness about his practice. The doctor admitted practice in Washington and vicinity, confusing the judge who quipped that six years proves nothing to the jury as the young doctor sweated.
A father dismisses a son's claim about a lecturer’s remark that inner rays are the earth’s satellite luminosity. The parent calls it all moonshine, labeling the idea as fanciful and untrue.
The piece argues for educating women in cooking and housework to promote self-support, dignity, and respect. It urges city leaders and parents to provide classes, noting work is honorable, and that such training would empower women to manage homes, save money, and improve health while improving marriage prospects. It cites natural aptitude and social benefit, urging implementation in the South.
The origin of the Knights Templar traces to two young French knights, Hugh de Payens and Godfrey of St. Omer, who gathered seven others of high birth to form a religious military order. They vowed poverty chastity and obedience, served pilgrims on the road to Jerusalem, and established a hall, chapel, and rations within the Temple site. The group, calling themselves Brothers of the Temple, rode as a mounted guard on the pilgrim route with a distinctive battle cry Beauceant whose exact meaning is uncertain.
A Pittsburgh gambler recounts superstitions from Monmouth Park with shoe luck, white horse counts, and fortune tellers. He shares tales of lucky omens, betting gambits, and a Kelly bookmaker hedge that yielded $2,000, plus a $500 windfall from Tilford after a misread tip.
A brisk, nostalgic look at carrier doves as swift mail carriers from ancient times through war and travel. The piece contrasts pigeons with modern letter carriers, praising the dove for reliability, tireless work, and unwavering service, noting they never drink inn ale, steal letters, or demand higher pay.
A Troy Telegram note claims many in its city are going deaf in one ear, a theory the Telegram entertains. A Buffalo Courier traveler writes that after six years of telephone tests, most subjects heard better with one ear, typically the left. He later observed eye sight often favors one eye over the other.
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